An owl arrives at Hogwarts with a very tiny letter attached. It is written in very tiny letters.
Hogsmeade Post Box #17. Urgent.
If the recipient of this owl were to check this post box, the recipient would find a sack of 150 golden Galleons in in tight rolls. The recipient would also find a note.
To: J. Spade
From: T. Kingstreet
Re: Compensation & Supply
Mr. Spade,
A job well done. Your work this Remembering Day was better than expected. Please accept 75 galleons as fair compensation for your diligence. Your scapegoat selection was almost poetic in its effectiveness. I should think the Ministry of Magic will have their hands full for quite sometime with Kyle Gibson. That poor demented boy.
The remaining 75 galleons will be enough for you to acquire some supplies from me. The Daily Prophet may or may not report that I am no longer a guest of the Ministry of Magic (now that my parole Auror is decapitated). I have taken up clandestine lodgings and now must furnish them with the proper trappings of an office. Please gather the items on the list below and have the properly smuggled to the Black Chimera in Knockturn Ally.
Perhaps later this summer you can come round for tea. That is, of course, if your work remains at these high standards, for sadly if they do not, I shall likely have to have you killed. Do you like cucumber sandwiches?
Most pleased,
Theodora Kingstreet
A scrolling list is attached including items from quills to a desk, from a file cabinet to a pensieve. Parchment scrolls, a tasteful portrait of Arius Tristisa, envelopes, paperclips and navy blue ink. And quite a bit more.
[May 12] To: J. Spade, From: T. Kingstreet