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[anomilygrace]

I was just thinking...if the Order of the Phoenix is a secret organisation, why is there a group photograph of them all out for a beer (or five) for Harry to angst over?  Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a secret organisation?

I think I need a beer (or five).

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[moonlite_fading]

Do they ever establish that the first Order was secret? I don't remember...

[anomilygrace]

ahh, perhaps they didn't. I guess I was assuming that they were an underground resistance organization of some type. That and since the second OOTP was fairly secretive, I assumed that the first would have been as well. Good point, that.

[padawansguide]

Maybe it wouldn't be strange they they would all drink together - but it wasn't common knowledge that they were also all in a secret society. :-)

[anomilygrace]

I think I like that explanation because I do like the OOTP being an underground organisation of some type. Otherwise, Voldemort and the DEs would just kill you or your family for resisting him. But perhaps a group of old school friends getting together - or perhaps Dumbledore's brother really IS barkeep at the Hogshead and it was a closed party. ;)

[sirgarrett]

I was under the impression that the original OotP was not so secret back then. I mean a good number of them got tracked down and killed, right?

Maybe they learned the should be a secret organization the hard way?

[guywalksntoabar]

ya really need a new hobby.

[anomilygrace]

I could talk more southern-like. Y'all wanta come by for sum rice and corn pone?

[guywalksntoabar]

see, even then, not so much.

[anomilygrace]

red beans and rice and an oyster po'boy then?

[padawansguide]

I just finished Fire & Hemlock (again) - and it's been sufficiently long since I read it last that I couldn't remember how it went, so I enjoyed it all the way through! You really have to read it - it's a different retelling of Tam Lin. It's very different than "Tam Lin" - but very cool. It's by Diana Wynne Jones - two thumbs up!

[padawansguide]

p.s. I wanted to add that reading the amazon reviews on the hardcover novel afterwords is very illuminating, but be sure not to read them beforehand - there are a ton of spoilers! :-)

[anomilygrace]

ooh, excellent. I've just been thinking that it's been far too long since I read a good new YA book. Though I read Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary last week. Which was actually really good, but it suffered greatly from what is merely slightly odd in Tam Lin. That is the impetus to put all the "fairy tale" and magical parts of the plot in the last 20 pages. Though I haven't reread it so maybe it's more layered than I recognized at the time. I'd still recommend it to you though. The characters of the three sisters are fabulous even if Gentian seems far, far older than 13/14.