Private Message to Raz

[alt_antonin]

I've a favor to ask you, old friend. Do you have time over lunch or after classes to stop by and give my space (and me) a quick going-over to rule out the possibility of curse influence on my latest health disaster?

I would not usually ask -- I've checked already myself, and my protections on my space -- and my person -- are paranoid enough I do not believe something could get by without noticing -- but it is indisputable that I did not start worsening again until our return to Hogwarts, though likely coincidence. And Barty, bless him, is fussing at me, and it would ease his mind.

If you don't have the time (it is, after all, Thursday) do not worry -- I've no doubt Barty will be storming the castle on Saturday under cover of Quidditch to pick apart every inch of my environment.

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[alt_rabastan]

I'm at your service, old friend.

You sure you don't want Rod to come have a look? I know he already took the plaque quite a few objects of note when he was last here, but there may have been something he missed.

[alt_antonin]

I honestly don't expect to find anything -- particularly after that afternoon of exploration -- and I don't think it's worth bestirring Rod. I've checked six ways to Sunday myself, of course, but Barty's being a mother hen worried I might have been 'encouraged' to miss things, and you know how he gets when he's worried. An extra pair of eyes may convince him to hold off invading. (Until the weekend, at least.)

(I would rather you for this than Rod anyway; he is a specialist of great experience, true, but you are more used to looking at the whole defensive picture.)

I will be in class with the Ravenclaw fifths until five, but if you'd like to come by earlier, you're already keyed into my office wards -- they're the same sequence I've always used.

Thank you; I owe you. (And then we can be rude about Dolores. Remind me to show you her 'evaluation' of my class, so you can be braced to receive your own. To summarise: "Why are you teaching what you're teaching, and can you demonstrate you are qualified to do so? Also, please explain these half-dozen things that are blatantly obvious to anyone who has studied the subject for more than five minutes and justify every pedagogical choice you have ever made." I amused myself in my response.)

In your debt,
T