| 003. 13 February 1998 |
[February 13th, 2012 at 2 pm] |
WARDED PRIVATE.Despite what I said to Pansy once I regained my senses, I actually agree with very little of what she wrote. I think it was wrong of whoever put Pasny and Draco's family trees up to do that. In a way, I do think it's just as bad as Professor Carrow pointing out our muggle relatives, but the rest of that entry...well. I suppose let me just get out what I wanted to say before I attempt to do something so foolish again.
I actually have lots of muggle friends, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, because I know some other kids, muggleborn or not, went to muggle primary schools. Maybe they didn't keep in touch as well, but still. Very rarely do I have a difficult time relating to my friends back home because of my magical background. Yeah, I usually don't know the types of movies and music they refer to, but they just think my parents are really conservative, which isn't so unusual. Of course there are a lot of things I can't talk to them about since they can't know and wouldn't understand, but there are other things that they get. I mean, we grew up together, so we have those shared experiences, and we have a religion and culture in common...
I don't know. I just think there are other things that bind people than simply magic, or from the muggle point of view, technology. I don't think we're incapable of intermingling, and this marriage issue raises a sort of interesting point. I don't think often about who I'm going to marry, since I'm sixteen (and I don't really know why other people are talking about this so much recently...or is it just Pansy?), but I wonder what's more important to my family- that I marry a witch, or that she's Muslim? It's not that there aren't any Muslim wizards, obviously, but I haven't met very many here, so I don't know. What if I do marry a muggle? Well, I guess if that were to happen, I couldn't really stay here. This is so stupid to think about though, like we don't have more immediate concerns like school, but Pansy's entry did put that in my head- another reason to dislike her entry.
Still, I must never forget the value of private wards.
There's something oddly therapeutic about Ancient Runes homework, at least for me anyway.
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| 002. 10 February 1998 |
[February 10th, 2012 at 11 pm] |
WARDED PRIVATE.There's no way to justify what happened today. There's just no way. I don't even know what to say. I've never been so disgusted, so horrified in my life. I can't believe that happened. I can't believe I saw that. It's an outrage- isn't there someone that could do something? Someone that can speak up? And I don't mean Dumbledore's Army, I mean like...the Board of Governors- but I guess they probably approve. I don't know. Some sort of social justice organization? There's no way they can turn a blind eye to students being tortured in school. The problem is, I have no idea who "they" are.
I can't make either Professor Carrow notice me, especially now that we know what they're capable of. There's no reason for them to notice me. WARDED TO NON-IS RAVENCLAWS, GRYFFINDORS, AND HULLEPUFF SIXTH YEARS- MINUS TOMMY, JACK, AND ANDREW.Is there anything we can do for them?
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| 001. 31 January 1998 |
[January 31st, 2012 at 6 pm] |
So I guess I can consider this my odd happening for the day- Mr. Filch asked me to help remove the latest graffiti from the wall, but it wouldn't come off and he became quite...frustrated. I really thought I was going to end up with a detention, or at the very least a lengthy reprimanding, but he gave me a butterscotch.
Admittedly, I haven't eaten it yet. I'm a bit suspicious
WARDED PRIVATE.Although, really, why do they need to graffiti the school? The pamphlets I can understand. That's been a time-proven productive way of civil disobedience, but vandalizing a building as ancient and important as Hogwarts? I think it's awfully juvenile, and only makes our superiors less likely than they already are to take this "Dumbledore's Army" group seriously. It's not as though the problem is with the castle itself, after all, so why abuse it?
I also think civil disobedience at all in school can only be productive to a certain point. It's not as if the problem is isolated to the school, it's what's going on outside, mainly, it's the infiltration of the Ministry. Until the power is taken away from the purists, fanatics, and let's face it, just plain old Death Eaters, whatever efforts are made at Hogwarts to protest against the regime can only go so far. Even in the very unlikely event that they managed to push Professors Carrow out of the school, they'd just replace them with someone else, potentially more sinister. So I don't really understand why everyone doesn't just try to stay as in tact as possible until they can graduate and then maybe they can really make a difference. It's not like I'm pleased about the current regime, I just don't think the main problem is the Carrows.
Still, best to keep this all private. People can be so very hot-headed.
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