Order Only: Broderick Bode
Apr. 30th, 2014 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_billFor those of you who missed it, there was an item in the Prophet today announcing the dismissal of Broderick Bode, MLE Unspeakable. His assistant, Chelsea Burris, had some unflattering comments about how his 'reckless experimentation' at the Ministry inadvertently amplified the effects of the recent earthquake felt in Cornwall and southwestern portions of Devon.
That is certainly suggestive, of the Octoboros network, I mean. And it suggests that the Unspeakables are really quite unhappy about how they're performing. Or perhaps how they've been fiddled with.
Even more suggestive: I had lunch with Percy today who confirmed that Broderick Bode is not just sacked, but dead. I am not sure whether this is the only way Unspeakables may leave their employ under our present regime.
That is certainly suggestive, of the Octoboros network, I mean. And it suggests that the Unspeakables are really quite unhappy about how they're performing. Or perhaps how they've been fiddled with.
Even more suggestive: I had lunch with Percy today who confirmed that Broderick Bode is not just sacked, but dead. I am not sure whether this is the only way Unspeakables may leave their employ under our present regime.
Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2014-04-30 11:51 pm (UTC)Bode is dead because Percy killed him. A ritualistic execution, and, I think, a gauging of Percy's ruthlessness, which apparently he was quite willing to demonstrate. Percy used the killing curse. He told me not to let the news go any further, but I rather think he's testing me, to see if the news filters up from Corax Mulciber's right-hand man to Mulciber.
I had laid the groundwork, I think, by telling him of my work the past week, stuffing little kids down a wulfram mine. That made him decide I was as cold-hearted as he is, I guess, the bloody bastard. When he boasted of killing Bode, using Avada Kedavra, I kept my composure, although it was difficult.
He hinted that it was a test of his mettle, and he immediately started speaking next of Virgil Crispin, his mentor, and how he was recently elevated to the Council.
I think there's a good chance that Percy will be invited to take the Lord Protector's Mark soon.
Bloody hell.
I'm glad that Dad will never know.
Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2014-05-01 12:36 am (UTC)I'm sorry you had to sit through all that. I'm not wasting one more moment of compassion on Percy ever again, because he's made it dead clear what he thinks of us and of compassion both and I hope he chokes on it, but I'm sorry you had to sit through that.
There's the whole Order thing for Beltane tomorrow and I need to spend tonight getting some details for arranged, but depending on how it goes tomorrow, we could meet up tomorrow night? Or Friday, Friday's probably safer to plan on. Friday night, let's you and me have a drink and play some chess and you can pretend I'm Percy and yell all the things you really want to yell at him, at me instead. Would that help? Or would it just be too painful?
Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2014-05-01 12:59 am (UTC)Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom and Charlie Weasley
Date: 2014-05-01 04:26 am (UTC)Thank you for telling me.
If it helps at all, the button we've set up at the mines seems to be doing its job -- at the very least, they'll be able to exchange messages back and forth.