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Melantha and her family are on their way to the castle. Enforcer Nuntius Jordan will be with them, assisting with their baggage. It's difficult managing everything when there's a baby involved.

If you're there and available, I feel certain it would reassure her to see you at the gates before we ask that they submit to veritaserum questioning or Hydra's legilimency.

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Mum actually stopped by half an hour ago, she was here seeing to some food things. She'll come down too.

I'm glad Mel decided. She was - at the family funerals, she didn't want to give up her patients, and I understand that, but if it's that or horrible things, well. She's not stupid, Mel.

Someone else for your list. I don't think he's urgent, but he'd be right useful, and he's got young kids. Darius Deverill. Number of other Healers in the family, picked up a little bit of lots of things. His kids must be six and eight now, something like that, and I think his wife does something apothecaryish?

(I know his brother better, he's an astronomer, and has been helping with some of the data gathering we're doing from a distance, but I know Cantus is worried about anyone in New London these days.)

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alt_poppy

Good thought about Deverill.

I'll add them to my list for tomorrow.

It will be late before I return tonight, but it would be very useful to know from those who arrived today (a) if they've thought of anyone else we ought to approach, and (b) if they could shed any light on the shifts I ought to work tomorrow's list around. Do you suppose you could have a word with some of them?

Perhaps ask Haruman Patil, as well, if any of the younger Healers--near him in age--ought to be approached?

Carry-over list:

Also. Could you ask Melantha what she thinks our chances would be if I were to pay a call on her head of department, Jalen Allthorpe? If she advises against, I won't go. Otherwise, I'm thinking it might be worth the chance taken.

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I'll ask. Stumped entirely on the current round of wards theory, and I want to clear my head, so I might as well be doing something useful while the gears are going.

Wait. Gears.

Jack Chadwick. My friend Gilly's brother, trained around the same time as Haruman. Halfblood, like her, so he got shunted into all the work no one else wanted, but he's real bright, a creative sort when it comes to problem solving.

I don't know if you'll get him without her and her father, and you won't get Gilly without her partner, Juniper. Her - Juni's - parents are quite frail and under regular Healer care, I know that, but I think we've space and enough people to manage now, maybe? Or somewhere in one of the Fideliuses, at least?

Delilah - tell her that Campanella's come over, did so real fast. And see if she's got a way to get hold of Sigrun Hall, privately. Sigrun'd be a help for Bill and Sirius's news people, she's been at the Prophet for ages, mostly editing, but other things when they let her.

Able Bellweather. The party, at Spence, it seems like decades ago, I remember him talking about wishing he could do more of direct help. That he missed seeing things get better, under his wand and hands.

I'll go see about Haruman, if there's anyone else he'd suggest. And see if Mel's sorted enough she can talk for a minute.

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alt_poppy

Thank you.

Yes, this is most helpful.

Have your gears begun turning more productively with a bit of a break?

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alt_sinistra

Haruman suggests Phyllis Burrow, if she's not already on your list. Same training class as him and Jack.

He's more sure of her than of Colin O'Flaherty, also in that class. Irish, pureblood, but Haruman isn't about his loyalties.

(We do think we maybe have a solution to the Ireland wards, if you think that would help. No certainties, but we're an awful lot more interested in opening things up than the other side are. Not that that's a high bar. Sorry, you don't need me wit-wandering.)

He also says not to try Auldren Munroe. Entirely bought in to the wrong sort, he thought.

Mel says that she thinks Allthorpe will want to stay with his research, but if you give him a chance to pull his records and notes, he might come. (He keeps all sorts of odd hours, so no one will think too much if he goes in at midnight or dawn or something.)

You might need to convince him to charge in the right direction, but she says to remind him of a conversation she had with him a couple of months ago about the theory of disease, something from the 15th century. (She gave me the name, it fell out of my head, she says the century should do.)

As to the wards, well, the reason the name keeps falling out of my head is that yes, I've a new line of thought. Maybe. Let me know if you need me to wander the castle again, right?

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alt_poppy

Very helpful. All of that.

Perhaps I'll pay a call on Allthorpe tonight, then--my last stop of the evening.

You've been most helpful, my dear.

I'll pop by when I return and perhaps you'll have a great breakthrough to report! (And also because it's not bad practice to have someone know I've made it back--or not.)

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You know me, I'll be up until near dawn. (Likely in the workroom, or maybe looking at stars for a bit if I get stuck again.)

It - yeah. Good to do something solidly helpful. I've been stuck in the 'this might be helpful if we ever get half of it sorted out' loop for too long, I think.

And do let me know if you get Gilly to come in. I hope you do.