Justin Finch-Fletchley (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alt_justin) wrote2015-07-22 09:44 am
alt_justin) wrote2015-07-22 09:44 am
Order Only: Private message to Hydra, Ron and Draco
Hullo,
Draco, how are you settling in to your impersonation?
Gents, Hydra's heard part of this already but: I don't think I'm going to get to Corbyn this way. For one thing he's too careful. Always Apparates directly where he's going, never eats in public restaurants, and when he is in public he's never alone. Moreover I can only maintain surveillance on one location at a time. Now that Draco's at the Elysian, I may change over and find a place to set up outside Ouroboros, instead.
What I think is needed are some good strategies for creating circumstances in which it's possible to take him unawares--well, anyone, really, but in particular Corbyn for right now. I don't want to ask Rachel to commit ever more resources, what, as you and the others all have quite enough to do already. But it's clearly going to be necessary to change one's methods every time, as their people are dashed effective at adapting and tightening security. Not that that's surprising, but it does make things rather inconvenient.
If he lived alone, I'd chance trying to dismantle his wards, or bluff my way in. That might well work for another sort of target. Corbyn has a family, what.
Diversions or commotions requiring them to respond is a trick that can only work so often. Perhaps I should take a leaf out of Draco's book and find a barber, masseuse, aesthetist or other service employee to replace who can get me within arm's length of the chap.
-Justin
Draco, how are you settling in to your impersonation?
Gents, Hydra's heard part of this already but: I don't think I'm going to get to Corbyn this way. For one thing he's too careful. Always Apparates directly where he's going, never eats in public restaurants, and when he is in public he's never alone. Moreover I can only maintain surveillance on one location at a time. Now that Draco's at the Elysian, I may change over and find a place to set up outside Ouroboros, instead.
What I think is needed are some good strategies for creating circumstances in which it's possible to take him unawares--well, anyone, really, but in particular Corbyn for right now. I don't want to ask Rachel to commit ever more resources, what, as you and the others all have quite enough to do already. But it's clearly going to be necessary to change one's methods every time, as their people are dashed effective at adapting and tightening security. Not that that's surprising, but it does make things rather inconvenient.
If he lived alone, I'd chance trying to dismantle his wards, or bluff my way in. That might well work for another sort of target. Corbyn has a family, what.
Diversions or commotions requiring them to respond is a trick that can only work so often. Perhaps I should take a leaf out of Draco's book and find a barber, masseuse, aesthetist or other service employee to replace who can get me within arm's length of the chap.
-Justin
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I don't know where Corbyn goes, but a barbers' called Sharps on Aldwych was popular with the Aurors. That may've been just because it was convenient, but it might be worth trying.
Not sure they'd keep records on their customers, except in the barbers' heads, y'know. If they do, then maybe with the cloak you could get in there and find out if he's one of theirs. I mean, it could take loads of time and for nothing, staking the place out if it turned out he doesn't use them. Even if he does, if he's just been in, who knows how long you'd have to wait before he comes again. Unless he's the kind that goes for a shave every morning, but I reckon that's not Corbyn.
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I say, what about tailors? Bootmakers? There must be places where they're either alone and vulnerable, or at least less heavily protected.
Draco, do you know which shops the Council preferred for that sort of thing?
-Justin
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Not sure every last one of those places is still open nowadays, but I'm sure at least some of them are.
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I mean, at least he probably goes to the barber's once a month or once a fortnight, even, if you're lucky. But how often does any particular bloke go to his tailor's? or the bootmaker's? They'd be terrific places to catch him if you knew he'd be going there before November, yeah?
Maybe there's a way to plant the idea he needs something from one of them, but if you've got that close to him, you could probably take him down then and there.
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Another option might be to have the shopkeep contact him to bring him to the establishment. For example, if he were asked to come in to clear up a question of billing , what, or because an admirer has gifted him with a pair of boots and the cobbler requests a fitting.
If nothing else, the shops might provide additional insight. Proper research is so helpful, after all.
J
Private Message to Ron
I see Luna keeps writing to Ginny every so often. Has she replied at all? To any of you?
Perhaps we could devise some sort of invitation to Ginny to a shop she particularly likes, and rescue her from there? If it would work, I'd use that in favour of catching a Councilwizard with the same ruse, what.
-J