Saturday is Chinese New Years. Dinner in the Great Hall is appropriately themed, including spring rolls, stir-fry, tofu, deep-fried seaweed, prawn crackers, egg-fried rice, and of course, fortune cookies. Some naughty prankster has tampered with the fortune cookies so that some of them read things like "You will fall in love with Professor McGonagall" or "Beware of Slytherins. No, really, you should."
1999
The DE and Order hunts for the renegade goblins continue. I want to, again, leave freedom for organic movement with this, but as a rough sketch to prompt you into posting I'm going to say that this week the following will happen: the DE mission try several different locations based on information given to them by the tortured goblin and given in code by the prisoners, each to no avail. They also start plotting what they are going to do once they actually find the location. Rush in and cast hexes in all directions? Hide and ambush? Sneak in and apparate out avec prisoners? the Order mission manage to track down somebody who is willing to pass on a message to Rurk, have a little argument about what to say, and then compose a message to him and send it off.
Voldemort enters into 'negotiations' with the goblins, essentially offering to free current goblin prisoners, considering giving them freedom to run their bank as they wish, but being adamant about the wand thing. Nothing is settled and the goblins are pissed, probably taking it out on the prisoners.
Aaaaaaaaaand trouble in Portugal: the citizens of Portugal are less than pleased by the prospect of going to war/pissing off an evil Dark wizard and, despite the ICW ruling, there are mumblings amongst the masses that they should just hand over the British refugees to be on the safe side. Saturday sees a anti-war protest in Lisbon. Just in case the Portugese government are thinking of breaking their word that they won't accept any more refugees, you know. This is picked up by the International Press on Sunday.