Order Meeting Who: Order of the Phoenix When: Wednesday night. Where: The Burrow What: Meeting. Rating: Low Open/Closed: Open to all Order members, plus the trio. IC/OOC: (As per new IC/OOC rules, check ins are welcome to establish what your character does, but are not counted toward activity.)
This meeting was long overdue. They'd gone too long, holding on and waiting for Dumbledore to give them Orders. It was what they'd done for the first war, and they were accustomed to it. No matter how frustrated things had gotten, most of them were still aware that Dumbledore had been the most powerful wizard in recent memory, and it had been wariness of him that kept Voldemort at bay in the past. Somehow, they excepted that to carry over. But with Dumbledore's departure, whatever his reasons, it had been driven home that they couldn't depend on his return to make some kind of concentrated resistance.
Of course, knowing that didn't help them agree on anything. They were too big, and too diverse a group that they didn't all have completely different ideas of what should be done, and most of them were loud enough to speak up about it.
"We can't just leave the Ministry in their hands forever," Sirius said - for the third time. He'd also spent about ten minutes expounding on why Snape being allowed to stay in charge of Hogwarts was bound to lead to warped minds, idiocy, and widespread hygiene issues, until someone had trod on his toe to shut them up.
"Their people are entirely in CHARGE of the Ministry. Even if we took the building, they still have all the power, and we'd be seen as an uprising, and would have nothing to hold it with," Emmeline argued.
"It's a START," Alice insisted. "They're not ALL evil twits there, if we can take out the worst of them, then the rest will see reason. But we can't even talk about an offensive when we're all chasing our tails."
"Right. That's why I said-" Sirius stopped as he heard someone pop in outside.
A moment later Harry, Hermione, and Ron stepped inside, all three looking tired, worn, and harried. They stopped as they realized the entire room full of people were staring. Ron gave a tired wave, scanning the room for his parents.
((Michelle & Mouse, I went ahead and used the Burrow since you offered it up as an Order HQ, hope that's all right. Meeting points that should be brought up IC are:
Horcruxes Order leadership Recruitment The D.A. Something I forgot and will edit in tomorrow.))