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alt_nymphadoraFrank and I've had a productive trip today. We flew out Ipswich-way to see where Harry, Ron and Draco had their accident, and we found the ley line without difficulty. Nothing peculiar about it as we flew, but then we hadn't been there before, so there's no telling whether there's any discernible difference to the feel of it now as opposed to before the upheaval they experienced.
Anywiz, we kept on up the ley north-east towards the coast. There's not much up there these days: abandoned Muggle towns, of course, or places where there were towns but they've been cleared. And we found an abandoned wizard village, too, which was a bit surprising. A place called Egmere, according to the inscription on a monument at the crossroads. It's almost to the sea, just by Walsingham. Frank knew something about Walsingham--wizards and Muggles both lived there in the old days, but after the war, the wizards from Walsingham moved out to Egmere and made a proper town of it. We stopped and had a look around, but there's no one there now.
And then we discovered why that must be. Just on the outskirts of Walsingham and just bang on a node in the ley line, we found another of those devices. And this one's fully installed, not just a cleared site with runework laid out like the site up west. Frank and I have plans to get back there, by the way. Tomorrow, maybe, if the weather doesn't turn. And if Frank can sit a broom a second day in a row.
Anywiz. Today. We saw one of them, but couldn't get close at all. They've got it warded surer than Gringotts. So we can tell you it looks a lot like the one we nicked from the train, but we couldn't tell much more than that. We assume it's fully installed, though I suppose we don't know if it's functioning yet.
Anywiz, we kept on up the ley north-east towards the coast. There's not much up there these days: abandoned Muggle towns, of course, or places where there were towns but they've been cleared. And we found an abandoned wizard village, too, which was a bit surprising. A place called Egmere, according to the inscription on a monument at the crossroads. It's almost to the sea, just by Walsingham. Frank knew something about Walsingham--wizards and Muggles both lived there in the old days, but after the war, the wizards from Walsingham moved out to Egmere and made a proper town of it. We stopped and had a look around, but there's no one there now.
And then we discovered why that must be. Just on the outskirts of Walsingham and just bang on a node in the ley line, we found another of those devices. And this one's fully installed, not just a cleared site with runework laid out like the site up west. Frank and I have plans to get back there, by the way. Tomorrow, maybe, if the weather doesn't turn. And if Frank can sit a broom a second day in a row.
Anywiz. Today. We saw one of them, but couldn't get close at all. They've got it warded surer than Gringotts. So we can tell you it looks a lot like the one we nicked from the train, but we couldn't tell much more than that. We assume it's fully installed, though I suppose we don't know if it's functioning yet.
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Date: 2013-09-09 03:48 am (UTC)good work today.
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Date: 2013-09-09 01:37 pm (UTC)I've never seen anyone sit a broom quite the way you do, Frank. I mean, you get the job done, but it looks... uncomfortable. That how they taught you to fly in Auror training?
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Date: 2013-09-09 04:30 pm (UTC)barely.
so I picked up all my bad habits there.
but you need something hit really hard while we're flying, I can do that.
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Date: 2013-09-09 04:31 pm (UTC)Jude says I remind her of an American cowboy.
feel damn old.