Order Only Private Message to Alice and Neville Longbottom

I've just spent the last hour and a half reversing curses suffered by Mr Weasley last night when he was ambushed by his dormitory mate, Mr Thomas, who seems to have rigged a silent alert to tell him if Mr Weasley should ever leave his bed in the night. There's no point dwelling on details, but it would seem that the attack began with Petrificus and a silencing spell, after which Mr Thomas piled on every hex and battering curse that came to mind. Mr Weasley thinks Mr Finnigan may have added several of his own curses when he returned from an after-curfew tryst.

In any case, Mr Longbottom seems to have slept through all of it--which is entirely understandable, Mr Longbottom: there's truly no need to berate yourself for not having heard a magically-silenced assault--but it was Neville who found Mr Weasley on the floor this morning and brought him to me.

All will be well, but I do think Mr Weasley feels rather as he did when he got wrongways with a hippogriff in the Creatures pen--or, as he put it, as if he's been run over by the Hogwarts Express.

Suffice it to say, he will not be attending morning lessons and asks to be brought word of any assignments. I shall be sending the usual notifications to his teachers.

Alice, I'm writing you rather than Molly at Mr Weasley's request. He'd rather she not know about this.