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[alt_hermione]

With everyone so worried about Ginny (me included), I thought we could use some good news. We woke up over fifty Sleepers yesterday.

It was slower going than I anticipated because, well, mainly because they're very disorientated and we didn't want to move on to the next patients until the Healers had checked everyone and the helpers had had a chance to really help them. I think we'll be modifying that in future to have more Calming Draught available, and in some cases, give them a (regular) sleeping potion so that the helpers can circle back to them later, so we don't hold things up too much.

Three patients also had an adverse reaction on waking, but the Healers were on standby and they were able to put them right fairly easily. My notes don't suggest it was an allergy to the Potion, necessarily, although I suppose at this stage, that can't be ruled out. Two of the cases were of cardiac infarction and Healer Patil thinks the third probably had medical problems before she went into stasis, and she had a stroke. He thinks she'll recover in time.

That said, there was a minor side effect observed in about 5% of those we awakened. They complained of feeling bloat, or gastric distress, and several shortly thereafter suffered diarrhoea. (Which considering they weren't necessarily able to get to a bathroom was--well, it wasn't pleasant. Luckily that didn't happen to many of them, but if this is a realistic sample and it is a side effect, we'll need more bedpans when we wake the rest.) It's not clear whether it's really the potion or an effect of how long they were in stasis compared to their last meal before sleeping, or other constitutional considerations. Nonetheless, we'll be collecting notes on similar cases in the event that the potion will need to be modified further. (I hope not, since we've already made up over a thousand doses at this point, but we've many more thousands to go, too.)

I'd really hoped to move a little more quickly through the stasis population but at least this way we'll have plenty of production completed before we need it--the only thing is that at this pace, it'll take about six years to wake everyone. So we either need to assign more people to help or tell relatives they'll be on the waiting list for some time to come.

Anyway. I know it's not much compared to Ginny being in the hands of Bellatrix and Dolohov, but it's a small move toward restoration.

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[alt_hermione]

I completely forgot until this morning that yesterday was Hydra's birthday! Did you remember, or were you too distracted by the Weasleys' situation?

I wonder if we should organise a little something tonight. Cake or whatever the house-elves can throw together.

[alt_draco]

Well done, you.

He would be proud

[alt_sally_anne]

That's brilliant. There are all sorts of tonics for gastric distress, maybe we could just give everyone a bit of that once they wake up?

I think the more people we can wake up, the more helpers we'll have, right? In theory, at least.

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[alt_draco]

Oh, and Rachel likes the sound of Russell Faust, so if Alice approves, I'll probably approach him tomorrow - which works out perfectly since it's his day off.

[alt_molly]

It's a wonderful achievement.

I wish so much that Arthur could have seen this day. He would be so incredibly proud of you, Hermione, and so glad that his faith in you has been repaid thousandsfold.

I have been speaking with someone that Davidson connected me with, who has been at the Abingdon camp in Oxfordshure. Her name is Jen Arachne, a muggle, and she was a university research librarian at Oxford before the Protectorate. She is going to help me with organising the information we need to connect all the Sleepers with their families.

[alt_frank]

that's brilliant, hermione.

the helpers we tracked down working out so far?