"Yeah, most people wouldn't commit a serious crime to murder a random innocent - I could arrange it but it'd be an awful lot of orchestration."

"We could maybe find a Poppy Garden sleeper who is willing to pose as a nonrandom or a noninnocent."

"That'd make it easier. - you have permission to manipulate me in ways useful for trials of spells that require a certain state of information to cast, incidentally, but I'm hard to lie to -"

"Yeah, I don't really expect to be able to pull it off, I have a reasonable deadpan and you're very low context and it still sounds really hard."

"I can test the intent thing somewhat systematically by getting someone's permission to try and then checking how malicious my intent in fact needs to be to successfully cast the spell, but I haven't done that yet because, well, Azkaban."

"It would probably be hard to catch you here."

"If I expect someone to stop me from following through I bet that throws things off, and I don't know how our host feels about me mind-controlling people into doing themselves or their loved ones serious injury."

"Bar?"

Security will interfere with any attempt to do such things within the main bar area.

"In my room, though?"

Security does not cover private rooms or the back yard.

"Father, while we're out of the Ministry's jurisdiction want to learn to throw off the Imperius -"

"Maybe later," he says distractedly. "You should ask one of your brothers, for the experiment -"

"Can't summon enough malicious intent, I tried teaching Michael."

"Should I be insulted?"

"You should probably be insulted if it turns out my subconscious is as protective of you as of my little brothers."

"You should try your grandfather's grandchildren by his second wife."

"Fredrick'd do it."

Sigh. "Maybe Miranda'd do it, I can ask her -"

"Are you going to hurt her -"

"We are trying to determine whether it can be done without hurting people much but the answer might be 'nope'."

"I'll do it -"

He makes a strangled sort of sigh.

"Who's Miranda?"

"A friend of Minor's in my House who picked up Occlumency astonishingly quickly and would probably get this down pretty fast, too. And find the rest of what we're doing very intriguing though I don't know how narrow we want to keep that for the time being."