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Chapter 36: Ministerial Report
Inspector Verità completed the official report for the Minister of the Interior in relation to the health and well being of Miss Hermione Granger with some support from his deputy. You would be right in assuming he dictated it and had Officer Tournez do the report collation and sending. His report confirmed that there was no evidence that she was being held under duress and her personal wellbeing was excellent. The Healer had provided a supplementary report confirming the physical and mental health findings.
In an additional report to the Minister Inspector Verità stated in a letter that there were details about Miss Grangers plans which she was withholding and he had a feeling that more was going on than just a UK MLE health and wellbeing check as he could not understand why the MLE was concerned for the girl. She was a Muggle born witch who had a magical guardian who was almost an adult. Her guardian had just ascended to a hereditary title and claimed his estates. Healer Vieux provided a secondary fully detailed technical report of his analysis of the imagery that he had taken as part of his investigation of the young witch's health and well being interview.
Jean Fitterand read the various reports. He had numerous concerns especially since there was a magical refugee application. Fitterand sent his personal assistant out to find the necessary specialists who could consult on this matter. In Paris his personal assistant, Marc, found a couple of experts from the Sorbonne who came to the ministry to explain in great detail to the Minister the potential implications of Healer Vieux's technical report. The professors supported the Healer's findings. It was an ancient anchoress who had been drawn out of her seclusion to review the imagery who suggested that Miss Granger had two forms of elemental magic: fire and earth.
The nattering of the experts while clarifying the report still did not explain the UK Ministry of Magic 's great interest in the witch. The Interior Minister decided that he needed to bring this matter before the weekly Ministerial Council on Monday. Jean Fitterand ruined his PA Marc's plans for the weekend as he set him off on a weekend fact-finding mission contacting all the other experts nominated by the Sorbonne professors about the potential implications of Miss Granger's magicks.
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After a long week in the office, Officer Tournez took Healer Vieux out for a nice cold beer to review the week. Officer Tournez had great respect for his colleague as he had been a forensic investigator for at least 80 years and his experience did not grow on trees. Over a beer Tournez approached the discussion of the remarkable young witch who had been interviewed in the morning with caution. He had found that Vieux would inform him of the pertinent details when he was ready. It was something Inspector Verità did not understand, and often expressed great frustration with the mediwitch. With Vieux he would tell you eventually and his stories always had a meaning. It was just you had to listen carefully and wait patiently for the golden egg to be laid.
Both men agreed that there was something special about the witch and they would be watching what the future held for her. With some gentle probing questions of the specialist Tournez would get a informative explanation from Vieux as he was a natural teacher who liked people to take an interest in his science. It was not long before Vieux explained to his colleague that he had done some further investigation into the imagery findings and the rare ceremonies that the witch had admitted to participating in. From his research there was every indication that she was a Fire and Earth elemental witch that led to the implication that her intended husband was a Water and Air elemental wizard as their magics would need to match to not have had an adverse effect during the promise ceremony.
"Well that explains something doesn't it" humped Officer Tournez.
"Explains what?" queried a slightly confused Healer Vieux.
"Why Viktor Krum is so good on a broom", responded Tournez.
"Is that who she is affianced to?", asked a curious investigator. "It could explain his flying skills as he could be unconsciously using elemental magic when he flies".
"I sort of understand that she had done some ceremony where several charms were in place but I don't really follow why she was so concerned for your safety. Could you explain all this rare archaic ritual stuff a little bit more to me?" asked Tournez.
Tournez was a dedicated law officer who believed that as a professional he needed to further develop his knowledge even if it included an understanding of archaic rituals. Tournez wanted to be a lead investigator, as he knew he could most certainly do the job better than the fool who had the job at the moment. Tournez was doing additional study to gain his next rank but decided that he was also going to do some more study about this branch of charms.
"Basically with the magical strength of the witch, if her different magicks felt that she was under attack his and her magic would have lash out at me. With her eminent power levels she would have killed me very easily", advised Healer Vieux. The two professionals continued to have a very detailed discussion of the archaic rituals where the young officer blushed quiet frequently. Krum do you know what are you playing with….