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Pandora's Box Mods (pandoramods) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-10-18 14:36:00

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!status: complete, ^date: october 30 2003, character: harry potter, character: roger davies, npc: dalrimple gaskin

A New Assignment
Characters: Dalrimple Gaskin [NPC], Harry Potter, Roger Davies
Setting: October 30, 2003 10 AM, Gaskin's Office in the DMLE.
Rating: PG (will edit if needed)
Summary: Aurors Potter and Davies are assigned a new case.

While he waited for Potter and Davies to arrive at their meeting, Dalrimple Gaskin stood at attention as he watched Diagon Alley from his office window. It wasn't a true window of course, not as far underground as the Ministry was, but it served just as well. Better even.

As usual, Diagon Alley was bustling with activity, and Dalrimple saw it all. But a few things caught his eye. He witnessed a child steal a galleon from his mother's purse, watched a patrol wizard defuse an altercation brewing outside the Wizard's Workshop, and spied Hermione Granger disappear inside the library. Nothing truly out of the ordinary, but he took note anyway.

With a flick of his hand, the scene in the window changed, bringing up a quieter view of Hogsmeade's High Street. Again, nothing out of the ordinary, though he was fairly certain the two young men in front of Honeyduke's where skiving off classes. Not something to be overly concerned with, though, and with another flick of his hand, Dalrimple brought up a view of Muggle London. it was the street outside the entrance to the Ministry itself, in fact. It was slightly grainy where the other views had been crystal clear, a result of interference from Muggle technology, but Dalrimple was still able to see people come and go well enough.

And his window had caught someone in particular coming into the Ministry in the middle of the night. The pictures that were in the files sitting on his desk were grainy as well, but they were clear enough to show their mystery wizard. This was going to be one hell of a case, Dalrimple could feel it already. He could only hope Davies and Potter were the right ones for the job.

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ilivedtwice
2011-10-18 08:11 pm UTC (link)

Harry knew better than to be late for a meeting with Gaskin. The man could probably scare the hide off an ogre just by looking at him too hard. So it was that Harry arrived at Gaskin's office at least five minutes early. There were plenty of rumors already going about the ministry. Between everyone's nightmares and strange visions, there'd been talk of a body found in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry and Roger had already bandied some ideas about that back and forth and was looking forward to not only receiving more information but telling Gaskin what plans of action they'd already discussed. However, he wasn't about to start without Roger, so he just waited until everyone was ready before he did any more than greet the department head.

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rogerly
2011-10-18 10:38 pm UTC (link)

Roger got there about a minute early. He knew not to be late, so he made sure to at least be on time. He saw that Harry was already too, so he hoped that the two of them hadn't been waiting long.

"Morning Sir," he said closing the office door behind him, and giving a nod to Harry too. They'd already been talking about what had to be done first, so they just needed to get their instructions and lay out their plan for Gaskin.

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pandoramods
2011-10-19 03:22 am UTC (link)

Dalrimple didn't bother turning from his window as he heard first Potter enter, followed shortly by Davies. He only turned when he heard the door close. He waved a hand at the window and it's panes went dark as he went to sit behind his desk. "Gentlemen, I'll get right to the point," he began, looking at them both in turn. "This case is going to be an interesting one, and probably cause a bit of a media frenzy. But I trust you two can handle it." His steely gaze lingered on Potter for a moment before he held out a red file folder to each of them.

"That's all the information you'll to go on so far, and it isn't much." He opened the file he had in front of him, its contents the same as Davies's and Potter's. In it were a few notes and grainy wizarding photo. It showed a man - the man now lying cold in the morgue - pausing just outside the Ministry to down something before moving out of frame and presumably towards the entrance. "This is the wizard found dead in the Department of Mysteries this morning. He's yet to be identified, but you'll be updated as soon as the researchers have found something. Apparently he gained entrance by disguising himself as Eyelop Thorntwaite." And wasn't that just embarrassing for the Manager of the Department of Mysteries. Thornwaite was going to be chewed out for allowing himself to be set upon and likely severely reprimanded. But at the moment, that wasn't important to the case. what he was about to say next likely was.

"As of yet, we don't know why this wizard wanted to get into the Department of Mysteries, but we do know where he ended up." Dalrimple looked up from the file. "Potter, you were involved in the recent retrieval of a cache of dark item believed to have belonged to Voldemort. The room where those items were being kept is where our dead intruder was found. So far as the clerks down there can tell, nothing was taken and everything is intact, but it bears looking into."

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ilivedtwice
2011-10-19 01:53 pm UTC (link)

Harry found himself straightening up under that gaze. He cleared his throat but said nothing. He accepted and then opened the file in front of him, gazing at the photo there. It was grainy and slightly unfocused, but it wasn't hard to make out the features of the man pictured. Harry didn't recognise him. His eyes did go a little wide at the mention of Thorntwaite. That this man had been disguised as him - likely Polyjuice, Harry decided. it was a most convincing method, he knew from plenty of experience.

Harry nodded quickly at Gaskin's assessment. He felt himself go a little cold at the location of the body. That didn't bode at all well. He wondered now if the man had gotten what he'd come for, if he'd had an accomplice, a dozen other questions at once. "Right away sir."

