21 July 1982
It went alright. Everyone knows now. No one knows how it actually happened outside the Flints and us and it's going to stay that way. I guess the Minister could have pardoned us anyway. There's always that option, and while I hate that it's a huge BLOODY LIE AND ALL IT TAKES IS ONE SLIP FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW that's what it is. I'm not ashamed of it, I would go to Azkaban for it. We helped someone live in a world where once people disappeared we were 99% sure they were dead. We lost too many good people and Magnus Flint is a good person and we helped him live. I wish we could have done it for more people, we lost Benjy when we were RIGHT THERE and I guess that's pretty much how the entire war went. We were always RIGHT THERE and then we lost them.
We saved a couple of people. Aingeal saved Palmer Pinkstone's life. Benjy saved Leigh Pinkstone's life. Autumn Lathrop saved Aggie Flint's life. But those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head and we lost so many more. I won't complain, because those people are still up and walking around but I'm still frustrated that we couldn't do more.
I just can't believe how many people are willing to believe Imperius. I believe that Jacob Mulciber had all those people under Imperius. But Martin Avery who was THERE the night the Brion McKinnon was murdered. Crabbe and Goyle, I don't believe. They're bloody idiots. I don't think it was Imperius so much as someone told them what to do and they did it. Last I checked, that wasn't Imperius. No wonder Aingeal is frustrated. I AM FRUSTRATED.
And that's just work because then there's everything else.
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I've never been good at talking to my family and it's just gotten worse. I had to ask Drem and Bill if Caerphilly was a good team or not because I don't follow Quidditch. Lisa's been off since our mother died and I guess I should stop making excuses for not trying. ALASTOR GUMBOIL who is nearly as our as our mum would be knows my sister better than I do, so I reckon I should try harder, but Lisa isn't an easy person to get to know and we're awfully good at rowing with one another and turning everything into a huge bloody mess. But my parents are dead and I was put in charge of my siblings which was probably the worst bloody decision anyone has ever made, but there's nothing to be done about it and at least I'm here to make sure that they don't fall off a bloody cliff or something. But I should probably start following Quidditch and stop giving Lisa shit for having someone who actually seems to care about her and what she does every day because that just exacerbates every bloody thing. So I'll go see if I can get some tickets, I mean Gretchen's Welsh she should like Caerphilly.
Michael, I don't know. I really just don't. He's as defensive as the rest of us and maybe we should give him less of a hard time but he can be so stubborn and difficult, well I guess that doesn't make him that much different from the rest of us sometimes. We're all that way. We can't help it.
And Lawrence is home for hols. I don't think he likes being in the house very much, but this summer he's forced to spend time with Heidi and he has his Lathrop mate over. I don't know how to make things better for him, I wish I did. I guess I could ask but I reckon like with Lisa and Michael that would lead to loads of shouting and him not believing that I actually do want to make things better. I think all this proves that I would be a terrible ruddy father and I don't know why Gretchen would ever want to have my children because all I do is make huge bloody messes of every relationship I've ever had with people that are related to me except my parents.
I guess things with Gretchen are alright. We don't row, we're both busy people. Maybe we should try to be less busy to spend more time with each other. I don't know, this is not my strong point. At least Aingeal isn't any better from what I can tell.
Everything's such a bloody mess. Still.
But the war is over but we don't have enough fucking Death Eaters behind bars.
Congratulations to
- Drem and Autumn for getting engaged (again)
- Lisa for making first string Caerphilly
- Drem for making the Wanderers but choosing to spend his time with us until training begins
- Lawrence for making English U-21 don't spend too much time with Bex Whit
- Magnus Flint for not being dead
I think that's it but if you've done something stellar congratulations to you as well.
Aggie, don't get too much sun in Japan.