Order Only: Private message to Sirius Black and Remus Lupin

[alt_terry]

Did Mr Longbottom smell different to you?

Well, I mean different, aside from taking into consideration the fact he'd been battling in sea air, around fires, and then had a bunch of stinking potions poured down his throat. I dunno. Something seems off. Maybe? I can't tell if it's the low notes, what you call the signature, or the tang--what he gets from the environment and what he eats and drinks. (All those potions in other words. Phew, that nutritional replenisher Madam Pomfrey uses is rank.) Or if it's the afterbuzz, the magical harmonics.

Tell me I'm imagining things. I suppose I don't have enough experience to figure it out, but perhaps you and Remus do?

Like I said, I dunno. It's not quite full moon, which I understand is Remus' best time for figuring out scents. Or maybe with Sirius hurt so bad neither of you noticed? It's not as though you didn't have other things on your mind.

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[alt_sirius]

Sorry, Terry - I can't say I did notice. I was advised not to change into Padfoot for a few days so I never transformed while I was at Moddey. And Remus came home before Frank woke, so I don't think he'd have picked up anything.

Does it strike you as something sinister or just different?

[alt_terry]

Nothing sinister, no. Nothing Dark. And it wasn't like he smelled unfamiliar or anything.

But something was just different. Whatever it was, if it IS something, it was subtle.

Like I said, I wasn't at all sure, so I thought I'd ask. I was at his bedside--well, on his bed--for several hours, remember, as the Professor. So I suppose I got the longest whiff of him.

I dunno, maybe I'm imaging things, because we were all so worried.