Eosphorous have agreed to close? Without being charged with any malfeasance? I should like to have been a fly on the wall during those negotiations!
No, indeed, the Vale of Glamorgan would not be a good idea. I do have a thought, though.
The north and Scotland are dotted with tiny bothies like the one I stayed in last week. They were rarely visited even when Muggle ramblers were free to use them, and now, well. Wizards are much more likely to end a day of rambling by Apparating to an inn than to kip in some rough cottage or cattle shed in the middle of Merlin knows where.
Many of them are still on private (wizard-owned) property, but a great lot of them are on lands seized from Muggles. What I don't know, I suppose, is whether the Ministry have some way of knowing when a bit of the public land goes missing from the map. I doubt it. Why would they think to worry about such a thing? But, then, it's hard to measure their propensity for paranoia.
Bill or Arthur? Do you have any idea whether the Ministry have any way of knowing if a bit of the public land were to be suddenly made unplottable? No alarms were raised when we hid Moddey Dhoo, but that was early going for the government and things could have changed, I suppose.
Alternatively, I think we might be safe to target some of the mountain bothies on privately held parcels, like those in Northumberland. I don't believe the owner in that case would notice the loss of a tiny parcel here and there in the remoter areas. He respects the old rights of way, so he's never thrown up wards around any but the inhabited portions of his land. I could have a look about this coming week: Pomona and I are booked in for a course at Alnwick Gardens, and we've planned all along to do a bit of a ramble after that finishes. She's particularly keen to see if we can't find a second coral root orchid for her collection, and that search will, perforce, take us into the less-travelled areas of the estate.
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No, indeed, the Vale of Glamorgan would not be a good idea. I do have a thought, though.
The north and Scotland are dotted with tiny bothies like the one I stayed in last week. They were rarely visited even when Muggle ramblers were free to use them, and now, well. Wizards are much more likely to end a day of rambling by Apparating to an inn than to kip in some rough cottage or cattle shed in the middle of Merlin knows where.
Many of them are still on private (wizard-owned) property, but a great lot of them are on lands seized from Muggles. What I don't know, I suppose, is whether the Ministry have some way of knowing when a bit of the public land goes missing from the map. I doubt it. Why would they think to worry about such a thing? But, then, it's hard to measure their propensity for paranoia.
Bill or Arthur? Do you have any idea whether the Ministry have any way of knowing if a bit of the public land were to be suddenly made unplottable? No alarms were raised when we hid Moddey Dhoo, but that was early going for the government and things could have changed, I suppose.
Alternatively, I think we might be safe to target some of the mountain bothies on privately held parcels, like those in Northumberland. I don't believe the owner in that case would notice the loss of a tiny parcel here and there in the remoter areas. He respects the old rights of way, so he's never thrown up wards around any but the inhabited portions of his land. I could have a look about this coming week: Pomona and I are booked in for a course at Alnwick Gardens, and we've planned all along to do a bit of a ramble after that finishes. She's particularly keen to see if we can't find a second coral root orchid for her collection, and that search will, perforce, take us into the less-travelled areas of the estate.