Molly Carmichael will feed your Barbosa fetish

Yes, I'm still alive. Unluckily for some of you.

To the purists and IS-types and other cunts, I'd just like to know where are you now? It's good to see that you don't even have the balls to soapbox your vaunted beliefs unless you have the upper hand. Which is probably why we won and you didn't.

I probably took the wand off one of your daddies earlier. And while we're hear, fuck you for this year, and my scars, and my friends' parents, and my friends' deaths, and Elisabeth's sodding hand. Zabini, I hear you're personally responsible for that one. You're the least of the scores I have to settle.

And Pucey and Murphy? You fucking twats are so dumb that there's no way you're getting back into Ravenclaw next year. In fact, you'll probably be declared Squibs.

Finally, Turpin the Elder? Lisa. We're cool.

[Private to Elisabeth and Chase]

If Nathan and Yue aren't coming back next year, then I'm definitely not.

And Elisabeth, you should consider that being Goyle's cousin might not protect you so much when he's not around anymore.

[Private to Nathan, Yue and Cal]

When all this is over, we're renting a cottage in the Isle of Wight together. And inviting all the cool kids around.

[end private]

[Private to Terry, Anthony and Morag]

Michael's in trouble.

[end private]

[Private to Ravenclaw Six]

Oh, I hope that my parents get killed so that I can be tortured when I come back to school too. What a bunch of sick little fucks to get off on that. I'm so disgusted that I share a house with two of them.

I'm sorry. A few days on and all I have for you is sarcasm.

[Private to Nathan]

How's your Patronus looking? I was getting close to it (at least, I could clearly discern something that looked like a dolphin's tail, and it was large) until Yue had that detention. Fuck. It's hard to even write that he could tortured.

[end private]

( Private to Nathan, Yue, Cal, Michael, Demelza and Leah )

( Private to Friar (Nathan), Tuck (Cal) and Dale (Yue) )

[Private to Seamus and Neville]

I was blamed for those posters up around the place. Since they had quotes from my pamphlets. And Declan took the fall for it. So please check in on him tonight, all right? And ask him to ward to me when he can write comfortably again.

[Private to Elisabeth]

I don't understand anything anymore.

[end private]

[Private to Nathan, Chase, Dorian, Noah, Elisabeth, Demelza, Leah, Morag, Michael, Anthony, Yue, Cal]

If you are going to attend this Charms Club meeting on how to cast a Patronus, don't be a bloody fool about it. Bones is a member of the IS and she's friendly with the Head Boy. The Head Boy himself will be there. They're clearly trying to figure out who cast the ones in class the other day, or note down everyone else's corporeal Patronus forms for future reference.

Attend, listen to any advice they might have, practice the movements. But for fuck's sake, save practicing to cast a Corporeal Patronus until you're back in your room.

[Private to Michael and Demelza]

Are you two both feeling as terrible as I am? I don't know what the fuck to say to Elisabeth.

[end private]

[Private to Yue, Cal, Demelza, Leah, Anthony, Michael, Morag and Ravenclaw Six]

The Patronus Charm. I copied down the spell and information on it from the library. We are going to learn it and love it. I don't want any of my fucking friends faced by one of those if they suddenly turn a corner without knowing how to produce one.

[Private to Robin (Michael)]

It was suggested that Goldstein start receiving our little notes. I'm for it since I don't think he'll be getting off that thing anytime soon, and I think he's trustworthy.

[end private]

[Private to Stephen Cornfoot and Padma Patil]

I thought that part of being a prefect was looking out for your housemates.

No, I'm not looking for false assurances that Anthony deserved it or illogical regurgitations of purist propaganda. I don't want to nor am I going to be convinced by anything either of you have to say, nor do I expect you to leap in and start dueling a room full of IS members in the future. I just want you to really think about the consequences of your actions apart from how they benefit you, and how convinced you are by whatever reasons you're using to justify them to yourselves.

Merlin's balls, I sound just like my mother.

[Private to Sophia]

I know that last night couldn't have been pleasant for you. If you want to talk about what happened, I'll listen. Impartially, I promise.

[Private to Cal Tuck]

Can we talk about the contents of the food stash places for a moment?

[Private to Lisa Turpin]

You have thirty seconds to convince me why I shouldn't hex you to a pulp. Start talking.

[end private]

Charming. And no, this is not word association.

Good game, everyone.

[Private to Yue, Cal, Nathan, Megan, Michael, Parvati and Seamus]

Did any of you lot receive a paper aeroplane warning about a search on the fifteenth?

[Private to Nathan]

Thanks for the other night. I had a good time.

[end private]

[Private]

Twenty-one days. Slept in his bed twice. Not that it's important with everything is going on. Except that it is. Bloody hell.

