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There's a gargantuan power struggle going on here today in the Department of Education and Public Information. The prize, apparently, is who gets to monitor private messages in the journals. Mulciber overhauled Communications, sending Lucius Malfoy's hand-picked people packing off to personnel, and he yanked Marcus Massopust from Transportation and put him back in his old position running Education and Public Information, with Plympton running Communications again. New staff were seated at the desks and immediately put to work. Mulciber was delighted with the success of his manoeuvre; he directed me to order in lunch for his new minions who would be very, very busy picking through old private journal entries for anything interesting. Mind you, Mulciber himself went off to lunch with his brother. Presumably to gloat and strategise.

While he was out, Barty Crouch and Bellatrix Lestrange came marching in, arresting people right and left, and announcing that journal monitoring is now under the Aurors' jurisdiction.

Mulciber came back from his victory lunch to find empty desks and is now beside himself with rage.