I am feeling more sympathy for my father than usual. Job-hunting is a most arduous task, assuredly guaranteed to make you doubt your own aptitudes and worth. My only source of knowledge of vacancies is the Daily Prophet's job section. Well, a friend of mine forcibly escorted me to the muggle job centre, but the interview did not proceed ( Read more... )

When lives move palely in contrast to the shadows ( Read more... )

My last exam ( Read more... )

There are only a few days to plough through now. My brain wishes to write poetry, but I just cannot spare the time. I hope I do not lose inspiration by the weekend.

Poems to write:
-Dancing light before my eyes
-One for Madam Pomfrey. I do like William Stewart's The Nurse but it is a little too religious for me to really apply it to her ( Read more... )

I see spots before my eyes when I look at words on parchment. I am going to take a break now, but do you think it will be gone before my exam this afternoon? I think it might distract me otherwise. Perhaps I should go and see Madam Pomfrey.
They are quite pretty, though. Light dancing gracefully before my eyes.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when one suddenly has things to write about, one no longer has the time to do so. I will be brief.

Pride and Prejudice was excellent. I could not have forseen how talented the cast would be. My heart swelled with pride (and I say that without prejudice) to see a script I had co-penned brought to life in ( Read more... )

I have been appreciating free-verse poetry recently, so have decided to attempt to compose a couple of my own. These are free-verse in rhyme and meter, but the form (the first letter of each line an the title being the same) is called Pleiades.

When the Queen commands, who am I to refuse? Get well soon, Bee. ( Autumn )

Apparently whenever something wonderful happens, it is imperative that I write a journal entry on it. One of the younger students confronted me in the common room today and asked if I was not happy that Hufflepuff had won the cup. To which I replied, of course I was most pleased. She had inferred that I did not cherish our victory because anything ( Read more... )

I am finding it exceedingly difficult to concentrate. Learning is very interesting the first time round, but revision less so. I hate having to force myself to work, when normally I find it very enjoyable ( Read more... )

( Private to Susan )