Order Only: Letter from the Repopulation Office

[alt_molly]

Fred 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?!

Comments

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter

[alt_pansy]

He's the one you asked to line up the tutors, right?

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

[alt_ron]

Yeah, okay. That makes sense. Only, I'm not sure I want Mum to know I'm putting my nose in it. I don't think Mr Malfoy would know if I'd got an owl or not. Do you? Or. I could get the twins to send Errol. I'll do that.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good Private Message to Pansy Parkinson and Harry Pottter

[alt_pansy]

Well, if Harry writes, he might think it's because of something I've said to him, or you and me together. I can take the brunt of that.

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.