Order Only: Passing on information
Aug. 19th, 2013 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_billI'm sorry about the delay in passing along this information from my MLE source. Mulciber has me working some truly insane hours.
After I gave my MLE source the cover story we'd worked out about Sally-Anne's wand, the source in turn told me this: the miscreants that Ron and Sally-Anne encountered at Stretton Estates weren't themselves exactly a group that MLE has been tracking, but they were sent by one of those groups. Hired muscle, in other words. None of the actual members of the group were arrested, but with what little the thugs knew, combined with some other intelligence MLE had, my source was able to tell me this:
This shadowy group calls itself the 'New Millenarians.' My source characterised them as 'absolutely mental.' Their goal, apparently, is to return the Realm to its state when their hero, the great Salazar Slytherin, walked the earth. A fantasy view of the medieval past which they think would be perfect for the future (a somehow magically muggle-less future, details to be worked out later).
Probably they wouldn't be able to do a huge amount of damage if they set their sorcery in motion because it's completely crackpot, frankly. MLE, of course, would prefer to catch them before they try it. Better not to give other groups ideas, undoubtedly.
(As a sign of how crackpot they are: why did they want Diviner's Mint? Best guess, based on the interviews with the people they caught, is that they wanted it to pinpoint the most propitious day to launch their grand scheme to remake the Realm. Someone in one of the leadership roles must be a passionate devotee of Divination.)
Anyway. They're still out there, somewhere, but my source said I could pass along assurances to my timorous mum that it's probably a good bet that they won't be trying to raid the Strettons' property again.
After I gave my MLE source the cover story we'd worked out about Sally-Anne's wand, the source in turn told me this: the miscreants that Ron and Sally-Anne encountered at Stretton Estates weren't themselves exactly a group that MLE has been tracking, but they were sent by one of those groups. Hired muscle, in other words. None of the actual members of the group were arrested, but with what little the thugs knew, combined with some other intelligence MLE had, my source was able to tell me this:
This shadowy group calls itself the 'New Millenarians.' My source characterised them as 'absolutely mental.' Their goal, apparently, is to return the Realm to its state when their hero, the great Salazar Slytherin, walked the earth. A fantasy view of the medieval past which they think would be perfect for the future (a somehow magically muggle-less future, details to be worked out later).
Probably they wouldn't be able to do a huge amount of damage if they set their sorcery in motion because it's completely crackpot, frankly. MLE, of course, would prefer to catch them before they try it. Better not to give other groups ideas, undoubtedly.
(As a sign of how crackpot they are: why did they want Diviner's Mint? Best guess, based on the interviews with the people they caught, is that they wanted it to pinpoint the most propitious day to launch their grand scheme to remake the Realm. Someone in one of the leadership roles must be a passionate devotee of Divination.)
Anyway. They're still out there, somewhere, but my source said I could pass along assurances to my timorous mum that it's probably a good bet that they won't be trying to raid the Strettons' property again.
Private message to Ron Weasley
Date: 2013-08-20 03:16 am (UTC)Look, I don't know what's going on, but I'm happy to lend an ear if you want to talk about it. Or can I help in any way? I promise not to lecture you. I figure Mum probably has that angle covered.
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Date: 2013-08-20 04:04 am (UTC)We'd talked about perhaps making contact with other resistance movements, like Beth's people and what's left of Ridley's. But Circe, if they're all that delusional, that might not be a viable strategy.
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Date: 2013-08-20 04:57 pm (UTC)It's rather difficult some times to sort out how to handle fanatics, because their perspective is just so incredibly bizarre.
Thank you, Bill.