Private Message Regarding Prefect Business to Cedric Diggory

I had hoped to be able to put in some serious indexing and analysis time today on that list of punishments from Umbridge we compiled the other day, now that my full faculties have returned, but apparently it is not fated to be. The mood in Ravenclaw Common Room is, shall we say, tense, between those who are friends of Fawcett and quite worried about her, and those who are not friends of Fawcett and are being regrettably catty to the first set. Another set is those are somewhat overstimulated by all of the recent alarums and excursions. (This set overlaps with each of the aforementioned two rather considerably. Possibly entirely.) Add firsties with nightmares of being chased through the halls of Hogwarts by gigantic carnivorous dragons made of colored lights, and we have a recipe for a day which requires that I forego the comforts of statistics and analysis and instead attend to my Prefectly duties.

I trust you will understand. I shall get back to the project as soon as things have calmed down in these environs.

Merlin, it's good to be able to write again. And READ.