Chapter 185: Ch.187
"It encompasses information that isn't publicly available. It refers to specific information that could only be learned while performing your job. We, Harry's trustees, understand that there are lots things that you will learn about Harry as you work for him. But if it isn't something that could be learned through casual observation of him, like say his favorite color, or if you learn it in the course of performing your duties, it is covered by your oath."
"Oh, um, okay I can understand that I guess. I, Remus John Lupin, swear on my magic, to hold private all information about Lord Harry James Potter that I learn in the course of my duties."
"Alright, Thank you for coming in, Mr. Lupin. Cassandra will brief you on your duties in the morning."
The next morning Remus presented himself to Cassandra. She calmly pulled a small stack of files out, said an obscure spell that he recognized as a privacy spell, then Remus' name and then she handed them over.
"These people, your files, are Ministry or Wizengamot personnel. These jackets contain what we already know and are yours to monitor. The three in blue are low priority, I might recommend hiring someone to loosely monitor them or checking if their assistants, friends or co-workers have loose lips. The red files are persons of high interest that have lots of shady connections. Monitor them closely but be careful, they are not nice people. The rest in gray we want to keep a bit more of an eye on but we don't feel they pose a high threat to Harry or his interests.
"Anything you find out gets added to the files." She handed him a thick stack of parchment. "Write up your reports on this. It's pre-spelled by the goblins. Having your flat keys and saying the spell video vidi visum will let you read what is written on it. A monthly summary assuming nothing too interesting is going on will be sufficient. Harry wants a summary of what their activities are. Things like: bills they're proposing in the Wizengamot, who they spend 6 or more hours with in a month not counting their family, if they add a new person to their group of friends, are they living within their means or not, are they indulging in any vices, or doing things out of the norm, that sort of thing."
Remus flipped through the files: Rufus Scrimgeour, Bartiemus Crouch, Delores Umbridge, Amelia Bones, Arthur Weasley, Corneilus Fudge, Marissa Edgecombe, Algernon Croaker, Augustus Rookwood, Pius Thicknese, Octavian MacMillian, Roman Grandfield, Amos Diggory, Gilbert Wimple, Ludo Bagman, Mafalda Hopkirk, Walden MacNair, Brodrick Bode, Matthew Perkins, and Arabella Canfield,. "Is it alright if I read what you already know?"
"Of course. Your expense account has a monthly deposit of thirty-five galleons. That is for taking care of meetings with informants i.e . dinners and drinks, it is also for paying informants. I've found if the goal is getting into files in the ministry a sickle or two is usually enough. Schedules for spying on someone usually run more like ten to fifteen sickles, actual information depending on how damaging is a galleon on up. I've never paid more than ten. Of course I've never dug deeply enough to justify spending more than that. Track your expenses. If you run short and I feel it is justified we can discuss upping it." Cassandra nearly snickered at the expression the other man wore. It was so obvious the man was a Gryffindor. It was a good thing he didn't know about Harry's other hire. Harry didn't even really know about his other hire.
When Cassandra had heard Harry's plan to hire full wizards to do his spying she had looked at their lists of people to keep an eye on and realized they desperately needed someone that could travel in Death Eater circles without comment. When thinking about it she realized finding someone was likely to be nearly impossible until she remembered Great Uncle Damian.
The Yaxleys were an oddity in the pureblood crowd. Most purebloods had small families with one to three children. The Yaxleys usually had ten to twelve, of course of those children usually three or more died due to complications from the family curse and usually only one or two a generation escaped it, Cassandra counted herself lucky to be the one in her generation to escape it completely.
Uncle Damian was not so lucky, like Aaron he had to be very careful. When Cassandra was a girl she had been hiding under a table when her mother and some of her friends were having tea and discussing Uncle Damian. Cassandra at the time hadn't understood the conversation but now she did.
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