Order Only Private Message to Sally Anne Perks

[alt_poppy]

I confess I was concerned to read that the ward was closed last evening. Was that at Crouch's insistence? Surely if there'd been another serious illness or injury, those students wouldn't have been turned away?

Never mind. It's not mine to interfere, which is why I didn't wish to write whilst you appeared to be in the midst of a difficult situation.

I trust that you feel things were managed well enough in the end.

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[alt_poppy]

I believe that if you wished to discuss the circumstances of her treatment as you observed them or wished to discuss her condition, it could be construed as part of your training. As could speaking about your reactions, concerns, apprehensions, etc.

I will, of course, hold in strictest confidence anything you might say on the subject.

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, okay, because although I do think Hydra and Justin ought to tell Mrs Longbottom, that's mostly just because Justin could still wind up in terrible trouble over this. It wouldn't be Order-related trouble, it would be Rodolphus-is-a-protective-father trouble, but still.

Hydra was pregnant, apparently. And the training accident in the salle made her miscarry. She hemorrhaged while Crouch was bringing her to the hospital wing, that was the blood on the stairs everyone was talking about.

And here's the thing. Back when I was a fifth year, Professor Sinistra gave Pansy and me copies of this book called 'Wise Witch, Wise Woman' which talked about every contraceptive spell or potion or rune anyone's ever invented (she gave us the 10th edition, the 12th apparently isn't is good, except for the Seaman's Shield but she'd copied that in). And she wanted me to pass it along to Hydra, so I did. There are long-term spells and short-term spells and potions that are very easy to brew and potions that you can get from the Matron if you can get over your embarrassment and even a rune is better than nothing. (I wear a rune, even though I don't usually DEPEND on the rune, just because it's never a bad idea to double up.)

I mean I KNOW it's easy to get careless about it when most of the time you're at Hogwarts but they were SO STUPID part of me wants to shake both of them. Even though I also want them to confide in me and feel comfortable with me so of course I'm not going to say this to either of them.

I did offer Hydra a rune, though, because you can just put it on and never take it off and it's quite a bit better than nothing.

[alt_poppy]

One of the most difficult duties of a healer is masking one's criticism when expressing it would serve no healing purpose and when it would discourage further communication.

I'm certain I've failed often enough in this regard. And I'd wager that most healers struggle to master it.

I gather you didn't observe the treatment Hydra received?

Do you know, instead, whether the spilt blood and tissue were promptly scourgified and vanished? What appeared to be merely blood might be easily analysed if someone had thought to collect a sample. And, of course, there are other uses for samples of spilt blood and she'd tissue.

[alt_sally_anne]

No, I didn't see what treatment Hydra received.

When I got into the hospital wing they'd cleaned -- I don't know if they vanished the blood and tissue or if they set some aside. But, she left blood all over the school. Someone did vanish the blood on the stairs, but there were still traces, and I haven't seen the salle. (I did have the Prefects close it just because I was thinking the last thing we needed was another serious training accident with the Healer so distracted.)