So very desolate.

[cleverlyanthony]

Where has everyone gone? The library - a place where everyone should be crowding by the dozens and even hundreds - is horrifically empty. Lately, I feel as though I have stumbled through an abandoned mausoleum, where the dust of our wizard forefathers has settled unattractively onto the great tomes from which we enrich our great, expansive minds.

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[no_opinion]

Anthony, even I don't visit the library on my birthday. Of course you wouldn't have seen me there yesterday, even if I hadn't been on a raft in the Great Lake for a large portion of the day.

I do have some concern for our NEWTs, but I also trust that I will do as well as I can with the amount of effort I put in. Thus, spending much of my time reading and revising will reap high marks. I expect straight Os.

I will join you, though, and I'll bring Spells for the Spellbound with me! It's lovely and you're a lovely person for being so thoughtful with your gift. Thank you, Anthony!

[cleverlyanthony]

Well, I did not just mean the past couple of days, I meant for at least the past few weeks, Padma. Maybe even the entire school year, actually! It's appalling how much people are refusing to worry about up-coming exams and even their homework assignments. Ah yes, the lake - how is Potter, anyway?

Oh, that is wonderful news to hear! I believe that someone who doesn't strive for the best will curse themselves with abysmal grades, and it has been proven in the latest edition of Prolific Prefects Who Gained Power.

I'm glad you will, and I think we should get the study-groups reformed around the Ravenclaw quarters, don't you think? If only everyone wasn't hovering around the sandwich bars constantly.

You are very welcome, Padma. Why wouldn't I get a present for a friend?

[no_opinion]

It has been quite empty of late. But this is, alas, nothing new. I'm not sure I care for the Prefects series, but it does have some good advice.

Why don't we wrap up the study sessions with specials at the Sandwich Bar? Say, request in advance that the House Elves prepare some menu items not normally found there. It would provide some incentive to those who really need the revising-- the ones who are doing well enough don't need a sandwich bribe. If they haven't shown any improvement within the session, they may not participate in the specials, which means they can't just show up and do no work.

Oh, Potter is no longer with us.

By the way, I commend you on your most excellent choice of journal colour scheme! CLAW PRIDE!

[cleverlyanthony]

It is a good leisurely read, I admit that, so if you are interested, do let me know. I am always willing to lend reading materials to my fellow student. Assuming they actually do read it, of course.

That is a brilliant idea! Though I do hope their minds linger more on the studying at hand and not their snacks or else it would have been for nothing. You should initiate this, and we should get the younger years involved. What do you say?

What has happened to him??

Why, thank you. I thought it would be doing the great Rowena proud.

[grrgoyle]

Psst, Anthony! I tried to predict the essay question to the next Ancient Ruins exam with my tarot cards and I got this:

[cleverlyanthony]

Ignoring the morbidity of your statement, aren't tarot cards more for Divination and figuring out fortunes and such, not what is going to be on our exam, even though the professor told us weeks before?

[no_opinion]

Besides, that one does not represent Death Eaters at all. Yes, it is "Death," but "Death" in the sense of an end of things and a passage into a new area of life. I've heard enough of Parvati's readings to know that much.

Can you believe he wrote Ancient Ruins?

[lookscomefirst]

See sister! Goyle and I have so much in common.