On returning to the office he immediately checked over the Press Releases he would be sending out on behalf of both Black and Potter. The first one he sent out, right away.
That one was on Sirius being cleared of the charge and why. It included the information of the stripping of the Statute from the books and just why that needed to happen. That second part would go a long way to protecting both Lords Black and Potter of any negative fall-out from forcing the stripping of the Statute from the books.
The second release would be delayed. He'd sent a young man, looking to make a few sickles, to go and watch the session in his place. That young man would, immediately on the closing of the session, directly come to him and give him a quick overview of what had happened.
He did exactly that, was paid for his time and sent on his way. Ted was satisfied he didn't even need to adjust anything on the release as everything, in general terms, had occurred exactly as planned and anticipated. And the second release was immediately sent out.
Neither Sirius nor Harry had requested he do it, but he'd be a poor Law-wizard of Record if he didn't do it as a way to protect them both.
While finalising and releasing both only accounted for a small effort of the day's work, he was also working on more.
That morning he had received an update on one Charlotte Claire Wilkins of Perth, Western Australia. The school term had only finished on the Friday just gone - they broke for just over six weeks over Christmas, rather than the middle of the year. And he wanted a report on how she interacted directly with her family.
As well as some candid photographs of the girl and them, the report was glowing with praise for the public interactions, at least, between the girl and her adopted family. Her adopted parents clearly loved her and she just as clearly loved them.
The wizarding private investigator he hired also had a background in sociology, which focussed on the family group. It was one of the reasons Ted had hired him.
The man's report gave his views that the 'nomag-born' girl - he was never told her real identity - was well-loved and emotionally centred. And was unsurprised, even when considering her initial start to life was as someone's 'discard'.
He wrote a quick report on 'Mary' to hand to Sirius. Then, satisfied, he put the new information in with his secured file on the girl and locked it away in his true, Fidelius-charmed, safe. There was another safe in his office, but that was a decoy.
He next pulled out the fiscal information he was working on for the House of Potter, specifically developing a background on the multitude of companies in which the House of Potter held substantial shares. He'd already determined there were three which were worrying and noted them for his personal report to the young Lord Potter for him to check the details he'd supplied on them.
One dealt with a combined major British-Australian company called Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation. Over the past decade-plus, the company's profits had dipped. However, a merger with its parent company had recently been announced and was due to occur in less than a year. This was a strong investment that, while it had fallen of late, was definitely going to grow strong.
The second was a major British corporation known as the Virgin Group. Apparently, the latest late Lord Potter thought the name hilarious and bought a significant shareholding in the company as soon as it went to Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the British Stock Market.
While James Potter may have bought the initial shares because he thought the name funny, the results of that purchase were an outstanding financial success. It would be Ted's recommendation that even more shares in the company be purchased as soon as they became available. But, recommended those shares be of subsidiaries so as not to trigger the BSX's laws regarding public announcements of major share acquisitions.
One giving all appearance of going the other way was Apple Incorporated. Over recent years they had tried to bring out superior devices to their desktop computer systems called by the acronym PDA. However, that was proving to be a failure and they had just entered into an alliance with two other US companies to form what was known as the AIM Alliance. This year, through that alliance, Apple had returned to the desktop computer market, of all things, and just released a new desktop computer called the PowerPC. In other words, the company appeared to be going backwards. Ted's recommendation was to dump the stock as soon as possible.
(Less than a decade later he couldn't believe how wrong he was proven to be with that third one.)
With that then set aside, he pulled out the Tri-Wizard contracts and other documents. He was pretty sure Harry's understanding of them, without even sighting the contracts, was correct that he didn't have to compete. However, the young man's magic was on the line and he wanted to make sure. He might even have to have the Goblet tested to see if it was still, or ever did, bind him to participate.
Plus, he was also looking into just who he needed to see at the Ministry regarding who was involved in the theft of Potter Cottage from the House of Potter.
The public Wizengamot records he'd already acquired from the WAS showed the Wizengamot voted to 'acquire' the Cottage for use as a 'Site of National Importance'. However, it appeared someone within the WAS thought that meant to just take it without paying for it.
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