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[alt_frank]

many happy returns.

hope they're treating you proper at grimmauld tonight.

you up for another round of camp visits this week?

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[alt_nymphadora]

Thanks, you.

They're being entirely decent to me around here tonight. If you don't count Bea's tantrum during supper, which could surely have been heard across London. I'm surprised sometimes that we don't have the child welfare witches serving us with summonses for making her howl like she does. It makes Padfoot put his tail between his legs and leave the room or the garden straightaway.

Anywiz. Tonight's been lovely, really. Molly brought chocolate cake and a basket of other things she'd baked and two jars of pickles, and then Bill came for a bit and had a toast. And people here in the garden have been singing mad songs to me all evening, and trying to buy me drinks. I tell them they can drink in my honour, but I can't be getting soused before going off to the Ministry, can I.

Speaking of which. Bill made a point of mentioning something to me about DIRRT tonight. Says he's hearing rumours that Mulciber's stirred the cauldron in that department and they're doubling down, investigating people all through the Ministry. It's news to me. Well, not entirely: I've heard rumours, too, but the thing is that where Yaxley's man, Vladimir, expected us in Magical Maintenance to be his eyes and ears, Cadmus Mulciber sacked him weeks ago, and we haven't heard who's taken his place. We haven't heard much of anything from DIRRT since then. Or I haven't. So far as I know, none of us have been called in to answer questions, and no one's come round to suggest where they'd like us to 'put in a bit of extra attention'. That's what they always called it when they wanted someone's drawers and cupboards gone through and the floorboards or flagstones lifted. But if what Bill's hearing is right, it's not because Mulciber's got no use for DIRRT. Maybe the new DIRRT has new ways of collecting its information, though.

I could do Friday or Saturday in the camps. Whichever's best for you.

[alt_frank]

sounds like a good day. wish I could've been there.

and I've told al about DIRRT. it'd be worth finding out if they're using some other method of surveillance, or have other people working on it. maybe they figured that if there was a change in power, the people who used to get intel wouldn't be as loyal.

either those days are fine. which one would get you more sleep?