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.

Comments

[alt_poppy]

Do you happen to know whether Miss Brown has been able to read this?

Or whether anyone else (everyone?) can see it unprotected? Could you check discreetly?

[alt_evelyn]

I'll see if I can track her down, ma'am.

I've just arrived in the common room, I can ask around quietly.

[alt_evelyn]

Right. I asked Kitty and Honoria, and neither could see the message.

I'm still trying to track down Lavender. I think she's in the library?

[alt_poppy]

Well, that's a comfort, at least. I was concerned lest Miss Bawsley's situation had been broadcast far and wide.

[alt_evelyn]

I think it's just the prefects. Just the Gryffindor prefects, even.

[alt_poppy]

Well, given that Miss Bawsley's bed-wetting is no concern of any other House's Prefects, I hope it is an accommodation of the magic to allow those most at need of the information--and only those--to receive the message.

Still, it's an unprecedented change in the way things work in these books, is it not?

[alt_evelyn]

Brendan and Ed can both see it, and I asked a few other Gryffs and none of them can. I'll double-check about Lavender once I see her.

[alt_poppy]

How extremely odd! I can't imagine how that could be so.