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Most of you know by now that Malfoy and I have been researching ingredients in this world for use in potion making. For the most part, our research is going rather well. Except for the part where I'm working with Malfoy and he's constantly annoying me.

But besides that, we've managed to find most replacements or equivalents for this world.

Save for unicorn horn and hair. Obviously, unicorns don't exist in this world (that Muggles know of)and unicorn horn is a rather important ingredient in antidotes, so I've hit the point of bashing my head on a wall. Any suggestions?

Okay so I don't know if it's a me-thing because of my broken healing, but did you know that there's a certain level of coffee-consumption even in werewolves where you evolve past the need for sleep altogether? I designed twelve garments last night.

My goodness; I didn't know bodies of water contained so many magical properties! It's interesting, certainly, but all my field journals are scattered in the ocean and my first attempt at summoning them did not work out as well as I had hoped.

Open position, to be filled immediately: Paid intern, does what Granger says, unless I say "don't do what Granger says in this specific case", in which case listen to me and not her. Make coffee and don't bitch about it. I don't care if it's good coffee but it's gotta be passable and if you just reheat that shit I will know it and you're gonna have nightmares the rest of your goddamned life once I'm done chewing you out. Filing the shit that needs to be filed; neither Granger nor I have done much with that so I hope you like piles. of. shit. Answer the phone, answer the door, be nice to our clients, and goddamn shower once in a while, Christ. Be a fucking human being, take some goddamn pride.

And for fuck's sake if I catch you smuggling magic carpets down at the blackmarket off Mayfair don't piddle about with "wow, what a strange coincidence that this illegal deal is going down so close and unrelated to me" because that's how we lost our last intern and I'm gonna be mighty upset if I need to go down memory road.

Anything else?



Oh yeah, what we do - detective agency, hire us when you don't want to deal with the brass's bullshit - just kidding HPD and NYPD, you're great - but we're not gonna front for you or hide your shit. We solve. Questions? Comments? Ask Granger, she actually likes people.

Apply or something by... doing shit, I don't know. Surprise me.

Podmore out.

I find myself missing Crookshanks terribly, and unfortunately (fortunately?) there's an animal shelter just a block away from my new place of employment. I've spent my lunches there the last few days, playing with animals and occupying my time.

Yesterday, this gentleman was released to the shelter, from a family that simply couldn't afford the care costs for an animal. He seems to be completely healthy!

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Harry, do you mind overly much? I don't know that I can resist, but I wouldn't want to impose a strange cat on your household without asking first.

[OOC: New Hermione PB! She's always looked like this etc]

I thought it'd be rather difficult to find employment here, given the Wizarding Standards set so far away from the Muggle world, but I'm happy to report that's not the case. With a bit of help from the HPD and my own knowledge of CVs and what my parents have gone through, I've already garnered interest in several different areas. I'm currently leaning towards social work, as it's the closest to what I was doing back at the Ministry.

I doubt it comes with such a large threat to biting, either. And I won't need to know Gobbledegook.

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I wasn't sure how advanced we were in the potions department, so I hope no one minds that I took it upon myself to start experimenting about.

Sorry Harry, if one of your guest rooms smells a bit.. odd. I've charmed everything up so none of the children will poke their heads where they don't belong. So far my target of interest is Wolfsbane, to prevent the need for the puppet spell on Draco so he stops whinging. About that.

But if all goes well, I should have Wolfsbane brewing within the next batch or two.