Soon thereafter Hermione arrived with another recruit who was asked for his parchment and pointed to the wall while the Ashwinder Head of House walked over to the table where she was supposed to sit. Lucius and his wife arrived and as Narcissa walked towards the Runespore Table, Lucius was adressed via the earclip to sit near Draco who was sitting at the leaders right hand. Then Fred and George arrived each with another recruit, the new recruits were again asked for their parchments and then the four were pointed to the wall to wait with the other new recruits. Snape was the last to arrive, He excused him for letting them wait so long and told his leader via earclip that he had to attend to a short teacher meeting while he was heading for the Boomslang table.
Now that they were all there, Lord Fulgor stood up for a formal welcome. 'I welcome you all to our second order meeting. Those members who worked hard over the past week to contribute their time, money and effort to the Order, I cannot thank them enough. Without them, I would be a lonesome idealist who would only be able to dream about reaching his goals. For those who are new, please come over and you shall be inducted.'
The five new recruits plus Fred and George walked towards the stafftable and bowed towards their master. 'I take it that you all still want to join Ordo Fulmineus, that you will follow each and every law and future law, and that you will not reveal our secrets which includes the location of our headquarter?' He asked.
The seven nodded agreeable mumbling a collective Yes Master. Their leader nodded back at them and continued; 'I Lord Fulgor then welcome you to Ordo fulmineus. May we work together to achieve our goals and may our secrets not be revealed.' Then he signaled them to return to the wall where they previously had been waiting. 'When I call your chosen name, please come over to recieve the additions to your uniform.
He paused to communicate with his Second and Third and instructed them to give the new recruits the chained key (Blaise) and the earclip (Draco) and reminded them that Fred and George had already recieved them. He himself would give them their badges. Viper (Adrian Purcey), Noir (Theodore Nott) Paco (George) and Agria (Fred) ended at the Runespore Table, Aswad (Dean Thomas) and Ash (Roger Davies) at the Ashwinder Table and finally Bargest (Wayne Hopkins) ended at the Boomslang Table.
'Now that we all are settled, it is time to discuss some important matters.' their leader announced. First of all, there is this matter of our security. I suppose it is best to discuss that first.' After seeing some members nodded at the announcement, Harry continued: 'First of all, It is important to know at least the true identity of every staff member, your head of house, and at least one other member. However, with mind readers around such as professor Dumbledore, valuable order information can leak out easily and it is therefore that we have to remain robed and masked in eachothers presence so that we cannot betray eachother whether it is under influence of veritaserum or being it without us knowing subtracted from our minds. That would not only be dangerous for each individual, but especially for our order and our future plans. Does anyone has an idea on how to fix this little security problem?'
It was silence for a moment. Then Procer (Snape) interjected carefully 'We could possibly use a fidelius charm.' Opacus (Lucius) hesitated, then he reasoned; 'I am not sure if that gives the desired effect. A bystander who cannot tell the secret would be able to tell that it is under a fidelius charm when asked under veritaserum. I do not think that is benificial for us.' Procer nodded 'You might quite well be right about that, considdering that the secret keeper might still betray us in the end. I fear that it is quite problematic then.' The other nodded and silence fell again over the room. 'Maybe we can use fidelius in combination with other secrecy spells that are less well known' interjected Priapus (Hermione); 'Like to hide the fact that it is kept under the fidelius charm.' Lord Fulgor nodded and said, 'Then We need volunteers to do research on the matter. Anyone?'
Priapus and Opacus agreed to do the research and they moved on to another matter. 'I am planning to organize basic education during Christmas break if that is reachable. Therefore I ask you all to come up with believable reasons for your respective families to not go home and not stay at Hogwarts during break. They must be reasonable, and preferable trackable so that they will not be worried and our secrets will be safe.' Hen Lord Fulgor drew his wand and with a wave Ink quills and parchment appeared on the table. 'You get fifteen minutes to think and write up reasons which I will be reviewing later. New recruits, pleace bring your wands so I can remove Ministry tracking spells. Hathor, will you please assist?'
After the new recruits brought their wand Harry withdrew a piece of parchment from his robe pocket on which Draco had outwritten the necessary spells and after fifteen minutes had passed he asked the others to deliver him their parchments while he asked his second in command to return the wands to their respective owners. After that he announced it was lunch time and time to socialize.
When lunch was finished he asked Priapus and Opacus to go to the library to research on their security matter, Then he asked Draco to give the new recruits except Fred and George a tour of their headquarter. Snape he told to go back to main Hogwarts because he coudn't be missed for too long, and Blaise was asked to get back to Slytherin common to socialize.
Only Agria (Fred) Paco (George) and Hathor (Narcisaa were left. He complemented the twins for their contritubtion and told them that they may go back to Hogwarts if they want, or study in the library. They decided they would come by the library at night and return to Hogwarts to not raise suspicion and after they left, only Narcissa was left.
'Can I ask you a favor?' The young leader asked while walking towards the Runespore Table. 'Of course My Lord' she replied kindly. 'I need, lets say ten owls for the owlery, but I cant ask lucius to do another great puchase because of rumors and suspicion' he said. 'I can do that for you, What type of owl do you want and how can I send them safely?' the witch asked.
'I need decent owls. They don't need to have a dark touch to them. Preferable not since it would be more dangerous to send innocent letters with them. Some may be eagle owls, but snow owls are good also. With where to send them, that is the difficulty. They need to be brought in manually because no one is living here as of yet. If you would send them to me they would end up in Hogwarts Owlery of course.' Narcissa nodded. 'I will send them to Malfoy Manor first then. After that you can discuss with your advisor on how to get them here. Is that okay?' The Leader nodded. 'Ask Opacus to deliver the bill in the mouth of the hungarian horntail which secures the Academy's Headmasters office. I will see that the money is transfered back as soon as I can get to Gringotts.' 'Good, I'll be off than to do the business then, if that is allright?' the witch asked. 'That will be good, have a nice day Hathor, you are dismissed.'
After Narcissa had apparated, Fulgor called Nox to retrieve Secret Academy Volume I from his office and started reading while he was waiting for Draco to return with the new recruits.
