Unsurprisingly, Estelle and Allen were the first ready to get jobs- they were killing everyone else in the practice duels (though it was rather amusing seeing Nancy as a rubber chicken). Allen, as the tactician, insisted on going first so he could warn the others about problematic questions that arose during the interviewing process (e.g., did you have Grenwood for Defence at Hogwarts? Remember how he spit when he talked?) He seemed confident that he would think the best under pressure, but Liza wasn't so sure. However, when he came back with an intern position an hour after leaving, she had to be impressed.

Estelle would be harder, as she would be expected to have previous job experience. However, she decided to tell them she was a housewife who was ready to get a job after sending her last child to Hogwarts, and landed a job in the Department of Misuse of Propaganda, which she said reminded her eerily of the Ministry of Truth from a book she'd read in college.

Liza could pass for eighteen when she had finished developing her powers, but Nancy and George posed something of a problem, until Estelle thought of having them pose as her minimally-lingual grandparents from Italy and request a filing job for them. This worked well until the interviewer tried to speak Italian to them, a closer shave than anyone would have liked.

Allen had managed a pretty good alternative to Jeremy's "they just disappeared!" plan. Since the rise of the Walpurgi, the Order of the Phoenix now had thirty-nine members who were willing to drink Polyjuice Potion for a few weeks while the Walpurgi were converted.

Because the major part of Jeremy's plan, converting the Walpurgi with close contact to muggles, was still in place. The difference was that they weren't going to give an explanation for the muggles. They would remove the Walpurgis' powers and place them in a prison cell with some muggles, who would be instructed to pretend they didn't know why they were there either. Eventually the Walpurgi would realize that it was the muggles that should afraid of them, not the other way around.

When they'd seen sense, the Walpurgi would be let in on the plan and instructed to go back to work as usual until such time as enough were converted to start a rebellion. Liza still wasn't impressed by her side's master plan. She wasn't counting on the twists that Allen wasn't letting her in on.

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