Order Only: Status Report

[alt_sirius]

Weasleys: How are you all? Poppy said she brought your potion yesterday, Bill. Courage, mate. We'll be a little busy tonight but come by the garden if you're in the mood for company, you and Charlie. Molly, you'd be welcome, too. Dora'd love to show you all she's done with the place.


Next: As far as that meeting Remus asked us all about, it's going to be a couple of days, at least. Well, more than a couple. Bill's busy tonight, of course, and so are Moony and I, and the weekend's a terrible time to leave Ellie alone at Laszlo's Unlimited.

But it's also going to be a while before Minerva's up to it.

We've been at her New London house since last night - Poppy and Severus and I, that is. They tried to intervene in her drinking for good and all and ... it didn't go as they'd hoped.

So, they've spent the last night using slower methods to purge her system, but in the meantime, they plan to brew what amounts to a highly complex potion, which I gather they've not tried before because it could have disastrous results. I guess we've reached the point where the risk is worth it.

Dora, when you can free Ellie or yourself, we need someone to go round the apothecary's on Camden Road. The one near Holloway? I'm reasonably certain they'll have the ingredients our shop hasn't got. I've got a list I can give you. (If buying them doesn't work, then Poppy might have to try to sweet-talk Horace into fetching the items from the Potioneers' Guild and we'd really rather not have to go that route.)

Anyway. With all that in mind, I propose postponing our gathering until after the 1^st. Other than that I'm not fussed about the date, so if anyone else has a preference, let's hear it. (Hermione, that includes you, kiddo.)

Oh, and if anyone else would care to come take a shift, particularly this evening, I'd be grateful.

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Private Message to Alice

[alt_sirius]

Allie,

I know it's hard, love, but you might want Frank to see this. What she's done to herself. And what we're all having to do to help her survive it.

For what it's worth, I think we're about to be able to force the rest of the Order's hand and include almost all the Jrs, or at least tell them what they already suspect. I'd like to put it on the table, at any rate. So you'll have your Neville in the Order properly. But if that's the case - Circe, I don't want the boy to see his dad going the same way Minerva's been. Remus is blaming it on her double-life and I'm sure that's part of it; Frank's got other pressures but I know one thing plaguing him is what your children must think of you and how they're compelled to behave in front of their peers.

I think an object lesson for him, before his son gets another point of view about him, might be a good thing.

Oh, and remind me to tell you all about arriving to find Severus holding a tabby cat in his lap like he actually might have cared for her. Downright touching, if it weren't so bizarre.

[alt_nymphadora]

Ellie can go straight away if you'll hand that list through the fire.

When you say the potion they're trying could have disastrous results, what do you mean, exactly?

[alt_pomona]

Bad to worse. Do you need another pair of hands, Sirius? I can find some excuse to be away from the castle. (Not that there's many here, either.)

On tonight, I was going to write. I woke up this morning dreaming of a conversation I'd had with Aurora, about one of her exam questions, something about having students calculate their location from the position of the stars. I gather it's fiddly work - that most people, even astronomers, don't touch it after their exams - but could that be of use, somehow?

As to the gathering, between the 1st and the 5th would be fine for me, the children will come back on the 6th.

[alt_bill]

Yes, Poppy delivered the potion, and I'm following Terry's advice about preparation. Guess I'm doing everything I can to be as ready as possible.

About Minerva...I'm dismayed, but not, I'll admit, surprised. I'm very sorry to hear it. Hope the brewing goes well, and the potion helps.

After the 1st is fine with me. And we're flexible as to the exact date. No one is expecting much of any of us for at least a week.