I asked my brother (Mum just told me it was a long time ago but wouldnt give me any details). He says he can remember that it was about ten years ago, it was in all the papers, that Sirius Black went mad and tried to destroy the Ministry or something. There was a big fight and he got away and no one knows where he went but he hasn't been in England ever since.

I'm not sure how he got a journal, then, but maybe the Lord Protector planned to trick anyone like him into writing in their journals so they could be tracked and caught.

He's completely mental, though, Haruman says, and now he's trying to make peopel hate the Lord Protector. But it won't work, will it? Because things are getting much better. Haruman says soon there won't even need to be rationing anymore, and look at New London and everything.