Then after a quick glance at Roger, Harry looked up at Gaskin and offered, "Sir, if I may? Davies and I were speculating about an approach. We thought perhaps discovering who he was might lead to what he wanted - or vice versa." Now they knew he'd been disguised as Thorntawite, it wasn't likely the visitor logs would be of any help however. "Davies here suggested sending the body off to Mungo's to see what we can't get off it, in terms of magical signatures, perhaps. Also, nothing's missing, but I thought we ought to make sure nothing's suddenly turned up that shouldn't be there either."

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rogerly
2011-10-19 03:15 pm UTC (link)

Roger opened his file to look over the pictures. The man didn't seem familiar to him, and Roger knew just how observant their boss was. If Gaskin didn't know who he was, then he at least didn't work in the Ministry.

It was a bit harder that they didn't know what this man was after and even worse that they didn't have an identity. But they did have a body and a crime scene, so they would just have to work from there.

Roger let Harry explain the start of their approach and he nodded in agreement. "If the body gets examined by the healers there, they would be able to more accurately determine his cause of death. Which could also help explain what was going on in there, or if someone else was there to kill him," Roger explained.

"Sir, is it possible to find out if this man came to visit the Ministry before? Even a year ago or more. While disguised, he would have only had a limited time to find the Department of Mysteries and it's not exactly the most accessible Department. So he may have been here before, to know what way to go and maybe he left his name in the visitor logs then."

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pandoramods
2011-10-19 03:53 pm UTC (link)

Dalrimple listened to Potter and Davies explain their plan. It only went to prove that these two would do just fine on this case, but instead of saying so, he arched a brow at them, making the scar slashing through it ripple. "They're both sound theories. But you don't need my approval to do what you feel is necessary in order to investigate. Within the word of the law, of course." Bending the rules was one thing, but Dalrimple would not tolerate outright lawlessness amongst his Aurors. Any such infractions he dealt with personally.

"Have the body transported and speak to the clerks in security. You're right, Davies. He likely has been here before, but it won't be an easy task going through the logs. However I'm sure you two can handle it." He closed the file on his desk, signalling the end to their meeting. "Now, are there any more questions you have for me?"

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ilivedtwice
2011-10-19 04:22 pm UTC (link)

"Thank you sir," Harry responded. "I have no further questions, for the moment. I expect things may come up later." There wasn't much to go on but they had some good ideas of how to start. It all depended on what information they turned up. He bit the inside of his cheek slightly at Gaskin's last caution though. Harry had a tendency to flout rules, and though it was difficult to do so under the watchful eye of someone like Gaskin, it didn't mean the tendency to do whatever was necessary to achieve the best outcome wasn't incredible strong an urge. This wasn't Hogwarts, and Gaskin wasn't Dumbledore. He wouldn't turn a blind eye.

Harry looked over at Roger. "Anything else, or you think we're ready to get started?" There was no sense reporting any conjecture or theories just yet when they had nothing to go on, so Harry was eager to get to work.

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rogerly
2011-10-20 08:36 pm UTC (link)

"I don't have any questions either. We'll touch base if we need to run anything else by you," Roger said. He nodded about not bending the rules, but he was glad they didn't have to run every little thing by him. He knew that Potter didn't usually follow the rules to the letter, but Roger wasn't by the book either.

"I think we're good to go," Roger said nodding to Harry asked him if he was okay. They needed to look at what evidence they had before they could start developing theories.

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pandoramods
2011-10-20 08:45 pm UTC (link)

Seeming satisfied by their responses, Dalrimple sat back in his chair with a grim expression that might been a small smile on another man. "Good. Nothing further, then." He gestured to the door, but added before they left, "And I'm sure I don't need to remind you that the details of this case go no further than this Department." There was steel thread of warning in the words, but it was all he said on the matter. Potter and Davies were good Aurors. They knew better. Or they'd face the consequences.

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ilivedtwice
2011-10-21 01:46 pm UTC (link)

Harry nodded once more to Gaskin; Harry might bend the rules occasionally, but he had no intention of jeopardising the case by letting out any details before they should be. As soon as they left the office, Harry turned to Roger. "I think I'll head down to the Department of Mysteries and ask around, see if anyone saw or knows anything. Do you want to get started on having the body sent over and talking to security? We can meet up after lunch and see what we've both learned by then."

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	rogerly 2011-10-25 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Roger nodded at the question. "Yeah sure that sounds fine to me. I'll wait till the healers get here to take the body, and I'll start going through the records. See if our mystery guest was here before," Roger confirmed his plans for the investigation that day. "We'll meet up at noon then, if that works for you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ilivedtwice 2011-10-26 01:49 pm UTC (link)
	Harry exited Gaskin's office, nodding at Roger's suggestion. "Right we can discuss then what each of us has learned. Hopefully we can make some sense of this all sooner rather than later." Harry was looking forward to working with Roger. He was intelligent and level headed, more so that himself, and he thought there could be a good balance. They'd probably need it. (Reply to this) (Parent)