Would you care to be my partner for our Astronomy project due next Tuesday? I would appreciate the help, as Professor Vector has given me an additional assignment, and you know about my... extracurricular studies.

MR LESTRANGE THE ELDER:

I DEMAND THE RETURN OF MY BELONGINGS IMMEDIATELY.

THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR FAR TOO MUCH TIME. I EXPECT TO FIND THE ITEMS GIVEN TO ME OVER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, A CERTAIN BOOK) IN MY DORMITORY IN FIFTEEN MINUTES OR SO HELP ME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO WORRY ABOUT THAN A NONLETHAL ( Read more... )

Nothing ever changes. In all the menial perseity of human cognizance, we are not given the faculty to obliterate the calamities which Fortune visits upon us.

Yet there are distractions.

My entire existence is altered. Heretofore I was concerned solely with that which benefited myself, giving no thought to higher causes or supreme entities ( Read more... )

i have shanghaied rabastan's journal as he has not updated in quite some time and the headmaster becomes cross if he discovers that any student actually has a life and does not write daily in his journal, and sends nasty letters home to his parents ( Read more... )

If any had attempted to cause me to believe that such conflicting emotions were possible as I have felt this fortnight past, I should have mocked him and told him to take his predictions elsewhere ( Read more... )

Miss Black the Elder, I sincerely apologise and pray that my imbecilic and nescient actions did not cause you a recrementitious amount of chagrin. I cast myself upon your mercies ( Read more... )

I have been rudely reminded why I do not spend holidays with my sister.

Mister Black, could you spare me a day of respite from my wonderful family? I have had nearly all I can handle.

Rodolphus, dear, the fact that I find your erstwhile predilections quite the gelastic circumstance is no reason for the scurrilous acerbity you have been showing me of late.

Unless the cause of your distemper has more to do with that most muliebral of my appurtenances.

I find myself nearly able to sympathise with some of the members of the Black family.

Some of them.

It has been over a fortnight since I last wrote in this journal ( Read more... )