Severus or Ms Perks might be able to get them something to calm them down, but I'd be worried about whether that would somehow add to their confusion. I'll ask Poppy what she would recommend.
We shouldn't attempt to get Terry in the castle, even as a dog, and I don't want you to try and move them to the Shrieking Shack while they're in their current state. We'll reassess later.
Perhaps separating them would help, and make them less confused? If you do attempt it, make sure Ron is with one and you're with the other, just so there's someone with each twin that they can completely trust.
We're keeping them on their separate beds with the bed curtains drawn, and their backs to each other. I'm with George, and Neville and Ron are with Fred.
They can't hear each other, but Fred could hear me talking to George, and George could hear Ron and Neville talking to Fred, and that was confusing and distressing, too. So now we're using muffliato.
I agree, I don't think it's a good idea to move them. They're not going to dinner; we're going to bring sandwiches up.
I hope it wears off by the time classes start tomorrow. And we're not sending them to her office to get it reapplied.
If she shows up here to reapply it, I'd be tempted to hex her myself.
Mostly, we're trying to talk about other stuff, any other stuff to distract them. It's not working very well. They keep wanting to know when the funeral's gonna be.
How awful. I'd take a page from Severus and simply tell them the funeral is going to be next Saturday.
Let us know if you have any difficulty getting access to food.
It seems like you've got a handle on things at the moment, and are doing what you can to help. And it is helping, even though they're confused and distraught. Stay strong, Lee. I know Fred and George will appreciate what you've done for them once they're in their right state of mind.
And if you've got a chance, tell Ron and Neville the same.
For the record, if you do hex Madame Umbridge, I can see how drawing attention away from the twins and delaying reapplication of the curse would be to their benefit. But at this point, you'd certainly risk expulsion for direct attacks on her person, if not something more serious, as she appears to be escalating.
I'm not saying don't hex her, just be sure you think through the potential consequences. If you're expelled, rest assured, she'll kick you off the grounds and reapply her hex to the twins, and you won't be able to help them.
Food shouldn't be any problem. There'll probably be a whole line of Gryffindors coming up the stairs with platters of sandwiches. EVERYONE is hacked off about this.
Ginny's here now. She just told me that she's exchanged private messages with her mum, and Mrs Weasley says she heard back from one of the Board of Governors members--I reckon that's Mr Selwyn, since I see she sent him a private message--and he's told her that the Headmistress is being summoned to answer to the Lord Protector. So Mrs Weasley hopes she won't reapply the spell tomorrow, but at any rate, Mrs Weasley says she won't allow it to happen; she'll pull them out of the school, first. So one way or another, this is just going to last until tomorrow morning.
Yeah, we'll tell them that if we have to, that the funeral's Saturday. Ugh.
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Re: ORDER ONLY: Private message to Mrs Longbottom
Date: 2013-04-21 06:19 pm (UTC)Severus or Ms Perks might be able to get them something to calm them down, but I'd be worried about whether that would somehow add to their confusion. I'll ask Poppy what she would recommend.
We shouldn't attempt to get Terry in the castle, even as a dog, and I don't want you to try and move them to the Shrieking Shack while they're in their current state. We'll reassess later.
Perhaps separating them would help, and make them less confused? If you do attempt it, make sure Ron is with one and you're with the other, just so there's someone with each twin that they can completely trust.
Re: ORDER ONLY: Private message to Mrs Longbottom
Date: 2013-04-21 06:31 pm (UTC)They can't hear each other, but Fred could hear me talking to George, and George could hear Ron and Neville talking to Fred, and that was confusing and distressing, too. So now we're using muffliato.
I agree, I don't think it's a good idea to move them. They're not going to dinner; we're going to bring sandwiches up.
I hope it wears off by the time classes start tomorrow. And we're not sending them to her office to get it reapplied.
If she shows up here to reapply it, I'd be tempted to hex her myself.
Re: ORDER ONLY: Private message to Mrs Longbottom
Date: 2013-04-21 06:32 pm (UTC)Re: ORDER ONLY: Private message to Mrs Longbottom
Date: 2013-04-21 06:43 pm (UTC)Let us know if you have any difficulty getting access to food.
It seems like you've got a handle on things at the moment, and are doing what you can to help. And it is helping, even though they're confused and distraught. Stay strong, Lee. I know Fred and George will appreciate what you've done for them once they're in their right state of mind.
And if you've got a chance, tell Ron and Neville the same.
For the record, if you do hex Madame Umbridge, I can see how drawing attention away from the twins and delaying reapplication of the curse would be to their benefit. But at this point, you'd certainly risk expulsion for direct attacks on her person, if not something more serious, as she appears to be escalating.
I'm not saying don't hex her, just be sure you think through the potential consequences. If you're expelled, rest assured, she'll kick you off the grounds and reapply her hex to the twins, and you won't be able to help them.
Re: ORDER ONLY: Private message to Mrs Longbottom
Date: 2013-04-21 07:19 pm (UTC)Ginny's here now. She just told me that she's exchanged private messages with her mum, and Mrs Weasley says she heard back from one of the Board of Governors members--I reckon that's Mr Selwyn, since I see she sent him a private message--and he's told her that the Headmistress is being summoned to answer to the Lord Protector. So Mrs Weasley hopes she won't reapply the spell tomorrow, but at any rate, Mrs Weasley says she won't allow it to happen; she'll pull them out of the school, first. So one way or another, this is just going to last until tomorrow morning.
Yeah, we'll tell them that if we have to, that the funeral's Saturday. Ugh.
Re: ORDER ONLY: Private message to Mrs Longbottom
Date: 2013-04-21 07:34 pm (UTC)I'll see what we can do in the meantime to make them more comfortable and less distressed.