Hee, I'm so glad summer holidays have started. A week before term ended, I started making a list of what I was going to do for the summer. Of course, it included the usual 'Spend more time with Mandy' and 'Write so many stories it hurts your hands', but this year it included another thing entirely! 'Invite your new friend, Zacharias Smith, over ( Read more... )

I’ve been studying (well, reviewing, actually) so much these last few weeks I practically can recite all of the fifth-year books. I'm glad I'm not a 5th year. All those OWLs would give me a heart attack. I don't know how I survived. Also, I’m glad, really, because they are fundamental to what I’m studying this year and I’m understanding so much ( Read more... )

My ears, I think, are really sensitive. That, or they have trusted the silence so much that they won't break free from it. When I'm in the library, nowadays studying, all I hear is nothing and my ears are so used to hearing such stillness. Then when I head back to the Ravenclaw dormitory, everyone talks in such quiet voices that it's rare to ( Read more... )

I don't really know what I am going to use this journal for. I've made a list of options I could write for this thing (“thing” is awfully generic, though). One of them was make this journal a book list - you know, of all the recent books I've read (since, of course, originality is a good thing, right? I don’t see anyone else doing it like I plan ( Read more... )