Order Only: the current crop of babies

[alt_lupin]

I was looking back just now at Arthur's list of babies from the book. There were thirteen, yes? I'm trying to remember who isn't yet safely at Moddey.


There were Mary Ashton and Puneet Kamathali, both in London. Sirius and Dora went for them, got Mary, and had to wait on Puneet. Did you make another (successful) try or is Puneet still out there?

Abby Harrison of Leeds. Frank and Steve fetched her.

Jack and Branwen from Scarborough; Branwen was from a mining family who was glad to see she'd go somewhere she wouldn't have to go to the mines at age five. Actually, was Jack her parent, and Alice mis-wrote? Because I count fourteen, otherwise.

Ethan, the Leap Baby. I know we haven't fetched him yet.

Jane Briden, Abbotskerswell in Devon. Dora and I went for her.

Walter Cousins, from North Yorkshire. I know someone got him, but I can't remember who. Kingsley?

Ivy Lovell and Sirius Maxwell, who we still haven't found.

And then I wasn't able to spot if these four had been tracked down and their parents contacted:

Gillian Fitzhugh, from Saltash, in Cornwall.
Heather Flockton, from Burnham-on-Crouch, in the Maldon district in Essex.
Jason Baker, from Banbury in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire.
Tavis MacNichol, Argyll, Scotland.

I feel like perhaps we need a checklist.

Comments

[alt_poppy]

I received a special request to help. From Miss Perks. She's fostered by the Strettons, and she's on a course to find her vocation in Healing, I'd say.

She's one with your Neville and the Weasley lads, you know, and thick as thieves with the Parkinson girl.

What happened there is telling, I believe. The farmworkers heard that she was home for the holidays and somehow knew that she has some abilities with basic Healing. Clearly they also knew her to be sympathetic and trustworthy, as well. In any case, word was passed to her that a great many children were terribly ill, and of course, she went to see what could be done and was promptly in a mess she'd no idea how to mend.

I went late in the evening and did all I could.

As for the Muggleborn child, you should certainly quarantine him, though I believe that he should be past the point of contagion very soon. With that illness, one is contagious before any signs show at all--brilliant of the disease, that, but once the rash and fever erupt, the contagious phase passes in four or five days at most. We'll take a conservative approach, though, and have you keep him apart for his first week, shall we?

I can also get you a quantity of the prophylactic potion. How many of you are there at the Sanctuary now? Adults and children?

[alt_alice]

Oh, Merlin, Poppy. Arabella keeps count, of course, but off the top of my head...

I know we've thirteen adults (used to be eleven but we've added our two muggle assistants in the nursery), thirteen children from ten to twenty (had to think through that one, given that we added so many in one group this summer), and about thirty children younger than ten. Round up to forty children under ten, and we'll be able to account for the ones we have left to bring in.

Let us know if there are any other non-magical children you think would be best with us, parents willing, of course. Taking advantage of the illness seems awfully mercenary, but it's as good an opportunity as any.

[alt_alice]

And Poppy, you really are an angel.

You and Miss Perks both.

[alt_alice]

...and somehow, it doesn't surprise me that we're seeing the same names crop up over and over again.