Order Only: Phase One Successful!

Muggles have an ingenious invention called video tape. Loaded into a special camera, it captures a moving image, similar to the spell that allows omnioculars to show a replay of a Quidditch move.

We used it to record our hapless British guard engaging in some behaviour that might well get him censured, or worse, if we were to make it available to the wrong people.

Marguerite and I just came from meeting with him. Amazing how quickly he agreed to help find a place for Laszlo Limited in the Chunnel warehouse this month instead of next, and to slip their lists into the pile of reviewed and approved applications.

It won't help us get through the mandatory quarantine, of course, but at least we've bypassed phase one - and as I said, that list on its own should interest Malfoy enough that he'll push to allow the imports.

Agatha is going to stay another day or two to keep Nicola from guessing that we've found a way around him. I'm curious to find out whether my cottage has exploded under a shower of Howlers or whether there's a watch on the place, so I'll be heading home - cautiously - tomorrow.

Arthur, I've been thinking about the boomslang skin and I think after I check on things at home, I'll see what I can do to find a supplier. Send along a list of any other exotics you need.

For now, I've promised to show Marguerite my appreciation for her efforts with a night on the town.