Well, the seas are still tempestuous, but there are places worth voyaging to, though one must brave reefs and rocks to reach them it seems. I am speaking of Scarlett, of course ( Read more... )

I have only been off P. for two days and already my dreams are unbearable. Granted, this may have nothing to do with the potion and everything to do with my accumulated lack of sleep, meaning that the moment I do sleep, my starved subconscious ambushes me and attacks. And given the content of some, I still worry that Andromeda's affliction has ( Read more... )

Well, I have the portrait of Severus Snape that I commissioned, and in the three short days he has been here, it has been equal parts blessing and curse ( Read more... )

I am a fool. This is not news, but the fact is sometimes driven home anew ( Read more... )

It has been not the worst week ever, but well, perhaps I am no judge of such things ( Read more... )

No progress with Andromeda. I could not bring myself to stay in her nightmare more than a few seconds ( Read more... )

The good news is that I believe I am not cursed. Though there was a day and a night when I feared I might be ( Read more... )

I believe I am ready to try to Legilimise Andromeda. My latest visit we were both lucid, incredible, no? I think it is Harry's doing and I wonder if he would be pleased to know it. First, the return of my original wand has been a boon in the lab--yes, I wrote boon, not boom, though I suspect that was the cause of the explosion. I am unaccustomed to ( Read more... )

I've just awoken from a dream in which I was asleep. Is that odd, that I was asleep in the dream, and then woke up--and then woke up in real life? Perhaps it is an indication of how truly exhausted I was ( Read more... )

I stayed out of the lab AND the library for 24 whole hours and I suppose it would shock no one but my narrow-minded ego that I look and feel better as a result. I had a pleasant but unrevealing visit with Andromeda, in which we were both perhaps as clear-minded as we've been ( Read more... )