Entry #11
NEWT students who haven't yet given me details of your special projects, you're running out of time. This is bad. Madam Pince and I need to use the holidays to catch up on research and ordering in new materials, and it is much harder to do that if we don't know what you need. Really bad. She's asked me to remind you about this, and between you and me she's actually getting quite cranky about it, and students who give me the needed information now rather than later will find her significantly more obliging. She even smiled at me today. Pince, smile? I must not be doing such a good job of hiding things. It's just that I left it in school, so a student must have...snap out of it, Alicia. I'm not angry at any of you. Well, except at one of you. And mostly sad. I'm just passing on a message. Someone else did that already, to me.
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Something upsetting happened at work this morning. I lent a book of mine to a student, and someone must thought it was her copy and wrote...that obscene name for a witch with no magical parents...in it. Someone else also wrecked another of my possessions, but this I don't think I can show to McGonagall and ask her to remove the hex the same way. And worse, someone else put Doxies in her bed, for the same reason too, I assume. It's not just Muggleborns who get targetted by these people... It would be bad enough if it was just a random student hexing her in the hall, but these are other Slytherins her own housemates, for Godfrey's sake, girls she's lived with since seventh year ever since she started attending Hogwarts.
I persuaded her to come with me and see McGonagall, who performed a charm to remove the Doxy bites and was able to fix my book my framed photo still has that phrase, that awful awful phrase, written on it though. So the matter has been put in the hands of someone with more experience, but still, I can't help but feel terrible for that student and for myself.
What is the place coming to? Oh, who am I fooling. It was always like this. It's just got...closer to home...that's all. Very close to home.
Who can I talk to? I know I'm seen as being the mother figure, but I have to talk to someone. I'm going out of my skull here. Katie is so busy these days, Oliver and Angelina are mad at me, Roger will think I expect him to do something about it because he's an Auror, and Terence...I'll tell Terence. I know he has problems too, but he sleeps on my sofa so he'll know something is up anyway.
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Today I came in- No. I can't. He doesn't need this and I just can't.
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Something upsetting happened at work this morning. I lent a book of mine to a student, and someone must thought it was her copy and wrote...that obscene name for a witch with no magical parents...in it. Someone else also wrecked another of my possessions, but this I don't think I can show to McGonagall and ask her to remove the hex the same way. And worse, someone else put Doxies in her bed, for the same reason too, I assume. It's not just Muggleborns who get targetted by these people... It would be bad enough if it was just a random student hexing her in the hall, but these are other Slytherins her own housemates, for Godfrey's sake, girls she's lived with since seventh year ever since she started attending Hogwarts.
I persuaded her to come with me and see McGonagall, who performed a charm to remove the Doxy bites and was able to fix my book my framed photo still has that phrase, that awful awful phrase, written on it though. So the matter has been put in the hands of someone with more experience, but still, I can't help but feel terrible for that student and for myself.
What is the place coming to? Oh, who am I fooling. It was always like this. It's just got...closer to home...that's all. Very close to home.
Who can I talk to? I know I'm seen as being the mother figure, but I have to talk to someone. I'm going out of my skull here. Katie is so busy these days, Oliver and Angelina are mad at me, Roger will think I expect him to do something about it because he's an Auror, and Terence...I'll tell Terence. I know he has problems too, but he sleeps on my sofa so he'll know something is up anyway.
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Today I came in- No. I can't. He doesn't need this and I just can't.