New Activity (Part III)

[plinsenmayer at yahoo.com]

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No: HPFGUIDX C1093
From: plinsenmayer
Subject: New Activity (Part III)
Date: 4/17/00 10:37 pm  (ET)

"Dear Hagrid," the note began. "The most terrible thing has happened! It
all started when Bill got his hands on one of Dad's Muggle artifacts,
a World War II-vintage typex. A typex was a cipher machine used by the
British army and the RAF to encode messages (the Royal Navy apparently
didn't trust them until late in the war). Anyway, Bill found it in Mum and
Dad's attic last Christmas and thought it'd be a great desktop piece -
you know since he's a curse-breaker for Gringotts. Problem is that Bill
didn't tell Dad he was taking it or Dad would have told him that he'd
enchanted it.
Apparently Dad enchanted the typex so that it eavesdrops on conversations
and then sends messages based on conversations it overhears."

"Well, Bill and some of his fellow curse-breakers were joking in
his office one day about how they'd spend the gold that had just
been deposited to a particular vault in the main Gringotts branch in
Cairo. They were aware of this deposit, see, because the warlock who
placed it with Gringotts had guarded it with powerful curses. Well,
naturally, Gringotts can't have its vaults guarded with "outside"
curses. So, Bill and his team were quickly brought in to break the spells
so that Gringotts could then put their own enchantments on this fortune."

"Dad's enchanted typex picked up on their joking banter and sent messages
to Gringott's main system to divert the gold from the warlock's vault
into the vaults of Bill and his team of curse-breakers. When the news of
an unauthorized diversion of this fortune broke, Bill was as surprised
as anyone. He was, of course, worried that perhaps blame would be shifted
to his team for ineffective curse-breaking. But, he never dreamed that a
large portion of that fortune was sitting in his own vault at that very
moment. Or that the goblins had broken the code sent by the enchanted
typex and were at that very moment swarming towards his office."

"You may be wondering how I came to learn all of this in Romania, how
it is that I sent Norbert with this critical missive rather than a less
conspicuous owl and how you can help Bill and his friends with their
troubles. Well . . ."

Arawa, you're on next.