"Have you come up with ideas?" she turns and asks of Fay.

"Some... But not many. It's a difficult problem to solve in the first place."

"Still, we returned Gryffindor's sword to the goblins and have been getting enough good will from them that they might be willing to give us a generous loan or otherwise help on the financial side - it's an open secret they ignore the laws against employing muggles, and they have several points of contact..."

"We also can hire muggles for some things - I've been talking to McGonagal, and quite frankly we'd like to update Hogwarts' defenses in case Voldemort successfully forces a siege. Any metal workers, chemists, engineers, or weapons specialists could help with that. We want to find out why Hogwarts interferes with electronics and undo that - most anyone with scientific training could help there. We'd like more teachers, especially since it's likely our more experienced professors will get drawn into the war, and we're expanding classes over the summer and to younger students now. We need child minders."

"We could use medical professionals, too - St. Mungo's is already frequently at capacity, and we're arranging to set up overflow medical care here as soon as we can do so safely. We don't have enough trained healers, and muggle medicine has techniques and knowledge we don't."

"We need legal specialists, political specialists - anyone who could plausibly help us prepare for any fall out if this war reveals magic to the muggle world. That nearly happened with the war against Grindelwald. We weren't prepared then. We aren't prepared now."

"We need people with experience as organizers or managers to help with all this. People with financial experience. We could also use gardeners, farmers, and landscapers - magical plants can be safely handled by muggles given some basic safety training, and we're trying to increase the output of the greenhouses."

"Just about everything, really, and we can train people into a lot of miscellaneous positions. The main problems are paying for it and convincing people we're legitimate."

"Right. At least we've got some options to try out."

She nods. "And even if someone won't move... We can hopefully talk them into letting us put up alarm wards so we can respond to attacks."

"Hopefully in time to matter."

"Hopefully - we've set up rapid response teams already, but..."

"He works quickly."

"And he'll work faster once we start interfering regularly."

"Mm."

"We'll do as much as we can, though."

"Yeah."

Hug?

Hug'd be good.

Anathema too.

Three way hugs are the best.

All the snugs.

"We can work on Apparating today, at least, even if everything else will take more time."

Nod nod.

"Where do we start?"

They need to get out past Hogwarts' wards, first - she gives the initial safety lecture on the way over, then they can start feeling out the space around them, start noticing details that are important for Apparition, without actually casting the spell - Fay lets them read her mind if they feel comfortable with that to get what it actually feels like from her...

It's actually usually a pretty quick thing to learn, once you have a general background in magic.

Not as tricky as the Animagus.

Certainly not, and often similarly done between wizards - making sharing experiences over legilimency a good way to speed things up and increase safety.

Assuming, of course, you're any good at legilimency.

Well, fortunately Fay's teaching Ellie and Anathema today...

And Fay is naturally the best at everything. Except for being a dragon.

Ellie is the most excellent dragon, it's true. 

Hee.

And Fay's pretty good at teaching. Ellie thinks she's ready to try soon.