The Dark Lord desires Fenrir Greyback. We will begin with werewolf services - Find out everything we can about Greyback and those who are in his pack - but we will need to make plans from there. A halfbreed he might be, but the Dark Lord clearly has some use for him, and it is clear he needs a Master.

The Dark Lord desires information currently held within the werewolf registry in the Ministry of Magic. Those involved will need to break into the registry, retrieve these files and destroy those that are unneeded, all the while remaining undetected by the Ministry personnel until it is too late.

I would like to see a plan from those who wish to be involved.

I have taken the liberty to reserve a room for us at Ashford Castle. We should be able to enjoy a quiet dinner. This is of course, with me taking the liberty to assume that you are still available tomorrow evening?

I wanted to thank you for allowing our Lord's speech to be heard to all who were not in attendance at the masquerade. I assume that this was your quick thinking?

Vigilantes.

I am beginning to wonder if we have them. Thus far in my conversations with the Lestranges following the dreadful incident at the Library we have come up with the names of the Prewetts and a woman named Dorcas Meadowes. Regulus Black has informed that he was fighting a civilian and Rabastan has informed me that he was fighting someone who did not use magic - he suggested a vampire as a possibility as the man moved too quickly to be a squib. Lucius has told me that he noticed any number of civilians jumping into duels from his vantage point during the Masquerade.

Have others reported that they were duelling civilians and do any of them have thoughts as to identities?

There were civilians fighting at King's Cross as well and this is moving beyond the realm of what I suspect is coincidence. Thoughts?

I am aware that some of you have already discussed this with your mentors, but if you have not already done so, I would like to know which among us were fighting someone other than an Auror or a Hitwizard at the Masquerade.

And frankly, if you were not fighting DMLE at King's Cross and you remember that, I'd like to know that as well.

You are all expected to attend the Masquerade this evening. Our Lord desires to make an appearance there and we must be available to prepare his way.

Barty has kindly provided us with information about the security that the DMLE has set up, which has assisted us in our plans for the evening. The Minister of Magic taking the stage to announce costume winners will be your cue. Those of us in the Inner Circle will move towards the door of the ball first where we will prepare a place for us to change from our Masquerade costumes into our masks and robes.

Then we will seek out those in the DMLE so that the Dark Lord can make his entrance without difficulty. There will be a large number of civilians at this event, and unless you know the civilian is a mudblood with absolute certainty they are not to be targeted. Without knowing who is under the mask, it is difficult to know if they would be a pureblood or of the proper viewpoints and the Dark Lord does not wish any of magical blood to be harmed unnecessarily. If they attack you, it does not mean you can not fend them off, but do not kill them.

After the Dark Lord places the Dark Mark in the sky you will be free to leave.

Any questions?

I believe that covers the event as we have discussed it?

Lucius, you will be assisting me with Imperiusing the DMLE guards around the entrance so you should move towards the entrance at the same time as the Inner Circle. Isidore will follow with a disillusionment charm allowing us to prepare for our Lord's entrance.

Barty, if you have discovered any additional information regarding security that you believe might be useful for us to know, feel free to share it with everyone now.

Do we all know our costumes at this point? Lucia has not yet shared mine with me, but I will share that information as soon as I have it. I think it would be prudent if we know what we are dressed as.

When do I get to see you in your costume ma chérie? I am certain you will be lovely, and I confess that I am quite looking forward to seeing my own as well.

I have been working on a project with the permission of our Lord and believe it is time for us to all begin to discuss it in more detail.

In short, I have felt that the Outer Circle needs more direct guidance. While most whom have been in His service for longer are well prepared, there are still many who have been within his ranks only a year at most. My proposal to the Dark Lord was that those of us whom are among his inner circle would undertake the training and responsibility of those in the Outer Circle.

It would be our responsibility to keep our eyes on those whom are our Mentees. We would train specifically with them, look for weaknesses, and work to encourage more appropriate behaviour publicly when necessary. Although they would continue to answer to all of us, they would have the direct guidance of one of us in order to settle them and help them best learn to serve His will.

In preparation for this, I have begun working with names and considering how rightly to place these individuals in order to best facilitate their learning. For the moment, I have come up with some initial placements. I am of course, open to your suggestions or improvements. Naturally, all final decisions will be made by our Lord.

Will you ensure that Laelia has an appropriate costume regardless of what Mother may or may not have ordered? I am afraid Mother's expectations may be somewhat unlikely.

Also I have business Friday evening; you need not plan dinner for me.

For Friday:

The Lainsborough off Diagon Alley. 7pm. Give your name to the maitre'd. He will be expecting you.

Rabastan Lestrange.

It would actually be a marriage up, he has more maturity on him than Regulus and is a stronger servant to our Lord. I do not know why this is only now occurring to me.