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?!

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Private Message to Mrs Weasley

[alt_pansy]

I'm sorry, Mrs Weasley.

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

[alt_ron]

Do either of you know anyone who could help Mum with this? I mean maybe by looking at the contract for that house she got from Population Rewards. Surely it's not really illegal to do what she did. Mr Selwyn told her other people do that, right? Only, it's really bad that it was Selwyn who set that up, yeah?

[alt_sirius]

Bugger all, Molly.

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.

[alt_bill]

How did Lucius Malfoy find out about the rental property is what I'd like to know. How is it any of his bleeding business?!

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.