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RP: Two Origins

Feb 17, 2009 12:33

Date: 17 Sept 1999/18 Sept 1999 | Just after Midnight/wee hours
Characters: Roger Davies, Daphne Greengrass, Anyone Else
Location: WWW
Status: Public
Summary: After the fire is put out, the investigation begins.
Completion: Incomplete

( collecting debris )

anthony goldstein, place: weasleys' wizard wheezes, september 1999, daphne greengrass, charlie weasley, roger davies

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rar_daphne February 17 2009, 18:56:29 UTC

Daphne had known when she signed on with Law Enforcement that middle of the night owls or floo calls would be a possibility, but she hadn't actually expected to be getting one anytime soon. She was still the new girl, despite fervent efforts on her part to prove she was better than that title. Still, a fire? Most of her time so far had been spent in the lab brewing potions for the Senior Researchers' use, so she was more than a little surprised to be involved in something so serious ( ... )

rar_roger February 17 2009, 23:38:06 UTC

Greengrass arrived shortly after Roger finished talking to Charlie, and he waved her over, walking toward the entrance again.

"Document everything," he told her, glad that she was ready to get down to things rather than stand and gawk. "I've started an evidence kit; and I want you to catalogue what I've collected so far. Then find me -- I want you to help me look around for more."

rar_daphne February 18 2009, 01:20:43 UTC

She nodded when he mentioned his evidence kit, easily finding where everything was stacked nearby. She started meticulously cataloguing each item, noting it mentally as well. Anything that might trigger an association later, if she was going to be helping Davies comb through the building. The prospect of that was exhilarating, but Daphne kept her excitement under wraps. This was someone's business, someone's home above that, and she would be mindful of that, no matter how much she was expecting to enjoy this.

"Merlin, there's so much," she said, more to herself than anything. She would never have really thought of this shop in such a manner--it was full of jokes, after all--but it made sense. It was going to be full of substances to test, and that would make their jobs even harder. "Anything stand out yet?" Daphne asked, looking over her shoulder at her co-worker.

rar_roger February 18 2009, 02:05:46 UTC

Roger only nodded as Daphne commented on how much damage there was. It was a lot to pick through, but it needed to be done.

At her question, he glanced up from the floor. "Do you see these?" he asked quietly, motioning to the shards of glass on the floor below the window. "What does that tell you?"

rar_daphne February 18 2009, 02:26:34 UTC

Daphne paused in her notations as he answered her question with more questions, her eyes falling to the floor where he indicated. There were thousands of tiny clear shards and several larger chunks littering the area around his feet. She didn't answer right away, instead looking first at the surrounding area and then up at the window.

"Well, for one thing, it's on the inside," Daphne started, rising to her feet to cross over to it for a closer look. "If that was a product that had shattered, that would make sense, but some of the pieces are too large for that." She nodded at the window frame. "And the force of the fire wouldn't have broken the windows inward."

rar_roger February 18 2009, 23:47:18 UTC

"Good answer," Roger said, nodding. "The windows did break from the force the fire, but most of that glass is out on the pavement. There isn't enough of it here even if the laws of physics happened to work in the opposite direction."

He stood. "I'm betting both these front windows already had holes in them when the fire started," he said grimly. "Right before it started. Someone threw something in here. And if that's the case ..."

Gesturing to the spot on the floor that he'd marked off, he said, "then we can be reasonably sure that is is one of our areas of origin. And there," he indicated the one across the room not far from the other window, "is the other one."

rar_daphne February 19 2009, 02:26:14 UTC

Daphne leaned a bit so that she could see the ground outside, noting that Roger was right--there was a lot more glass out there. Her eyes traced an imaginary arc from the spots he indicated up to the missing windows and then out to the street, imagining something being thrown through the air, then traced the path back to the floor again.

"And we can be reasonably sure that this wasn't an accident," Daphne added quietly, sighing a little. It would make the job more interesting, certainly, but it was rather disheartening to think someone had done this on purpose. "Unless the children of the Alley just happened to be playing Quidditch outside in the middle of the night and lost a couple of balls through the window ( ... )

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