Times like these are when it's the most exquisitely painful to have the Gift I longed for, so, as a girl. Be careful what you wish for; you might get it. I know it's so old an aphorism as to be completely clichéd, but it's true ( Read more... )

I see the way Professor Gardiner looks at me. She thinks I'm a charlatan because I said nothing about this to anyone. She doesn't know what I've seen or what I haven't seen ( Read more... )

The Fates are being kind to me again, in that troubling and peculiar way they have. I am quite sad and perplexed that they have chosen to so mistreat Mary Walsh, but there is little I can do but leave it in Albert's capable hands and hope it will suffice to keep him away from a confrontation I am not sure he can win ( Read more... )

So the Walsh girl is missing. Well, that's troubling. Suppose I shall have to put it on Albus' plate and see what he does with it.

I don't think I've seen planetary alignments this promising in a very long time.