My only best friend in the whole world is a woman, Penelope Clearwater. She's everything that I always dreamed about in a friend: kind, loyal, ferociously smart, I mean, frighteningly smart, smarter than some of our teachers if you want my real opinion; and terrifically funny and good with people. She's ambitious, like me. She was Head Girl when I ( Read more... )

Quidditch! There's nothing else like it in the world! Soaring into the sky on your broom, you're free of the world, free of all responsibility and study and work, even free of who you are down there on the ground. Up there, ascending higher and higher into the sunlit sky and then speeding towards the ground only to pull up at the very last possible ( Read more... )

I don't really think about religion much. Too busy working at the Ministry for Magic, you know! I suppose I believe in God and angels and heaven and all of that. I don't believe in hell. That bit never made much sense to me. My family was never much for going to church aside from weddings and christenings and whatnot, though I confess that I do ( Read more... )

You know, my birthday isn't until August, the 22nd to be precise actually, but I suppose it's never too early to think about what I'd like to receive for my next birthday! I didn't receive any many presents this year. I'm sure that it wasn't anything personal! My family is very, very poor so presents come few and far between. I suppose I could use ( Read more... )

I am incredibly thankful that all of my hard work and dedication has been rewarded so famously. I am the youngest person ever to have been promoted to the position of Jr. Assistant to the Minster for Magic! My career has been nothing short of astonishing, if I do say so myself! Immediately upon leaving school, I went to work for Bartemius Crouch in ( Read more... )

While I am quite certain that there are many who are expecting me to say that I wish to see Harry Potter receive his long overdue comeuppance, for he is, after all, merely a talented but perfectly normal teenager and not the sole savior of the wizarding world despite the beliefs of many of our more credulous citizenry, the truth is that You Know ( Read more... )

Make way! Out of the way please. Head Boy, coming through. All of you First Years, follow me, please. And quiet down please! Honestly, danger is no excuse for being loud and disorderly. Nothing will attack you while I am here. You're perfectly safe! There, that's better. You see? You don't need Harry Potter to save you from danger. There are other ( Read more... )