Defence, exams and holidays

[alt_padma]

Today I asked Professor Lockhart how soon he thinks they'll catch that horrible Black fellow who keeps invaiding our journals.

He said they were sure to find him and if he was posting to say that they haven't yet, it must be because they came close. He said that if he weren't teaching, he was sure he'd be able to discover Black's hiding place in a trice.

But my brother says Black's a dangerous criminel and he wants to kill the Lord Protector. Professor Lockhart must be very brave if he would go after someone like that single-handed! But then I guess he's done so many brilliant things that catching Black seems like its not much of a task.

I dont know why everyone is so worried about Potions when weve also got Charms and Transfiguration and Herbology to get through, too. I mean, Potions is basically following recipies, but Charms and Transfiguration really take concintration.

Morag and Belinda are getting much more excited about Christmas than their exams. I'm just looking forward to going home for a bit, even if Haruman will probably call me 'Parvati' just to be annoying and Sanji will not want to let me or Parvati out of his sight.

Lavender, did your mum talk to you about maybe sleeping over during the holidays? Mum mentioned that you might want to and that it would be okay with her.

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[alt_padma]

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.

[alt_sally_anne]

I think you're right about the journal being a trick, and that was very clever of the Lord Protector and Magical Law Enforcement even though I don't like it when he writes something and it appears in my journal. I reckon it'll be worth it if when they catch him.