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Remus Lupin ([personal profile] alt_lupin) wrote2010-05-10 03:49 pm

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Poppy - I have news on Mr Jones for you. I haven't managed to speak to him myself, but Tonks tracked him down on one of the other wards last night and they had a bit of a chat. He's doing as well as can be expected. He was one of the earlier patients brought in apparently, so the sickness seems to have had a greater effect on him than it has on Tonks, but he's in good spirits and should make a reasonable recovery. He's worried for his job, as most of the patients are, but he seems to have made friends with everyone on his ward and all the staff. I believe he's due to be released some time next week, but that could change depending on his condition.

I don't know how much of that you can pass on, and Tonks didn't mention Professor Sinistra to him, of course, but hopefully she'll feel a little better knowing he's all right.

Tonks herself is doing very well, as her expedition to wards unknown demonstrates. She's on course to be released at the end of the week, all being well, and is pretty much counting down the hours, minutes and seconds.

I was flicking through an old Prophet while she was with the Healer today, I think it might have been yesterday's Sunday Prophet, and spotted an article buried well into the middle, page 13 or 14, about the bodies of two ten-year-old girls being found out at Bushey Heath on Saturday. It caught my eye only because there was some nonsense about it being werewolves, although thankfully the reporter retained enough sense to point out that it's in the middle of the lunar cycle so rather unlikely.

After all that business with the little Patil boy, it seems rather suspicious that two more young children have been killed in what sounds like a rather violent way, and that it's been buried so quietly in the Prophet, although I suppose the Ministry may simply be trying to avoid more public panic.

Has anyone else heard anything about that?
alt_poppy: (smug)

[personal profile] alt_poppy 2010-05-11 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but do you have a proper appreciation for 'The Mighty, Magnificent Pea'? And did you realise that really you ought to 'Always Say Sorry' when you've done something to offend a housemate--even, perhaps, when it is not quite a matter of your being responsible for the ill-feeling; it is the mature thing to make peace whenever it lies in your power to do so.

Such wisdom! After all, most of us need to be reminded now and then to 'Perk Up: A Smile Will Raise Your Spirits'!