Private Message to Corax Mulciber and Judas Sawers-Cumming

[alt_lucius]

Corax,

Understand that Maidstone now requires a change in leadership. You ought still to have the reports on the junior personnel at Cheadle and Harlow; as you know, the search committee have already recommended Mr Willoughby (formerly of Doncaster) to replace Bawsley at Adur. However, we found Mrs Miranda Moore (of Harlow) a close second.

Additionally, though he was not one of the final three candidates for Adur, Carter Prentiss of Saltash was on Revanche's short list. Auror Sawers-Cumming has the full reports of our findings and can provide them to you.

Mention it merely as it seems your clerk has been under the weather and we cannot afford to lose any time in the matter of weeding corruption out of the camps.

(Also to-day's Wizengamot session reminds me how behind my correspondence has been.)

Comments

[alt_corax]

I'm beginning to think we should simply transfer every individual who was a Camp Administrator under Dominic Selwyn into the MLE dungeons for interrogation, but unfortunately it's a bit impractical.

I have your list at hand; I asked my clerk for names, as well. Frankly I think it's likely there will be opportunities coming for everyone on that list, especially if that Auror keeps digging.

[alt_corax]

Also -- Cadmus and I discussed this yesterday, because at the very least I'd like the Aurors to take a closer look at the Camp Administrators. He thinks at present we should keep things discreet and just let Lamont keep digging; if we arranged for additional Aurors specifically assigned to look at the camps, that would give the admins warning that they ought to cover their tracks. I'm not convinced they won't see this second removal as just as much of a warning, unfortunately.

[alt_lucius]

Barty seems to think Lamont is competent. Have you misgivings about her capacity to uncover what we need to know? The biggest limitation in my mind is time: She is only one witch, after all.

Of a mind to agree with Cadmus that the less we signal the camps the better. You are correct, of course, that they will hear rumours. Isn't it the job of Communications to control what they hear or do not hear?

Perhaps the answer lies in supplying a credible reason for her (or others') presence in the camps.

[alt_corax]

Well, exactly; she's not, in herself, sufficient manpower to seize camp records before they're meddled with.

Communications controls the official channels. If you seriously think anyone who works for me has the power to stem the tide of rumour, you're quite an optimist.

Any suggestions of a credible reason? That's an excellent idea. Ideally it should be something that would encourage cooperation on the part of even the corrupt administrators.

[alt_lucius]

Give her additional staff. A small promotion - not publicly, of course, but with the promise of acknowledgement following a successful conclusion to her investigations.

As for the camps, you are conducting an experiment with the food supply? An excuse then could be an overhaul of camp regulations and procedures for other improved efficiency. No focus on the staff at all, merely the operations themselves.

[alt_corax]

I can't promote her, she doesn't work for me!

Not a bad idea about the camp overhaul, though. Hmm.

[alt_corax]

It's a shame we can't just keep the Maidstone position vacant while I send my clerk to the camps on the pretext of recruiting a replacement.

There's too many camps for that to work, and Weasley's not exactly an expert at tunneling into financial records for evidence of embezzlement (which Lamont, apparently, is).