For the first time in my life, I rather wish I was taking N.E.W.T.-level Potions. Not that taking the regular seventh-year potions course isn't absolutely fascinating; I simply can hardly imagine the sort of thing Flamel must be teaching at the N.E.W.T. level. Both Sirius and James are taking that class; Sirius assures me that I'm probably not ( Read more... )

I'm really getting to love this play. Remus dragged along a great lot of his study group last night -- he said there were a disappointing number of Slytherins in attendance, but I didn't see anything disappointing about it -- and I guess some of them brought their friends, because some of my Hufflepuff fan club turned up too. When Hugh saw them he ( Read more... )

I guess I'm not too surprised everyone reacted so strongly when me and James and Peter and Hugh all went off after Mittelman, but I'd think by now they'd realize that this is the sort of thing we do for friends. I'm really not good at self-analyzing, but I think standing up for my friends all the time, even when they'd rather I'd not, is sort of my ( Read more... )

Really, this school is full of so much drama it's a wonder we're even considering the idea of livening it up with a Shakespeare play ( Read more... )

Ugh ( Read more... )

Oy. Glad today's over with ( Read more... )

Well, for a first rehersal, I think things went rather well. Of course, I use the word 'rehersal' in the loosest of terms.

As far as I can tell, Minda's Oberon and Sirius's Puck shall be one of the best things about this production; the way I've always read Dream, Puck takes his greatest delight from taunting everyone, up to and including Oberon, ( Read more... )

Well now, everyone's back at school, and just in time for James and I to catch the end of lunch, too ( Read more... )

That was certainly quite a way to begin the weekend ( Read more... )

I've seen this floating around, and while I'm not really in the habit of filling this sort of thing out, I felt it rather appropriate. So I present a number of answers to questions that sum up this year.

( All of it nicely folded away and not taking up too much space )