How innocently it often begins...

[lestranger]

The first of September quickly approaches. Thus far I have patiently ignored the Headmaster’s express instructions to keep the student body at large informed of my doings; however, as nobody will take even a passing interest in the contents of my… journal, as unfitting a term as it is, it seems fitting to me at this time to secure the marks this

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[jabberalice]

huh?

they're just journals...

[lestranger]

I suppose, my dear. It really all depends upon one's point of view on such matters.

And how narrow such a point of view may or may not be.

[jabberalice]

um i guess...

[reflections_of]

Rabastan! It's wonderful to see you! I had worried that you had been eaten by something particularly nasty. A werewolf or an Acromantula...or your sister Emilia.

Had I known you were having issues with your Astronomy studies I would have offered to help. I am rather well-versed in that arena, as my Outstanding O.W.L. would attest.

When we return to school I would be happy to help you revise if you so require.

Bellatrix and I will be in Diagon Alley today acquiring school supplies, perhaps we will see you there?

[lestranger]

"Well, if I was going to go, then I would see you there, wouldn't I?"
Really, Miss Black.

As it happens, I was planning a trip to the Alley today with the same intent. If we do not happen upon one another in the morning, shall we meet at the Pavilion next to Fortescue's for luncheon? It would give me delight to have company on my excursion today, as I have been quite without it for some weeks now.

And Miss Black the Younger: I have secured a gift for you. Remind me of it when we meet tomorrow.

[reflections_of]

Ah, I see you're quoting my words back at me. Instead of meeting me today, perhaps you'd prefer to shun me along with everyone else?

[lestranger]

Anything can be forgiven, Narcissa dear. Particularly things done under the influence of a foreign substance in the bloodstream. I'll be waiting.

[cor_leonis]

We should start a petition.

A journal is a place to express one's deepest darkest sinister gloomy sentiments, not for jolly good chaps to 'keep in touch'.

[lestranger]

It really must find some students keeping two journals. One which they share with their classmates, and the other in which they keep their true selves. We all have false identities with which we attempt to be accepted by society. These "journals" are simply another side to that facade.

Nobody has nothing to hide.

[hawkeyed]

Binns gave a lecture almost exactly like this near OWLs last term.

You were there, as I recall, and awake.

Funny how similar they are.

Did it take you this long to remember how it went?

[lestranger]

Funny also how it seems I would have a great amount of trouble hearing Binns' lecture prior to O.W.L.s last term.

Or any lecture of Binns' that you yourself were sitting in, as I am currently a fifth year and will sit for my first O.W.L.s in the spring.

[hawkeyed]

Of course. My mistake. The Lestranges would never spy in each other's notebooks, or listen at doors for information that might make them sound cleverer than they are.

I must have been thinking of some other family. Obviously you wouldn't have any information at all unless it was strictly ethical for you to possess it.

[lestranger]

Likely you were thinking of some other member of said family.

Merlin's beard, Rodolphus and I don't look that much alike. Admit your mistake and move on. Mankind's great downfall is its inability to come to the realisation that it is capable of being wrong. How many wars would not have been fought had one man humbled himself? Feuds are begun and fed by pride. The great authors of the past warn us against it in every page, while history reveals to us daily the dangers of self-satisfaction and an inability to defer.

I would continue, but I fear the thoughts would be lost on one so unappreciative.