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alt_aliceAfter a long meeting session with myself, Victor, Frank, the McGiverns, and Judith all weighing in, Arabella has decided it would be best to let Mellisandra in to Moddey Dhoo. So a few minutes ago, she personally escorted Mellisandra here, and she's currently settling into her new quarters. She'll meet everyone properly tomorrow -- right now she's understandably exhausted. We all are.
I know that this isn't what any of us had planned on, but right now, we have a gift that's been given to us, and here she would both be safe and be of the best possible use. And she wants to be of use, more than anything. Of that I'm sure.
One of the things we settled on was that we'd have to make sure that any space she had to work on with her wands would have to be secure and safe, and in a place where children couldn't wander in and get hurt. So we're going to use the shed that we'd originally reinforced for Remus's transformations -- it's far enough away from the main area, and it's already protected by several charms. It shouldn't take too much more effort to make it a proper space for her. Getting materials will be another thing altogether, but we'll cross that bridge once we get there.
It's more than a little bittersweet, bringing her here instead of Terry. For years, we've been watching and waiting, seeing him suffer. It's the ones we've left behind that keep me up at night, and Terry Boot is the one I think on the most. I'd so hoped
Well.
Mellisandra feels badly about his being left behind -- she only knew him for a short time, but during her meeting with Arabella, she said more than once that she wished more than anything that he was there too, and that he deserved this chance more than she did. She's also asked if she can send a message to him, to let him know that she was safe, and we told her we'd certainly try to pass it along.
Poppy, I don't know if you've put a visit to us in your plans for the end of summer, but she's in poor health and I would feel better were she looked after.
Thank you, Sirius, Kingsley, and Arthur, for all your help. I really appreciate it.
I know that this isn't what any of us had planned on, but right now, we have a gift that's been given to us, and here she would both be safe and be of the best possible use. And she wants to be of use, more than anything. Of that I'm sure.
One of the things we settled on was that we'd have to make sure that any space she had to work on with her wands would have to be secure and safe, and in a place where children couldn't wander in and get hurt. So we're going to use the shed that we'd originally reinforced for Remus's transformations -- it's far enough away from the main area, and it's already protected by several charms. It shouldn't take too much more effort to make it a proper space for her. Getting materials will be another thing altogether, but we'll cross that bridge once we get there.
It's more than a little bittersweet, bringing her here instead of Terry. For years, we've been watching and waiting, seeing him suffer. It's the ones we've left behind that keep me up at night, and Terry Boot is the one I think on the most. I'd so hoped
Well.
Mellisandra feels badly about his being left behind -- she only knew him for a short time, but during her meeting with Arabella, she said more than once that she wished more than anything that he was there too, and that he deserved this chance more than she did. She's also asked if she can send a message to him, to let him know that she was safe, and we told her we'd certainly try to pass it along.
Poppy, I don't know if you've put a visit to us in your plans for the end of summer, but she's in poor health and I would feel better were she looked after.
Thank you, Sirius, Kingsley, and Arthur, for all your help. I really appreciate it.
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Date: 2011-08-05 12:21 pm (UTC)The best we can make of the situation is hope that Mellisandra Ollivander Peaby can tap into her family's innate affinity for wands and start producing them quickly, so this escapade wasn't completely in vain. Her wands could eventually make the difference when we find a way to get him out of there for once and all. Meanwhile, we've got to step things up.
I've been at Sherwood since it all happened, talking off and on with Macnair about how to create additional discord among Voldemort's followers - more precisely how to cause Voldemort to think some of them untrustworthy. It's been slow going, largely because there are limits to what we can invent that will seem plausible and how we can introduce the story once we come up with it. But I think we've got a good start.
I'm off to Stevenage this weekend. I owe you an update on that as well; but I guess I'll just say for now that I got the answer I said I wanted. And part of me is surprisingly depressed about that but not as much as the rest of me is relieved. Anyway, I'll check in there and I hope we can discuss ways to make that situation a little better.
After that I'm back to London. I expect that Laszlo's patrons are wondering what happened to the Ponds family dog.
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Date: 2011-08-05 06:24 pm (UTC)And count me in as also being relieved. But I can understand the other feeling as well -- you've spent time imagining what it would be like, what that would mean for you, both the bad and the good, and now that door has been closed.
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Date: 2011-08-05 05:34 pm (UTC)Oh, I know. I'll send along one of my afghans.
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Date: 2011-08-05 06:21 pm (UTC)I've asked the children to collect some pretty shells and sea glass and the like for her, just so she can have something in her window.
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Date: 2011-08-05 09:00 pm (UTC)I'll send some slippers, too. Drawstring type, so the size won't matter.
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Date: 2011-08-07 08:52 pm (UTC)The excuse, of course, is that we are to have important visitors to the school, so the facilities must be prepared for heavier than customary demand.
If truth be told, I'm quite uneasy about this inspection. I rather think they are going to assign additional healing staff 'in view of the extraordinary events of the coming term' (a phrase that keeps popping up in official letters). At best, this will mean installing spies on my ward, though it could be a blunter blow than that: I shan't be half surprised if they assign a supervisory mediwizard to supercede my authority.
I hope I'm mistaken, but I can't help reading the worst between the lines.