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alt_poppy ([personal profile] alt_poppy) wrote2013-01-19 01:54 pm

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I'm snatching a brief moment of quiet to tell you that I have a bit of a situation here on the ward.

Antonin Dolohov has suffered a relapse of the curse injuries that forced his retirement from 'diplomacy', and when I say 'relapse', I mean that he is entirely incapacitated and has had only scattered intervals of consciousness since he was found in his rooms yesterday afternoon. He had not been seen since sometime the previous day, and the elves report that he had not requested any meals.

I do wish that if these Councilwizards are to join us on the staff, they would take better care of themselves. It's the same thing again as when Rabastan Lestrange was cursed. Only this time it is not Auror Lestrange, but Auror Crouch keeping vigil at the bedside and 'overseeing' my work.

(Aurora Sinistra put it to me that 'if we tell Auror Crouch that 'Tosha' is ill, he'll be here in a heartbeat. If we don't tell him 'Tosha' is ill and he finds out later, he will storm in here one heartbeat after finding out, extremely annoyed he wasn't informed. Which would you prefer?' Not much of a choice, really.)

In any case, he's not my only guest. Armenius Fletcher (High Muckety-Muck and Healer to Our Lord's Nearest) arrived this morning first thing and is making his own assessment of the situation. I gather from his conversations with them, that we will shortly have the whole of Dolohov's specialist team here for a proper dressing down.

I intend to keep out of the middle of that if there is any chance of it. Not that I wish any of them ill, but it would not be inconvenient were there an injury or two brought up from the Quidditch match to occupy me.