Foaly sits there stunned as the plasma screen in front of him shuts off. His emotions churning from the roller coaster ride he has just been put through. Then the realization of what Fowl Sr. has managed to discover sets in.
Foaly groans as he knows that Artemis is going to get exactly what he wants. "I told them that it is dangerous for a genius to get bored. Now look what happens! He is as lucky as Frond that I could see through his little charade. Otherwise every alarm in Haven would be going off." He sighs, and keeps muttering to himself.

"I wonder how his father managed to find out? Although given that he is Artemis Fowl's dad, it shouldn't be too surprising. Hmmmm… this might actually turn out well. We don't have too many humans whom we can trust, and if he is already learning about human wizards, well that's their problem, not ours. In fact it would be funny if a so called 'Muggle' ended up learning more about magic in a few years, than the wisest uptight wizards learn in their entire lifetimes. And since I am sure Artemis would share his findings with me, imagine what we could discover about the nature of magic…"

He shifts around in his chair and begins typing furiously on his computers. "The video that Artemis has so thoughtfully provided me will help me convince the idiot Sool and the Council that the Fowls can't be mindwiped. Luckily since Vinyáya is the fairy in charge of our spying operations, I wont have to go through Sool to get Artemis accepted as our newest member." A brief image of Sool being surrounded by goblins at Howlers Peak and getting roasted interrupts Foaly's thoughts, but he regretfully puts the image aside for later. Foaly begins making plans for how to handle the Council and sets a date for a meeting between himself and them, unfortunately with Sool having to be invited as well. He then opens up a line between himself and Vinyáya.

"Yes Foaly?" She answers looking a bit distracted. "Sorry but I'm a bit busy right now. We are receiving many reports that something odd is going on among the wizards, and we are trying to figure out what it is."
"Ah, well my lovely boss, I have had a wonderful idea." Foaly says grandiosely. "You see Artemis Fowl has found out about human magic. I have no idea how he did it, but apparently the arrogant 'ministries' are not as thorough as they claim to be. So I think we should let him in on everything. That way he can be an asset instead of a liability."
She seems about to protest but Foaly cuts her off, "Yes I know you don't like the idea, but he will get involved one way or another and it is best if he is supervised by us, is it not? We can finally use that idea I had come up with for a mimic of their wands. Give him a false bloodline with a little magic, alter a few memories, and voila! He is a wizard."

He continues with hardly a pause for breath, knowing that he has to convince her its a good idea before she can think of alternatives, "Think of how invaluable the information would be that we could gather through him! We have so far had to rely on those few who run the banks and pretend to be shady money lenders. And our best informant is pretending to be of all things, a school teacher! Those idiots don't trust anyone who isn't human, and so we have to make due with second hand information and we get barely any warning when they decide to do something."

"Think of when the Germans decided to do a purge of all non-humans. We had barely enough time to set up a time stop, do mass mind-wipes, alter personalities so it wouldn't happen again, and convince all the wizards that the destruction was really caused by a war between us 'goblins'." He snorts in anger at the term the wizards had saddled the majority of the People with. As if his best friend Holly was a scaly idiot, but the name stuck, and no amount of mindwipes would be able to alter that.
He continues talking, as he sees that he now has Vinyáya interested. "That is quite a few times now that we have had to use the war excuse. But if we have a human we can trust to go about and find out things for us, we might actually be able to keep track of what the wizards are doing. Then we wont be forever reacting to things."

There, that should do it. But just in case, I should also add in how much I would like working with Artemis. Afterall I am their top tech specialist and if that doesn't get me special privileges, then nothing will. He smiles as he says, "Not to mention the fact that I consider Artemis to be a friend and I will enjoy working with him. Why, I'd be even more productive with him around, instead of being sulky and lazy if my friend is being kept in the dark."

At this Vinyáya raises her eyebrow, but given that it is Foaly speaking, she should have expected that tactic to have been used sooner.

"We should be teaching him everything we know about magic, wizard and fairy. Then we can send him out into the wizarding world under the supervision of one of our top informants, so he can learn to fit in with the wizards. After a while he will know enough about magic, and Artemis and I will be able to come up with many new theory's and inventions. Oh, and he'll find lots of information for you too of course!" Foaly looks a bit embarrassed by the slip of the tongue but awaits Vinyáya's answer quietly, only fidgeting a little.

Vinyáya ponders a moment, brushes her white hair out of her eyes, gives out a loud sigh, and finally decides. "Ok. He's in. You are responsible for what he does and whether he really is helping us, and it is up to you what you two do. You already have a contact list of our best agents and are of a high enough rank to boss them around, so just don't interfere in anyone else's missions. Is there anything else you wish to discuss?"

"Oh yeah, another thing is that, well…" He pauses to clear his throat, "Artemis Fowl's father has discovered our existence." Shocked silence met his statement. "They claim that he found out about it on his own, and I'm inclined to believe them since I know Artemis has changed enough to know that he wouldn't tell his father for fear that he hadn't changed and would exploit us. The message I got has convinced me that our Artemis is confident that his father will respect our rules and laws, and not cause trouble. But I'm gonna need your help in the meeting in three days, so that no-one tries to mindwipe the entire family. Especially since I think Fowl Sr. could become another ally for the People, and another possible spy."

Vinyáya winces, "Yes, someone like Sool would try to do something that stupid. I'll get my supporters on the Council informed. When the time comes, I will remind everyone that Artemis can't be mindwiped since he won the right to his memories, as have the two Butlers. And if one Fowl can regain his memories, the other ones will likely be able to do so, even without the help of the son. So mindwiping would be futile and just make us enemies."

Foaly nods his head in thanks, "I appreciate this, I'm sure they will listen to your wise counsel. Thanks for not freaking out about the Fowls."
"Just tell me the bad news first next time, I almost had a heart attack." She growls, and with that Vinyáya turns off her screen, going back to the more mundane problems she must deal with before fixing the big ones.

Foaly turns back to his keyboard and begins calling up the plans to a prototype made long ago. As he starts to dig up all the information he will need, he starts to unconsciously hum under his breath, "Happy Birthday to you…"

AN: Ha, this short chapter is all you are getting for now.
I have exams coming up, and two papers to write, so I decided to finish giving you guys most of the basic background info. Now the real story can begin pretty soon. Things will be getting pretty exciting in the next two chapters.

Oh and just assume for now, that the book Goblet of Fire is well underway by this point. This is all happening approximately at the point where everyone is either confused, angry, suspicious, or happy that Harry's name was in the goblet.

My next update will likely be sometime around Christmas, probably before.

Cheers!