Talk:Grim Fawley

Auror
I know that the memo was interpeted as "vauge", but from where I am standing, it seems like both Grim and Penelope are Aurors, the first clue of which is the fact that Grim is communicating with Harry and Gareth Greengrass with interdepartemental memos, which, of course, are exclusively used by Ministry personell to communicate with their fellow Ministry officals throughout the Ministry. The next clue is that when Gareth Greengrass closes the book on the investigation, Grim turns to Harry when Gareth won't (or can't) reopen the case:

"Harry, 

''I have never asked you for anything before. But this is Penelope. If you won't bend the rules for yourself, to it for her. Harry, I'm begging you, she is out there, I know it. Please."''

And before anyone goes on about how Arthur Weasley addressed colleagues/co-workers he were friendly with by first name, this memo gives every impression that Harry knows both Grim and Penelope at a level that goes above and beyond Arthur's "friendly terms with colleagues". Grim don't plead for "my wife", he pleads for "Penelope", someone who Harry really knows, at a personal level. Just like he naturally would do, when people have worked alongside him over a long period of time. Most likely years. Also, the whole "I have never asked you for anything" is a  very  odd thing to say if you don't work as an Auror in the time period Harry heads up the department. If he worked literally anywhere else, even in the same Department, Grim would have reproted to other people entirely,, and not owed Harry a thing. As an Auror, however, he and Harry would necessarily have had each other's backs during the course of their work, and it would make excellent sense for Grim to phrase it the way he did. Again, Grim pleads with Gareth to get the case re-opened, and when it isn't, he asks Harry to "bend the rules". That's just not how people talk to people they're familiar with from work, but don't know that well, as would be the case if he worked elsehwere in the Ministry. There is such a thing as the chain of command, and if that was how he appealed to Harry as, he would have asked him to talk to Gareth, who apparently outranks both of them, to try to convince him to re-open the case after he failed. I don't know if you regard the memo as a sign that the Auror Office were the one's investigating Penelope's disappearance, (since the later memo more or less tells us outright that she's an Auror too, both in the phrasing and the fact that the Auror Office would only have confucted the investigation if a) it was one of their own, or b) Dark Magic was involved. But no... No, he went to Harry, asking him as a private person rather than Head Auror, as someone he and Penelope knew very well, to break protocol on her behalf. And if Harry would have done that for anyone other than friends and family presented in canon, it would have been his fellow Aurors, with whom he would have a close working relationship with and come to know and trust.

"You promised me you'd do everything in your power to find Penelope, "No expense spared", you said. But the council closed the investigation. You're on the bloody council! Please, convince them to re-open the investigation. If not for me, then for Nel."

This is yet another, strong indication that Grim is an Auror. From prior canon, we know that Harry is Head of the Auror Office. From the memos, we see that Grim knows Gareth Greengrass very well, which makes sense, since he is on a council that by all accounts appear to work very closely with the Auror Office, considering just how familiar Grim is shown to be with both Gareth and Harry, which makes sense. An Auror working under Harry, and alongside to a council overseeing investigative work. He tries to use Gareth's familiarity with his wife as means to convince him, even using her nickname, which, again speaks for how well he and his wife know him, since people don't go around using nicknames about just anyone. We also know that whatever sort of council we are talking about, they outrank Harry, since Grim have to ask Harry to break the rules to keep the search for his wife going, showing that Harry's hands are, at least officially speaking, tied.

"Potter, 

''My request to obtain my wife's file has been denied. I have a right to access that information. Is this how your Department treat their fellow Aurors? Ignore they even existed? Barring a grieving husband from the closure he deserves.''"

This memo is, granted, far less personal than the one above, but the fact that Gareth has the nerve to address him in such a curt manner kind of support what I wrote above. While signfiicantly more hostile, this message is yet another display of how Grim and Harry are sufficently familiar with one another that this exchange could take that route without becoming impersonal. This is another indication that both Grim and Penelope are Aurors, because if they weren't, why would Grim turn to Harry to be granted access to said file? With what authority could Harry withold information unrelated to the "top secret work of the Auror department"? Oh, that's right. None. This also tells us Grim is an Auror in that if he wasn't, he wouldn't have a right to his wife's file. As an Auror, information about her activities would be classified, just like the Aurors weren't even at liberty to comment on an old scar of Harry's during the World Cup. And if a civilian could not ask about the backstory of an Auror's scar, then a civilian definitively would not be granted the right to go over an entire file about an Auror, husband or not husband.

Classified information is classified information. No one would have allowed a civilian access to information relating to an ongoing/still relevant investigation, they've have neither the clearance for it, and it could put into jeperody the efforts put into the investigation if said civilian didn't know how to handle sensitive information. As a fellow Dark Wizard catcher, however, it would have been an Auror's privilige to be privy to things other people at the Ministry who weren't, you know, people like the Minister for Magic or Head of Magical Law Enforcement wouldn't have access to, and he'd be fully equopped to deal with sensitive information, and he would have access to the files of Aurors, because while she is his wife, they also work together, and Aurors would necessarily have to be able to access each other's files and so on in case of injury and someone had to step in or otherwise participation in an ongoing case. Why was Grim denied access to his wife's husband? Well, he's a husband, grieving, it would make sense for Harry to withold information that might lead Grim to do something reckless or foolish. Which, of course, if Constance Pickering is correct, he absolutely did. We have also the whole thing where Grim express his dismay of how he feels both his wife and himself were being, for a lack of a better term, (and please pardon my French), screwed over to consider, in relation to the treatment of "fellow Aurors", plural.

The next memo, from Gareth Greengrass goes as follows:

"Grim, 

''I've put in a recemmendation for you that you take time off work. No one is expecting you to go about your day as if nothing has happened. You need to grieve. We all do. You know Penelope would want you to take care of yourself, for the kids.''"

Another, strong impression that Gareth and Grim are, as is the case with Grim and Harry, more than co-workers that simply bump into each other every now and again. "Grief" is the keyword here. Apparently, Gareth thinks Nel is dead, but you don't grieve for the loss of people you don't really know. If you work with someone and don't know them that well, but you get along okay, and that person pass away, yes... It sucks, but you wouldn't grieve. You would be upset, but you wouldn't have enough emotional investment in that person to grieve over them. And with whom do Gareth put in the reccemendation for Grim to take time off work? Who is the only other authority figure in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement whom Gareth have been in contact with, and whom he turned to when everything else seemed to fail? Who was in a position to bend the rules for him, something he wasn't sufficently high-ranking to do himself? Well - Harry Potter, of course. Maester Martin (talk) 17:12, April 29, 2019 (UTC)