Triumphant: logs, entries, media.

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[Bellatrix Lestrange]
Welcome back to Britain, Miss Black. I hope the winter has been kind to your horses.
[/Bellatrix]

There are days that call for a rather more in-depth spreads than the simple three-card that is my usual choice.

Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I was contemplating recent events as I took tea this morning and naturally I simply had to read the leaves. Concentrating one's mind on a subject does give such clear readings. But oh dear, what terrible things I saw in the leaves! A deer being chased by a rat and a dog. Oh, how I shudder. Quarrels and disputes leading to treachery and adverse conditions. As terrible as the news has been so far, it will only get worse!

It does not matter how old one's children get, receiving mail from them is always a delight. My youngest daughter, particularly, lives in France with her great Aunt and I see her so infrequently, that an Owl is something treasured.

[Private]

Sometimes I wake and I do not recognize this world that has been brought upon us by Dumbledore's vanity and foolishness. We were right to fear him - he's essentially castrated our society and is slowly squeezing the lifeblood out of it.

Sometimes I fear that if we are not careful there will be nothing left of our history and our tradition, that we might well just go and live among Muggles for at least then we can learn their primitive ways of protecting themselves against threats perceived or real. Perhaps I ought to send Theodore elsewhere from Hogwarts.

What is the point of being magical if, when practising magic, you are incarcerated and find for it? Your government is making you no better than the Muggles to which they so richly cleave. And if you had ever worried that magic would flee Britain, you only need now see ... that it will.

And you have Albus Dumbledore to thank for that.

For making pathetic Muggles out of you.