Penelope Clearwater (onecent) wrote in disorderjournal, @ 2017-09-01 12:39:00 |
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So I was looking up some podcasts this morning before work, and I came across something called "Potterwatch." Have any of you heard of it? Obviously the name was intriguing enough for me to open it. They used code-names, but two of the voices were definitely very familiar, though I don't really want to speculate too much on who they might be, since I'm sure they have a very good reason for trying to maintain privacy. They were talking about an attack at King's Cross yesterday on Muggle-born students, and then they got me ugly crying by asking us to remember out first day at Hogwarts, and it made me remember how excited I was and how different the world was then.
Ugh, didn't need that, really, but I hadn't even heard about an incident at King's Cross until I stumbled on this weird broadcast. We're so swamped with inquiries from anxious foreign delegations wanting to know if a refugee crisis is imminent and what the fuck are we doing, etc. (to which my answers are basically IDK??? in several different languages), that we barely know what's going on with the other departments.
The Potterwatch people also had some choice wards against maintaining neutrality...which I kinda agree with, but it's also kinda nice if you even have the luxury to be so outspoken about everything.