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Sep. 12th, 2014 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_poppyI'd hoped we might have a quiet spell tonight, but, alas. Not a private moment to be had.
What I wished to tell you is that I've learned a bit more about Healer Drubble. I inquired first of a colleague, who serves on the hospital's Standards Board, and I found her reluctant to say much about the man. She acknowledged his deportment leaves something to be desired, but assured me that his work is adequately supervised.
I found the whole conversation... unsatisfying, so I put a careful question about him to Healer Nesbitt, a friend of many years, who has been at St Mungo's as long as I've been here. She's the sort people tell things to, and she's a good judge of what she hears. What she's heard about Drubble is that he works several shifts a month at one of the werewolf enclaves, a sort of work that is generally felt to be beneath a St Mungo's Healer. Let's say his reputation has not been enhanced by this becoming known at the hospital, but it's Effie's impression that he may have resorted to such employment because he's never been able to secure a full, stable position at the hospital.
There was a bit more to her report, but what follows is much less authoritative. She says she's not heard so much as gathered that there's something unsavoury about the man. (You could have told her as much, I know.) She couldn't be more specific, but she's got the impression that he might be involved in some dodgy business. I mentioned that Madam Merriman had been distinctly unforthcoming about Drubble, and I got a long pause in reply. And then she said, 'Well, either we'll hear eventually that he's been investigated and sacked, or we won't, in which case we can guess that someone's got a reason to keep him on staff and isn't at all interested in having anyone nose into it'. She suggested that in either case, I might do best not to raise the matter in other quarters.
So, that's that. At least for now.
What I wished to tell you is that I've learned a bit more about Healer Drubble. I inquired first of a colleague, who serves on the hospital's Standards Board, and I found her reluctant to say much about the man. She acknowledged his deportment leaves something to be desired, but assured me that his work is adequately supervised.
I found the whole conversation... unsatisfying, so I put a careful question about him to Healer Nesbitt, a friend of many years, who has been at St Mungo's as long as I've been here. She's the sort people tell things to, and she's a good judge of what she hears. What she's heard about Drubble is that he works several shifts a month at one of the werewolf enclaves, a sort of work that is generally felt to be beneath a St Mungo's Healer. Let's say his reputation has not been enhanced by this becoming known at the hospital, but it's Effie's impression that he may have resorted to such employment because he's never been able to secure a full, stable position at the hospital.
There was a bit more to her report, but what follows is much less authoritative. She says she's not heard so much as gathered that there's something unsavoury about the man. (You could have told her as much, I know.) She couldn't be more specific, but she's got the impression that he might be involved in some dodgy business. I mentioned that Madam Merriman had been distinctly unforthcoming about Drubble, and I got a long pause in reply. And then she said, 'Well, either we'll hear eventually that he's been investigated and sacked, or we won't, in which case we can guess that someone's got a reason to keep him on staff and isn't at all interested in having anyone nose into it'. She suggested that in either case, I might do best not to raise the matter in other quarters.
So, that's that. At least for now.
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Date: 2014-09-13 03:16 pm (UTC)Anyway.
If he's working in the werewolf enclaves that makes a lot of sense. I mean, they're sort of in the same position as my parents were, they can't just go to St Mungo's and the more respectable Healers don't want to have anything to do with them and that gives him a lot of power. A lot of latitude to do whatever he wants to people.
His job at St Mungo's didn't seem to involve any contact with patients. So if someone at St M's DOES want him on staff for some reason, they clearly have the sense -- well, I guess maybe they just don't think he has very good people skills. But it's also possible they know exactly what he's like. And want to make sure he doesn't draw attention to himself in the wrong way at St M's.
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Date: 2014-09-13 08:04 pm (UTC)I wonder if Bill Weasley could tell us at least which enclave he's assigned to. Perhaps there are records or complaints. We've talked off and on about reaching out to the werewolves, and this could be an opening. Or, if not that, at least we might see if we could spare those poor souls being victimized if he's using his advantage in the ways you suspect.
Any objections to my asking Bill to have a look? I needn't mention you at all.
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Date: 2014-09-13 10:47 pm (UTC)I wouldn't
I mean, Hermione's mother lives in one of those enclaves, doesn't she?
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