DISORDER JOURNALS

In more positive news: I saw that people are being released from Azkaban, about time too.

JASPER.

Hey. You made it. Is Luca home?

LUMOS & GWEN.

Hi Lumos. I hope you’re well.

If you aren’t too busy, I wonder if I might have a moment of your time? I want to run something past you if I can.

A little cheeky to put it here, but is there any dog lover who would be available to walk my boyfriend's dog while I visit him today? I can pay for dog walking, of course, but he (the dog) got a bit too bouncy and excited at seeing him (not the dog) again the other day.

I'd really appreciate it, thank you.

GWEN.

Hello darling. Are you okay?

‘02-‘05.

I’m really sorry to do this, I don’t know how else to reach people — Jasper’s in St. Mungo’s. The Healers think he’s been poisoned.

JOE

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I’d trade anything in the world for an answer to this message.

There's five days to go until St. Patrick's day and I've kept an eye on Starbeaks. No sign of green anything anywhere yet, do we think they've learned their lesson? Has the novelty drinks craze peaked with accidentally administering love potions to half of magical London? Will the hot beverage world simply return to ordinary tea and coffee from now on? What's the next level of novelty if not? I'm thinking of writing about it.

Hearing about a Hogsmeade weekend brings back so many memories. It’s been an age since I visited but I’ll always remember how exciting it was to just leave the castle for a few hours!

What’s your favourite memories of Hogsmeade visits? I loved to watch people get their Zonko’s products confiscated on the way back into school or successfully sneak them in. And it was always so beautiful in December, covered in snow.

If there are any friends of known Death Eater Layla Fairbourne who’d be interested in being interviewed for the Prophet please get in touch.

LAYLA FAIRBOURNE.

Hello. Madam Malfoy has requested an article on your bravery. Would you be so kind as to lend me some of your time?
The request above is only to seek out further evidence of your achievements and strong will. Anything else will be disregarded.

There's something terribly time-consuming about falling down a Woogle hole and looking up quotes on different topics. You can start with "books" and end up reading entertaining lists of wrongly attributed quotes. Judging by this, a vast majority of the Winternet believe the same things were said by Merlin and people who lived hundreds of years later.

I guess I'm saying don't believe everything you read

BYRON.

Found a set of warehouses in East London that should do, if we can get someone to ward one of them up and you can use your new memory charm skills on the owner. Who'll take cash in hand for short term letting.

Are you doing okay?

Strange weather we've been having, I swear it's been trying to snow all day. I have very little interest in being cold.

BYRON

I'd like to preface this with a quick reminder that we have a longstanding friendship and shooting the messenger is an incredibly tacky move that you are far better than.

I've dissuaded Goldstein from wanting to know who you are for now.
She also says that she has misgivings about working with a stranger and if these turn out to be correct then you should be warned that she will not take it lightly.

FLICK

Wine date this week? I need your help on my piece.

Is there anything more satisfying than putting the automatic reply on your o-mail before a long weekend? Not much, I’d be willing to wager. Goodbye, London, I’ll see you next week. In the meantime I’ll be with my mother, ignoring the family and enjoying the usual excess of cheese and wine.

GWEN.
I have some extra decorations for you.

Not to sound like a certain Irish family who hit the winternet a few months ago, but somehow a bat got loose in my house last night. Luckily not in my kitchen, and it was easy to get rid of him, but honestly not my finest hour. They fly remarkably quickly.

On an unrelated subject - does anyone I know have good fashion sense and five minutes to spare?

On a lighter note I just found the Fortune A Day calendar my Aunt gave me last Christmas and I haven't read a single one. So I'm going to share the fortunes. They might be out of date, but it could still be fun.

Comment if you want one, or a specific date you want one from. They're all awfully upbeat, I don't think my Aunt believes in bad luck.

WARD: PRIVATE

Don't fuck this up don't fuck this up don't fuck this up don't

CONCEPT: ministry shake-up is due to overzealous employees and misconduct from old regime, examples of misdemeanour, not keeping to the company line, Owen Dearborn??, ask Madam Lestrange for details of harassment, avoid the proverbial elephant, applaud the brave and bold action under this new administration etc etc, Minister Thicknesse is a joke striding forward to make our society better and ensure magical law enforcement is held accountable too. Is there anyone related in the department???

WARD: MADAM B. LESTRANGE

Hello Madam Lestrange. I hope you're well.

I thought that rather than via owl it might be easier to pose you a few questions here. I'm looking to write about this bold new direction at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the errors of the Auror office. I think that your experience with Ar. Dearborn would be a stellar example of the professional misconduct that lead to the action taken in the past week. I would, of course, never send anything to print without your permission.

Please let me know your thoughts on the matter and if you'd like to see the couple of short questions I've prepared.

Thank you for your time.