Private message to Lana Sandoval
Jun. 28th, 2013 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_rachelLana --
I'm sure you saw the news about Protectorate Affairs in the papers. Do you know Corax Mulciber at all? I'm the lucky Auror from MEU who got assigned to help him shake the trees for more traitors. (If there are any up there who haven't fled. I've been going through the list of staff people and not surprisingly they've seen a lot of turnover since Selwyn's execution. If they really expected us to find anything, perhaps they should have sent us in sooner? Well, no doubt SOMETHING will turn up. It just may not be anything very impressive.)
Anyway. I know Auror Mulciber, of course (though not particularly well) but I'd never met Director Mulciber. He strikes me as a little temperamental and thoroughly unpredictable, so if you've met him -- on the Council, or anywhere else, really -- and have advice for staying on his good side, I'm all ears. Also -- frankly, he doesn't seem to know all that much about Protectorate Affairs. Would you say that's accurate? Do you know if he's likely to be a quick study, or if he'll probably require hand-holding for a while yet? (The hand-holding isn't MY job, thank goodness. I don't envy the poor bastard they've given it to.)
How's your internship year going? Nisha Desai is utterly brilliant -- I imagine you're getting to do some rather fascinating work. Like that business with the empty houses -- I assume you haven't turned up any explanations that would involve my department, or I'd have heard about it. Any news on those?
--Rachel
I'm sure you saw the news about Protectorate Affairs in the papers. Do you know Corax Mulciber at all? I'm the lucky Auror from MEU who got assigned to help him shake the trees for more traitors. (If there are any up there who haven't fled. I've been going through the list of staff people and not surprisingly they've seen a lot of turnover since Selwyn's execution. If they really expected us to find anything, perhaps they should have sent us in sooner? Well, no doubt SOMETHING will turn up. It just may not be anything very impressive.)
Anyway. I know Auror Mulciber, of course (though not particularly well) but I'd never met Director Mulciber. He strikes me as a little temperamental and thoroughly unpredictable, so if you've met him -- on the Council, or anywhere else, really -- and have advice for staying on his good side, I'm all ears. Also -- frankly, he doesn't seem to know all that much about Protectorate Affairs. Would you say that's accurate? Do you know if he's likely to be a quick study, or if he'll probably require hand-holding for a while yet? (The hand-holding isn't MY job, thank goodness. I don't envy the poor bastard they've given it to.)
How's your internship year going? Nisha Desai is utterly brilliant -- I imagine you're getting to do some rather fascinating work. Like that business with the empty houses -- I assume you haven't turned up any explanations that would involve my department, or I'd have heard about it. Any news on those?
--Rachel
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Date: 2013-06-29 09:26 pm (UTC)Crucio Theatre, yes, that's definitely one way to put it. I wasn't nearby when it happened and came back to panicked feverish whispered gossip.
Apparently the last time Dominic Selwyn cruciated someone in the office, it was because they'd leaked sensitive information out of the journals and it wound up in some gossip magazine. I do believe this was over pilfered quills. So you can imagine how shocked everyone was.
I heard Director Mulciber wanted his assistant (or 'Senior Adjutant') to do the discipline, and then cruciated him when he failed, or maybe because he didn't give it a proper try. Poor bloke, I don't think he much fancies being on EITHER end of the wand for that one.
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Date: 2013-06-29 10:11 pm (UTC)I suppose most administrative hacks haven't the stomach for strong spells. If they did, they'd do something more substantial than process parchment, order supplies, and count time on the clock. (Don't tell Ned I said that, but really...)
We had a bit of fun here this afternoon. Apparently MLE are getting ready to train enforcers, so there was an anteroom full of painfully eager faces. There's really nothing more amusing than watching people sit around all day with a roomful of other people competing for the same few slots. I suppose they mean to start in August.
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Date: 2013-06-29 10:13 pm (UTC)And no, you're right about administrative hacks. How is Ned, by the way?
Were the would-be enforcers tripping each other up going through the door? Casting Confundus on anyone foolish enough to turn his back?
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Date: 2013-06-29 10:31 pm (UTC)I heard one of them whingeing about an itching jinx, and I was in the loo with one of the witches when she looked in the mirror and realised she'd been hexed to come out in rather hideous spots. Apparently she'd no idea while she was in the interview. It wasn't pretty.
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Date: 2013-06-29 10:48 pm (UTC)Maybe they'll settle down now they've seen what's what.
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Date: 2013-06-29 11:10 pm (UTC)In the meantime, it's sort of odd the information people have been slipping under my door, whispering in my ear, pressing into my hands... practically everyone here would urgently like to point my attentions elsewhere. Funny, that.
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Date: 2013-06-29 11:16 pm (UTC)Also useful, one hopes.