Seeing Green’s son has formed a covert society called Grownup Watching Group (GWP). Better watch out.

I’m afraid Mr. Alberto Gonzales has  covertly conscripted Dylan.

Elizabeth, Dylan and I try to have an actual conversation at dinner,
a task made rather difficult by the D’s reticence. Nothing happened at
school. No new friends. The teacher is OK. School is good. No new
projects.

Except today he told us all about a secret society he’s formed at
school, the Grownups-Watching-Group (GWG) which has been banded
together to look into suspicious behaviors by anyone over 14. Teachers
are included, but parents are not. His friend X’s (names obscured to
protect the underage) mother, who is also a teacher, is excluded.
Motherhood apparently trumps suspicion.

Members of the group are assigned tasks to report on suspicious
behavior by the watched adults. A chart is being made, with check marks
inscribed for each such behavior, and if the line reaches the end…?

What are these suspicious behaviors? Ah, there’s the rub. It’s
"classified information". Breaking this  cloak of secrecy, and not for
attribution, the D informed us that one teacher had been observed
drinking a green potion. On further elucidation, it was downgraded to
green water, but the suspicion remained. But our efforts at suggesting
innocence were unsuccessful; it was proven beyond GWG’s doubts,
reasonable or otherwise.

So, not unlike Dumbledore’s Army in Harry Potter, the GWG has a mission, a code, a leader (the D) and a goal.

Just after dinner he had a twenty-minute conversation with a fellow
member of GWG. Elizabeth suggested I eavesdrop, but what with his
uncharacteristic softness of tone (normally we can hear him two rooms
away) and my own reticence, I gathered only that he was dispensing
tomorrow’s tasks…after all, he is the Commander.

Hope he does not get too many time outs from this one.