Please don't fade--it's too much like forgetting. Can't we stop it?

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.I had never seen the house before. It had a feeling about it as if it were ( Read more... )

Can't sleep again.

And waiting like this isn't good for anyone.

It's cold.

Mikey!!!!!!!!

Does anyone else think it's too quiet ( Read more... )

You wouldn't think it would be that awful to be stuck in the school all the time. The fact is we're here nearly all the time anyway, and most of us managed somehow to survive the first two years without even going off to Hogsmeade. We don't really leave all that often in any case, and with exams coming up on us so quickly there's plenty to do ( Read more... )

I've come to the realisation I do not like the way things change.

I know, it's hardly a great epiphany or anything. Still, there's not really anything to be done about it.

Luna?

Painting and carpentry and the like isn 't all that awful, really. Well, I rather like painting, though it's walls and not something interesting, and pounding nails into things is actually a bit cathartic if you do it right. (Sorry about the noise, Luna.) It beats thinking too much, anyway, which as exams are nearly upon us, is unavoidable in ( Read more... )

I feel as though I've been asleep for days and am still tired. (Not true, of course, because there is evidence I did get up and go to lessons, as I have taken notes and written nearly two feet on the properties of aconite, but it doesn't feel as though I was actually conscious for any of this ( Read more... )

Oy! Fred and George! Happy birthday!

You ought to've got your present by owl this morning. DON'T LET IT NEAR HEAT, all right?