( FAILED private to self. )

I really don't know what to say about what happened to Minister Shacklebolt, except that this must be awful for everyone and his family especially, but that doesn't really seem to capture how serious and sad this whole thing is, does it? And Dad says that Mum's really worried about us right now, and of course she's hearing all sorts of awful ( Read more... )

I don't know who else reads the Daily Prophet, and I often forget myself unless I have tea with Dad and he gives me his copy to take back to the Hufflepuff dormitory because it's good to keep up with these sorts of things, but did anyone else read that article about the conference in Berlin? I admit that I don't know a lot about politics, but would ( Read more... )

I was going to do one of those fancy privacy charms so that the Slytherins can't read this, but I still don't know how to do it even though I've asked around and even went to Dad to see if he could help and --

Is anyone else interested in playing a game called 'rugby'? Apparently, it's a Muggle sport, so I guess it makes sense to write about in a ( Read more... )

Was there really a fire? Who started it? Was it really a dragon? Someone said it was a dragon, but I thought you were only allowed to bring a cat, rat, or toad as a pet? Whose dragon was it? Was it really Corrie's? Or was it actually a first-year? Someone said it was a first-year. Do you think he's all right? How do you think a first-year could ( Read more... )

I still don't understand what's going on with those lists that have been going around all over the journals and where everyone has some sort of number that I guess involved a lot of hard Arithmancy I wouldn't understand anyway, but I guess I'm supposed to join in, and I don't really want to do a list because everyone is a good person in their own ( Read more... )

Hello, everyone! I think I was supposed to have starting writing in this for Muggle Studies awhile ago, but I completely forgot I had one. I guess it's a really good thing that Mum had me clean up my room on Friday so I could finally start packing up for school and I found this under my bed! Well, I guess it was under my bed, some dirty socks I ( Read more... )

( Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. )