Fugitive Search
Feb. 22nd, 2009 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_luciusIt took nearly five drafts for the Prophet editors to produce an article on the camp escape worth reading. Juggling my time among their offices, Derbyshire, the Ministry and Buckingham this week-end has been exhausting.
Thirteen escaped - and only one fatality after nearly twenty hours of searching. Poor Bellatrix was livid (as was I), so much so that I feared the stress might make her ill. Jonathan Pucey nearly had his head handed to him, and no wonder. We discovered around dusk that the escape had actually occurred the night before - and the MLE had not been called in for several hours after the dictated protocol required!
Yaxley was burnt, it's true, but he is back on the trail and among the searchers. It's ridiculous that they should evade us for so long, but it strengthens my suspicion that they have outside help. How Black manages to enchant anyone else to his cause is beyond me. Yaxley swears he recognised one of the wizards helping them to Portkey away - chap who used to work for the MLE, if it can be believed! Unfortunately he couldn't confirm the sighting, though it wouldn't surprise me, if it were who he thought it was.
The Prophet's details are also enlightening. The night of the 19th, indeed! And where were the Enforcers? Waiting for a memo that was 'misplaced' - the clerical error to which the article alludes. Some delinquent, irresponsible clerk either neglected to deliver it or simply didn't think to make sure it reached the proper hands. Needless to say, there is a full inquiry in progress, along with decidedly unfortunate consequences for the individual or individuals who (deliberately or otherwise) blundered so egregiously.
As for this:
The Prophet has reason to believe that efforts to recover the escaping detainees were slowed by the capture of Quirinus Quirrell, former Hogwarts professor who had been discharged for sedition and was wanted on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the Lord Protector's son, Harry Marvolo, now a first-year student at Hogwarts.
Well. The capture of Quirrell occurred quite co-incidentally to the escape and had nothing whatsoever to do with the 'delay' in bringing in additional Aurors and Enforcers to recover the chattel. Misplaced the memo - completely unacceptable dereliction of duty! I know Bellatrix was positively incensed when we learnt of that little ... triviality. Wants a change in procedure, if they have any sense.
This evening saw me back up to Hogwarts to meet with the Headmistress concerning the full extent of corrective action required for the mudblood girl, our two mischief-makers and of course, Professor Macnair. Believe we have reached an accord that will be acceptable to the Lord Protector (in the case of young Marvolo) and to the Board of Governors (re: Macnair).
On the whole, however, I am extraordinarily relieved that I have a clear calendar to-morrow to recuperate. Pucey had better redouble his efforts if he expects to be able to recover ... at all.
Thirteen escaped - and only one fatality after nearly twenty hours of searching. Poor Bellatrix was livid (as was I), so much so that I feared the stress might make her ill. Jonathan Pucey nearly had his head handed to him, and no wonder. We discovered around dusk that the escape had actually occurred the night before - and the MLE had not been called in for several hours after the dictated protocol required!
Yaxley was burnt, it's true, but he is back on the trail and among the searchers. It's ridiculous that they should evade us for so long, but it strengthens my suspicion that they have outside help. How Black manages to enchant anyone else to his cause is beyond me. Yaxley swears he recognised one of the wizards helping them to Portkey away - chap who used to work for the MLE, if it can be believed! Unfortunately he couldn't confirm the sighting, though it wouldn't surprise me, if it were who he thought it was.
The Prophet's details are also enlightening. The night of the 19th, indeed! And where were the Enforcers? Waiting for a memo that was 'misplaced' - the clerical error to which the article alludes. Some delinquent, irresponsible clerk either neglected to deliver it or simply didn't think to make sure it reached the proper hands. Needless to say, there is a full inquiry in progress, along with decidedly unfortunate consequences for the individual or individuals who (deliberately or otherwise) blundered so egregiously.
As for this:
The Prophet has reason to believe that efforts to recover the escaping detainees were slowed by the capture of Quirinus Quirrell, former Hogwarts professor who had been discharged for sedition and was wanted on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the Lord Protector's son, Harry Marvolo, now a first-year student at Hogwarts.
Well. The capture of Quirrell occurred quite co-incidentally to the escape and had nothing whatsoever to do with the 'delay' in bringing in additional Aurors and Enforcers to recover the chattel. Misplaced the memo - completely unacceptable dereliction of duty! I know Bellatrix was positively incensed when we learnt of that little ... triviality. Wants a change in procedure, if they have any sense.
This evening saw me back up to Hogwarts to meet with the Headmistress concerning the full extent of corrective action required for the mudblood girl, our two mischief-makers and of course, Professor Macnair. Believe we have reached an accord that will be acceptable to the Lord Protector (in the case of young Marvolo) and to the Board of Governors (re: Macnair).
On the whole, however, I am extraordinarily relieved that I have a clear calendar to-morrow to recuperate. Pucey had better redouble his efforts if he expects to be able to recover ... at all.
Order Only
Date: 2009-02-23 02:58 am (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2009-02-23 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-23 05:43 am (UTC)The last person to handle that memo will be tracked down and dealt with, that I can promise. And as for procedure, I'm thinking it's high time that the MLE be first on the alert in debacles like these, and not the lazy inepts at PC.
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Date: 2009-02-23 07:35 pm (UTC)Regarding giving the MLE priority over notifications, I quite agree. I also have a concern that the northern camps are not nearly as tightly run as the south and west countries, evidenced by the lax position taken by the chief Enforcer in Derby. I don't recall his name - the chubby fellow with the capped tooth? Well, Crispin has the report; I'm sure I'll remember when I see it. In any event, did you note the cut of his robes? Tailored, certainly. Furthermore, I'm quite sure that the handsome set of quills on his desk was imported; Narcissa looked at something similar for me a few years ago but decided it was ridiculous to pay that much for a quill, even if it were charmed against blotting.
I may be mistaken but I do not believe someone on a Camp Enforcer's salary could easily afford such luxuries - not without some other source of income.
ORDER ONLY
Date: 2009-02-24 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-24 05:37 am (UTC)Chubby and capped tooth. That would be Hibbert, first name Merwin, I think. He was a few years older at school, and I remember that Razzer gave him the capped tooth via a box of cursed toffees. One bite and the tooth was never the same again. Yes, Hibbert always was partial to the finer things.
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Date: 2009-02-24 04:15 pm (UTC)Hibbert, yes. That's the fellow. I shouldn't be surprised if careful scrutiny of his books reveals a gap as wide as the one in his teeth.