Hogwarts Dawn

Who: Albus Dumbledore & Lily Potter
What: Herbology requests
Where: The greenhouses
When: Morning, July 11th

( He found himself walking in that direction, his footsteps softened by the still-damp grass )

Any of you ladies got a decent singing voice?

Or lads, if you've got some range.

I've made a decision and I'm taking over the Quidditch-planning. If Savannah or whoever want it back, they can fight me for it. Although I'd rather not because violence is not good sportsmanship, young lady.

Anyway, how does Saturday morning sit with people? Good? Good.

Who: Remus Lupin and Lily Potter
When: Sunday, 27 June - afternoon
Where: Entry hall
What: Remus is headed out and runs into a friend.

( Books and friends should be few but good. -- Anonymous )

The Mandrakes are finally mature enough to be able to unpetrify those who where affected. I've taken the liberty of getting everything ready, just in case.

Who: Open
When: 12th of June
Where: Pool area
What: The pool party doesn't go as well as they thought

( The pool is Open )

Who: Harry, James and Lily
When: evening, 9th June
Where: Harry's room
What: They have dinner and possibly news is shared

( Let's have dinner )

Perhaps I've been out of the loop for far too long, but when did spiders start spending time in and around the Greenhouses? And how did they get so big?

I had to save some of the mandrakes from spiders about the size of my hand, and believe me when I say I went and took a shower immediately afterwards.

Anyway, if someone could please assist me with convincing the arachnids to go elsewhere, I and the mandrakes would appreciate it.

Good Morning, Hogwarts,

Today it's a sunny and warm day! Yes, you've read that right. Sunny and warm, with temperatures reaching 22 degrees. The rest of the week looks as following sunny except for showers on Saturday. with highs around 19 degrees. Enjoy summer in Scotland.

We have a list of National Holidays. If a holiday is on the weekend, it will be celebrated the Monday. If there are two holidays on the weekend (like Christmas and Boxing Day), they will be celebrated on Monday and Tuesday. These holidays are in addition to your 20 personal days and 10 sick days.

Anyway, here's the list of holidays:

Jan 1 - New Year's Day
Feb 11 - Rebirth Day
Apr 15 - Good Friday
Apr 18 - Easter Monday
May 1 - Beltane
May 2 - Remembrance Day
Jun 20 - Summer Solstice
Sep 1- Hogwarts Day
Oct 5 - Harry Potter Day
October 31 - Samhain/Halloween
Nov 5 - Festival of Lights (Guy Fawkes)
Dec 25 - Christmas
Dec 26 - Boxing Day

Who: James & Lily Potter
When: June 2nd, evening
Where: Gryffindor Common Room
What: A surprise
Warnings tba

( Of course, in typical James Potter fashion, he just had to excel at everything... )

Who: Harry, Jamie, Albus, Lilu, Ron, Hermione, Roxanne, James, Lily, Scorpius, Draco
When: 27th May
Where: Chessington World of Adventures
What: Celebrating Lilu's birthday

- They apparated right outside of the parking lot. That area is all agricultural and has no cameras.
- They arrived at opening time (10am) and left at closing time (5pm)
- Because it's a weekday, they didn't find lines for most attractions and could do everything they wanted.
- Harry was amused by the many 'magic' related rides with dragons, flying brooms and even goblins.
- Harry paid for everyone's entrance

A box of chocolates from Fortnum & Mason.

Indulge! You deserve it.,

Marly.

Who: Everyone
When: 9:00 AM, 21st May
Where: Great Hall
What: Harry brings everyone up to date

( This is what we know. )

Who: James & Lily Potter, open to Sirius & Remus
What: Catching up at the end of the day
Where: Gryffindor Common Room
When: May 20th, evening

( How many roads we've travelled. How many dreams we've chased )

Who: Anyone
When: Evening 14th May
Where: the Steak and Co. restaurant at the corner of Irving Street and Charing Cross Road, near Leicester Square
What:

- The 'ministry' is footing the bill for everyone
- They got there around 6:30, looked around for a bit and decided on this restaurant since it could sit all of them.
- They are split in 2 tables (you guys decide who was sitting with you, just average it out 11 and 14, because you don't sit 13 at a table).
- They finished around 8:30.
- They walked around for a bit in small groups and then went back to the Leaky. From there, they Disapparated to Hogwarts.

Good news on the Greenhouses front! Well, at least in Greenhouse Three.

First off, the Mandrakes are coming along beautifully, and will need to be moved to bigger pots soon. Second, for anyone looking for Bobotuber pus, we should have some ready within the week. Also, the Bouncing Bulbs might need to be moved, as they're upsetting the already touchy Mandrakes.

Third, the Flutterby Moths have returned to the Evergreen Environment. This is an excellent sign, considering how useful they and the slugs can be for future plants.

Anyway, I'll be working on cleaning up some of the overgrowth and making sure there are clear markers for each of the identified flora. If anyone would like to help, please feel free.

Hogwarts Filter

What a week right? Anyway thanks to Padma and her team to make sure we don't go on fire, we have our journals back. I didn't think they would come this useful.

Anyway, we've decided that we all need a break and on Friday night, we'll be Apparating to Diagon Alley and then walking into London and finding a restaurant. I can't tell you what's around the Leaky anymore or what kind of cuisine, but we'll try to find something that can accommodate us all. We'll be working with Scorpius and magazines to transfigure clothes into Muggle clothes.

This isn't mandatory, but please let me know how many are interested so we have an idea. Also this is a little experiment to see that nothing bad happens if we leave all together. It's also a little test run for more Muggle excursions.

Starting next Monday at 10 after the Heads meeting, we'll have muggle training, trying to learn as much as we can about Muggles. The hope is that we'll be able to move a little more freely.

Also starting tomorrow, Lucius will have Treasury and Commerce, while Kirley and Myron will work for DAMN (blame Parvati for this.)

Jamie

So want to look with me for clues in Diagon Alley? Unless you're busy.

Things have been unusually quiet. That being said I acknowledge my part in the unprecedented unravelling of the structure we had in place. There is nothing I can do to go back and correct that. That is done and we move forward.

For the sake of clearing the air, we are a collection of 20 plus witches and wizards. All opinions are valid, everyone is connected to the government because we are so very limited in numbers.

Rather than focus on who is Minister, as that has drawn out nothing but silence, perhaps for the sake of necessity we can all discuss what we want, where we want to strive to be and how best to get that done.

Move on and move forward as a collective unit rather than a collection of factions.
Talk to me. Talk to each other. Talk. Argue if you must. The silence is deafening.
Thoughts?

( Warded to Harry Potter )

Since no one wants the job, and since no one can agree on anything, I feel we should have nominations.

I nominate Theo since he caused this mess and he should be stuck with the job.

Feel free to vote in this post and if he has more votes than his non-existent opponent, he's Minister.

[Lily, Jamie, Albus & Lilu Potter]
You lot okay?

[Harry]
Are you back today?

[Marauders]
D'you reckon this what my Dad felt like when we let all those Nifflers loose?

[MLE]
I know Ron's ditched, but I've got nothing else to do so I'm still going to go in. Even if it's just target practice or something, I dunno... Anyway, feel free to join.