Everyone's mad today. Olive's planning something but she won't tell me what it is. I suspect she doesn't want me to get in trouble and she probably knows she will. I hope she's not thinking of sneaking out. I know she was last week and I even thought I'd help her then, but not now. Not after Claire and Giselle. Dolloway's skulking about like ( Read more... )

( I'm really starting to hate Pomfrey. )

( I hate Professor Dumbledore possibly more than I’ve ever hated him before in my life. )

( If I don’t take a break from writing lines I am never going to be able to stop doing the thing that got me in trouble. )

( Boys. Men. Whatever. Written with all the coherence of any other two a.m. journal entry. )

I had a good time tonight with Susie and Marlie and Addie, but you wouldn’t need to be a master of Legilimency to know that something was very wrong. Apparently Dolores Umbridge came calling while Hunter and I were down at Aunt Dracaena’s first Court and made a big deal out of the fact that Hadrian’s got back together with Endymion Dashwood. (Not ( Read more... )

Whenever I think I couldn't possibly hate my mother more, she always finds a way to surprise me. I think it's worst, actually, when she tries to be nice. When she's soft and kind and gentle for a few days, when you've just come home from school or being away, and she wants you to trust her, and the part of you that wishes you had a real mum wakes ( Read more... )

Hadrian’s gone. Susie and Marlie and I came back from visiting Derek and his friends and he was gone. Magistra Priscilla said he’d gone to stay with friends, but she’s still trying to make us think her husband’s been staying away because of his work, even though most of his things are gone now ( Read more... )

I can't sleep. Addie woke me up and now Susie has gone back to sleep and she is snoring because we went out after work last night and she always snores when she's hung over ( Read more... )

( My father wrote me to say that Evan's gone up to the Highlands... )