001; 1 August 2022

[smithami]

I am sufficiently underwhelmed. Watching a fish in its tank would be more enthralling than writing in a journal for no reason or reading other peoples' pointless writing - or ink blots in Weasley's case. Too bad my stupid father won't let me even have a fish. Maybe that's what we can do tomorrow, Chloe. We'll sneak in a fish and then take bets on

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[lowexpectation]

Why do you need permission for a fish?

[smithami]

Because I don't want my father to beat me.

[lowexpectation]

He's not going to beat you over a fish, Smith.

[smithami]

He's beaten me for less.

[rathereffable]

I say, Amity dear, old Smithy still won't let you have fish in the house? Perhaps you could ask Hannah for one -- you know how she loves giving presents to us!

[smithami]

That's a good idea, actually! He couldn't refuse a gift from her.

[rathereffable]

It would be terribly fitting too, seeing as her Patronus is supposedly a goldfish -- one never knows how much these books may be fabricating though. But Smithy wouldn't do something to the poor fish while you weren't looking and claim it to be an accident, now would he?

[smithami]

I wouldn't put it past him. And he'd certainly neglect and starve the poor thing while I'm away at school.