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For your safety and security, all portkeys will need to be turned in for inspection. If you are presently at the Faire, a new one will promptly be issued -- or, if you can take the floo home or apparate, the Department of Magical Transportation will be offering a voucher good for Γ3 of the food or drink of your choice as an apology for the inconvenience.

In the meantime, please keep all portkeys out of the hands of your younger children. The only people carrying portkeys should also be carrying wands. There may be some further announcements tomorrow; if you are currently at home, please do not attempt to use your portkeys (even Ministry-issued portkeys) to travel.

Thank you for your prompt attention.

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alt_bill

Some trouble going on with the network? What's the nature of the difficulty?

Do you need assistance in any way? I can escort my Mum to the hotel where my brother's waiting (she's about all done in anyway) and I can be back to fill in any way you find necessary?

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alt_selwyn

Bill, you're a lifesaver.

Yes. The portkey network's gone all to hell. This isn't even part of my department, but it landed in my lap anyway, in part because we don't know whether the woman who runs Magical Transportation was incompetent or if this was passive-aggressive sabotage -- there was some arithmantical work her office was supposed to take care of and they bloody well didn't. So if your portkey was supposed to take you to Devon, it might take you to Berkshire. Or the top of Ben Nevis. Or the middle of Loch Ness. You see the difficulty.

We're re-issuing portkeys as fast as we can right now AND MY DAUGHTER'S GONE MISSING just to put the -- well.

Yes. I'm down by the cloakroom. If you think you can come down -- we're trying to register them as we go, and that's slowing us down.

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alt_bill

Good grief. Yes, I'll handle anything you want; you take care of finding your daughter, absolutely. I'm already back from the hotel; I'll be right down. I assume you are already working on a trace?

Once you've found her, let me know of anything else you hear about the portkeys, or at least what I can say to people asking questions? There may be inquiries from the press.

From:

alt_selwyn

She's turned up, thank goodness.

In the meantime -- don't talk to the press, for Merlin's sake. Just get down here.

From:

alt_selwyn

Do you think you could take the floo to Hogsmeade and go hunt down Septima Vector for me?

Wake her up, if you have to.

From:

alt_bill

Will do. On my way.

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alt_bill

Found Vector. She's definitely groggy (she was in bed asleep) but is returning to New London with me. I'm waiting while she's getting dressed, and...where should I bring her back?

I'm very glad to hear that Arista's been found safely.