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How many nights in a row is it okay to take Dreamless Sleep?

We have a different Healer every day and they're all really generous with the sleeping potions. I've been trying not to take it but last night I dreamed I was back in Ollerton and one of the prisoners was Charlie Weasley. (I think it was Charlie rather than anyone else because of course I've been thinking about Adam and Nicole. Isn't it funny that Ron got a nephew and I got a sister on the same day? ~~Anyway in the dream I wanted to try to take a message from Charlie back to Tonks only he couldn't~~ It was a really awful dream.)

I don't know if Ron and Justin and Hydra have been asking for it. I do know Padma left with a week's worth the other night, though.

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alt_poppy

Ah, my dear.

You know that the answer to that question is not the one you wish. You should not take it more than two nights in a row, nor more than three nights in seven, nor more than six in thirty.

It is not only habit forming, but inclines one to waking hallucinations. Waking dreams.

Are the Healers offering you no alternatives? If not, then I'm afraid I must counsel you to face down your nighttime dreams, perhaps with the help of Professor Dolohov's meditation techniques. This circumstance is one in which those skills may prove their use.

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alt_sally_anne

Last night's Healer suggested firewhiskey instead. I think that was a joke, though. Sort of.

Anyway. I know you're right. I'll try meditating, that's a good idea.

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alt_poppy

I've only just had a thought.

I could, perhaps, send you one of the easing draughts via Mr Malfoy's colocation boxes. If you wish, I could make the trip to Hogsmeade tonight.

Do you have access to the paired box?

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alt_sally_anne

Oh, yeah, it's in the secret room. I could go up there. Can you send enough for the others, too? I know Ron has been having trouble sleeping. He hasn't been taking potions at all but he might use this, maybe?

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alt_poppy

Yes.

Is there anything else you're needing?

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alt_sally_anne

We're out of all sorts of things in the Hospital Wing, but if I suddenly have a supply that would be extremely suspicious, so people will just have to get by without until St Mungo's sends more.

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alt_poppy

A wise thought.

I do happen to have a generous stock of medicinal chocolate on hand, however, that I will include for you. That you can pretend Miss Parkinson has ordered in, perhaps.

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alt_sally_anne

Oh, yes. THAT won't be suspicious in the least.

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alt_sally_anne

Sleep-Easy's out everywhere, I think there was a shortage all over the Protectorate that started -- you know, I think it was probably after the Triumph. So St Mungo's has someone brewing it, but I think there's something off with some of the ingredients because I did try it one night and I felt horribly sick to my stomach the next morning, and other people have complained about the same thing.

Mind's Ease is a little easier to get, but that just means they're getting SOME in that's not complete rubbish. And, they don't have very much, and I've been telling our rotating Healers that they need to just set it all aside for the students with severe anxiety. I gave them a list of names of people who should get it -- it's those two firsties in Gryffindor plus some OWL students. They don't actually need it every day but when they DO need it, it really has to be there. And they've needed it a lot this past week, anyway!

They have Rest Easy on the shelf but it doesn't work very well for me, I don't know why. (And they're out of that too most nights, anyway.)

There's loads of Dreamless Sleep because that one's easier to brew. I've been trying to track who's taking it, but they gave Padma Patil an entire week's worth the other evening. I know Ron's not using it and I don't think Hydra or Justin is, either.

Anyway, if you have Sleep Easy or Mind's Ease or even just Small Mercies (which no one from St M's has ever heard of -- I thought about trying to brew it myself but I haven't had time. You know, I should ask Pansy to make it this weekend, she could do it, she just needs the instructions. Unless it calls for anything unusual but it's just native herbs, isn't it?)