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Jan. 19th, 2013 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_poppyI'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.
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.
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Date: 2013-01-19 10:20 pm (UTC)Perhaps we could contrive for something to happen to Malfoy requiring Fletcher to divide his attentions between Scotland and Wiltshire. Heh.
But I agree with everyone else: you can't possibly be seen to take anything less than absolute care with his recovery. Although if this Fletcher bloke is really all that high up, perhaps he'll listen to you about the lack of potions ingredients like cinnibaris!
I suppose it would be too much to hope that you could convince him that Dolohov is well beyond your skills and he'd best assume full responsibility? That might be the best option, especially if you doubt that he will recover.
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Date: 2013-01-19 10:35 pm (UTC)I'm afraid I cannot guess whether Dolohov will succumb or pull through. He has managed to complicate my position, however: in his first interval of consciousness after Fletcher arrived, he explained very clearly that he has placed himself in my care and does not trust the St Mungo's team to place his interests foremost.
You may guess how that sat with Fletcher.