DISORDER JOURNALS

Thanks to everyone who showed up for the successful grand opening of Rosier's. Honestly, the buzz we're still seeing all over the place from the tried and true media to social media is just fantastic. People can't stop talking about it! I'd also like to extend a warm thanks to my staff who stayed cool despite some disruptive influences. You guys are amazing and I feel the need to tell everyone that publicly.

I was going to save some of these promotions for another time, but I figured given there was a slight issue with bees it'd be only fair to make up for that.

A while ago my co-host and fr former classmate Barnaby Snell pointed out I should be doing more charitable things. After all, I have the money. That's not how business works, but you know what? That's fair. It's along that vein that I'm offering a free premium chocolate gift basket to any of our Pureblood customers that arrive today. Thank you, Barnaby, for keeping me honest when it comes to the spirit of giving. I'm also going to do something another former classmate, Grace Jordan, has brought to my attention. I should be helping Muggleborns, too, so to that end I'm offering the same promotion to any non-criminal Muggleborns that walk into the store today. Thank you, Grace. You're inspiring.

Stay tuned for new great offers from Rosier's and thank you for helping make everything a success.

I'd like to remind those of us who are likely to judge my son-in-law on nothing but an article written by the Death Eaters' own trophy wife (cute pseudonym, Narcissa, by the way), that you're running the errands of Death Eaters. You may not agree with them on other issues, but the day you accept a sound bite by the Dark Army while gasping at the supposed crimes dreamed up by my dear sister-in-law, you are in fact condoning their work.

There are many people that Death Eaters and their allies don't consider good enough. Werewolves may be on the top of that particular list (unless they're useful, of course), but you're likely on it as well. You may be some way down, if you're a halfblood and nice and quiet, but make no mistake. Sooner or later they'll get to you as well. None of us are safe.

Take your fear and go do something productive with it. They want you to sit around and debate the supposed murder of a no doubt imaginary child. It keeps us busy.

Be better than that.

I've been doing a fair bit of reading in my free time. (Gasps of shock abound, I know.)

But something that I particularly appreciate is learning about historical figures and how they, in times of dire situations, kept their wits about them and successfully navigated difficulties they faced. My latest studies have been in the letters and diaries of Minister Leonard Spencer-Moon. Of course, you all must know him. This is the Minister who began his career as a tea boy in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. He worked his way up the ladder and was well-placed, after Hector Fawley's political downfall, to lead. And he lead the country through a period of great international turmoil, ensuring the safety and the well-being of everyone.

Minister Spencer-Moon is a sort of hero of mine.

He was apparently quite close to the Muggle Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. And though the following quote is attributed to Churchill, many scholars of Wizarding History instead suggest that Churchill is quoting Minister Spencer-Moon. And I found this in a recently uncovered sheath of letters. As such, I'll share it with you now without additional commentary:

We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people. Thought is free, speech is free, religion is free, no one can say that the Press is not free. In short, we live in a liberal society, the direct product of the great advances in human dignity, stature and well-being which will ever be the glory of the nineteenth century.

[MUM]

Hello, you. I'm sorry I haven't written in a few days. Dad's quite good at tinkering with Muggle technology. I've put the Warbeck song on a cassette and bought a Walkman - it's this device they used for music playing in the 1980s. Do you think he could find a way to make it undetectable to magic and invisible? Please let me know what he says. I want to bring it up to Oliver, then maybe get the help of Angelina and the twins to mass produce it for our friends.