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Brilliant SOS Task Force Office I[]

"Hmm. I was just looking at my notes... Do you realize that we have reached one full year since Grim Fawley cast his spell and started this nightmare?"
Hermione Granger
"It seems so much longer ago..."
Constance Pickering
"Apparently time does not fly in the midst of a crisis. And guess what else? There's yet ANOTHER surge to contend with...

I used to look at these surges as a chance for hints about the Calamity in the hope of someday taming it... Now? It just seems like the spell is mocking us.
"
Hermione Granger
Images Name Description Remarks
Brilliant Proprietor Ron Weasley WU
Brilliant Proprietor Ron Weasley After a brief career as an Auror, Ron left Ministry of Magic and joined his brother George in running the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes joke shop. However, he maintained close ties with the Ministry and joined the SOS Task Force when the Calamity stuck.
"Hermione? Can you explain something to me? Why do I feel like I've had a conversation with Grim Fawley?"
Ron Weasley
"You used to have many with him, Ron. You were friends."
Hermione Granger
"Well, I didn't have this one! He was trying to convince me that he's been imprisoned for over a year."
Ron Weasley
"That's just silly..."
Hermione Granger
"Tell me about it! I wonder if this whole stupid Calamity is now finding its way into my dreams. I feel like I'm cracking up."
Ron Weasley
Brilliant Auror Harry Potter WU
Brilliant Auror Harry Potter Following the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry joined the Auror department at just seventeen years of age. He quickly climbed the ranks at the department — and when the Calamity stuck, he contributed his efforts to the SOS Task Force.
"So this is odd. I feel like I always do when a Foundable torn from me is returned... less anxious... except...

I have a distinct recollection of a conversation with Grim Fawley, and he's telling me that he's been held captive this past year...
"
Harry Potter
"Well, that’s quite impossible, isn’t it?"
Hermione Granger
"I mean, yes — I never had that conversation with him, obviously. But it feels so bloody real..."
Harry Potter
"I don't wonder if having all these Foundable torn from us will have some after-effects... Maybe this is one? False memories...?"
Hermione Granger
SOS Dark Detectors
Brilliant Activated Dark Detector Like other forms of Dark Detector, these are designed to expose danger or concealment — with a particular emphasis on revealing hidden Traces.
"I'm told that Minister Shacklebolt himself invented these Calamity-focused Dark Detectors in just a few hours... we're very lucky to have his brilliant leadership during this crisis."
Constance Pickering
Brilliant Crate of Potions WU
Brilliant Crate of Potions As part of their work in combating the Calamity. the Statute of Secrecy Task Force is charged with developing new potions to aid in such activities as returning Foundables and defeating Foes.
"Do you realize that since the start of the Calamity, the Ministry has confirmed that nearly a BILLION potions have been consumed by Task Force members? Well, actually 763,263,276 — but that’s almost a billion! Incredible!"
Constance Pickering
Brilliant Opened Portkey WU
Brilliant Opened Portkey This Portmanteau has been ulocked and the Portkey inside removed for further study by the SOS Task Force, in an effort to determine why the Calamity focuses on particular locations.
"You know, they're one of the things I've most admired about the Calamity spell, those Portmanteaus... Amazing attention to detail, to invent something mechanical like that."
Constance Pickering
Ministry of Magic Landmark Flag
Brilliant Ministry of Magic Landmark Flag Landmark Banners denote areas of high Trace activity from specific Foundable Families. The connection between Family and location is an area of intense study within the SOS Task Force.
"I don’t know if you're aware, but after I suggested using banners to identify areas of high Family concentration, my boyfriend, Lucas Sparrowvale, spent six months traveling the world and placing them. How's that for dedication?

Someday, I may have him home to meet mum.
"
Constance Pickering
"This particular surge seems incredibly specific, doesn't it? Focusing almost exclusively on the SOS Task Force... Why?"
Hermione Granger
"I wonder if me and Ron having the same exact memory is a coincidence? It almost feels like the Calamity is trying to speak to us..."
Harry Potter
"Don’t be daft, Harry. Spells can’t speak..."
Hermione Granger
"Spell casters can, though. We don’t yet know enough to be sure... But this surge feels very different than any of the others before it."
Harry Potter

Brilliant SOS Task Force Office II[]

"Harry is fairly convinced this surge is different from the others. Myself? I am a tad more sceptical.

