"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Piotr, you have seen the girl in action. You were certain giving back her wand was a bad idea. She didn't even reach for it.", the old priest had to teach his young second in command. "Give her some credit."
"Fine. Perhaps she is smarter than other wizards. But that only means she is more dangerous! You heard her talk about werewolves. Will you accept that as well? Should we now stop killing them on sight? Are you ready to ask that from the men?"
"No, our methods of dealing with dark creatures stay the same. They come from hundreds of years of experience after all. But the girl could be a valuable ally. We won't be this lucky every time. The Taboo nonsense just shows how confident the dark side has become. Why would you allow your enemy to pick the time and place of the confrontation unless you were certain only small pockets of resistance remain. We won't be able to pull this trick again, they will soon figure out we used the Taboo for an ambush. Although they will probably presume that the wizard resistance is to blame."
"Why are you so certain there will be a next time? This isn't our war. We could just observe from the sidelines and let the wizards kill each other."
"Eidoti oun kalon poiein kai mh poiounti amartia autw estin."
This made the younger priest stop for a bit. He knew very well where that quote came from, but couldn't quite convince himself he understood it properly. Surely the old man was not suggesting that they become belligerent in the internal wars of wizards. All witches and wizards are against God, some more violently than others of course, but all are enemies of The Order. Siding with the resistance was still siding with the Devil.
"I'm not a first year seminary student Paul. Quoting the words of our Lord does not automatically make you right. We will still protect the civilians, even the heretical English. No sin of omission on our part."
"If the current Ministry of Magic is allowed to grow, sooner or later the rest of Magical Europe will react. Just as it was before, the world will splinter in factions and the violence will spill over in our world as well. Millions have died the last time. We have a chance here to stop this."
"How do we know that? How do we know that these 3 can stop the current dark lord? And more importantly, how do we know they will not be worse? If they succeed we might just end up replacing one dark lord with three more powerful dark lords!"
"We don't. But I do have faith. The Lord has a plan. He led us to these three. What were the chances of us performing an exercise mission right next to them, in the precise moment they triggered the Taboo? We were meant to find them."
"That might be true. But finding them doesn't mean we were meant to help them."
"You are stubborn Piotr. For the time being, we will allow her to keep her wand. If she passes the test, we will consider our options, and the other two."
"If not?"
"Then we do what we have always done with captured wizards. Quick and painless though, she was at least an honourable enemy."