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Who: Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall
Where: Minerva's room, Order HQ
When: 9 September 2001 (backdated)
Status: Complete

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Minerva had been thinking, with each passing day that brought them closet to the opening of the school, on what they should do, how they could interfere, see what went on - at the pureblood school, and the muggle one. It was obvious that infiltrating would be their best bet, but would the rest of the Order risk it?

She looked up from the book she had before her when she heard the knock. She was surprised to have a visitor but hid it well when Remus' voice followed, asking to come in, an she replied from the seat at her desk, "Of course."

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Nodding as if to steel himself, Remus pushed open the door to see Minerva sitting with a book. He knew how he hated to be interrupted when he was in the middle of reading and instantly bowed his head. Funny, he may have been the head of the Order now, but he could so quickly feel like a student once more just being in Minerva's presence -- even if he had stopped calling her Professor some years ago.

"I hope I'm not disturbing you," Remus said, glancing towards the book in hand, "But I have something I... I wish to discuss with you."

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"Think nothing of it," Minerva said in regards to the book, placing it on the desk and closing it before rising from her seat. She watched Remus with interest, if only because they hadn't spoken much since her return and she had the feeling his nervousness went beyond just speaking with her.

"Something to discuss?" She asked. "Concerning what?"

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Remus drew in a long breath. Really, for being a werewolf, one would think that he would be slightly better in regards to confrontations. But the fact was that he wasn't -- or maybe it just had something to do with it being Minerva.

Taking one of the empty chairs near the desk, Remus crossed one long leg over the other. "I'm sure you saw the news about the school opening up under," a brief pause, hoping he had picked the right name, "Snape's influence as Headmaster." Now is where things got sticky. "I want several of us in the school," Remus said quickly, deciding he could figure out the how's later. Besides, if Minerva wasn't up to this, then there would be no reason for him to have to come up with the lie. "Specifically, I think we both should attempt to infiltrate the school. For something like this, I believe that two experienced members are better than one."

Yet it leaves us out two members should we be discovered...

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Minerva returned to her seat, watching Remus as he told his plan. And while she knew the plan had the chance of being ill received by others, specifically the risk of them both being discovered, she still recognised that some sort of infiltration was necessary. She had been planning on being involved, but two could be better than one, as Remus had said.

"I was thinking something along the same lines, to tell you the truth." She answered. "Of course, I'll go with anything you map out."