It is damnably odd. The more pieces I put together the more dangerous it looks as well. There's blood on the pebble pieces I've managed to gather. Those runes and blood of the caster (assumption) make this an incredibly delicate working to enact in the middle of battle. The ways it could go wrong are legion and some of the outcomes in my current list are truly horrific. If it was a Fidelius variant and the secret keeper is a second person and their blood is on it as well? The possibilities become ...
I can come up tomorrow. If I come up Saturday afternoon could I interview your 'ducklings' who were present? I'm trying to find anyone who might have witnessed the stones or the explosions and several of their after action reports were woefully inadequate. Are after action reports part of the curriculum these days? If so they need a refresher. Though I suspect that whatever underling Bella gave the task to decided to just included every single one that had the words 'stone', 'rock' or 'pebble' in it. Since this all took place over a bloody mine, that's every single bloody report. Lucius used to have a better handle on the stupidity of the bureaucracy, he seems to be slipping recently. Have we become so entrenched in our positions that we've lost our edge and let the little people get enough power to think they can mess about with Us like this?
Researchers on their side? Sirius was always useless at academics. The Longbottoms were thugs. Prewetts are dead and were all action without thinking anyway. Could they possibly be in contact with Albus in whatever benighted hole he's dug himself into? All the Potters are gone, even the smarter grandmother. Is Flitwick around anymore wedged in some tiny corner? Any particularly notable students of his? He'd be capable of that sort of analysis, even if his focus was charms rather than runes. Anyway, I'll see you tomorrow and we can discuss.
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Date: 2014-11-15 04:34 am (UTC)I can come up tomorrow. If I come up Saturday afternoon could I interview your 'ducklings' who were present? I'm trying to find anyone who might have witnessed the stones or the explosions and several of their after action reports were woefully inadequate. Are after action reports part of the curriculum these days? If so they need a refresher. Though I suspect that whatever underling Bella gave the task to decided to just included every single one that had the words 'stone', 'rock' or 'pebble' in it. Since this all took place over a bloody mine, that's every single bloody report. Lucius used to have a better handle on the stupidity of the bureaucracy, he seems to be slipping recently. Have we become so entrenched in our positions that we've lost our edge and let the little people get enough power to think they can mess about with Us like this?
Researchers on their side? Sirius was always useless at academics. The Longbottoms were thugs. Prewetts are dead and were all action without thinking anyway. Could they possibly be in contact with Albus in whatever benighted hole he's dug himself into? All the Potters are gone, even the smarter grandmother. Is Flitwick around anymore wedged in some tiny corner? Any particularly notable students of his? He'd be capable of that sort of analysis, even if his focus was charms rather than runes. Anyway, I'll see you tomorrow and we can discuss.