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Captain Carson closed the door and took a seat. "I admit that this places us in a very precarious situation," she said. "While any help against Chong is appreciated, I have grave concerns about what they will ask in turn. As the Pinkstone groups are known to be violent, there is a high likelihood that they will ask that we attack a Ministry of Magic held asset or at the very least, provide them with materiel. For obvious reasons, I do not wish to get myself or my crew involved in an insurgency.

"However, if we decline their help, it's extremely unlikely they will target us. But then that leaves us with the problem of the Ministry of Magic and Prime Minister Fudge. We already know that they are extremely hostile to Muggles who witness magic and Magicfolk who perform magic in front of Muggles.

"As we all know, Chong is best countered with a combination of magic and technology, which is anathema to the current Pottermore government. If we continue on our current methods of pursuing Chong, it is almost certain that we will likely be spending the majority of the time reversing Memory Charms and otherwise cleaning up after government meddling with our efforts; obviously, this will help Chong." Captain Carson then sighed and rubbed the bridge of her nose.

"Thankfully, it's very unlikely for Chong to get support from the Pottermore government; indeed, he may already have run afoul of them. But the third option is that we restrict the pursuit of Chong to using magical methods. While this avoids issues with the Pottermore government, we would be greatly handicapping ourselves. Which is something we can ill-afford due to his massive head start."

Captain Carson then held a hand to her forehead and sighed. "And unfortunately, as unpleasant as it sounds, we're going to have to ally with the Pinkstone insurgents. We need all the help we can get to stop Chong and we can't spend our time cleaning up after government meddling. That and if we do 'clean up' after them, they'll likely see us as enemies anyways. That said, I'd prefer that we restrict the aid to them in the form of valuables and gems that can be traded for money or materiel and not be linked to us. That way, we can get the support of the Pinkstone insurgents and not have the Pottermore government after us. At least for a bit. We'll probably have to 'clean up' after their meddling and once word of that gets out, they'll be against us."

"Furthermore, there is this." She then took a copy of The Daily Prophet out of a pocket of her robe and placed it on the table. The headline blared from the front page: "Obliviations Up. Visiting Wizards To Blame?" The picture underneath the headline was a grainy moving image of Chong.

Annabelle said nothing as she reluctantly took her seat. She had always been working against the Devil in heaven, so she could only imagine he was planning to treat her harshly.

"Just say what you want to say," she said flatly to the lord of the underworld.

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"Father, I want to update you on your statue's progress," Kovu said proudly.

Scar smiled on the other end of the phone, Kovu had been working on this project for a while now.

come in captain ' Stripetail said  opening the door with a gesture,"we have a lot to discuss and not much time,' he frowned as he glanced at the note she had sent.' Your opinion on this situation, Captain?" he said as he enlarged the fire in the fireplace .'
 Gabuna was waiting for Dixie as she reached the chaperones room ' they are out of coffee.' she jerked her thumbclaw at the door/' ' they have stuff called butterbeer, which sounds nasty. and Agumina is trying to make  soda. or  at the very least juice. its well its not going well. it tastes well, like soda that has no taste ..' like when the dispenser runs out of syrup?' yeah exactly .' just use our rings ' Dixie said' observe ' she pointed her ring at a bottle of butterbeer ' diet coke ' she intone and the the butterbeer changed in a instant to the det soda. dixie poured some into a cup and took a sip.'  fresh and cold ' she breathed . both Gabuna and agumina quickly poured themselved some of the soda.' classes going well, girls? Dixie asked both ' its kinda like Digimon Academy ' Agumina said.' the charms teacher is nice. actually just about all of them are.' Save for Professor Snape, he docked Roke Riskin and Cinder points for being 2 minutes late to class>'  Gabuna said

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