I have to go down to classes today - yet - this morning I came downstairs and Harry was stretched out on a sofa and looked so peaceful.

And I knew it wasn't really so.

We have to get Sirius out of there, Ron, Harry, for everyone's sake. I don't even know what Remus is doing but it sounds dangerous.

I do think it's ridiculous that just when I brush up on my Latin, it becomes useless.

Ah well. Laudabo, laudabis, laudabit, laudabimus, laudabitis, laudabunt - Laudabo anyone who can help Ron, I suppose, since this is one thing I haven't been studing for aeons ( Read more... )

There is no such thing.

There is no such thing.

It simply isn't logical.

I wish, somehow, that I could erase every person in Hogwarts' memory of me and replace it with myself as I am now, a person fundamentally different than the first-year they met so long ago. In some cases they would still like me, I think, and in other cases more, and in other cases less, but in any case then I could convince some people of my ( Read more... )

Well, that was an interesting conversation.

I think perhaps these things are best left to fiction. There is absolutely no place for such idiocy in real life.

At least I won't feel so ridiculously guilty about writing to Viktor anymore.

In the wake of Dean's death (it's so strange to type that word, but it's true; I can't say it any other way) the entire castle seems to have come together. I don't mean in the small ways we have in the past, but in general. Padma was talking to me earlier about some things that I never thought would happen, and Ron of course is taking over the ( Read more... )

The younger students are mostly in bed or near bed now so I finally have a moment ( Read more... )

Harry, where are you? Where were you at breakfast? Why is your room locked?

Are you angry with me?

I still don't understand most of what's been going on ( Read more... )

As you may see, I labelled this entry "#2" because it's really the second proper entry I've made into my journal. Of course I've written other things elsewhere, and made small notes, but this is quite different: it's a real description of my life ( Read more... )