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Callum Quoft (Caretaker) ([info]grim_sentinel) wrote in [info]beyondthepages,
@ 2010-05-23 07:08:00

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Entry tags:!jade, 2023 10, albus dumbledore, callum quoft

RP: More Riddling Reactions
Characters: Callum Quoft, poking a Dumbledore
Time/Date: Mid-morning, October 23, 2023
Location: Outside the Dumbledore quarters.
Warnings/Rating: NA
Summary: Quoft would normally just go to the Headmaster, but he feels he needs to share his concerns with everyone possible.
Status: Ongoing

Quoft had not sat idly by twiddling his thumbs and commenting on the weather when the returned dead had first been placed back in the school. He didn't like the idea, he thought it would lead to trouble, and he had been right. They'd put the Death Eater kid back in Slytherin pretty as one would please without nary a thought to what sort of precedents they might be setting.

He'd made a fuss. It was his job. He took "caretaker" to extremes when the need was there and thought himself more of a sentinel.

Quoft had been assured that precautions were in place, that the boy had changed/would change/was never that bad to begin with and had aided in Voldemort's downfall.

Fine. They were all batshit insane, but Quoft could deal with a young Death Eater as well as any other professor could if the time came.

But this? This.

Quoft was ready to raise Hell and brimstone and all be damned who stood in his way.

Which led him to where the Dumbledores were staying.

Quoft's expression twitched as he attempted to begin this meeting with something less than a scowl. If anything, the scowl only deepened.

Giving up on that, Quoft stood a little straighter and knocked thrice on the portrait.

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[info]dumbleydore
2010-05-24 07:22 am UTC (link)
"Hmmm, I have seen them," Albus said as he sipped his tea, his thought turning over a mile a minute in his mind. Quoft had a point, more than a point really. For a moment a sense of frustration flowed through him. He had a sense... no, a certainty that he should know these people stirring up trouble, know them well and know how to counter them. Right now all he could base his actions on is what was written in the books and newspapers and he was sure that at least some of the story was missing.

It occurred to him that what he really needed to do was have a very long conversation with one Severus Snape. According to his reading, he might well find many of his answers with that man. But that didn't help him right now in trying to assuage the concerns of the Hogwarts caretaker. Not to mention his own concerns.

"I can and will confine him to the castle for now just as I can and will intercept his mail, both in and out," he said firmly. "He will not be able to communicate with the Death Eaters and they will not be able to communicate with him. That is not a solution but it will buy me some time to put other measures in place."

He wondered if he could get away with actually placing some sort of monitoring charm on the boy then decided that he might do so anyway though he'd have to be subtle given the boy's ability, which he knew well. He wanted to know where Tom Riddle was at any time of the day.

"Is the girls' bathroom on the second floor still in use? The one poor Myrtle haunts?" Now that was something Filius had told him about and thankful for it he was. It answered many questions he'd had about events during that dreadful year but for now it was something he needed to keep an eye on. He would have to pay a visit to Myrtle. A dreary, miserable girl if ever there was one but she did not deserve what was done to her.

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[info]grim_sentinel
2010-05-24 08:33 am UTC (link)
"It's flooded more often than not," Callum warned. "But it's still as in use as it can be."

He'd had a few attempts at making the bathroom more usable. It had worked about as well as reasoning with Peeves. Peeves, at least, he could hurl spells at without anyone turning too cross an eye on him.

"What sort of measures are you considering? If it's anything I can lend a hand at..." Callum took a sip of his tea, allowing his words to trail off.

He'd be willing to help with anything. Even, putting the boy down if worse came to worse. Though he didn't expect even for a second that anyone would condone that plan.

Which was why he was here, wasn't it? If Callum had his way, he'd corner the boy the first chance he got and do away with him. There were too many dark memories about his family influencing any actions to do anything on his own.

He would have to settle for helping the likes of Dumbledore whenever he could.

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[info]dumbleydore
2010-05-25 03:24 am UTC (link)
Albus nodded as he considered the best of handling this. If they simply closed the bathroom off then the message would be simple yet blunt... and might well prompt Tom to find an alternate way in. Albus wasn't so foolish as to think there wasn't a second way into the Chamber. It had been created by Salazar Slytherin after all. Not a man who would ignore the need for a back door.

"I am not certain how widely the information has been disseminated but that bathroom contains the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets," he explained. "Unfortunately, it requires being a Parselmouth in order to enter, the roster of which currently stands at Tom Riddle and Harry Potter. If Tom gets in there, there is nothing I or anyone else here can do to prise him out. So... I would rather he not enter in the first place."

He looked over at Quoft. "Do you believe Myrtle would be helpful if Tom were to make the attempt or has she become difficult over the years?" He paused and sighed. "More difficult."

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[info]grim_sentinel
2010-05-27 09:28 am UTC (link)
Callum's scowl was going to become a permanent feature if he wasn't careful. Chamber of Secrets? A place only Riddle and Harry Potter could get into? It wasn't what he wanted to hear when he'd made his way through the castle to call on Dumbledore.

"Myrtle's swayed by sweet talk and one off-coloured comment sends her wailing into the first bend in the loo she can find," Callum replied, scratching the side of his face. "We could get the ghosts to patrol. Can they get inside the chamber, you think?"

The ghosts often didn't have cause to go outside of their normal haunts, but as long as it was technically inside the castle, Callum didn't see why they couldn't float through the floor and give it a look to make sure the Riddle boy wasn't slithering about.

"Some of them'd be a touch tougher to charm than a professor or a prefect on duty."

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