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Richard Summerby (en_summerby) wrote in enigma_rpg,
@ 2009-04-08 19:45:00

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* complete, 2004-04, character: ginny weasley, character: richard summerby, npc

Home Again

When: April 8th, 2004
Who: Richard Summerby, ?
Where: Clink St.
Private/Public: Private, unless it gets loud
Rating: All Ages
Summary: Home from another trip away

It was after mid-day when Richard rode the <i>Eurostar</i> back to London from Calais. It had taken him a while longer than he'd planned to locate a small Volvo for Lavender as well as the older Jaguar saloon he'd always wanted since he started to notice muggle automobiles. The morning had been spent finding and renting a small place to garage them not far from the train station. That, added to his extended stay in Hong Kong, had kept him away a couple of days longer than he'd planned.

He had sent Lavender a text message, giving his probable arrival time, but hadn't received anything in return. He'd written that off to her still not being really comfortable with her mobile phone. He'd been lucky enough to convince her to carry it in her purse most of the time.

He'd been careful to go through Customs on both ends, beginning to build up a muggle persona, in case it was needed with all the bad doings with Carrow and her crew. The flat was empty when he apparated into the foyer from a quiet corner of the station. Not unusual for that time of day. Richard tossed his small traveling case on his bed, and went to his 'office' area to check his email and send off a report to the new company office in Marseilles, to his father. If nobody had anything planned for dinner, there were a couple of good restaurants in walking distance, or even takeaway chicken right across the street. He just didn't feel like cooking.

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en_ministry
2009-04-09 04:54 am UTC (link)

The crime scene investigation after Miss Browns attack had left them with several facts. One was that the alleyway in which it had happened, while right outside the victims flat, also was fairly protected from outside view. The perpetrator would have been able to work in peace without being seen, if it hadn't been for the neighbour.

The second observation that had been made had been that most of the clues left behind were from the victim. It was the victims blood on the scene, the victims shredded clothes, the victim's food left on the street. Yet there were evidence from the Death Eater too, sloppy evidence left behind which went to show that he had not tried to hide his identity from the victim.

He had not worn a mask, or the witness would not have seen him. There had been samples of his skin under the victim's fingernails, of red blondish hair that did not belong to the victim on the streets (confirming the witnesses statement that it was a man of red blond hair who had been the attacker), and there was considerable magical residues around the place. Residues with clear signatures from the perpetrator's wand. All they needed was to match it with this Richard Summerby's wand and he would be sentence to quite some time in Azkaban. Of course it would help if they were able to find the man, which they had yet to do. Very suspicious as far as Savage was concerned.

They'd tried for him at the flat, him or the other girlfriend (did he just want number one out of the way, perhasps? But then why the Dark Mark?) but there had been no one there at the time, and the wards were too complicated to break without a curse breaker. He'd applied for a permit to hire one, but so far Shacklebolt had said no and settled for surveillance being put up to see when the suspect returned. Once they had evidence against the man, or Miss Browns permission, then they would be able to go inside the flat, but not until then. If they needed to that was.

Right now he was buried in paperwork when he got the news. The suspect had returned home. Leaving a note on Weasley's desk about getting him in he left the Ministry, heading over to the flat and knocking the door so that he could bring Summerby in for questioning.

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en_summerby
2009-04-09 09:05 am UTC (link)

Richard noticed the ripple in the wards when somebody knocked at the outer door. Must be somebody wizarding, Richard said to himself, anybody muggle would know to push the door buzzer rather than knock. Quickly changing windows on his laptop, he accessed the security camera server over in the main building. He didn't recognize the man at the door.

He closed the inner door to the foyer behind him, then let the outer door stand open on the chair while he looked at the man waiting there. "Can I help you?" Richard asked politely, keeping his wand to hand but out of sight behind the door.