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I suppose you will all see the latest drama in our Hogwarts journals sooner or later, so I wanted to give you a more official report now I've examined Miss Granger.

You will remember that Minerva placed a protective cantrip on the child last year when she was reassigned to be young Marvolo's servant and sentenc given sleeping quarters off the Slytherin common room. I believe it was Arthur's wise suggestion that this spell be placed on the child to protect her from the adolescent ambitions of the young men in that House.

Well. The spell worked. Its alarm went off this evening, and it should have woken the dead.

Miss Granger is fine. Physically. The spell blasted her assailant back and across the corridor. He is rather the worse for wear, as he richly deserves. I suspect I will find he has a concussion and a great many very significant bruises. I hope he is also suffering from shock and a renewed respect for the personal boundaries of young women. He very definitely violated the bounds of proper decorum. And frightened the child terribly.

She knows what he was about. She's not entirely untutored in the ways of the world. By which I mean not the mere facts of reproduction--I have seen to it that she understands the mechanics of that--but the basic social strategies of the male of our species, which is not something we've discussed at all. What I mean to say, is that she was able to describe the meaning of the look that came over the filthy boy's face as the idea crystallised in his head what he might do with her, and she had a fair idea what he was about as he cornered her.

She's in shock, but she's talking sense and sipping chamomile tea. I've got her settled on Minerva's sofa, wrapped in a warm throw, and if she doesn't show signs of drifting towards sleep soon, I will give her a light dose of a sweet sleep potion. I'd prefer to let her body take it's own course, though, if it will. I always think that trauma is best processed naturally where that's possible.

Date: 2010-02-10 04:35 am (UTC)
alt_molly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] alt_molly
Thank you for being with her, Poppy. Give her Arthur's and my love.

Date: 2010-02-10 04:50 am (UTC)
alt_molly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] alt_molly
I'll do that, thank you.

Date: 2010-02-10 04:40 am (UTC)
alt_hermione: Hermione looking away from you. (demure)
From: [personal profile] alt_hermione
You know I can read this, don't you?

Date: 2010-02-10 04:42 am (UTC)
alt_hermione: Hermione worried. (worried)
From: [personal profile] alt_hermione
Honestly, I'm all right, Madam Pomfrey. Really I am. The worst of it was mostly that I didn't know really what the spell was going to do, and I had almost forgotten about it even. So I didn't know what was happening and it took me a while to clear my head.

Date: 2010-02-10 04:44 am (UTC)
alt_hermione: Hermione looking away from you. (demure)
From: [personal profile] alt_hermione
All right, I suppose.

Date: 2010-02-10 04:40 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alt_frank
thanks for the update, Poppy.

god damn.

when I cross paths with that boy, and I will eventually, his face is going to get rearranged. among other things.

Hermione, I'm sorry. I'm sorry there are fucks out there like him, and that you had to go through that. it's not fair, and it's not right, and if anyone ever lays a finger on you without your say again I will break him in half.

sorry.

Date: 2010-02-10 05:01 am (UTC)
alt_sirius: (Yeesh)
From: [personal profile] alt_sirius
What Frank said, and then some.

Arthur's right, it's a good job you lot put that cantrip on her.

I just find it hard to believe an Ollivander would do something like that, even if he were in Slytherin. Merlin's beard.

Date: 2010-02-10 03:44 pm (UTC)
alt_lupin: (Serious thoughts)
From: [personal profile] alt_lupin
Thank you for the update, Poppy. I'm sure it's a great comfort to those of us who are away from Hogwarts to know that you're there to provide the care and support we all wish we could too.

Hermione .. oh Hermione, what can I possibly say. You may not want to talk about it, but if you ever do, you're surrounded by friends who will always be here for you.

No one has the right to hurt you, in any way, no matter what. Should you ever find yourself in fear of such a thing, you just get out, run far away, and let us deal with the consequences.

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