And now I have to think of something for Valentine's Day. At least Brandon's entry means I've got a gift sorted. The notebook is perfect for Nathan's Quidditch moves. Wish he'd make a move on

[Private to Nathan and Cal]

All right, since I can't even process this Towler trial without wanting to hit something, I'm bringing up something we talked about earlier. What about sneaking food out of the Great Hall and stashing it around the school, then letting people on the Trouble Table know (with anonymous notes) where to find it? I'm thinking that you, Cal, could get one more person from Hufflepuff just so we're less Ravenclaw congested and therefore harder to pinpoint, and Yue could do the same for Gryffindor when he's ready.

[Private to Michael]

So I've got potentially Nathan, Cal and Yue interested in smuggling out food (though I'm leaving Yue out of it for obvious reasons for now) and Leah's a definite "yes." How openly do you think we should communicate each other? Should we keep you and Leah separate from the rest, and ask Cal and Yue just to enlist one other person from their house without mentioning the names of the rest of us?

[Private to Yue]

You know I'm here if you need me, yeah? I'm sorry.

[end private]

Private

14 days.

[Private to Cadwallader]

So, are you up to messing with Smith's head for a bit?

[end private]

[Private to Brandon]

Well played, and please ignore what I've been saying about the Slytherin team in general the last day. It doesn't include you. I'm just really naffed off on behalf of my teammates and as an athlete about how the seasons has been going so far.

[Private to Sophia]

Er Are you feeling all right, love? You played well on Saturday - shame about the game.

[Private to Nathan]

You're the best captain ever. What happened on Saturday was no reflection on you. And at the end of the season I'm going to do my own points table and decide the real winner out of us and Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. And it will be us.

Also if you're up for any sort of distraction the rest of the day, I'm around.

[end private]

I'm up for a game of cards or chess if anyone from Ravenclaw is around. Or if you're not from Ravenclaw. I could find somewhere else for us to meet up.

[Private to Nathan and Yue]

Remind me that Lisa cannot be reasoned with.

[Private to Anthony]

I've heard something interesting about you.

[Private to Michael]

Your trousers are ready.

Also, I have a new dinner date. I know this is hard for you to hear, but I hope that you'll understand.

[end private]

Recommended readings. Hit me with them. I need to escape from this place for a bit, and this is the bloody closest I'm going to get.

Dancing. Near the Great Hall just before lunch. Let's make the most of all the idiots being out of the castle it being Saturday, shall we?

[Private to Nathan]

Good morning
So, what's your fantasy island looking like these days?

[end private]

[Private to Barbary]

Thank you for having the good grace to not give my friend Chase Cresswell a detention for his comments on your journal the other day. This has been a very hard year for him, and on his behalf I appreciate the understanding you showed.

[Private to Anthony]

You asked me to watch out for Chase on Morag's behalf, so I just warded to the Barbarbitch and gave her a really flowery thank you for not giving him detention after we both laid into her on her journal. If it was a piece of music, it would have been a fucking Lorcan d'Eath ballad. I want the password to the prefect's bathroom so I can drown myself in disgust.

[Private to Leah]

I have a charms challenge that I could use some perspective and your Hagrid-sized (but fortunately not Hagrid-like) brain for. And to try and figure out what the fuck has been getting you down lately.

[Private to Nathan]

You are the funniest, most brilliant and dashing and handsome wizard in the whole school. Yes, I need your help on something.

[Private to Michael]

Working on both the play and the pockets. Any other tidbits from the Lord of the Trouble Table?

[end private]

To save myself the trouble of a bunch of individual wards, how is everyone? If I likely don't want to know, I've probably made you well aware of that already.

Alright, so I don't agree with many things that Kirksey was saying on his journal, but he does have a point. This "Still Recruiting" crap? Not working, you Dumbledore's Army types. For a start, you're not doing what you're advertising. It makes you look incompetent and like you can't follow through with what you promised, therefore untrustworthy.

For another thing, all you're doing is making Parvati even more of a scapegoat than she already is. If you're going to break the rules, then make it something useful. Make it count. Don't give people even more fuel and reason to punish the rest of us than what they already have. Everytime you put one of those stupid signs up, someone takes the fall. Stop acting for what you're supposedly against.

[Private to Yue Nathan]

Loony is still missing and Beery is an arse and I still have a hangover and this is just the most fucked up Christmas I have ever had!



(added later): Sorry, I'm just tired and emotional.

[Private to Heath]

Your friend Hugo is being very unpleasant to me. Don't invite him to my party, please.

[end private]

[Private to Luna]

Luna, I just caught a nargle in a jar.

[end private]

The one Christmas I actually prefer being at home. Thanks for that, Carrows.

Who's up for a party? People who I want to invite, that is. You know who you are. I have to give my parents at least one thing to be disappointed with me about when I'm at home otherwise they feel unloved.

Oh, and soiree attendants? I poisoned your drinks. Kidding!

Where is that bloody book that Eddie gave me?

[Private to Yue, Nathan, Moira and Cal]

I'm giving myself a few days to be my frivolous, vapid self of fifth year and then I'm going to seriously start scheming. Be prepared.

[end private]