Private Message to Miss Brown and Miss Longbottom, Gryffindor Prefects

[alt_poppy]

If one of you could stop in this evening, I have biscuits and a tisane you may safely give Miss Bawsley, who has, I gather, continued to suffer nocturnal difficulties.

While the elves are able to accommodate with dry sheets and night clothes, this situation cannot be allowed to continue through end of term when there are simple and effective remedies available.

I'm aware that Miss Bawsley has refused all offers and entreaties to return to me for care, so for your sakes and her dormitory mates', as well as her own, I propose a bit of obfuscation in this matter: you might offer her the Dry Dreams tisane and the biscuits as though they were merely kindnesses of your own, lest she refuse them, knowing they came from my hand.

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[alt_seamus]

Ma'am, I can see this. I'm not sure why.

Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_poppy]

My.

Oh, dear.

I can't see that I misspelled anything in the Private Message. Bless. I hope it's not gone out as a public missive. That would quite undo my intent as pertains to Miss Bawsley. Not to mention that it would violate her privacy in an appalling way.

Re: Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_seamus]

Well, you can trust me not to spread it around; I quite understand why you preferred to keep this just to Evelyn Longbottom and Lavender Brown.

However, just so you know, Edward Bones and Brendan Mackrell can also see this. I've instructed them to treat this information as inviolate, just as they would if it had come to them intentionally and not accidentally. In the meantime, something's clearly gone very odd with the PMs; I've contacted the Headmaster. It may be something as simple as changes that hadn't been announced yet.

Re: Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_poppy]

Thank you for your discretion. I regret to have been the one to inform all of the Prefects if this was not already known amongst the six of you.

While I have you. How is Mr Gupta faring? Not sleepwalking still, I hope?

Re: Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_seamus]

He is sleepwalking still, I'm sorry to say. Should I send him to see you?

Re: Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_poppy]

Yes, indeed, send him.

When he is awake. Or accompany him if there's another episode and you find him wandering out of bed. I trust Professor Sandoval-Pennifold has instructed the Pink Lady not to allow him past her portal after curfew?

Re: Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_seamus]

I don't know if she has or not.

Re: Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_poppy]

I will send a message to the Pink Lady, asking her to have a care not to allow him past tonight, and tomorrow I'll have a word with your Head of House.

Private Message to Mr Finnigan

[alt_poppy]

Perhaps... but that would be most perverse of the magic... perhaps it took it that I'd addressed more than two persons (Miss Brown, Miss Longbottom, and Gryffindor's Prefects in general?), but if that's the case, it took two at random.

In that case, I expect Miss Brown is unable to see the message.

[alt_evelyn]

And just in case there was question, I can see your writing.

We'll get it sorted, but it is quite odd, isn't it?