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I'm hellaciously behind on updating everyone on this. Sorry, folks, things got unexpectedly busy.
Tonks and I were planning on picking up Seth Hughes at Porlock on Saturday, but Alice remembered that Porlock had one of the contacts Sam Fawcett gave us: Roger Harris, a Muggle healer of sorts. So, we stopped in to seeHealer Dr Harris first, while we were there, since we hadn't spoken with him except through the occasional button update since that first contact a while back.
Turns out that while life at Porlock has been a bit rough -- the camp admin there is part of one of the militias and can get a little zealous sometimes -- Dr Harris has been thinking a lot lately about what he can do to help, and he had a proposal for us. He said he's been doing what he can to treat the Muggles in camp, but he's not allowed to do much and he's taught several apprentices the things that he is allowed to do by now. So, since he was trained to heal heavy damage (he said something about "working A and E" like I should know what that meant, but I didn't have the time to ask) and Clavey the camp admin isn't letting him do any of it for the people who get hurt at the camp, he asked if we knew of any camp where he'd be allowed to practise that we could try to get him transferred to, or whether we could use his skills if we got him out of the camp.
(We offered to just try to get him out of the camp, but he didn't want to leave unless we could give him something to do once he did. He reminded me of you a little bit, Poppy, with how adamant he was that he wasn't going to stop Healing, he just wanted to practise his speciality.)
Well, since Alice and I had just been talking about what would happen once we moved into outright fighting stage, and I thought that somebody used to healing heavy physical damage might be helpful even if he can't do much about curse damage and the like, we told Dr Harris we'd go talk to our leader and see what we could do. Alice liked the idea, but thought Moddey wouldn't be a good place for Dr Harris to set up, since if we had heavily injured people who didn't know the secret, we'd have to let them in on it in order for them to get treated. So, Alice suggested Bedford or Aldrich, whichever of them would agree to having people occasionally drop in in the future if there's an emergency.
So, I went round to Aldrich and Bedford to do some convincing, and the folks at Aldrich agreed to let Dr Harris set up a clinic there. He'll be providing medical care for them and the people at Bedford, and also setting up what he called a "trauma ward", ready to receive any patients who can be healed the Muggle way. He also volunteered to do an hour or two a week on the radio, giving people instructions on how to provide emergency medical care and the like.
After all that running around and convincing, and with a bit of help from Bill on Sunday in figuring out the best way to get Dr Harris and Seth Hughes out of Porlock with no one the wiser, we got the paperwork set up and I went back this morning. So, as of lunchtime, Dr Harris is at Aldrich, and Seth Hughes has joined the ranks at Moddey.
(Alice, I swear I didn't do anything to scare the poor thing. He started crying the minute his mum handed him over to me and nothing I did could get him to stop. I was this close to taking his mum as well -- it's just her; Seth's father was killed in some kind of accident a few months ago -- but the paperwork was only for Seth and Dr Harris. She didn't take much convincing to let me take Seth, said she'd rather he grow up safe and sound and somewhere he was less likely to get hurt just out of nowhere, but the look in her eye was just awful. If it's at all possible, we should get her out as well.)
Tonks and I were planning on picking up Seth Hughes at Porlock on Saturday, but Alice remembered that Porlock had one of the contacts Sam Fawcett gave us: Roger Harris, a Muggle healer of sorts. So, we stopped in to see
Turns out that while life at Porlock has been a bit rough -- the camp admin there is part of one of the militias and can get a little zealous sometimes -- Dr Harris has been thinking a lot lately about what he can do to help, and he had a proposal for us. He said he's been doing what he can to treat the Muggles in camp, but he's not allowed to do much and he's taught several apprentices the things that he is allowed to do by now. So, since he was trained to heal heavy damage (he said something about "working A and E" like I should know what that meant, but I didn't have the time to ask) and Clavey the camp admin isn't letting him do any of it for the people who get hurt at the camp, he asked if we knew of any camp where he'd be allowed to practise that we could try to get him transferred to, or whether we could use his skills if we got him out of the camp.
(We offered to just try to get him out of the camp, but he didn't want to leave unless we could give him something to do once he did. He reminded me of you a little bit, Poppy, with how adamant he was that he wasn't going to stop Healing, he just wanted to practise his speciality.)
Well, since Alice and I had just been talking about what would happen once we moved into outright fighting stage, and I thought that somebody used to healing heavy physical damage might be helpful even if he can't do much about curse damage and the like, we told Dr Harris we'd go talk to our leader and see what we could do. Alice liked the idea, but thought Moddey wouldn't be a good place for Dr Harris to set up, since if we had heavily injured people who didn't know the secret, we'd have to let them in on it in order for them to get treated. So, Alice suggested Bedford or Aldrich, whichever of them would agree to having people occasionally drop in in the future if there's an emergency.
So, I went round to Aldrich and Bedford to do some convincing, and the folks at Aldrich agreed to let Dr Harris set up a clinic there. He'll be providing medical care for them and the people at Bedford, and also setting up what he called a "trauma ward", ready to receive any patients who can be healed the Muggle way. He also volunteered to do an hour or two a week on the radio, giving people instructions on how to provide emergency medical care and the like.
After all that running around and convincing, and with a bit of help from Bill on Sunday in figuring out the best way to get Dr Harris and Seth Hughes out of Porlock with no one the wiser, we got the paperwork set up and I went back this morning. So, as of lunchtime, Dr Harris is at Aldrich, and Seth Hughes has joined the ranks at Moddey.
(Alice, I swear I didn't do anything to scare the poor thing. He started crying the minute his mum handed him over to me and nothing I did could get him to stop. I was this close to taking his mum as well -- it's just her; Seth's father was killed in some kind of accident a few months ago -- but the paperwork was only for Seth and Dr Harris. She didn't take much convincing to let me take Seth, said she'd rather he grow up safe and sound and somewhere he was less likely to get hurt just out of nowhere, but the look in her eye was just awful. If it's at all possible, we should get her out as well.)