I'm going to take the risk and leave now. Merlin knows that nobody's working a normal schedule today anyhow. I have some books on cursebreaking in my flat that may give us some leads.
Alice, ask Stephen, too. Maybe he might know something.
We Players will consult our personal texts, too. But nothing is coming immediately to mind.
Dorcas says she's afraid it may be a hex that Bellatrix designed and concocted on her own, which would be just like her. In which case we wouldn't have a clue what to do to treat it, especially since we don't have access to Sirius to run diagnostics.
Yes. We've told him about the choking on blood bit, and the timeline, and he's got a few possibilities in mind...
Draught of the Living Death for one. Apparently, depending on the dosage, it can take up to a week to finish someone off. He says he had to try and come up with an antidote to one once, but it's terribly tricky if you don't know the exact dosage to start, or how long ago it's been administered. But that slows the heart, it doesn't cause the blood to rise.
And then there's Animam Adere, it causes someone to choke to death, but he's never heard of it taking twenty-four hours to kick in.
He says no matter what it is, if it's a potion that's meant to work slowly over time, it most likely has been prepared specially to release small doses in bursts -- he says some Muggle pills are like that -- they dissolve slowly. So the sooner he gets help the better chance he has of stopping it before it builds to dangerous levels.
Decreasing acid amounts in the stomach by eating bread or drinking milk might slow it down a little and buy him some time.
From what she said, it sounds as if she's developed some new curse of her own, a slow-acting version of the killing curse perhaps. I find it hard to believe anyone could be so vicious, but if anyone could, it would be Bellatrix.
There's little chance of us developing a successful counter-curse in less than 18 hours and with no idea how the curse itself works.
I think we've managed to convince the children we were just doing another drill, but they've been bouncing off the walls all afternoon. And I've had to rock more crying babies in the last hour than I can count. Everything seems so surreal.
I just can't concentrate on anything right now other than what's happening to Sirius.
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Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 08:41 pm (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 08:43 pm (UTC)I'm going to take the risk and leave now. Merlin knows that nobody's working a normal schedule today anyhow. I have some books on cursebreaking in my flat that may give us some leads.
Alice, ask Stephen, too. Maybe he might know something.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 08:44 pm (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 08:51 pm (UTC)Dorcas says she's afraid it may be a hex that Bellatrix designed and concocted on her own, which would be just like her. In which case we wouldn't have a clue what to do to treat it, especially since we don't have access to Sirius to run diagnostics.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 08:58 pm (UTC)Draught of the Living Death for one. Apparently, depending on the dosage, it can take up to a week to finish someone off. He says he had to try and come up with an antidote to one once, but it's terribly tricky if you don't know the exact dosage to start, or how long ago it's been administered. But that slows the heart, it doesn't cause the blood to rise.
And then there's Animam Adere, it causes someone to choke to death, but he's never heard of it taking twenty-four hours to kick in.
He says no matter what it is, if it's a potion that's meant to work slowly over time, it most likely has been prepared specially to release small doses in bursts -- he says some Muggle pills are like that -- they dissolve slowly. So the sooner he gets help the better chance he has of stopping it before it builds to dangerous levels.
Decreasing acid amounts in the stomach by eating bread or drinking milk might slow it down a little and buy him some time.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 09:05 pm (UTC)There's little chance of us developing a successful counter-curse in less than 18 hours and with no idea how the curse itself works.
Alice..
Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 09:11 pm (UTC)I know.
But he took their moment of triumph and shoved it right in their faces. And he didn't tell them a bloody thing. Not one thing.
And we've had one miracle today, what's to say we won't have one more.
Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 09:17 pm (UTC)Re: Order Only
Date: 2010-06-15 11:01 pm (UTC)I think we've managed to convince the children we were just doing another drill, but they've been bouncing off the walls all afternoon. And I've had to rock more crying babies in the last hour than I can count. Everything seems so surreal.
I just can't concentrate on anything right now other than what's happening to Sirius.