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[alt_molly]

I'm up. I'm dressed. I'm sorry, everyone, but I think I will be all right, now.

Anyway.

I've been thinking about this all day. Percy's birthday is the day after tomorrow.

I wonder if there is a way that we can use that.

Bill has been taking Percy's things to the secondhand shops, all his possessions that none of us wanted to keep, since I couldn't bear to do it myself. With all of his books, and his robes, furniture and household items and such, we have a modest sum left over, above and beyond the funeral expenses, and I have been thinking: what if I used it as a pretext to approach that Headmaster Dolohov?

I could send him a letter, saying that I want to set up something at Hogwarts in memory of Percy. The Percy Weasley Memorial Award. A student would be chosen each year, perhaps the Headmaster's choice of a deserving prefect. I think with Bill's help, I can write some bunk about how I want the award to honour students following Percy's example in showing their devotion to Our Lord's service. (It might be a stipend to assist the poorer students, to help them pay their school fees, but of course that needn't be announced generally.)

With the stipend, I'd provide a plaque. The students' names would be inscribed on it each year. Maybe I could convince him to put it in the Headmaster's office, but if not, perhaps it would end up in the trophy room?

My idea was that I might weave some charms on the plaque: subtle or innocent or small enough to slip past Dolohov, yet something that might still be a help to our cause at Hogwarts. Dumbledore, what would be useful to plant in the Headmaster's office? Or if the plaque ends up in the trophy room, maybe it's something that could only be triggered by one of our Galleon holders? I wish we could make it into an emergency portkey, but I doubt he would miss that, even if we knew how.

I'm willing to grovel to our new Headmaster to accomplish this (and won't he love that), if we could think of any way this might be useful for planting a hidden charm or two. I just thought...Percy's birthday might provide a good pretext. And Dolohov is good, I know. Anything added to the plaque would have to be able to pass any test he could give it.

I'd welcome hearing your thoughts on this.

Comments

[alt_alice]

I can see how that might be valuable, yes.

If it was something put in the trophy room, can any of our younger members think of what might be useful for galleon members to be able to access?

[alt_neville]

Well, one important point about using the trophy room is that we WOULD be able to access it, much more easily than anything in the Headmaster's office. Especially a suspicious Headmaster, if something dire is going on and we need help in a hurry. The staff could access it in an emergency, too, come to think of it. Or it might be a vehicle for exchanging messages. I don't think there are any portraits in there, or at least I don't remember any.

And the trophy room is central, too, rather than inside one of the Houses and so protected by passwords. It's just off the Great Hall--yet really tucked a bit out of the way and isn't visited very often. And all with the jogs and turns of the corridors right there, it's easy to slip into it unseen. It would be a discreet place to go to if there was some sort of ruckus. I'll bet no one was in there the night we helped Sarah Fawcett escaped, for example, but all of us were near it. If there was something in the plaque (or cup, or what have you) that could have helped her escape, that would be something.

We don't have any Emergency portkeys yet, do we? Dunno how you could plant one in the trophy room and not have Professor Dolohov detect it, though.