[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: FF: Travel Between UK and Canada -DETAILS

[Kathryn Cawte]

>
> They have their credit cards, muggle UK cash in their pockets, their
> UK drivers licenses, their many business cards, their wands (which can
> be satisfactorly explained to security), and they have business
> references in the USA (Chicago distributor); that plus the clothes on
> their back, and 13 full bottles of Blenheim's ginger ale (best ginger
> ale ever made) plus 3 empty bottles all in a brown paper grocery bag.
> They arrive at the airport from the country side of Virginia in a car
> they have rented.
>

Oh well that makes it simpler - they go to the British Embassy and explain
that they have somehow lost their passports (coming up with a convincing
story for having lost those but not the credit cards or money is a little
more difficult but not impossible). Then they let the British Embassy get
them home - usually done through the issuing of temporary documents, a
consular official *might accompany them to the airport to help with any
problems (especially if they're wealthy and influential). People do lose
their passports and it's one of the British Embassy's main responsibilities
to help them out. They might get new passports issued if they coordinate
with the UK and produce the requisite information and then have them
couriered to the US if the boys can wait a few days (in an emergency the
Passport agency can be convinced to produce one in less than a week, I am
told). Provided they have had passports at one time (and actually still do
but they probably shouldn't mention that because getting to the US without
them would have been impossible - or at least would seem so to muggle
authorities)

Having said all that - it is possible that the Ministry of Magic would have
its own equivalent of an embassy in foreign countries. In which case they
could help instead.

K