Private Message to Professors Sprout and Siz

[alt_cedric]

Valerie just came to me about Chelsea's behaviour today. She's been busy all day, incapable of sitting down to do anything other than coursework or eating a meal as quickly as possible. She says she 'has to be up and doing something all the time. Like cleaning or straightening or organizing' While we were discussing this she dusted all of the pictures in the common room. Just now she stumbled a bit and sat down down hard into a chair. After a moment she said 'I can sit down now!' with this note of wonder in her voice.

I'm not sure if I should be sending her to the Matron to be checked or just seeing how she feels tomorrow.

Comments

[alt_pomona]

Goodness. That seems odd. For her, especially. I wouldn't describe her as lazy or anything of the kind, but she's always struck me as the slow and measured type rather than perpetual motion, as it were.

Can you ask her a few more questions, perhaps? When it began, for example? And what changed when she felt she could stop?

Aurora, do you have ideas? (Oh, dear. You're up in office hours, aren't you? This will keep until 9 if you're busy.)

[alt_cedric]

Talking about what happened today. She says she got, ate breakfast and felt normal. She had her meeting with Madam Umbridge and says that she asked for their versions of events but couldn't believe that 'such a good upright boy as Mister Strangleweale would ever behave like that and they must have provoked him' She finished with some injunctions against idle hands. Herbology after that and she says she didn't notice anything during class. She says there was a game of Exploding Snap between then and lunch she'd been planning to play in but she felt 'restless' and decided to do all of her assignments for tomorrow instead.

Lunch is when she really started to feel odd. She ate much more quickly than normal and rushed back to the common room to start on her assignments for Wednesday in the half an hour she had before History of Magic. She took three feet of notes there and felt 'fidgety' all throughout class. Charms was fine, but afterwards she raced back to her dorm and organized all of her cloths (she even colour coded her socks) She again ate dinner very quickly and rushed back to the common room which she was cleaning between then and shortly after 8.

She stumbled and landed in a chair. I was with her by this point and she got this peculiar look on her face and and 'I don't have to be up and doing things!'

[alt_pomona]

Goodness. But she seems all right now? If she doesn't, you should take her to Poppy immediately. But if she says the - what do we call it, restlessness - has passed, perhaps not drag her out again tonight.

Do tell her to tell you or one of the prefects immediately if she feels strange again? Do you need me to come down? Or Aurora, if I can roust her? I don't know what your other plans for the evening might be.

I just - this isn't quite like the usual round of things. And I didn't notice anything too out of the ordinary this morning. Let me think through? And if you need one of us, I've my charm out and handy.

Just - did she say if she saw anyone near her with wand out?

[alt_cedric]

What she can recollect is that Madam Umbridge had her wand out but she didn't notice her cast a spell. She was just using it for emphasis. Everyone in charms class, obviously. There was some silliness at lunch but that was first and second years making 'sparks, flames and fart noises from the boys'

She seems okay at the moment. I've passed along the standard 'talk to a Prefect if you feel funny' for all the good it ever does. I've suggested if she feels at all odd tomorrow that she should go to the Matron after breakfast and before Defence.

[alt_sinistra]

Oh, goodness. Sorry for not responding sooner - Cedric, I heard the notification spell go, but I could not get Bletchley to stop talking. (For a good twenty minutes past office hours, too.)

Right. Very odd. Indeed. And Pomona, you're right it's not like her. You remember that conversation I had with her last week? Cedric, without breaching confidence, it was about her worrying she wasn't doing enough to keep up. And we had a long talk about steadiness being as much use as speed. (Insert your parable of choice here, really.)

Cedric - I agree with Pomona that there's no need to drag her out tonight if she's feeling less odd, but perhaps she should see Poppy in the morning just to be on the safe side. I'll let Raz know she might be late and why. And I can tell already it's going to stay cloudy - tell her to go to bed and not worry about her practical session tonight? I can catch her up easily one afternoon this week.

There's something tickling at the back of my mind, but I can't pin it down.

[alt_cedric]

I'll send her up to bed and ask her to talk to the Matron in the morning. Thanks for letting Professor Raz know. I'll also make sure to check in on her at breakfast.