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Mar. 29th, 2015 06:15 pmAlice and Remus, as well as the rest of you: this is Tonks' and my report on our investigation of Maghnus Derrick's information about a possible site where Prince William (King William?) might be held (as well as N any other high-value hostages).
We have been casing the Galleries of Justice carefully for about a week now. There is a nominal security staff, but based on our observations of the comings and goings of personnel, it doesn't look like it's being guarded like an important target. It looks as though only one watchman stays there at night, something which we confirmed when we finally took down the security wards very carefully (they really weren't very serious wards at all), and moved in to investigate.
We managed to elude the guard easily, but all we found inside were cabinets of parchment records. I would have loved to have stayed a week to riffle through them--we might have managed to pinpoint some useful information, although a lot of it looks like mere bureaucratic trash. But there was no sign, on our first foray, of any holding cells for prisoners. Well, there were rooms which used to be holding cells, obviously, but they're now jammed full of filing cabinets. We used Homenum Revelio, of course, as well as every other revealing charm we could think of, but it looks as though it might have been used as a prison in the past, the building is now exactly what it is purported to be: a depository of parchment work. We spent several hours searching for any trace of prisoners there, using every revealing charm we could think of, but no luck.
Tonks thought to 'Accio' a parchment with a map of the building's layout, and sure enough, one floated back to her. We took it with us when we left, and we've been studying it, trying to identify any spaces or corners which don't square with our explorations, which might suggest hidden doors or rooms. We'll go back in tonight just to be sure, but I'm not very hopeful.
I really do think they would have secured the building more intently if key prisoners--any prisoners--were kept there.
We have been casing the Galleries of Justice carefully for about a week now. There is a nominal security staff, but based on our observations of the comings and goings of personnel, it doesn't look like it's being guarded like an important target. It looks as though only one watchman stays there at night, something which we confirmed when we finally took down the security wards very carefully (they really weren't very serious wards at all), and moved in to investigate.
We managed to elude the guard easily, but all we found inside were cabinets of parchment records. I would have loved to have stayed a week to riffle through them--we might have managed to pinpoint some useful information, although a lot of it looks like mere bureaucratic trash. But there was no sign, on our first foray, of any holding cells for prisoners. Well, there were rooms which used to be holding cells, obviously, but they're now jammed full of filing cabinets. We used Homenum Revelio, of course, as well as every other revealing charm we could think of, but it looks as though it might have been used as a prison in the past, the building is now exactly what it is purported to be: a depository of parchment work. We spent several hours searching for any trace of prisoners there, using every revealing charm we could think of, but no luck.
Tonks thought to 'Accio' a parchment with a map of the building's layout, and sure enough, one floated back to her. We took it with us when we left, and we've been studying it, trying to identify any spaces or corners which don't square with our explorations, which might suggest hidden doors or rooms. We'll go back in tonight just to be sure, but I'm not very hopeful.
I really do think they would have secured the building more intently if key prisoners--any prisoners--were kept there.