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Severus Snape: Topic: Technology
Arthur,
Accept my thanks in the matter of that trifling affair we had discussed previously. I have tested the paper trail on the records and say, in the best traditions of Mr. Stout, satisfactory. I trust you will thus find your kind question about the effects of easy proximity to a library with a fiction section answered, but I maintain that if you attempt to 'shove LeCarre down my throat' you will find out where it sticks more easily; the morality play of a well-written mystery is a thousand times more soothing to the feelings of a cousin.
There's another favor I must ask of you, with emphasis on the unique trust I place on your personal and professional integrity and valuation of tranquility (including domestic), and not merely because it comes under your purview. Having determined that none is yet in place, I wish to place a patent with the Ministry, as I have with IAMB, on a topical delivery method for potions without making it in any way public. Can you slip it through on my behalf? When you've assessed the appended specifications, I think you will understand why I wish both a highly exclusive and long-lasting patent and for it to be undertaken in the utmost secrecy, even from the most golden of eyries.
You'll understand what I mean by this, I know, and not take it amiss: I really have some scruples about placing this design in Ministry records at all. If I've thought of it, however, younger innovative minds with more exposure to Muggle toys surely will in time (naming no names), and far better that they should be forced to come to you or to me for dissuasion and/or stringent limitations than to blithely commercialize or martialize this particular piece of technomancy. I'd like to ask you not to inform even the locksmith, as his position is always a delicate one for a man of integrity, but if you feel you must then please do so with all due precautions.
As ever, this paper is coated with a topical memory enhancer and will self-destruct when blue armadillos dance or something of that nature.
V. Clayborn
( Once he realized the usual projectiles were contained with a gelatin casing, everything became simple, and the machine itself isn't electric and won't get him into trouble with the muggle police. )
Accept my thanks in the matter of that trifling affair we had discussed previously. I have tested the paper trail on the records and say, in the best traditions of Mr. Stout, satisfactory. I trust you will thus find your kind question about the effects of easy proximity to a library with a fiction section answered, but I maintain that if you attempt to 'shove LeCarre down my throat' you will find out where it sticks more easily; the morality play of a well-written mystery is a thousand times more soothing to the feelings of a cousin.
There's another favor I must ask of you, with emphasis on the unique trust I place on your personal and professional integrity and valuation of tranquility (including domestic), and not merely because it comes under your purview. Having determined that none is yet in place, I wish to place a patent with the Ministry, as I have with IAMB, on a topical delivery method for potions without making it in any way public. Can you slip it through on my behalf? When you've assessed the appended specifications, I think you will understand why I wish both a highly exclusive and long-lasting patent and for it to be undertaken in the utmost secrecy, even from the most golden of eyries.
You'll understand what I mean by this, I know, and not take it amiss: I really have some scruples about placing this design in Ministry records at all. If I've thought of it, however, younger innovative minds with more exposure to Muggle toys surely will in time (naming no names), and far better that they should be forced to come to you or to me for dissuasion and/or stringent limitations than to blithely commercialize or martialize this particular piece of technomancy. I'd like to ask you not to inform even the locksmith, as his position is always a delicate one for a man of integrity, but if you feel you must then please do so with all due precautions.
As ever, this paper is coated with a topical memory enhancer and will self-destruct when blue armadillos dance or something of that nature.
V. Clayborn
( Once he realized the usual projectiles were contained with a gelatin casing, everything became simple, and the machine itself isn't electric and won't get him into trouble with the muggle police. )