springsmutfairy (springsmutfairy) wrote in hp_springsmut, @ 2009-03-20 16:00:00 |
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Hermione,
I'm really, really sorry about this. I shouldn't have volunteered you for the job, but they asked for a witch or wizard with brains and good instincts and I said your name off the top of my head, and I guess they liked you for it, so here you are. Again, I'm really sorry. I know you think this is the chance of a lifetime, and maybe it is, but I think Ron is going to kill me for it. Can't wait till you're back so you can call him off.
Anyway, we don't have much about this case, and you probably have researched it already, but I'll go over the basics just as a refresher. There may be things in here you don't know, either, shocking as that may be.
So, 2001. The French Ministry starts to notice some weird things appearing in the Muggle tabloids, little articles like "The Magical Conspiracy" and "The Wizarding Threat to Our Nation", stuff like that, but doesn't take it seriously. Neither do the French Muggles, which is good, but then around July there start to be reports of wizards doing magic in front of Muggles – purposefully – way more than ever before. When they're brought in for questioning, all they do is babble about revolution and not being the underdog and things in a similar vein. The government assumes it's an isolated group of mad buggers, and leaves it at that.
Then in early 2002 – after a period of relative quiet – the Muggle paper Le Monde spills it with a headline screaming "The Wizarding Invasion" – basically an interview with a wizard who calls himself le Renégat – and all hell breaks loose. Suddenly everyone knows, not just the French but everyone, and although most countries manage to Obliviate their population before it gets out of hand, the French can't manage that. Le Renégat and his crowd keep leaking information, keeping the public aware, saying they're going to "invert the current paradigm (?? is that a proper translation? This quill needs to be re-charmed) and regain control" of France. Riots break out, hundreds are killed, both Muggle and wizard, the rest of the Muggle world thinks all the violence is due to the economy, le Renégat and his movement are gaining popularity with the wizarding world – and that's where you come in. I really hope you can do it, Hermione. No, I know you can, I just hope you can do it without getting yourself killed. But you've had the whole wizarding world on your shoulders before, yeah? You can do it again.
Good luck. I mean it.
Love,
Harry
P.S. Get rid of this when you're done reading.