Ron is in the field right now, helping Justin with something.

I would send him after Ginny if I thought he'd have a chance of success. Right now it would be a suicide mission. He's admitted as much.

About Bellatrix -- you'll drive yourself mad thinking in those circles. You don't have to say a word where she can see it for her to know what she's doing to you. I don't think she seriously expected to schism the Order, any more than we seriously expected her to take Maebh in trade.