Re: Alastor & Severus
Alastor growled, irritably. "The tunnel is part of the structural defences of the castle, which is your domain, unless you want me to send the trainees we have here at the moment in to collapse a tunnel leading to the castle wall? I'm sure they'd only take out a third of the corridor.
"Jamie has already proven himself more than capable of keeping up with us on strategy. But, I was referring to the fact he's our people person and we have a lot of families of the deceased to notify, people to reassure, and I have a hell of a scheduling headache coming up in the next few hours. We need him and in case you haven't noticed, that's also Al's mother. Unless you're telling me you have no plans to be there for Al over the next couple days, I'm going to assume a lot of the details fall to me. So, back off, Severus."
Taking a breath, he moved on to the practicalities. "Other than Jamie's mother, I have four others confirmed dead from security. None of the enemy broke through. So all casualties so far were limited to this floor. Dozens injured to various degrees. I'm waiting on the reports from the day shift Captains for the most part. I do know one of the Night Watch Captains was amoung those killed. A lieutenant is acting Captain for the moment.
"There's one Captain missing...Potter. He hasn't checked in. I verified with the house elves they couldn't find him anywhere in the castle when the alerts went out."