Private Message to Barty

[alt_rookwood]

I hear you’ve been deployed to Ireland. How are you handling the transition? The various couriers I’ve tried to use have all been whingers and overstated the symptoms, even with the protections we provided. One went so far as to find a sympathetic Healer at St Mungo’s and got himself declared “unable to do useful work” and “incapable of handling a broom.” The last potion regime that was tried on a witch was unsuccessful. After that debacle, the new team went back to the start to create new options. It appears that Our Lord declared their animal trials acceptable and offered it to you. I wasn’t ready to approve wizarding trials, and would not have started with one of my brothers, as the homing pigeon trials have been only intermittently successful to date. Given the insightful researcher Our Lord is, if he deemed the runs successful enough to move to wizarding trials, they were ready to be moved to wizarding trials. Since you are still doing your duty, he was right and I was wrong. When you have the chance, I would appreciate a detailed and thorough description of the level of success at suppressing the difficulties with crossing the wards and any side effects you may have been experiencing. A report from someone who I know is not shirking his duties, would be a very helpful point of comparison. Hopefully your analysis will help me to the insight that allowed Our Lord to move forward with this project.

As you are the ranking representative in Ireland at the moment I ought to inform you that we had to contain an incident at a research station over the weekend. Even you don’t need the full details, but the site needed to be purged. As a precaution we also purged the nearby village, Cappoquin. It’s a score or so miles northeast of Cork. They should have taken out everyone involved and those closely related. or potentially exposed Given the usual precautions taken I don’t think it should stir up much unrest, but since you are over on that Merlin-damned island I thought you should be informed.

Yours in Service,
Augustus

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