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[alt_frank]

arthur, bill, how are those papers coming along for the ridley contacts? I know babies have priority, but it'd be nice to get a start on it.

tonks, what days work best for you again?

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[alt_nymphadora]

Sorry, Frank. I'd gone to sleep when you wrote. Just up again now.

I could do any day. What's our cover meant to be? Are we going to be inspectors from the ministry? or something else? If it's ministry, we ought to go out in the mornings, don't you think? I get off shift at half-seven, so we could meet up either at Moddey or 12 Grimmauld to sort out our plans, and then go.

[alt_frank]

right. that time would work for me. long as you won't be too knackered coming off your shift, that is.

we've done ministry inspectors before, yeah. it lets us be pretty mobile within camps, gives us reasons to knock on doors and ask questions, and we can always claim ignorance if we end up somewhere we're not supposed to be.

we also probably ought to sort out what we're going to say. about us, I mean. who we are, what we'd want from them, all that.

[alt_arthur]

Ministry inspectors, yes. Bill has about half of the bonafides ready, so you can get started whenever you like. He'll be sending you both a packet. I'm still chasing down some of the locations of the names Ridley gave us, but I should have most of them pinned down by, oh, say, the middle of next week or so.

I think Kingsley was going to try for one of the babies today, but he hasn't checked in yet. Haven't heard if there are any snags, though, so we'll just wait for his report.

[alt_frank]

right. okay.

tonks, how about we meet tomorrow morning, work out strategy? then we can plan to go out on sunday or monday for some visits, knock out two or three.

[alt_nymphadora]

That works for me. I don't work overnight tonight, so I'll have had a good long sleep and be ready for whatever we need to plan in the morning. I could come your way.

Or you could come here and see the trunkful of costumes the boys and Ellie got for me so I can dress properly like a wizard or witch of nearly any height or age or weight or style. It's sort of amazing, really.

I think they might have all played dress up a bit before they gave them over.

[alt_frank]

I'll come there. we can also check out those specialty items you were talking about.

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[alt_frank]

I was thinking we might want to bring something with.

we only have ten to spare, but with the shipment at solstice and melli's work, we might be able to pass along wands to some of them now and follow up with the rest later.

not sure what the rest of the order would think, but might smooth the way to start.

steve suggested bottling up some standard potions for the people we couldn't get wands to right away.

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[alt_nymphadora]

That's brilliant.

I wonder- we might have some things here in the 'specialty items department' (things we don't put out on the shelves for the public, if you take my meaning) that would be good to offer. Let me ask Remus and Sirius what they think.