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[Private]
Memorial services are so tragic, especially when you actually knew the person – not to mention considered them a friend. While death is not foreign to me, it has become no easier to handle over the years. In third year, I had to deal with the pain of my father being killed by the IRA he was assigned to stop. My tenure over the Auror Office was not without loss either. I lost two good friends and I never wanted to experience that again. While Dorcas and I were never that close, her death reminds me of the grief one feels at the loss of life but also exemplifies the importance that we win this sodding war.
Does it make me a bad person to wish that none of us had family members outside the Order? That is the worst part of all this. To get someone to back down, the Death Eaters must only threaten someone’s extended family. I suppose I should owl Kirk this weekend about spending time with the three of them. One just never knows how long we have with our families.
[Private to Order, edited]
Please do not blame me for using Dorcas's tragic death for ill purposes. That is not my intent. I share in your grief over her death. In addition, I believe that I completely share the ideals everyone holds in fighting for our side. We need to learn a lesson that may be painful. Some of you will likely think I am a hypocrite but I know that this is directed at all of us equally. If you feel convicted as I do, that may be a sign that I am right.
Call me a realist, everyone does. In a war like this, idealists lose hope because they believe in a good world. All of us can attest to how wrong that idea is. While there might be some good people, the natural tendency points to bloodshed and violence. This is not a good world, folks, as we all know. As such, we have to approach life differently since this war has been shoved upon us.
We cannot allow Dorcas to have died for naught. We need to use her death as a call to a higher purpose. I am not asking you to throw away your inhibitions. You never dreamed your life would be balanced on a cliff's edge ever. This is one of those times where we have to realize that the end justifies the means. We have gone about fighting this war on the premise that it is the right thing to do and we have only lately begun to fight dirty. Even if fighting like that goes against everything you believe, we must do it to win this bloody war. We must fight like the terrorists they think we are.
Now comes the tough part for all of us. We need to stop bickering amongst ourselves. It is not achieving anything and yes, I am guilty of it as well. For the eventual achievement of our goals, we must band together and forsake all else if we want to win this damned thing. If we continue to argue, we will not succeed. We will get picked off one by one, mark my words, unless we change our tactics. We need to trust each other. Coming from an ex-Auror, those words may be rather shocking. Two months ago I could not have believed it wholeheartedly. But we need to change our outlook on this war to achieve success. If we cannot trust each other, we might as well pack it in now and leave the country for the Death Eaters.
For the betterment of our group then, I personally will strive to place a higher emphasis on cooperation than bickering. I hope that you will join me in this endeavour.
On the topic of tactics and ideas, does anyone have any these days? All I know is this: we need a fast, hard strike that makes them feel pain and anguish. We must be able to successfully dangle their lives and their families in front of them because otherwise they will maintain the upper hand they hold over us. They started attacking our families and we must either follow them into that front or forge a new equally unsettling path to destabilize them.
Memorial services are so tragic, especially when you actually knew the person – not to mention considered them a friend. While death is not foreign to me, it has become no easier to handle over the years. In third year, I had to deal with the pain of my father being killed by the IRA he was assigned to stop. My tenure over the Auror Office was not without loss either. I lost two good friends and I never wanted to experience that again. While Dorcas and I were never that close, her death reminds me of the grief one feels at the loss of life but also exemplifies the importance that we win this sodding war.
Does it make me a bad person to wish that none of us had family members outside the Order? That is the worst part of all this. To get someone to back down, the Death Eaters must only threaten someone’s extended family. I suppose I should owl Kirk this weekend about spending time with the three of them. One just never knows how long we have with our families.
[Private to Order, edited]
Please do not blame me for using Dorcas's tragic death for ill purposes. That is not my intent. I share in your grief over her death. In addition, I believe that I completely share the ideals everyone holds in fighting for our side. We need to learn a lesson that may be painful. Some of you will likely think I am a hypocrite but I know that this is directed at all of us equally. If you feel convicted as I do, that may be a sign that I am right.
Call me a realist, everyone does. In a war like this, idealists lose hope because they believe in a good world. All of us can attest to how wrong that idea is. While there might be some good people, the natural tendency points to bloodshed and violence. This is not a good world, folks, as we all know. As such, we have to approach life differently since this war has been shoved upon us.
We cannot allow Dorcas to have died for naught. We need to use her death as a call to a higher purpose. I am not asking you to throw away your inhibitions. You never dreamed your life would be balanced on a cliff's edge ever. This is one of those times where we have to realize that the end justifies the means. We have gone about fighting this war on the premise that it is the right thing to do and we have only lately begun to fight dirty. Even if fighting like that goes against everything you believe, we must do it to win this bloody war. We must fight like the terrorists they think we are.
Now comes the tough part for all of us. We need to stop bickering amongst ourselves. It is not achieving anything and yes, I am guilty of it as well. For the eventual achievement of our goals, we must band together and forsake all else if we want to win this damned thing. If we continue to argue, we will not succeed. We will get picked off one by one, mark my words, unless we change our tactics. We need to trust each other. Coming from an ex-Auror, those words may be rather shocking. Two months ago I could not have believed it wholeheartedly. But we need to change our outlook on this war to achieve success. If we cannot trust each other, we might as well pack it in now and leave the country for the Death Eaters.
For the betterment of our group then, I personally will strive to place a higher emphasis on cooperation than bickering. I hope that you will join me in this endeavour.
On the topic of tactics and ideas, does anyone have any these days? All I know is this: we need a fast, hard strike that makes them feel pain and anguish. We must be able to successfully dangle their lives and their families in front of them because otherwise they will maintain the upper hand they hold over us. They started attacking our families and we must either follow them into that front or forge a new equally unsettling path to destabilize them.