Order Only: Astronomers
Jan. 20th, 2013 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_severusPoppy, Pomona, and I have spoken with Sinistra and she has provided a result: to the best of her ability to gauge such matters, the rite took place on the southern portion of the Outer Hebrides. The imprecisions inherent in the information available to her mean she was unable to be as accurate as she might like -- clearly the cause of some frustration. Her first-pass approximation was the isle of Barra; she then asked whether there were any additional distinguishing features of the site that might provide additional clues. When she was told of the standing stone, she consulted her atlas of such features and revised her answer slightly southward to the site of Beinn Ruilibreac on Vatersay, but was clear that measure of specificity could only be provided by cross-reference and not by calculation.
She provided a full accounting of her methods and results for someone to verify her work (and confirmed the verification, though not the initial calculation, should be within the capacity of anyone who took an astronomy NEWT and has not forgot everything they learnt), but was clear that anyone of her Guild, or who knew her work -- including, most likely, many students of Hogwarts in the past decade or so -- seeing those notes would know she had provided them. (The promise she enacted in tender for her help was that we would not share that evidence of her assistance 'with anyone who would use that against me, against Raz, or against those we're responsible for', which Poppy and Pomona acceded to on behalf of the Order as a whole; in service to the keeping of that promise I have transcribed Sinistra's notes and diagrams, checked the copies thrice over for accuracy, and burnt the originals so at least they are no longer in her own hand, though the style of her work is apparently also sufficiently identifying. Those copies are locked in my most secure cupboard until I might hand them over.)
She requested Obliviation at the conclusion of our discussion, which I provided.
I will add my subjective observations of the conversation and the additional information we received below, and encourage Poppy and Pomona to do the same if they are able.
She provided a full accounting of her methods and results for someone to verify her work (and confirmed the verification, though not the initial calculation, should be within the capacity of anyone who took an astronomy NEWT and has not forgot everything they learnt), but was clear that anyone of her Guild, or who knew her work -- including, most likely, many students of Hogwarts in the past decade or so -- seeing those notes would know she had provided them. (The promise she enacted in tender for her help was that we would not share that evidence of her assistance 'with anyone who would use that against me, against Raz, or against those we're responsible for', which Poppy and Pomona acceded to on behalf of the Order as a whole; in service to the keeping of that promise I have transcribed Sinistra's notes and diagrams, checked the copies thrice over for accuracy, and burnt the originals so at least they are no longer in her own hand, though the style of her work is apparently also sufficiently identifying. Those copies are locked in my most secure cupboard until I might hand them over.)
She requested Obliviation at the conclusion of our discussion, which I provided.
I will add my subjective observations of the conversation and the additional information we received below, and encourage Poppy and Pomona to do the same if they are able.
