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alt_lupin at 10:30pm on 07/05/2013
alt_lupin at 10:30pm on 07/05/2013I visited Sam Fawcett this morning. He let me in, poured me a cup of tea, and said he wanted to give me a list with some information my organisation might find useful. He hadn't wanted to write it out until I arrived. I can rather see why. It's a list of ten people in the camps.
1. Clifford Langworth, Exeter Camp.
2. Manish Gupta, Lincoln Camp.
3. Johannes Smith, Harlowe Camp.
All three are former members of the SAS, which I gather was sort of an elite military force the muggles had.
4. Joshua Tumber, Manchester Camp. He was apparently a combat medic in the British military.
5. Roger Harris, Porlock Camp. Was a trauma surgeon -- again, I gather a variety of muggle healer.
6. Meredith Crumley, Gloucestershire Camp. Meredith was a chemist, in the old days -- the sort that makes muggle medicines. Mostly they need facilities that are no longer available in the Protectorate but Meredith apparently had a hobby in herbalism and has made an extended project over the last decade of coming up with substitutions, some of which, Sam claimed, are very nearly potions in their own right.
7. Irene Young, Chipstead Camp. Despite her name, she's old, not young. Apparently she ran a fire watch station in the 1940s in London and is treated as the de facto leader by a large number of muggles. Sam didn't think we'd want to pull her out but thought we could probably make use of her where she is.
8. Odell Copeland, Llanfyllin Camp. Despite the not-particularly-Welsh name he's another influential one -- apparently he was a player on a local muggle sports team.
9. Margery Birdwhistle, Doncaster Camp. She was a Member of Parliament, before. Apparently she'd recently lost her seat, that's why she escaped notice. The other muggles in her camp apparently call her 'Minister.'
10. Tom Haddington, Sevenoaks Camp. This one's probably the most astonishing: he's a muggleborn wizard who's passed as a muggle all this time. He's nearly sixty years old. According to Sam -- I'm not sure how he found all this out -- Tumber got a Hogwarts letter all those years ago, but his parents insisted he go to a respectable school and not go gallivanting off messing about with magic, and so he never learnt to use his magic and never owned a wand. Sam spotted him because apparently Haddington did at some point teach himself quite a bit of runework and has been using it, discreetly, to keep vermin and illness at bay.
So. Sam handed over the list, took the letter from Sarah, and told me he's got quite a bit more where these came from but that if we want them, we'll have to let him in to our organisation. I told him we'd think about it.
1. Clifford Langworth, Exeter Camp.
2. Manish Gupta, Lincoln Camp.
3. Johannes Smith, Harlowe Camp.
All three are former members of the SAS, which I gather was sort of an elite military force the muggles had.
4. Joshua Tumber, Manchester Camp. He was apparently a combat medic in the British military.
5. Roger Harris, Porlock Camp. Was a trauma surgeon -- again, I gather a variety of muggle healer.
6. Meredith Crumley, Gloucestershire Camp. Meredith was a chemist, in the old days -- the sort that makes muggle medicines. Mostly they need facilities that are no longer available in the Protectorate but Meredith apparently had a hobby in herbalism and has made an extended project over the last decade of coming up with substitutions, some of which, Sam claimed, are very nearly potions in their own right.
7. Irene Young, Chipstead Camp. Despite her name, she's old, not young. Apparently she ran a fire watch station in the 1940s in London and is treated as the de facto leader by a large number of muggles. Sam didn't think we'd want to pull her out but thought we could probably make use of her where she is.
8. Odell Copeland, Llanfyllin Camp. Despite the not-particularly-Welsh name he's another influential one -- apparently he was a player on a local muggle sports team.
9. Margery Birdwhistle, Doncaster Camp. She was a Member of Parliament, before. Apparently she'd recently lost her seat, that's why she escaped notice. The other muggles in her camp apparently call her 'Minister.'
