Order Only: Private message to Misses Granger and Parkinson

[alt_severus]

Miss Granger: I have notes on my latest iterations of the Anti-Sleeper potion research for you to collate, and another test draught for you to analyse. For proper experimental rigour, perform your own analysis before reading mine; as of yet I have not been able to achieve consistent results in my own analysis of this batch, and I would like you to perform the standard battery at least thrice on each numbered candidate before you look at my results, to see whether you have the same difficulty.

Miss Parkinson: Moddey's store of several basic remedies are running exceptionally low, and now that Mr Boot has left us, I have been falling quite behind on the medicinals in favour of research brewing instead. Kindly concentrate your brewing time this week on Pepper-Up and Blood-Replenishing Potion. If you are able to finish a crate of each, move on to preparing the thaumically inert ingredients for Skele-Gro and Dreamless Sleep. Do not prepare the thaumically active ingredients: there are several tricks I have not yet taught you that work with my modifications to the textbook reciept.

Comments

[alt_pansy]

I am perfectly capable of

You think I can't handle a basic

Fine.

If I get a challenge or something, I'll let you know.

[alt_severus]

If you have other demands upon your time, or if our arrangement is no longer convenient, you of course have but to say; I am certain I could find other help.

[alt_pansy]

If I get a challenge, it will not be convenient, no.

Obviously.

Which is why I will let you know.

Besides. I can make a Blood-Replenishing potion in my sleep by now, and I highly doubt anyone else other than Granger could meet your standards without extensive training, which you obviously don't have time for.

[alt_severus]

I was not casting aspersions on your skill; if I were dissatisfied with your work I would have made it clear some time ago. I have not taught you the alternate methods of brewing Dreamless Sleep and Skele-Gro because we have not yet needed to brew them. My preparation of Dreamless Sleep lessens the speed at which a patient achieves physical dependency; my preparation of Skele-Gro reduces the pain involved in the regrowing of bones. As with previous variations on the standard repertoire, I will teach you both the alterations and the reasoning behind them once we arrive there.

If you are no longer satisfied with our arrangement, or the other pressures on your time are growing too difficult to juggle, I will not be offended should you choose to discontinue it or place it on hold; if you are not satisfied with the instruction I am providing, I will not be offended should you let me know what else you wish to cover.

[alt_pansy]

I want

The amount of time I have to work with is highly unpredictable and completely out of my hands.

I'll try to get through what's needed, and if there's nothing else going on this week, you might as well teach me your modifications so that I can be of greater use.

[alt_hermione]

Do you want me to perform all the tests on each sample before moving on to the next or each test on all the samples one right after the other? I mean, which order do you suspect will provide a more direct comparison?

I can start on them this afternoon. I'm helping to quiz Draco and Harry in the evenings because they just want to be solid before exams but that shouldn't interfere too much. Obviously, not at the same time because I'll have to watch the potion for changes but I mean, before we work together. And they don't need much help so maybe after a little revising I'll have time for another test or two.

[alt_severus]

I am sorry I did not respond earlier; I trust you found the instructions I left in the laboratory.

I have added P7.11 and P7.12, as well as P8.5 through P8.9. I do not think we are proceeding closer to success with the P line; none of the latest are looking promising. I will wait for your analysis to see if it coincides with my own, but it may be time to bounce back to N28.9 and iterate in a different direction.

As I told Miss Parkinson: if your other obligations keep you, I will not be upset. It is a busy time of year.