Private Message to Barty and Lucius
Jan. 17th, 2013 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antoninBefore you come across the children fretting and likewise fret at me: I am feeling poorly, and plagued by a host of new and interesting symptoms, but I am under the Matron's most diligent care. (Before one of you suggest St M's rather than Matron: I do not wish to make accusations, but at this point I am more confident that Madam Pomfrey will have her patient's best interests in mind; it is nothing concrete and nothing I can make a complaint over, but the more I think about it, the more I realise my team at St M's is showing more interest in research possibility than patient improvement. At very least I will be confirming their advice with her from now on.)
I am most vexed: I was not expecting the rite's restorative effects to last much longer, but this is a rather more dramatic reversal than I had been expecting. So much so that I spent lunchtime yesterday checking self and environment for curses that might have made it past my protections. (Verdict: nothing. I suppose it would have been too easy an answer.)
I am eating, sleeping, resting, and minimising my effort expended, and with luck this will just be a temporary setback; I will keep you both posted. (And please do reassure Narcissa!)
Meanwhile: Lyoushka, Dolores is growing more insufferable, and behaving as though she is utterly convinced of her mandate to stick her nose into everything --mandate from whom, I remain uncertain. Remind me to show you the list of "helpful" questions she sent me after observing my classes last week. (And the response I wrote her, which was -- if I do say so myself -- a masterwork of subtle insult wreathed in effusive flattery.) I still do not know what her game is, and I am keeping an eye on her, but you may wish to do so as well.
Barty -- solnyshko, I have not forgot your birthday next week. How would you like to celebrate?
I am most vexed: I was not expecting the rite's restorative effects to last much longer, but this is a rather more dramatic reversal than I had been expecting. So much so that I spent lunchtime yesterday checking self and environment for curses that might have made it past my protections. (Verdict: nothing. I suppose it would have been too easy an answer.)
I am eating, sleeping, resting, and minimising my effort expended, and with luck this will just be a temporary setback; I will keep you both posted. (And please do reassure Narcissa!)
Meanwhile: Lyoushka, Dolores is growing more insufferable, and behaving as though she is utterly convinced of her mandate to stick her nose into everything --mandate from whom, I remain uncertain. Remind me to show you the list of "helpful" questions she sent me after observing my classes last week. (And the response I wrote her, which was -- if I do say so myself -- a masterwork of subtle insult wreathed in effusive flattery.) I still do not know what her game is, and I am keeping an eye on her, but you may wish to do so as well.
Barty -- solnyshko, I have not forgot your birthday next week. How would you like to celebrate?
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2013-01-17 02:17 pm (UTC)It's not necessary; Poppy is taking excellent care of me, and we are hoping that rest (and rest, and rest, and rest -- I have slept twelve hours a night all week and took a nap over lunch yesterday to allow myself to face the rest of the day) will do the trick. I am able to keep to teaching my classes, for instance; I only need minimise the effort I expend.
Hold your wand until I've more than suspicion -- it might be nothing and I may be imagining it all; I have never been susceptable to post-rite paranoia before, but who knows how things might have changed recently? If I do find more than suspicion I will cheer you on as you make your displeasure known.
I have checked everything I could imagine, my dearest of hounds, and my protections on office, quarters, and classroom alike are as paranoid as I could make them; I do believe they would have alerted for anything likely to cause this. But if it would make you feel better, I will ask Raz for a second opinion. Or, yes, you; if matters have not improved, there is a Quidditch game scheduled this Saturday and your presence would not be as noticeable then.
(The damnable gossip rags will no doubt notice no matter how much we attempt discretion. Perhaps we should go in the other direction: you bring flowers, I will swoon at the sight of you.)
Your,
T
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2013-01-17 03:40 pm (UTC)Will hold off, but ready.
Will have that matron's skin if she fails you.
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2013-01-17 04:05 pm (UTC)But for all I fuss about the overprotectiveness -- and I will continue to fuss about the overprotectiveness, particularly given the perils of your profession while I am ensconced in this nice safe castle -- I will say: it is very nice to know that you are there, and that you are worried.
And as you may have seen, I have messaged Razzer to ask him to stop in and check things over. So you may at least be assured that I am taking all reasonable precautions.
Your,
T