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alt_mollyFred and George had passed along that someone has banging on the door of the Hope Building in the middle of the night, shouting something about 'Inspection.' After the visit Virgil Crispin had paid a couple of weeks ago to the twins, breathing threats, we figured that Lucius Malfoy had decided to make trouble. So Fred and George have moved back to the Burrow for the time being, and I tracked down the proper variance to allow tenants to stay in commercial buildings overnight. I included it with my own business licence application that I turned in last week, and we thought that would be the end of it.
I received an owl this morning with news that I certainly did NOT expect.
Mr Theodore Gellman of the Repopulation office has been 'informed' that my family is not actually living at the home in New London at 25 Avenue Road, and 'while we understand that as a bereaved housewife with little, if any, financial education, you cannot be expected to truly grasp the details of the contract you signed, it has recently been brought to our attention that you have been renting out the property the Repopulation Office graciously bestowed upon you. We have received further report that you intend to use the rental income for dubious purposes. This gross violation of the spirit of the award has led to a formal complaint, and may lead to the total forfeiture of your benefit.' They demand my immediate response to the 'accusation.'
Well! I can certainly guess who registered the complaint. I do I believe I detect the interfering hand of that horrible man Lucius Malfoy. Mr Gellman has sent a copy of this condescending, horrid letter to EVERY MEMBER OF THE MAGICAL COMMERCE COMMITTEE!
And they're determining the fate of my application tomorrow! What can I possibly do?!
I received an owl this morning with news that I certainly did NOT expect.
Mr Theodore Gellman of the Repopulation office has been 'informed' that my family is not actually living at the home in New London at 25 Avenue Road, and 'while we understand that as a bereaved housewife with little, if any, financial education, you cannot be expected to truly grasp the details of the contract you signed, it has recently been brought to our attention that you have been renting out the property the Repopulation Office graciously bestowed upon you. We have received further report that you intend to use the rental income for dubious purposes. This gross violation of the spirit of the award has led to a formal complaint, and may lead to the total forfeiture of your benefit.' They demand my immediate response to the 'accusation.'
Well! I can certainly guess who registered the complaint. I do I believe I detect the interfering hand of that horrible man Lucius Malfoy. Mr Gellman has sent a copy of this condescending, horrid letter to EVERY MEMBER OF THE MAGICAL COMMERCE COMMITTEE!
And they're determining the fate of my application tomorrow! What can I possibly do?!
Private Message to Mrs Weasley
Date: 2013-10-14 02:46 pm (UTC)I don't know if sending along a statement in your support would be helpful at all, but I'll write one and send it off.
I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter
Date: 2013-10-14 02:46 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter
Date: 2013-10-14 02:55 pm (UTC)I'm currently on the outs with Lucius, so obviously that makes me a little useless when it comes to helping. I don't know if Mr Baddock would help to spite him, because they're fighting, but I might write him and see if there's a legal issue or not. He very well might not answer, because he's not working for me any more, but it's worth a try.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter
Date: 2013-10-14 02:58 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter
Date: 2013-10-14 03:01 pm (UTC)That could be okay. I mean, you went to the pitch for those half-blooded students last term, so it wouldn't look too weird if you stepped up for this too.
Ron, you might ask your mum to send a quick owl to you about what's happened, and then talk to Harry about it on the journals in a way that's not under lock so there's a trail. If Lucius is paying close attention to things, it might look bad if Harry writes before he had any way of knowing there was a problem.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter
Date: 2013-10-14 03:21 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter
Date: 2013-10-14 04:31 pm (UTC)But having some sort of notice about it first helps cover both of us a bit. The last thing we need is for him to start suspecting we have ways of communicating that he doesn't know about.
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Date: 2013-10-14 02:54 pm (UTC)It might not help but have you any copies of your correspondence from Selwyn? I know he was unmasked as a 'traitor' but at the time he was helping you, he was an authority on what you could and could not do and you were following his suggestions.
You could always portray it like he led you down the garden path, drat the man, if that angle would be more acceptable to Gellman.
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Date: 2013-10-14 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-10-14 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-10-14 06:45 pm (UTC)Can you maybe find out who some of them are? If there's someone rich and influential who doesn't have very much children who's renting a house from a family who does, that might make it harder for them to give you trouble.
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Date: 2013-10-14 05:51 pm (UTC)It may have been his former clerk, Virgil Crispin. He's gone on to work as the Head of Office for the Regulation of Commercial Enterprise, so I assume he'd be working on the side having to do with your business application, Mum.
Private message to Bill Weasley
Date: 2013-10-14 05:52 pm (UTC)Re: Private message to Bill Weasley
Date: 2013-10-14 05:55 pm (UTC)His bleeding present clerk.
I'm not going to ask him directly. The results could be...dire.