Order only - private message to Cedric

[alt_sinistra]

Part of me wishes I were at Hogwarts. Part of me is so very glad I'm not. And it's not like I could really do anything that'd be all that helpful. Probably.

Realised you might be feeling the same way.

Harry came this afternoon. He was hoping to see you too, and thought he might try to get to Dover sooner than later.

I've been trying to prep for a complicated thing tomorrow, and I'm utterly failing to keep my head sorted for more than five minutes at a time. (Five minutes is generous, actually.)

Is Dover horribly frustrating?

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[alt_cedric]

Not flying every day is hard, but otherwise no more frustrating than working for Antonin was.

In many ways it reminds me of the preparation for some the Board of Governor's meetings. Factions are pushing and pulling with different agendas. Gabriel Poingdestre was the one saying 'Non' to everything on Friday, but he wasn't there today and no one mentioned his name. Of the people from Alice's notes half have not shown their face in the fire. Fortunately it seems to be the most hardline proprotectorate half. The new faces are all saying some variation on 'we can work it out' but it all looks like delaying tactics to me. The only thing that it looks like we may be able to get are some 'humanitarian' potioneering supplies... in meager quantities. Nowhere near enough for the anti-sleeper potion. Only one from Snape 'must have' list and two from the backup list of 'if we can't get A get B' list. In both cases a tiny fraction of the quantity we'll need. Having those will help with burn, bite and nerve recovery poultices. Several of the ingredients Snape and Hermoine need are unusual and rarely used, which makes pressing for them, without giving a full explanation, difficult. And we obviously don't want to give them a full explanation when they might, somehow, leak it back to Mysteries or his-noselessness.

All that boils down to, I think there was a beaurocratic shift over the weekend from the hardliners to those who would like to look reasonable, but can't actually be arsed to help us in case we fail. If the faces all shift again later this week and I have to explain everything to another new crop of people, it'll be an obvious stall tactic by the hardliners hoping the Protectorate Security forces 'deal' with the problem that is us. If not, and this crop sticks around, we should start getting a trickle of essential supplies 'bientôt'.

Do you have someone to talk through the problem with? I always found that helped with the tricky problems at Hogwarts.