"Is it truer to say that the Order bestows the award and being a member of the order may be fundamentally different to having recieved the award? Furthermore, if you look at it over history, you could even divide it into two seperate groups by the same name; the original Order of Merlin or indeed those that were awarded the Order of Merlin, First, Second or Third class. I think it became a status thing too, the ministry used it at one time as a reward for people who had given copious amounts of money to support the minister rather than for doing anything that truly ended up benefiting muggle/wizard relations, which was it's original purpose. So we could say I am referring more to the original Order of Merlin and you are referring to the more Contemporary Order of Merlin." Cela suggested, smiling enthusiastically.

"That's kind of interesting really, tracking how an organisation has changed over time and whether it has influenced or been influenced and for each of those, to what degree."