Sometimes it's odd to think about the past and look at how quickly time can go by. My younger sister is now officially out of Hogwarts, but I still think of her as a child. It's hard not to when I can easily remember her first year, and her Sorting, and her jealousy that I was old enough to go to the Yule Ball ( Read more... )

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Please don't breathe a word of this to your sister, but do you think she'd be interested in spending some time on Valentine's day with Ernie? He's fretting about it, and I'd feel much better encouraging him if I knew it wouldn't end in defeat.
[/Private]Sometimes I swear my sister is trying to give me gray hairs. Hogwarts is ( Read more... )

Though I know it's terribly cliché, I really do believe that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. I love being able to appreciate something as simple as spending time with family, living out all the holiday traditions we've done ever since before I can remember. I'm at my dad's house now, and my sister Jillian is home from Hogwarts, ( Read more... )