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alt_lupin at 07:19pm on 03/06/2012
alt_lupin at 07:19pm on 03/06/2012I'm thinking that for the Full Moon it'll be easiest to tell Ellie I'm going off on some sort of stock-buying trip and will be back in a day or two. And then go to 12GP for the duration.
I've grown rather accustomed to having Sirius around when I transform. Ellie, however, has grown rather accustomed to having the dog around pretty much all the time. I'm a bit worried that taking him away from her will go over about as well as taking that singing rabbit toy away from Bea would. Dora, will managing Ellie and the beer garden and all the rest without Sirius be too much? Sirius, just how dependent on you is she?
I've grown rather accustomed to having Sirius around when I transform. Ellie, however, has grown rather accustomed to having the dog around pretty much all the time. I'm a bit worried that taking him away from her will go over about as well as taking that singing rabbit toy away from Bea would. Dora, will managing Ellie and the beer garden and all the rest without Sirius be too much? Sirius, just how dependent on you is she?
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Besides, Ellie's not Bea's age; she'll have to get over a security blanket sooner or later.
I think it'd be good for her and Dora to spend time without us, anyway.
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I know we want Ellie to take care of her eventually, but I don't know that it's a brilliant idea, leaving her in the night while she still seems to feel so unsafe and skittish.
Are you sure you couldn't just say you're coming down with one of your sick headaches, and then go off to bed for the duration? You could lock the door. It's not as if she's going to want to barge in on you if you're ill.
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What if I sent Kreacher with the express limitation that he's to bring Bea back to 12 GP for the evening?
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And I do think that if one of us feels poorly, we should be able to expect the help to give us whatever privacy we say we require. If she needs reminding, she might find that Sinbad's fiercely protective of his master and thinks Junius takes priority over her. (Sinbad's right about that.)
I think it's better Ellie learns boundaries (reinforced by growling if necessary) than that she be left alone to see to Bea in the early hours.
I'm not sure what help Kreacher could be. In the evening? And where would Ellie think that nasty elf was taking Bea off to?
By the way, Beth says she wanted to check on us and be sure we're all well. (And not arrested, she means.) Says she's going to slip off early and we might not see her again for a while. Just as well it wasn't tomorrow she showed up. She'd have worried about Mr Ponds, for certain.
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And why would she know Kreacher's even been there?
But all right. You've convinced me. We'll work on it from the perspective of shaking her reliance on Sinbad.
When was Beth in? I missed her.
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I don't think she wanted to be seen, really.
She sounded frustrated more than anything. Said they've got people they're ready to 'move', who are really anxious to go because things have got so much more dangerous. Only that's exactly why they can't go just now. They've all got to sit tight and wait.
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We've got Ellie downstairs, me upstairs, Bea in her room. Sirius has to play guard dog to be sure that Ellie doesn't wander in and discover me (I think you're right she wouldn't, but we can't be positive) AND he has to mind Bea. If Bea wakes up and cries, I think Ellie's quite likely to assume that I don't want to be disturbed (what with my sick headache) and come upstairs and discover Sirius, who can't very well rock Bea back to sleep when he's being Sinbad.
I suggest that we tell Ellie I'm going on a short buying trip and will be taking Bea with me, along with the dog -- the dog because he's good at sniffing out people trying to cheat me, and Bea because Dora has to go to work and we don't yet trust Ellie to care for her all night. Then the lot of us can go to 12GP for the duration. We'll have Kreacher to help us with Bea, but in any case there's no danger of Ellie stumbling into any family secrets while trying to be helpful in the night.
If she's proved herself in a month or two we can say that Mr. Ponds has to go on another buying trip, and THIS time he'll leave Bea behind and it will be up to Ellie to take care of her.
At some point she'll notice my buying trips are always during the full moon, but perhaps I'm actually gathering some magical fungus that's at its most potent when gathered at full moon. Or perhaps we'll be able to trust her with the truth, by then.
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And I agree, we're going to have trust Ellie sooner or later. I'm just not willing to have leaving Bea alone with her in the night as the first test.
Sorry. I know that's inconvenient.
Perhaps I should be the one who plays ill--from work. I could ask off and tell Ellie it's because you have to be away. And then Bea could stay home with us, and you wouldn't have to worry with her.
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Are you worried we'll hurt Ellie's feelings? She's said herself (to Arthur) we don't trust her yet with the baby.
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don't want Bea to be a bother to Sirius when he's wanting to see to you.
I wasn't thinking of Ellie's feelings at all, except how her skittishness makes it difficult to think about leaving her in charge in the night.
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Now we'll just have to think what 'orders' Mr Ponds will have placed and what goods should arrive in a fortnight or two as a result.
What's Aleks sending this time? Do you know?
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We can take Bea along. It does solve everything.
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