Location: Hogwarts Headmaster’s Office. Present: A. Dumbledore, Unspeakable Judas Crane, Director of the Department of Mysteries (via Floo Network), phoenix (‘Fawkes’).
DUMBLEDORE: Have you spoken to Amelia?
CRANE: I have.
DUMBLEDORE: And?
CRANE: She’ll approve it. Scrimgeour’s not too pleased.
DUMBLEDORE: Well.
CRANE: I can’t say I’m entirely pleased myself, Albus. I don’t know or want to know the full scale of what you’re planning, but I’d even less have the DMLE know about it.
DUMBLEDORE: Oh, you can rest assured that they will not. I’ve simply – redirected them. From one caper to another.
CRANE: I haven’t caught wind of what exactly they’re trying to catch him at. I imagine it’s, er, grim.
DUMBLEDORE: It will be nothing compared to what I’m pulling him toward now.
CRANE: Who’s your man inside? The DMLE, I mean.
DUMBLEDORE: How much do you want to know, Judas? How much do you want to be liable for?
CRANE: Touché. If you want to work with bobbies ready to avada kedavra anything that moves, Albus, be my guest. I’ll keep my ground with real intelligence. I just don’t want their nonsense getting in the way of ours.
DUMBLEDORE: Without telling you too much – I daresay they won’t get in the way so much as carry us along.
CRANE: I don’t find that encouraging.
DUMBLEDORE: Forgive me. I find myself wanting to boast. But this caper – well, it delights me. I must say I’ve outdone myself.
CRANE: We’ll have to wait and see, I suppose. Until – when did you say?
DUMBLEDORE: June. June the 4th, I believe, if all goes well. But you are right. We will have to wait and see.
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