Ellie Cattermole

Ohmygosh ohmygosh OH MY GOSH! Alfie! Alfie! Alfiealfiealfiealfiealfiealfiealfiealfie!

Oh oh oh oh! ALFIE!

I produced the scream heard 'round the apartment building today. I was all ready to take a shower and right as I moved to step in what should I see? A spider. A gigantic spider. So I did the only thing that anyone could do in such a situation. I let out a ear shattering shriek. And oh boy did my neighbors here it. Kind of embarrassing to think back on.

It wasn't but a few seconds later that I heard frantic pounding on my door, so I quickly wrapped my towel around myself and answered the door. My lovely and oh so nice neighbor was there to make sure someone wasn't brutally murdering me. I told him, quite red in the face, about the spider and he quite heroically offered to smite it for me.

Wasn't that nice of him? Of course it was then that I remembered I was prancing around in a towel in front of my gorgeous neighbor. Oh boy.

I think I owe him a thank you gift of some sort.

And it’s gutted! It took shorter than I expected it too. But then I remember that this daycare is in the magical world for magical children and I remember that the people doing it can use... MAGIC. It all goes so much faster. Actually they said it would have gone even quicker if they hadn’t hit some unknown piping that had leaked. They patched it all up and fixed everything though and modified the blue prints to add it.

Do you know what this means now though? Now it means I need to get to work on getting those interior decorators in here! I actually hired a few and they want to get together to see the place and consult with me to see how it should look. There were a few who wanted the job that didn’t seem to get that the place was going to be for children. They wanted to design something really elaborate and totally not age appropriate.

Which means now I need to get to work on the pamphlets for this place and putting out ads for employees. Anyone looking for work?

I miss getting to watch Quidditch. Or hear it over the wireless even! Unfortunately I find that it is too distracting to me to listen to as my life has been consumed with paperwork. But on the bright side things are coming along for the childcare center! They've already started renovating the place to the specifications that were submitted and once it's been gutted and redone I can worry about getting interior designers and the like.

Oh Merlin, interior designers. This is going to be a nightmare too, I just know it! Oh! Maybe Dean can paint a mural? I should owl him. But this means I'm getting closer. I think once I find interior designers I should definitely be putting an ad out for potential employees and the like as well. Definitely have to contact Dean then.

And I'm rambling! Quidditch! I was talking about Quidditch! Reading about it in the paper isn't just nearly as exciting. Bah. Congrats to all the players though!

I've been going through my trunk from Hogwarts and I found my old journal. It definitely made me feel more nostalgic then I have in a while. It also made me more sad then I've been in a while. I couldn't bring myself to use it though. Instead I put it back in my trunk and locked it away again. My new journal is a spiffy purple. It doesn't have any of the memories associated with it.

I wonder how many other people have journals? How many will use the journal they've had for years? How many will get new? There are people I'd love to get in touch with again. Sure I could owl them, but there is something fun about getting in contact with them over the journals.

Do you have yours, Alfie?

( Five years of traveling for Ellie )

[Private]
Things are so tense here. It isn't fun like it used to be. Some of the teachers are completely insane and a lot of the students just seem to afraid to even make eye contact any more. Not that I blame them. There are teachers using The Unforgiveables on students and physically punishing them. This sort of treatment would never be tolerated in the muggle world.

I love magic, a lot. I want to graduate from Hogwarts. But if things are going to be like this next year then I'm not coming back. I haven't talked to Alfie about it, but I'm sure he'd understand. I don't think he'd want to come back either... Would he? I'd hope not. But I know he has Dorny and so I can't be positive that they haven't made some sort of plans.

And what about Aud? Her girl, Fiona, is a muggleborn. Or at least I'm pretty sure she is. This has to be hard on her. Worse on Fiona. I feel like I've been a really bad friend.

I've been a bad sister too.
[/Private]

[Alfie]
Hi. We should talk sometime again.
[/Alfie]

[Aud]
How are you doing? Are you ok? How is Fiona? I feel like I've been such a bad friend to you. Do you still like me?
[/Aud]

I'm ready for the summer.

I really don't like all these changes that keep going on. The squid at the beginning of the year (though it did do something really naughty, so maybe I sort of understand that change), the goblins being replaced, the Thestrals being taken, all these stupid muggleborn decrees. It's all just dumb. How is this making anything better? What sort of people are in charge that honestly think these changes are good? I think that perhaps they all need some sort of schooling to explain things to them.

Why do I have such a stubborn friend? Not that she isn't like one of my best in the whole world, but she's so stubborn! It's hard to make her see reason. Like about Capper and Weasley. She still defends Capper. It's annoying!

Weasley hasn't said anything about what happened. I'm avoiding looking at Weasley or Capper. I'm certain that she's told Capper about what happened. I wonder if Capper has said anything to Audrey about it? I still wonder if maybe Audrey is very upset with me for hitting Weasley like that. But she deserved it!

Do you ever have one of those days where you feel like you have something to say, but when you write it you change your mind and scratch it out and then find yourself without anything else to say? That's how it is today. It is kind of annoying really.

( Hexed to Audrey (readable by Alfie) )

( Private (readable by Alfie) )

Have you ever had one of those days where you just know you are forgetting to do something? I'm finding that today is definitely one of those days. I just know there is something I've forgotten to do. I should make a checklist or something. But I don't think it is going to be much help if I can't remember it already, right?

Homework? Er, as done as I think it's going to get. Studying? Yeah right. Owl home?

( Private to Alfie )

( Private )

( Private to friends )

Good game, Hufflepuff! We might not have won, but you did awesome! I'm sure all of you will win the next time!

And congrats to Ravenclaw for a game well played! Just don't gloat too much like Li did, please.

Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness! The Weird Sisters have journals! Well not all of them, but still! I can't believe it. No, no. Mustn't act like a squealing fangirl. I want to though. I did squeal really loud though when I saw the first entry and barely kept it in with the rest. But I wasn't the only one!

[Private to Hufflepuffs]
Can you believe it?! They actually have journals now! How cool is that? Neatest thing ever!

So Slytherin won the game. The Ministry shows it is stupid again. The Prophet shows it is nothing but liner for bird cages and the Quibbler appears to have posted something of actual value again. How awesome is it that everything seems to be getting so twisted? Well, not all things. Pity that bludger didn't get Weasley.

BOYS! Ugh.

[ooc: Let's pretend like I don't suck muchly and that this is in reference to this mainly and partially this.]

You know it's really sad that when you don't even read The Daily Prophet any more you still get to hear all about how dumb they are and get more then an idea on what they said. I still say that people should just boycott it.

Audrey! AUDREY! Aud-

[Private to Audrey]
Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! You have to come talk to me! Or comment to me! Or something! We so need to talk. Like yesterday. Or a week ago. Dish!
[/Private to Audrey]

[Private to the Ravenclaw called Dorny]
Ok. So you don't know me. Or don't really know me. Or something. But I think we need to talk. And...
[/Private to the Ravenclaw called Dorny]

Maybe an owl would be better...

Ok... So The Daily Prophet is utter rubbish. I've read more believable things in muggle magazines that do nothing but lie about the birth of aliens to cows and cats that moo like cows. Honestly. I thought that it was supposed to be a reliable source of news and it isn't. Sure, I don't like the news, but this is getting ridiculous. Do they have primary school children helping them?

I did, however, come across The Quibbler and it had a story about Professor Dumbledore too. It was so much better and didn't seem to be so biased.

Alfie! Have you read it?

( Application for Ellie! )