The Wizengamot will definitely have to convene, but they can avoid having tea breaks to discuss how terrible the Statute is out in the wilderness. He wrangles a copy of the investigation reports and takes them to his father.

        "I don't have any Swedish," his father says.

"I hear it's like Danish."

         He sighs and translates. It's not very informative. The place vanished, no one got off a warning note of any kind first, none of them have been seen since, Vanishing an area that big or that magical really really should not work, no one knows of a spell that would do that.

Timothy writes the students still at Hogwarts.

Well that's terrifying.

Which way had they been likely to vote?

He can't figure it out, what with the language barrier and the probably deadness of everyone involved. 

Does Elio know?

Timothy asks. 

Wasn't a voting meeting at all. Elio's not sure how the affiliations shook out, but there were some foreign visitors there including one of Elio's own assistants.

"Condolences." 

He asks his father to go to Sweden with him.

Most of Sweden is still there. It has enough government to be limping along with after some hasty appointments and elections.

Figuring out who to interrogate about how their dead family members leaned is a little delicate, though. He asks his father to help him pick up Swedish, spends the rest of the year there.

At Christmas he's no closer. 

"What would you do if it looked like it was someone anti-repeal?"

"Find the Swedes who feel the strongest about that, I suppose."

"And if it's a supporter?"

"I'm not really sure. Talk to Elio. Unless it seemed like it was him. I don't think it was him. He's vaguely uncanny but he's not lying to me, I'd notice, and he's not a murderer."

"What does uncanny even mean."

" - I don't really know. I might be being unfair because I'm jealous. Like - imagine the difference in Slytherinness between me and the average person, and then take that difference again, and you get Elio, except utterly gifted at a very Slytherin skillset -"

"...so he's good at Slytherin stuff but not for Slytherin reasons?"

"Not for any reasons! But particularly not for Slytherin reasons!"

"Not for any reasons doesn't make sense."

"I know."

"Who were the foreigners there?"

"Elio's assistant, couple observers from France - from France's conservatives - couple from China whose internal politics I don't think I know how to categorize - fellow from Persia with a Swedish wife, she was maybe tentatively in favor but I don't know anything about him - and some Russians. Anti."

"Huh. How does Elio and his office get around all the language barriers -"

"Has a pretty big staff and hires for it specifically, I think. And Italian will get you reasonably far - at least on this continent -"

"How does he pay all these people, does he take donations or something -"