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« Thread Started on Jul 19, 2005, 5:37am » | |
Sitting at her desk Helene Badeau wondered how long she could put off delegating the menial task of attending to a school classroom of vibrating calculators when a yellow envelope was dropped off by a bunch of inter-departmental notices.
Inside this envelope, the 26 year old woman found a most unwanted thing. The latest mandatory Ministry employee photos. She couldn’t help groaning when she saw her mug shot. This would be in the end of year publication, and on all brochures and booklets about the Ministry in which a snapshot of the Department Heads had to be inserted. Helene could imagine it now, all the lovely pictures of department heads pinned up on the notice board with their titles under them, and then there would be her bitter face, inanimate despite the wizarding photography, Head of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. 'Oh dear,' they would say. 'Only been in the job two months and already she looks like that!'
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Fantastic, Helene thought. I look like I just got hit by a non-dissipating smacking hex. What a mean photographer. She wondered briefly what she ever did to him to deserve such a terrible shot…then she remembered she had just had a bad "Harry Potter" to deal with that day. That was the department’s in-joke for a floating blown up relative. Nasty case....
Helene opened the file in her desk drawer and pulled out last year’s photo.
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Looking at the photo she thought she actually looked happy in that one, when she was still a MACSL (Magical Accidents and Catastrophes Squad Leader). She that remembered her boyfriend of the time had been pulling stupid faces behind the photographer while he waited for his photo to be taken. Helene had lost contact with him but recalled hearing that he worked for the French Ministry now. She supposed there were only so many times a girl could come home covering in well, you know, from regurgitating toilets before a man left her. Of course, Helene knew how to Scorgify, but maybe too many tales of regurgitating toilets could be just as effective a means to send someone on their way.
Looking into the yellow envelope again, Helene saw that they had also sent the group shot of this year's Department Heads with the New Minister, Alexis N Rosier, who she had found her to be was very professional. Helene looked at the other people in the photo as they moved about. There was Nerida, the Head of Magical Creatures, and the Irish chap, the Head of Magical Law Enforcement, Tobias; both she was yet to get to know. Looking at herself in the photo, Helene cringed as she watched herself moving and laughing very unflatteringly at something that perhaps Em, Head of Department of Mysteries, had said at the very crucial capture moment, but she could not remember what particularly had caused her amusement. Most of the Department Heads were quite young, nearing their thirties. ‘Oh, Merlin, let’s not think on that’, Helene decided. Sighing she shoved the photos into the envelopes and slipped them into the file.
She looked at the piece of paper alerting her to the latest incident and decided she had better go find Jones for this calculator case. Almost all the other officers were out and this case would not require a whole squad. It had been inexplicably hectic recently. It could be kind of random like that. They had had some very strange incidents lately, and were currently looking into those. For example, many crimes against muggles were being committed and being made to look as though they were accidents. On a recent occasion it had been lucky one of the more experienced officers had taken the case, and alerted Magical Law Enforcement, realising it was more than an accident before he touched anything. The department could not say for sure, but they suspected these incidents might be in relation to someone in league with the pureblood extremist Zahira.
However, despite the odd occurrences many magical accidents and catastrophes were caused by young witches and wizards, many of them muggle born and quite unaware of their status. Unfortunately though, a good 60% were still caused by adult magical persons who simply got a kick out of creating havoc among muggle and wizard communities. In this department a task force works with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to raise awareness and educate the magical community about magic abuse resulting in accidents and catastrophes. Unfortunately these will never be fully preventable and if they were this department would be obsolete.
Stepping out of her office, her real, proper office with walls that reached the ceiling and a door (she is still excited about it), Helene looked out over the sea of dividers. She knew that muggle offices also looked like this only at least here on Level 3 they had silencing barriers around each cubicle. Watson put up a non-penetrable barrier around hers when the new guy started tossing love notes to her. Rounding the corner Helene came to Felicity Jones’ cubicle. She had been with DMAC for a week, having just completed Junior MAC training. She was 18 and just out of Hogwarts. Today, as Helene approached, Jones was reclining with her back to the hallway, chewing gum and giggling with one of those muggle devices. ‘Darned mobley phones…or whatever they are,’ Helene thought flippantly with a mental sigh. Helene thought they might have to implement some tighter restrictions on muggle artefacts soon and made a mental note to call a review. Her officers worked with muggle items each day, removing accidental charms from them, so she understood the fascination but it really was becoming ridiculous.
Helene cleared her throat in greeting. “Jones?”<br>
The young woman nearly fell off her chair as she spun around to see where the authoritative voice originated. A beep noise sounded from her phone and she stuffed it under her desk. “Ms. Badeau?”<br>
“Call me Helene,” The Department Head replied. Helene decided to excuse Jones on her conduct this time, but only because really there was not much else for her to be doing on this particular day. Helene passed her a form, detailing the incident location and suggested solution. “Can you get onto this for me? It’s just after one thirty now so I should expect you back about three to report on the incident. Owl me if you have any major problems before alerting MLE." Seeing a questioning expression forming on Jones’ lips Helene pre-empted the younger woman's question and said. "MLE- Magical Law Enforcement. Alright?” Jones looked eager to please so Helene held out the paper to her and smiled, because she was not a mean boss really.
Taking the paper Felicity quickly prepared to leave.
‘It’s lunch-time,’ Helene thought to herself, so she wandered back to her office, being careful not to look at the piles of paperwork steadily increasing upon her desk lest it spoil her appetite, and grabbed her coat. Waving to the Level Three secretary she barely managed to jump in a lift as the doors closed. “The Atrium,” she said clearly, and they, the flying inter-department notes and Helene, descended.
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