But there is no debate that this recent surge has changed and become suddenly more focused on the Ministry itself. There has to be SOME reason for that...

But what is it?
"
Hermione Granger
Images Name Description Remarks
Brilliant Senior Minister Hermione Granger WU
Brilliant Senior Minister Hermione Granger After several years of success in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Hermione Granger moved to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. When the Calamity struck, she lent her expertise to the Statute of Secrecy Task Force.
"I now understand what Ron and Harry were going on about — I also have a new memory of speaking with Grim, coinciding with my recent experience as a Foundable...

It’s like I've been left a message in the form of a hazy, unclear memory. It's not perfect but...

This is vital! Grim Fawley is reaching out to us after over a year in absentia. Incredible!
"
Hermione Granger
KingsleyWU
Brilliant Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt Appointed after the Battle of Hogwarts, Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt worked to reform the Ministry from the inside, dismantling archaic pro-pureblood laws. Kingsley personally appointed Harry Potter to his position as Head of the Auror department.
"I ran across Minister Shacklebolt the other day — he told me something rather shocking. HE has a memory similar to Harry and Ron’s.

Except in his, Grim was saying that he had gained some ability to manipulate the Calamity... to "guide" what it steals as Foundables.

It really feels like we've finally made some kind of breakthrough!
"
Constance Pickering
SOS runestones
Pile of Runestones Collected by members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force, these Runestones are being studied for their connection to Calamity-created Fortresses.
"We've long known that the Runestone’s Family corresponds with that of the Foundable you return after a Wizarding Challenge — but we still don’t know why.

Why require Runestones to enter a Fortress at all? There are so many questions I would love to ask Grim Fawley...
"
Constance Pickering
Registry Research Board
Registry Research Board The Calamity has caused new fields of research to crop up in various departments of the Ministry. This board concerns the classification of Foundables into Families.
"The Registry is the Task Force’s creation, but the underlying organisation is inherent in the Calamity itself...

In other words, we didn’t sort Foundables into Families; the Calamity did. We just put names to those Families.

The whole Family "thing" has always struck me as curiously methodical for such a chactic spell. But Grim Fawley is said to have a highly organised mind.
"
Constance Pickering
Calamity Incident Map
Calamity Incident Map This enchanted map tracks all known Calamity activity across the globe. Updated in real time with reports from Task Force members, the map enables the Ministry to actively monitor the Calamity situation.
"Now the Calamity is creating Foundables of our attempt to track the Calamity’s creation of Foundables. It’s almost like the Calamity is self-aware — and taking the mickey out of us."
Constance Pickering
Brilliant Junior Undersecretary Constance Pickering WU
Brilliant Junior Undersecretary Constance Pickering Although her time with the Ministry has been brief, Constance Pickering has proved herself at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement through her work with Senior Minister Granger on the SOS Task Force.
"Grim Fawley reached out to me! I mean, I think he did. It is definitely some sort of strange message, wrapped in a memory I never had.

He's telling me that he isn't responsible for all of this. It WAS his spell, but he isn't at fault...
"
Constance Pickering
"Well, that surge is over — but what a surge it was! Grim Fawley can reach out fo us — perhaps to any of us at any time... It’s very exciting."
Hermione Granger
"Hermione... before you get too excited, it might be worthwhile to consider something... Grim can communicate with us, right?"
Harry Potter
"Yes..."
Hermione Granger
"And he did a LOT of communicating. He told us he can manipulate the Calamity Spell to some degree, that he has been imprisoned for a year, and that he is innocent... But he left the most important thing out.

He didn’t tell us how to end this, did he? Or whose fault it was. I think we tread very lightly moving forward. None of us knows what he is really on about, do we?
"
Harry Potter

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