Order Only: Maidstone

[alt_bill]

Boss monumentally hacked off w/ me this morning b/c I went to MLE with tip. Re: Maidstone. Aparently, not supposed to report malFeasance to MLE unless he first approves. Has to make surre it suits his purposes. I guess.

After administering chastisement, he orderd me to start

Bugger. spilled ink hang on

I'm to find candidates for replacement camp admin. Maidstone.

Nick. start combing files. Alice: send out word on buttons? we need someone who looks good to Mulciber but who wd BE good for us.

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[alt_molly]

Bill! Has that wretched man cruciated you? Again?

[alt_bill]

Bugger.

That message was supposed to be PM to Alice and Nick. Was too addled to get title right.

'm all right. Took the potion, should stop shaking in an hour or so maybe.

[alt_molly]

Can't you just come home?

[alt_bill]

no

[alt_gredforge]

Well, we're glad that you didn't make it PM so we're aware what's going on (not glad that it happened to you, but just that we know). Talked it over, and we're coming home for a few days. Give you a break on the goat and chicken chores, yeah? We know you just love them, but hey, we'll take 'em on till you get your feet back under you. Besides, judging from Charlie's information, we need to put our heads together with Mum to do some anti-Lucius Malfoy plotting.

(That is, if it's okay with you, Mum? You haven't sold our beds yet or anything?

[alt_molly]

I think it's a splendid idea. It'd be lovely to have you back at the dinner table, and I do want Bill to take it easy for the next few days.

Be sure to lock the building up tight. No point in making it easy if Lucius Malfoy is snooping around.

[alt_bill]

Thanks, gents. I'd be glad to offload the chores for a few days.

[alt_nymphadora]

Bill, I'm so sorry. Hope the worst of it is already passing.

Listen. What about Bridges, the deputy Admin at Bristol? Her first name is Wulfryth, I think, or something like that. We've got a button there, so we can ask for more about her, but I know people there say things have got better since she came in with oversight of the work programme. It's not that people trust her to break rules for them, exactly, but from what they've said, I think she doesn't enforce what she doesn't have to.

Or there's the Admin at Fareham. Stanton Thrush. It's not that he's in anyway our sort, but he runs a very loose ship. Our contacts there say they've got a lot of breathing room, and we've always found it easy to get in and out of that camp. Very little oversight. I'm not sure we'd want to move him, though. And I'm not sure what his reputation would be in official channels. It could be a bad idea to bring him to Mulciber's attention.

There's also one of Ridley's people who has come up through the Admin ranks at Saltash. Carter Prentiss. He's an assistant administrator. We've made contact, but haven't needed much from him, and I can't say whether he'd be the right sort for the job. Dogstar types don't necessarily have any investment in the welfare of Muggles or Muggleborns. We'd definitely want to know what people in that camp have to say about him, and I don't know if we've got a button there. It's not one Frank and I have given out if we do. Kingsley?

[alt_bill]

Thanks, Tonks. These sound like good leads. Well, except Stanton Thrush, maybe. If the present Camp Administrator is in trouble for lax records, they'll be probably watching his successor closely. And if he's serving our purposes where he is, then, yeah, maybe best not to turn Mulciber's eye to him.

Nick, check out what we have in the records on all of 'em. I'll see what other names might be possible to add to the list tomorrow. (Didn't get much done today).

[alt_frank]

prentiss might be worth placing there, yeah. I think as long as we play it right, tell him that he'd be in a good position to subvert the ministry, he'd be game for it.

but he wouldn't be our man, he'd be dogstar's, that's for sure.

still. we'd be able to talk directly to him, he already knows us, that's quite a lot if you think about it.