10. Tom Haddington, Sevenoaks Camp. This one's probably the most astonishing: he's a muggleborn wizard who's passed as a muggle all this time. He's nearly sixty years old. According to Sam -- I'm not sure how he found all this out -- Tumber got a Hogwarts letter all those years ago, but his parents insisted he go to a respectable school and not go gallivanting off messing about with magic, and so he never learnt to use his magic and never owned a wand. Sam spotted him because apparently Haddington did at some point teach himself quite a bit of runework and has been using it, discreetly, to keep vermin and illness at bay.
So. Sam handed over the list, took the letter from Sarah, and told me he's got quite a bit more where these came from but that if we want them, we'll have to let him in to our organisation. I told him we'd think about it.
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I mean, there's no more DogStar really, or if there is that witch who ran them has been lying really low, hasn't she, but how do we know that the Company are more like DogStar? Because we carry poison, too, in case we're captured.
Anyway, I think Sam's probably not all that clever for a Ravenclaw. He ought to have shown you the list but then not handed it over. Who's to say you couldn't take that list and through them, find all the people you need? And besides that, if the Crimson Company aren't interested then he might as well give us the names and go on passing along any other secrets he thinks we ought to know.
We could give him something to tell them now and then, couldn't we? Something that might require a lot more people (are they bigger? They make it sound like they are but that could be lies), or something that we really want to make sure goes off properly so we'd tell them to stay out of it, maybe.
That might make him feel like he's more of an Order operative, maybe.
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As for finding more people through these -- he brought that up himself, actually. He said that Clifford Langworth would be able to tell us the names of other former soldiers at his own camp, but he wouldn't have been able to tell us about the people at Lincoln and Harlowe.
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Drs Harris and Tumber, and Dr Crumley, are likely best left in place to treat their fellows. Members of the SAS, on the other hand, could prove strategically or tactically useful; their training is exhaustive.
I agree with Miss Granger's suggestion that Mr Fawcett be told he is a part of our organisation without being given detail, or indeed any information that would make us vulnerable.
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We can certainly tell him things he could pass along to his other organization that would be of use, and give him objectives to accomplish without having to let him under the Lock or informing him fully about our operation at Moddey Dhoo just yet. And we could give him access to one of our safehouses and a way to reach us in an emergency, as well as a method of regular communication.
We'd risk angering him if he were to prove capable of full membership later and he found we were keeping things from him, but this might be a good solution in the short term given the security risks. And were he to be eligible for full membership, one would hope that part of being eligible would include understanding why we'd keep such things from him to begin with.
Remus, what do you think? Would that satisfy him?
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I suppose we could give him a button.
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We can try, mind you.
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I wonder if Davidson knows any of the first three personally, or by repute, since he was SAS, too. Kingsley, could you check?
I'm salivating even more now at the idea of adding him, but I'm still equally as wary, for all the reasons Frank and Charlie mentioned. Bugger.
I don't know. Remus, I suppose it's difficult to tell, but do you get any sense about whether he's bluffing with the no more unless I'm allowed to join business?
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I was just going to say to Remus that we've got some overlap between Fawcett's list and Ridley's--there are people in some of the same camps, I mean. We've got Mitchell Alden at Harlow and Lorena Elliott at Manchester camp. We had a rocky start with Elliott, but they're both solid with us now.
I see he's got someone at Doncaster, too, and we've been meaning to get there. Maybe we should pop whatsisname... Moxon up the top of our list? Ridley had him in the wrong camp. Or he'd just moved jobs when we went looking for him, but we've tracked him down (or Nick did, anywiz). Polonius Moxon, I think. Frank, that's right, isn't it?
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sounds like a plan.
not sure how well Moxon would get on with a muggle, though. especially if he's pureblooded.
should we tell them about each other?
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I don't think he's bluffing, no.
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What we might do is tell him about the analysts and their jobs, and that he'd be a step up from that as our link to the Company. Then we could negotiate what his duties would be and what we'd give him in return -- access to the safehouse, a button for communication (Remus, perhaps he can report direct to you?), information passed to him that could be helpful for the Company, regular visits with his family, and whatever protection we can provide, and have him take a partial oath.
And later, he might be eligible for the inner circle, as it were.
Although don't tell him that bit, Remus, or he might insist on holding off until he's immediately given top access.
Do you think that would work?
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