Tally

X - IIIII III
O - III

full reversal does not work second time. messy interesting.
partial hex responds to full reversal 1/4 times

Need more goats

Svuotare: to bleed, to drain dry.
I'm on my way back to Thorne. We'll need Valerius' books.

And a few sacrificial goats.

Dear Maria,

Forgive me for interrupting your Christmas celebrations whereever it is you're having them but I have a curse-breaking problem that needs a speaker of Italian. It's very urgent. Could you let me know if you know of any words related to exsanguination that begin with either su or sv? Better still, could you meet me and help me look ( Read more... )

He looks inches away from death, although I'm led to understand that the healing process worked a little better this time. I went to Thorne's infirmary to see if there was any help I could offer - I'm a curse-breaker...he's cursed. And though I'm no Healer, I've broken a lot of partially-cast curses in my time ( Read more... )

Ref: This thread.

Postal Wards Failure.The wards set around the post portals were as tight as thaumically possible, but it's my belief that whoever attacked them must have done so by breaking them down very gradually ( Read more... )

Private.Feels like the last week's gone in a blur. I'm still reeling over the evacuation. Poor form there, Bill. You let them get you again. Then there was Remus' experiment. Merlin... I can't quite put into words how it made me feel. All words that Remus would probably hate. Revulsion. Fear. Pity. Shades of childhood tales and warnings from your ( Read more... )

Private.Padma Patil's cursebreaking sessions seem to be going very well. She appears to have picked up on her enthusiasm for it - I was a bit worried at first...cursebreaking isn't something you go into half-heartedly and she looked, not reluctant, but a bit preoccupied, I suppose ( Read more... )

Hell, it looks like we might just have a Quidditch staff team after all! Never thought it would actually get together. More stuff to take me away from those precious meetings with Maria ( Read more... )

I was arsing about on the investigating the capabilities of these machines and I discovered a feature called "Instinct Messaging".
Have any of you used it, and if so, is the security satisfactory?

BW

I've hardly touched the compewters for weeks. What with more warding work than you can shake a pair of wands at, I've also been working on some kind of encryption codes, for communications in case something goes wrong with wards on owled post. It's basically Thrustle's Obskoor Twenty with some added squiggles sigils, written backwards and the ( Read more... )