Private Message to Evelyn

[alt_linus]

I hope it is not an imposition upon your schedule, but I shall be making forays into the realm of predictive Arithmancy this afternoon, and Professor Siz suggested before she left that you are among the most competent of those who might verify my maths, that being a matter of prudence at the moment. The problem upon which my energies will be bent is the possible pattern of resolution for the heightened and unpredictable magical energy flows following the recent Octoboros ward transfer work.

I will be running Scansell's sheaf analysis, Wrdjeman's patterning application, and Kantorowich's Least Worst regressions. At a minimum, really. One wishes to dig into something, and this is timely and pertinent and really ought to have the full attention of several of us right now.

Might you be available to receive parchments by house elf as they are completed?

Comments

[alt_evelyn]

Oh, yes, please. I've got a rather satisfying stack of portkey adjustments to chew over, and it'll be lovely to shift gears now and again for pattern analysis.

It would be a kindness. Truly.

Thank you, Linus.

[alt_linus]

Pardon. I was distracted for a bit. I've finished Wrdjeman's. It seems to indicate that either the subsidence to normal background magical energy levels should take approximately four months at which point we'll be facing a short-term under-supply of magic in the leys and other foci, including artificial foci such as Octoboros stones...

... or everything should be fine in about twenty days with no after-effects other than the odd light show now and then when certain spells are used near the stones....

... or we ought to be on the look-out for rains of small stones from a clear blue sky and the birth of improbable fauna. Honestly, I cannot make head or tail of it. I'll send it over with the elf. Surely I have bolluxed up something there?