I suppose I must be grateful that she was so precipitous in ordering the elves to clear my belongings. I've realised belatedly that in my concern that no sensitive items be left lying about, I hadn't time to recollect all the items of a more sentimental nature I will wish I'd saved. I shall have to depend on the elves' having taken more care of those possessions than I did.
For the rest of you, yes, I suppose I'd seen this coming for some time. Well back into last year, in fact, I'd begun keeping everything sensitive in a single, well-concealed and easily-collected place.
The truth, however, is that I've been taken by surprise today. I really believed... well, I suppose I believed that Madam Umbridge and I had settled in for a long battle of the wills. I regret that I was mistaken.
In any case, I think you know--but if you don't I can reassure you--that I have been very careful with my accounting and record-keeping. I've had to be for years, but over the past two, I've had to be particularly cunning about what I log and what I keep aside for extraordinary needs--and, of course, there have always been items I've masked in my inventory in order to set them aside for the Order.
In retrospect it seems especially fortunate that I recently bent a number of firm principles and deputised my student, Miss Perks, to perform the duties of a trainee Healer in cases where students were forbidden or afraid to come to me. This is not a sign that I've been in any way prescient, mind you: I was merely responding to necessity as Madam Umbridge has used ever more damaging physical punishments whilst also forbidding her victims to seek treatment.
On that impetus, I gave over all of my set-aside stores to Miss Perks this week. All save those items too ticklish for any but a fully trained Healer to administer. And those medicinals not officially licensed for use. Those items I brought away with me.
I'm so very sorry, Alice, to have failed in my duties to our young people.
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Date: 2013-03-11 02:42 am (UTC)I suppose I must be grateful that she was so precipitous in ordering the elves to clear my belongings. I've realised belatedly that in my concern that no sensitive items be left lying about, I hadn't time to recollect all the items of a more sentimental nature I will wish I'd saved. I shall have to depend on the elves' having taken more care of those possessions than I did.
For the rest of you, yes, I suppose I'd seen this coming for some time. Well back into last year, in fact, I'd begun keeping everything sensitive in a single, well-concealed and easily-collected place.
The truth, however, is that I've been taken by surprise today. I really believed... well, I suppose I believed that Madam Umbridge and I had settled in for a long battle of the wills. I regret that I was mistaken.
In any case, I think you know--but if you don't I can reassure you--that I have been very careful with my accounting and record-keeping. I've had to be for years, but over the past two, I've had to be particularly cunning about what I log and what I keep aside for extraordinary needs--and, of course, there have always been items I've masked in my inventory in order to set them aside for the Order.
In retrospect it seems especially fortunate that I recently bent a number of firm principles and deputised my student, Miss Perks, to perform the duties of a trainee Healer in cases where students were forbidden or afraid to come to me. This is not a sign that I've been in any way prescient, mind you: I was merely responding to necessity as Madam Umbridge has used ever more damaging physical punishments whilst also forbidding her victims to seek treatment.
On that impetus, I gave over all of my set-aside stores to Miss Perks this week. All save those items too ticklish for any but a fully trained Healer to administer. And those medicinals not officially licensed for use. Those items I brought away with me.
I'm so very sorry, Alice, to have failed in my duties to our young people.