two wrongs don't make it right

Private to Weasleys and Potters.
HELP ME! I don't know what to do, but I think Jeremy has a crush on me and I don't feel the same about him but I don't want to hurt his feelings.
/Ward

Private to Adam Montague.
Adam, I need your help. You're a bloke. If you liked a girl but she didn't like you back, what's the nicest way she could let you down?
/Ward

Private to Charlotte Warrington.
I know this might be odd since we don't talk all that much, but I need some advice and it seems like you have these things pretty well sorted out. If you have a male friend who suddenly confesses that he likes you romantically but you don't return those feelings, what's the most gentle way to let him down? And can you do it while still remaining friends?
/Ward

Private to Matthew Kirke.
I thought you would relish knowing that karma's a bitch.
/Ward

I don't think I like getting older much. It's all extremely inconvenient.

Also, Ioan Smith, I would be eternally grateful if you would come and take your son Conrad for a few hours so that I can get some peace and quiet.

I suppose I'd be remiss in my parenting duties if I didn't present the obligatory photo of my offspring for people to coo over.

( Conrad Fabian Weasley )

He is rather cute, admittedly, and I do believe I am at least a little emotionally attached. But I would really like it if he would decide to sleep every other night or so. It's not even that he's up crying; he just seems to not want to sleep because he's afraid he'll miss something.

Do you suppose somewhere in their falsified human brains, these sacks of flour are aware that they are sacks of flour? And that this is probably their only opportunity to experience human life, with our senses and feelings and thought capabilities? I doubt there's any way to actually find out the answer to that question, as this seems a very advanced charm and surely such an advanced charm would lead us to believe that the being in question would be aware of itself as it is. But if that's the case, would it be aware of itself as a baby, since that is precisely what it is while the charm allows it self-awareness? Or does it know it's only a flour sack?

I've just confused myself.

Warded to Hufflepuffs.

So, we've all had a bit of time to get used to the idea that these small things are going to be part of our lives for the next few weeks. In an effort to help with scheduling conflicts and prior obligations, I thought perhaps we might organise a daycare of sorts. By which I mean that after lessons have finished--during the afternoon and evening--we can have an area in the Common Room set up where you can drop off your baby and we can have a pair of people there at all times watching them. Something like prefect assignments, I think.

So if you'd like to participate in this experiment, I'm happy to draw up a schedule that ensures no one has to carry more than anyone else. Just comment here with the times you are unavailable and the times you would most like to have "baby duty".

I am confident this new project will be effective in teaching us all about adult responsibility and in stopping people FROM PRACTICALLY SHAGGING IN THE CORRIDORS and in getting us to think twice before making any unsafe decisions. And at least it'll only be for three weeks, not for forever like a real baby, right?

Private to Ioan Smith.

I suppose we ought to come up with a name for him, right? And how shall we work out custody, seeing's how you're in Ravenclaw and I'm in Hufflepuff? We can't exactly sleep in the library, can we?

After having spent a good ten days as a legal adult, I can safely say that it is nothing to write home about. Nothing has changed, at least not here at Hogwarts where I could always perform magic whenever I felt like it. Perhaps that's simply a symptom of having a birthday at the beginning of term, but it seems like something of a rotten deal to me. I'm finally able to get my Apparition license, but we haven't begun classes yet; I'm finally able to use magic wherever and whenever I choose, but I'm stuck in a place where I was always able to do that anyway. Sort of takes the fun out of it.

Though I am not in any way suggesting that folks should get out of the business of coming of age. Turning seventeen is worth it if only for the gift haul; it was almost like a second Christmas. Just be prepared that the gifts are perhaps the only exciting part of the whole situation, unless you're lucky enough to turn seventeen on a day when you can take your Apparition test and/or on holiday when you can go round annoying your mum by levitating her off the ground.

On an alternate note, if anyone has information about which Hufflepuff fourth years are leaving their Care of Magical Creatures project in the Common Room, please do let me know. I'd like to ask them what in the bloody hell they're thinking have a word with them.

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( lucy muriel weasley )