Best Christmas in years! The good news made everybody even happier than usual, and I think the houses were warmer and the laughter was better and the tree was taller and the eggnog was better than ever ever before. Alice didn't get any rum in her eggnog, so she had to watch all the rest of us being mad fools with the crackers and all, but she got ( Read more... )

We're having a baby! We're having our first baby! I know I'm probably not supposed to go on about it since it's early days yet and who knows, but I don't care, I can't help it.

(Mum, I kind of hope it's a girl but ONLY because Neville Longbottom is a bit of a terrible thing to do to a little baby and you know it.)

Seeing G and F just reminded me how badly I would love to start having babies.

I'm fairly sure I'm being followed almost all the time now. Who knows if it's just my nerves on edge or the truth; it doesn't much matter. I hardly go out from home now; if I go out, it's from work or not at all, and I take the Floo whenever it's an option. I must finally be taking Alastor's "constant vigilance" to heart. I still don't know if ( Read more... )

It's all getting to me. I'm not the man I was when I started this job, and I don't know if it's for the better or not. I don't laugh like I used to, and I don't go to the pub as much because I know sometimes when I start drinking I don't stop, and I can't ever tell if today's going to be one of those days. I'm turning jumpy and suspicious of ( Read more... )

I wish I had more to report at the moment, but it just feels I'm running in place-- working very hard and getting absolutely nowhere to show for it. Not just me, but the whole Ministry. I don't even want to turn on the WWN-- and if I, an Auror, don't want to, what must everybody else be thinking about it ( Read more... )

I visited Azkaban today, for the first time and I hope the last. Alastor tried to warn me, but there's no way to prepare yourself for that place. No matter how you think it's going to be, it's... the coldest, hardest place I've ever seen. If any light makes it through the clouds, it reflects back off the sea into something grey and watery. I'd ( Read more... )

The trackers are ready. We want to test them before we try placing them on the Death Eaters-- Kingsley, Moody suggested a few of our colleagues just to make it interesting? How about you try one on Savage?

The only thing that's clear to me right now is that we have to focus on finding Voldemort. He moves around, I guess, and of course he hides well. But he's it. Without him, the whole thing falls apart-- there's no other leader. The rich boys don't have the vision to take over, Bellatrix Lestrange has that but she's insane, and the only one I'd ( Read more... )

I'm almost sorry those people who tried to bust into the Ministry the other night couldn't get in, but I can't think what they'd have done if they had. Some of them were talking about forcing the Ministry to shelter them-- in the actual building. Better they don't know it's no safer inside these walls than outside. Even less so if you head down ( Read more... )