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Hectic Friday
Feb. 20th, 2009 10:40 amSometimes I really detest being right.
I knew I would need a cleared schedule to-day - naturally, one cannot set foot on the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry without something occurring to demand attention.
And I was correct, more's the pity. I hardly expected my own son to be at the centre of trouble on this scale but I suppose it was only a matter of time before he did something atrociously reckless. (He's fine, Narcissa, dear - if considerably chastened. I've just seen him.)
The only mitigation is that his (and Harry's) transgression has allowed us to apprehend a person of interest to the Lord Protector - and my duty to Him perforce superceded any wish I might have had to upbraid Draco myself last evening. I daresay the Headmistress was wise to suggest I wait until morning, when cooler tempers could prevail.
Yet apparently this incident is not enough to occupy us for the nonce: I had no more finished my interview with Draco when I received an urgent summons from the MLE requesting assistance in the Derby mudblood camp. Anyone in the area has by now been informed to be on the lookout for some half-dozen fugitives, who apparently broke out some time in the night. One was apprehended and their means of escape has been detected - but these are matters requiring Council attention - and that of the Enforcers and Aurors available to be despatched to the region. (In addition, I am told several reporters from the Prophet have caught wind of yesterday's events and must be managed!)
So. Hogwarts to London back to Hogwarts, and now Derby to see what incompetent fools have allowed security to be so lax as to enable such a sizeable bolt!
I knew I would need a cleared schedule to-day - naturally, one cannot set foot on the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry without something occurring to demand attention.
And I was correct, more's the pity. I hardly expected my own son to be at the centre of trouble on this scale but I suppose it was only a matter of time before he did something atrociously reckless. (He's fine, Narcissa, dear - if considerably chastened. I've just seen him.)
The only mitigation is that his (and Harry's) transgression has allowed us to apprehend a person of interest to the Lord Protector - and my duty to Him perforce superceded any wish I might have had to upbraid Draco myself last evening. I daresay the Headmistress was wise to suggest I wait until morning, when cooler tempers could prevail.
Yet apparently this incident is not enough to occupy us for the nonce: I had no more finished my interview with Draco when I received an urgent summons from the MLE requesting assistance in the Derby mudblood camp. Anyone in the area has by now been informed to be on the lookout for some half-dozen fugitives, who apparently broke out some time in the night. One was apprehended and their means of escape has been detected - but these are matters requiring Council attention - and that of the Enforcers and Aurors available to be despatched to the region. (In addition, I am told several reporters from the Prophet have caught wind of yesterday's events and must be managed!)
So. Hogwarts to London back to Hogwarts, and now Derby to see what incompetent fools have allowed security to be so lax as to enable such a sizeable bolt!