Private Message to Barty Crouch, Jr and Rufus Scrimgeour

[alt_lucius]

The files on Maule - have they arrived? Weasley said he sent them, far too late for my liking, however.

Should have had Pandya invent an excuse to hold him a few hours' more. Damnation.

Rufus - his properties in Launceton: Have you set guards there as well? He'll likely clean up his out-of-town affairs before running to ground.

Blast.

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[alt_crouch_jr]

Files arrived, yes.

Might not have mattered in any case. Fudge intervened. Ordered Maule released until such time as there is evidence to warrant 'inconveniencing' him.

We can't touch him.

However. He's not likely to run. His story is that he is an upstanding citizen and one of Our Lord's most loyal, most generous supporters. (Most recently made an enormous donation to the Freedom Day fund. Told Fudge he'd rather his name not be mentioned publicly, which Fudge takes as testament to Maule's virtue.)

Mordred.

[alt_lucius]

Told Fudge not to --

He'll not run, no, but you can be sure he'll finish utterly destroying any connexion betwixt him and Smethley or any blight or taint of corrupt practice in his 'clinics.'

Shall take it up with Fudge myself, to-night. Imperius to combat Imperius - Bloody Erebus, what a mess.