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quidditch_captain 
Herod ran back in the room, smiling like a cheery child in a candy store. "I've got it!!!" he said, approaching the work table. "We have been way too focused on the info and not the evidence. This sheet..." he said, pulling out the application filled out by the dark wizard, "was written by the culprit! I was in the back and came across this....." He got a menella file out of his pile "...file! Its a patent for a spell. This spell will take ink and trace it back to the location is was written in. If this letter was written anywhere near his/her house, we've got 'em!!!! I think, from reading, that if we put a map by the paper and perform the spell, the ink will rise off the paper and flow onto the map. It will then follow the streets to the location it was laid to paper!" he said, very excited.
"I want to get the department head first though...." he said, hesitating to continue without him. "Where is he?" he asked.
Alina looked up from the file she was reading. "You have?" she asked with a raised eyebrow. She nodded as he said about the sheet. "Yes, that was the original he sent in..." She wondered where this was all going. She eyed the new file, wondering what it contained. Most of the Patents they got were useless, and or very dangerous. Occasionally they got something interesting, or that actually worked. Anyway, she disgressed in her thoughts.
"Sounds like a good lead," Alina said with a smile. "But I think we should test it first. You know, to check that it's safe, and isn't going to randomly take us around half of London on a wild goose chase. We all know the risks of various Patents we've had in the past." She took a moment to look at them seriously, to make her point clear. "I also vote we take a copy of the original, since if the ink comes off of the page we won't have anything to enclose in our report for future reference otherwise."
"Rex is in an important meeting with the Gobstones division," Alina replied. She'd seen him, Tom and several members of the Gobstones team enter the conference room, with both Heads looking quite serious. "How about whilst we're waiting, you nip down to Diagon Alley and write something for us to test the spell on? You could have a spot of lunch whilst you're there." THe guy had been working hard on this case, and whilst the spell seemed a good pla, she wasn't using it until it was tested. "Then you can bring it back and we can see how accurate this spell is likely to be."