Order Only: World Cup?

[alt_sirius]

Okay, so, all of Sherwood's been talking about it, but since we're all outlaws here no one has much in the way of details. I got elected to ask.

Have they really gone and secured the rights to play the World Cup Finals here? Where, then? (Last I'd heard it was going to be somewhere in Canada, but that was over a year ago. Things have been known to change with sufficient application of persistence. And gold.)

And is everyone in the whole realm supposed to go?

If all the camps are going down to skeleton crews, well, I mean to say, we could get dozens out, perhaps.

Of course, there are some who want to throw together some kind of plan to disrupt the match, or the celebrations around it. I have to assume MLE have thought about that, though. And possibly the camps, as well.

But surely the whole country can't simply shut down for the final, can it?

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[alt_poppy]

I know little more than you do, Sirius. I was at the Sanctuary over the weekend--a very quick trip as it happened--so I missed the weekend papers. I understand they were packed with excited copy about the magnificent news, but I gather they were also quite short on details.

For starters, no one seems to know where they are going to have it. I heard some speculation about the Isle of Man, but I can tell you that unless the Ministry made the site unplottable, our friends on that small island have no knowledge of the business. And nor do they seem to have noticed the trip between any of the places they regularly visit having got suddenly shorter, which would be the case if a chunk of the island had suddenly gone uplottable. At any rate, they didn't mention anything so obviously suspicious having taken place.

My own tickets to the event caught up with me only this morning in Deptford. I seem to have set the owl a merry chase, and she was none too pleased about it when she found me. I'm hoping my brief disappearance will not have been otherwise noticed.

As for whether everyone is to go, apparently so. I have no idea how they plan to deal with the camps; I dread to think, in fact. For myself, it's a damned inconvenience. I'm due to begin a perfectly miserable official inventory and facilities evaluation under the watchful eyes of a joint team from St M's and the Ministry. That begins Thursday and continues right through Sunday, and then they expect me to be a good citizen and go along to the Quidditch? With students arriving at the school a mere three days after that?

[alt_lupin]

Dora and I got tickets -- or rather, Dora and Junius did. We're trying to work out whether we can use Bea as an excuse to stay away. Not that I don't like a good quidditch match as much as anyone, but arriving nearly a full day ahead of time and sleeping in Ministry-provided tents and the rest -- it's not even clear whether they'll let us keep her nappies.

Also, they're surely going to be alert to people in disguises. It's asking for trouble to go, and to no particular end. I'd be more curious to know whether there's some camp we could assist with a breakout. Or how many of the muggleborns who come by will be left alone that day, and whether we could pay them a visit and get a good head start before anyone was back to notice their absence.