For the Few People Whose Opinions I Actually Do Care About

[alt_susan]

I refuse to write this over in Brown's journal because I haven't got to explain myself to her.  Well, really I haven't got to explain myself to anyone, except grownups.  But all the grownups at Hogwarts already know all about my family and my blood, I think.

It isn't a secret really, I just don't like to bring it up if I don't have to.  But anyone

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[alt_sinistra]

Miss Bones -

When I was in school - and in your house, as you might know - one of my prefects said something to me that's stuck.

She reminded me that we can't pick our families, but we can pick our friends. More than that, we have control over how we treat all the different people in our lives - family, friends, housemates, yearmates, people we like, people we can't stand.

People think about the stubborn loyalty as a Hufflepuff trait (and it is, of course) but a certain kind of tolerance should be in there too, if someone's trying hard to do the right thing the right way, as you have been doing here.

It's regrettably not something everyone understands, but in my experience, true friends - those who honestly care for us - will stick by us even when unpleasant things come out.

[alt_susan]

I didn't expe I don't k Thank you, Professor. I want to do the right things, but sometimes it's hard to know what they are.

It isn't like in books, where the hero just seems to know the right thing to do because he's the hero.

[alt_draco]

Oh god, Bones. I've got a tiny violin somewhere with your name on it.

[alt_susan]

I didn't write this for you Malfoy.

[alt_draco]

What a relief.

[alt_millicent]

i think you shud tell people when you met them.

maybe like a sign on you so people know