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[erniemacmillan]

Well! My parents weren't home when I got back from Hogwarts because they were seeing my brother, Sean, at the Ministry. He works in the Department of Mysteries, you know. He's an Unspeakable! Well okay he's a junior Unspeakable, but still, they need all the help they can get now so he's getting promoted to an Unspeakable! My brother is the

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[finch_fletchley]

What if it's a double agent?!

[erniemacmillan]

What about those guards at Azkaban, man? You've got to get Dark working there, really Dark! They have keys, what if they just went mental?

[finch_fletchley]

Wouldn't someone else notice him escaping though? Surely it has to be someone with importance, right?

[erniemacmillan]

WELL IF IT WAS ONE OF THE GUARDS, THEY'D NOT CARE IF THEY NOTICED!

[turpinol]

Actually, I've been considering this, and it would be possible to make an exact replica of a key, as well. So it needn't be someone who had an original key.

[erniemacmillan]

Oh, great!

[turpinol]

Well, it would be a very advanced form of magic. The keys used for Azkaban, the Ministry, things like that--they're not normal keys. That is, it's not quite like a normal key. There are already several sets of wards that prevent escape and the lock is really more of a preventative measure to keep the prisoner from escaping, should the wards fail. However, were someone assisting a prisoner in escape, the wards would be no problem for them, so the key and lock would be their only barrier. The keys, however, cannot be replicated as easily as keys of normal type. I could easily replicate the key to your house, for instance, but the keys for things like Azkaban are made of bone, for one thing. That factor alone makes replication extremely difficult. You would likely have to transfigure another bone into the proper shape, and that alone is quite difficult. Even then, that's only the first thing to do in a long process.

[erniemacmillan]

So are you saying it's likely or not?!

And you know an awful lot about the keys at Azkaban!

[finch_fletchley]

What if Pettigrew comes here? Shouldn't someone be working on protective measures?! We've already had one Death Eater attack too many!

[erniemacmillan]

I don't even know how you'd go about keeping a rat out of somewhere. And it's not like rats have trouble hiding!

[finch_fletchley]

I know! What if it crawls into our dorms at night and eats our face and then lets the Death Eaters walk right in and kill us all?!

[erniemacmillan]

WHAT IF SOMEONE TRAPS THE RAT IN A JAR AND THEN ONE OF THE DEATH EATERS TAKES US CAPTIVE UNTIL THEY GIVE THEM THE JAR BACK AND THEN SOMEONE GLUES THE JAR TO OUR FACE SO THE ONLY WAY THE RAT CAN GET OUT OF THE JAR IS BY EATING THROUGH OUR HEAD?!

[perfectprefect]

I assure you that no one in the Ministry had anything to do with this. At the moment we are inspecting the wards on Pettigrew's cell to see if something failed to hold. I expect we will have news shortly.

[erniemacmillan]

Are you going to trap the rat in a jar?

[perfectprefect]

I do not think that the Ministry would resort to imprisonment via jar.