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Sep. 23rd, 2009 01:53 pmHello!
Hermione, sorry I missed your birthday, kiddo. Seems like it wasn't a bad one, anyway.
I've got some exciting news. Fatima managed to make contact with a chap down in Cairo who has trading partners in Zanzibar and Bongolava. I'd heard about him from her last year but we hadn't been able to finagle an introduction before now. Bloke does a brisk business buying up cinnamon from Muggle plantations (after it's been processed!) and packaging it up to look wizard-made.
Here's the best part: This chap has a whole network of contacts who do the same thing for sugar, enriched flour, curry powder, black pepper, nutmeg, clove - well, you name it, practically, he knows someone who repackages it for the wizards' trade.
And I don't have to tell you it's so much safer than going to Zanzibar oneself!
This is huge. This is possibly the best break we've had as far as imports - legal ones - this whole year. No, I never thought I'd be this excited about bloody spices when I thought up Laszlo or his daft business, but if we could get a contract for this bloke, or any of his associates ... well, we could be on our way to a major market behind the wards. Which would put the whole operation in better standing!
I don't want to crow about it too prematurely. Fatima is setting up a meeting this weekend and we'll have to see how that goes. This fellow is cagey, and with good reason. Even where wizards aren't cut off from Muggles, he turns a tidy profit for supplying them with 'wizard labels' of what is otherwise completely mundane material. He's rich and powerful and very few people know his real secret. When Fatima told me about him and I asked her to make inquiries, we weren't sure she could make it happen so quickly. (And yes, this is quickly, considering.) She's a marvel!
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Oh - and Minerva - any idea what my idiot brother has been or is up to? His latest posts .... What's all that nonsense about his leash and his lifeline? Pillock.
Hermione, sorry I missed your birthday, kiddo. Seems like it wasn't a bad one, anyway.
I've got some exciting news. Fatima managed to make contact with a chap down in Cairo who has trading partners in Zanzibar and Bongolava. I'd heard about him from her last year but we hadn't been able to finagle an introduction before now. Bloke does a brisk business buying up cinnamon from Muggle plantations (after it's been processed!) and packaging it up to look wizard-made.
Here's the best part: This chap has a whole network of contacts who do the same thing for sugar, enriched flour, curry powder, black pepper, nutmeg, clove - well, you name it, practically, he knows someone who repackages it for the wizards' trade.
And I don't have to tell you it's so much safer than going to Zanzibar oneself!
This is huge. This is possibly the best break we've had as far as imports - legal ones - this whole year. No, I never thought I'd be this excited about bloody spices when I thought up Laszlo or his daft business, but if we could get a contract for this bloke, or any of his associates ... well, we could be on our way to a major market behind the wards. Which would put the whole operation in better standing!
I don't want to crow about it too prematurely. Fatima is setting up a meeting this weekend and we'll have to see how that goes. This fellow is cagey, and with good reason. Even where wizards aren't cut off from Muggles, he turns a tidy profit for supplying them with 'wizard labels' of what is otherwise completely mundane material. He's rich and powerful and very few people know his real secret. When Fatima told me about him and I asked her to make inquiries, we weren't sure she could make it happen so quickly. (And yes, this is quickly, considering.) She's a marvel!
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Oh - and Minerva - any idea what my idiot brother has been or is up to? His latest posts .... What's all that nonsense about his leash and his lifeline? Pillock.
