| sinistra @ 2004-06-24 23:43:00 |
I awoke slightly after dinner had begun last evening, being as I am nocturnal, and so I went to the hospital wing to see if Poppy had a cure for the heat as she is intended to be some sort of miracle worker. She insisted she did not and we settled down for a cup of brandy, but scarcely had we begun conversation when we were interrupted.
There are things that you do not expect or want to see in your lifetime and a bawling student carrying the body of his murdered girlfriend would certainly be one of those things. Poppy was so caught up in trying to convince the student that there was nothing she could do that I will admit neither of us thought to alert anyone of the situation as we were attempting to get information out of the student at the same time as telling him that it could not be fixed. To my best estimate this happened fifteen to twenty minutes prior to the attack on the Great Hall and seems to be the only other occurance.
Even from the hospital wing we heard the ceiling in the Great Hall collapse which is of no surprise as it is rather large but we did not run to the Hall. We convinced the boy to sit in the back of the wing and searched for Irma in the corridors but it was to no avail as she was in the Great Hall as well. We did not hear the screaming and I cannot say that I regret this. We were in fact unaware of the scale of what was occurring on the ground floor and simply sat confused.
I do not know how long we waited but it seemed like aeons, in fact we began to think that nothing was happening at all. The students began to arrive in droves, ushered mainly be Hagrid and there was scarcely one of them without lacerations. Ms Bulstrode persisted in demanding to know where Mr Malfoy was while I was busy and had I known at the time why she needed so desperately to speak to him I would perhaps have been less snippy when directing her to the back of the wing. My discretion was smothered but as I have said I would not have attempted to maintain it if I had known the information she was delivering.
The large amount of people who were apparently standing in the area of Mr Potter, all of them still unconscious, were levitated to the third floor and there was not enough room for them in the hospital wing. Classrooms on the ground floors were turned into infirmaries and while that is all well and good there are not enough hands to go around to attend to everyone. Xiomara and Severus are in frightening condition and I myself spent last evening manning the library as the uninjured students did not even bother to feign sleep.
Today has been equally poor, I have not slept and I spent half of the pre-dawn moving bodies from various places in the castle with Minerva and Filius while Hagrid kept watch on the library. It seems morbid to lay all of them in one classroom but there was little choice. Any students found in classroom eleven without permission will face dire consequences. Mr Potter and Professor Black have disobeyed their orders to stay in bed and have gone regardless but I wish to say that this does not mean that their beds in the hospital wing may be taken. I understand that some do not wish to stay in classrooms but stealing a man's bed when he has left it to visit the departed is scandalously tactless.
Ms Parkinson remains in the hospital wing, curtained off though she may be, as we were met with horror from two students when we attempted to move her. She is not to be disturbed.
I will now tidy Xiomara's rooms and attempt to steal Lilitou from the claws of Ms Brown.
Cheers, Remus Lupin. The miniature teaset meant a lot.
Comments:
| scotchtartan @ 2004-06-24 09:33 pm UTC |
Sylvia, I have been trying to catch a word with you all day. Did you manage to get any information whatsoever?
| sinistra @ 2004-06-24 09:40 pm UTC |
No, as it is rather difficult to get information from someone who will only speak monosyllabically. Irma was able to get a written statement but it is of little use.
(parent)| scotchtartan @ 2004-06-24 10:35 pm UTC |
If he would prefer to write, Sylvia, that is fine. Each bit of information helps.
(parent)| sinistra @ 2004-06-24 10:45 pm UTC |
I understand that, Minerva, but I am going to have to find it in Irma's elaborate filing system first.
(parent)| sinistra @ 2004-06-24 11:15 pm UTC |
Here you are. It's not the most legible thing in the world, but I got the idea.
(parent)| scotchtartan @ 2004-06-24 11:32 pm UTC |
Sylvia, could you get hold of Arthur Weasley first thing in the morning?
(parent)| sinistra @ 2004-06-24 11:39 pm UTC |
Yes though I will tell you that will be thirty-six hours I have been awake.
(parent)| scotchtartan @ 2004-06-24 11:43 pm UTC |
When the headmaster is found we will all have a lighter load.
Though it's against my better judgement, I believe it would be a lot simpler if Malfoy would speak with us. Did he mention any description of Perkins?
| sinistra @ 2004-06-24 11:49 pm UTC |
Other than the fact that he looked 'surprised' and was an 'old man', your guess is as good as mine.
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