Private Message to A Dolohov
Jul. 10th, 2015 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If I'd had any expectations of what would happen after His removal--and to be honest, I had no expectation it could ever be brought about, so I had no expectations for this eventuality--but if I had, they would have been disappointed by what has followed and continues to unravel day to day now.
Because it is unraveling. A bit shorn off here. A bit shaved away there. And order unspools with each loss.
And yes, we make them pay daily for their incursions, but we need to find a strategy to stun and then destroy them absolutely. Each gain of theirs has the bonus of undermining confidence in Rowle and Bella's leadership, and in our ability to protect and enforce. Our wins gain only the territory or infrastructure at stake, but fail to re-secure the goodwill and loyalty of the people.
I know you've always seen that we cannot win this through terror and force, but we know nothing else. Our rule's been built on that, and there's no time and no sufficient means for changing that.
It's not that Bella is failing. In fact, she has shown remarkable talent for orchestrating and creating and communicating vision. Authority is her métier.
And MLE is more cohesive than it's ever been.
But that's not enough.
Hope your project is going well. Or at the very least that it's proving enjoyable.
Because it is unraveling. A bit shorn off here. A bit shaved away there. And order unspools with each loss.
And yes, we make them pay daily for their incursions, but we need to find a strategy to stun and then destroy them absolutely. Each gain of theirs has the bonus of undermining confidence in Rowle and Bella's leadership, and in our ability to protect and enforce. Our wins gain only the territory or infrastructure at stake, but fail to re-secure the goodwill and loyalty of the people.
I know you've always seen that we cannot win this through terror and force, but we know nothing else. Our rule's been built on that, and there's no time and no sufficient means for changing that.
It's not that Bella is failing. In fact, she has shown remarkable talent for orchestrating and creating and communicating vision. Authority is her métier.
And MLE is more cohesive than it's ever been.
But that's not enough.
Hope your project is going well. Or at the very least that it's proving enjoyable.
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Date: 2015-07-11 05:33 am (UTC)I am at least somewhat hopeful Miss Weasley will prove an asset there. I'm on the brink of a breakthrough; she's proving quite inventive in the memories she's manufacturing, and by now I barely need to nudge her in the right direction for her to spill the next piece. I'm giving her a break and a meal right now, in fact -- earned for good behaviour -- and at least I am confident there will be no repeat of last night's suicide attempt. (I am not, mind you, relaxing the monitoring charms; I am not stupid.)
We ought to have a strategy meeting sometime in the next few days. I am having an equally hard time thinking of what might produce a path to victory -- or indeed what victory might look like -- but if we all put our heads together we might think of something.
Even if it is just a plan for an orderly retreat