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I regret to inform you that Miss Granger and I have finished testing the last of the candidate antidotes on our guests, and none of them have been successful. The only piece of fortunate news is that although our attempts were unsuccessful, they were likewise not fatal: they simply had no effect.

Miss Granger: at this point you are likely as frustrated as I. I propose we take several weeks to catch up with the workhorse brewing that has been neglected lately, and return to the task in the new year in the hopes a rest will produce a breakthrough. If you or I have that breakthrough before the schedule calls for it, we can return to our work, but I believe we are at the point where we are not seeing the forest for the trees. I will finish my bench notes by tomorrow; kindly do the same with yours by the end of the week while your observations are still fresh in your mind.

Re: Private message to Alice

Date: 2014-12-08 06:47 am (UTC)
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We're functioning with only a very small portion of the puzzle. It's like trying to solve a murder case that's a decade old with only the barest of evidence remaining at hand.

What you've been able to accomplish with so little to work from is a marvel.

Yes, we're clearly missing something. And we can start chipping away at it, especially since we didn't know it was missing until now.

It'll come. It'll take a little longer than it would otherwise, because you're working with next to no resources, and we keep interrupting your work with various fires that need putting out which can't help. But you'll get it sorted. You will. I have every faith.

The sheer amount of energy that it took to put all those people to sleep in the first place is nearly unimaginable. We're dealing with things on a massive scale, things we've never encountered before.

We're also dealing with a paranoid, secretive lot who tend to create all sorts of modifications on things that make it difficult to replicate. They want control. They want it exclusive. That suggests they set it up to use materials only they can access, but the materials have to be plentiful enough to wake a few thousand people on fairly short notice. Or that it's a truly obscure solution that only a handful of people would have knowledge of to begin with.

Re: Private message to Alice

Date: 2014-12-08 03:20 pm (UTC)
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Dedalus Diggle is there right now. Sturgis was for slightly longer than you were, and was recaptured and Kissed. I assumed they'd both died in the war, and the thought

When I learned of Sturgis, it kept me up for days.

And it is deeply unsettling that Dedalus should be there still, and that this entire time, he's been suffering as we mourn his death.

I am uncertain if we could've realistically mounted an escape at the time, but Merlin, Severus, if we'd have known there were three of our people in there

three.

When he fled, Albus left us all rudderless, without any knowledge of how to proceed. He kept key pieces of information to himself, and he abandoned us. We were left to attempt to survive as wanted fugitives, and the fact that we were able to not only survive, and it took us years to get to this point, where we have the ability to even start mounting a credible offence.

Make no mistake, I am bloody furious that Narcissa Malfoy has put us in this position, and am attempting to make the best use of it as possible. And the more I learn of Albus, the more grateful I am that he is no longer in charge.

That man.

That... that man.

Re: Private message to Alice

Date: 2014-12-08 06:59 am (UTC)
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If it's not the potion, is it the method of stasis?

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