I saw that Louisa Parkinson is having a party for Christmas. I wish I could go! She might not want me though because I'm a Muggle. Although she is nice sometimes, and maybe she wouldn't mind. It doesn't matter anyway because there is no way I could get back to the UK! It would be fun to meet everyone. Maybe I'm a little jealous that all (or most) of you are over there, and I'm here. That's crazy though because I'm far away from the war. I'm very safe here. And I know some of you wouldn't even be able to go to the party.
I feel guilty for some of the ridiculous things that run through my mind.
Maybe I'm a little down because my dad started talking about moving here. Our tourist visa is going to run out in July, so then we have to decide whether we want to go return to London or stay here. I like it here, but I want to go back! I miss London. But my dad thinks it's highly doubtful the war will be over by then. He thinks it might last for years. It's so depressing.
Let's talk about something happy. What are your favorite Christmas traditions?
Well, you can talk about sad stuff too....if you want. You guys have more to whinge about then I do.
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Well it looks like your christmas will not be half bad. But try spending yours with Centars. My advise were ever you are stay there things are not getting better here. By the way that party sounds fun but I can't go either. Mabye a litte polyjuice potion and and unconsious pure blood are in order ;). All thought I do not know here views on Muggles and Mudbloods.
Mmm...Christmas. One of my favorite times of year. When I was a kid we'd spend it in the States with my grandparents. It was always fun, and after my mum left it was nice to be spoiled for a few weeks of the year.
I never took Al back there. I probably should have but I was never great at commitment. I wonder where he is these days. Hope he's alright.
Proud Mudblood: I'll be staying here whether I like it or not. I think it will be okay though. That would be funny if you went to the party, but probably too dangerous. And I wouldn't want you knocking anyone unconscious...unless you did it in self-defence! I'm hoping Christmas will be better for you than you expect.
SC Mather: I'd love to have a Christmas in America! I hope Al's all right too. I know you must miss him a lot. Maybe someday you'll be together again. I wish that would happen for you.
I'm curious. Maybe you told us this before, but I've forgotten. Did your American grandparents know you were a witch, or was that a secret from them?
I would be tempted to attend Louisa's party ... if only Pansy and her other pro-Ministry/pro-pureblood family weren't attending. I'd love to see Louisa and the Cattermole children, especially to watch the children open their gifts, but Louisa's relatives are not as moderate in their views as she is. I know several of them, they are hardcore blood purists. I'm certain they will be less than pleased when the suspected Rebellion members, blood traitors, muggleborns and other "undesirables" Louisa has so kindly invited start to show up. I know Louisa is motivated by the best of intentions, but, honestly, I think things are likely to get ugly. I wouldn't want to abuse Louisa's generosity, endanger her foster children, or put Louisa in an awkward, possibly dangerous situation she didn't fully anticipate, so I think it's best to stay away. Looks like I'll be spending Christmas this year at Order headquarters.
When I was a child, we kept the muggle tradition of going into the woods, cutting down our own Christmas tree and dragging it home. I hated it at the time - it made no sense to me why we did this the hard way (muggle) instead of the normal way (magic) - but I miss it now.
Aoife,
I never thought of it that way. I guess Louisa is a bit caught between two worlds right now. And by being nice, she might make a mess of things. Sometimes that happens. There's that saying. No good deed goes unpunished.
I hope you have a good time at the Order headquarters. At the very least, I hope you stay safe.
It's funny how we can not like doing things, and then later we miss them.
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From what I hear, there will be a lot of us spending Christmas at Order headquarters. This will be a bittersweet holiday. On the one hand, I always wanted a big family Christmas, this will be my first one and it should be quite festive; on the other hand, it will be the first Christmas since my parents were killed so I'll be missing them terribly.
Oh, no! A thought just occurred to me. You don't suppose people will be expecting us to exchange gifts, do you? Christmas shopping will be impossible, of course, and I certainly don't have time to make anything...
We need to be worried, people. YKW has been using muggle email! This is ... disturbing!
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Aoife,
Yeah, I think it would be hard to shop right now, or make lots of presents. Maybe you could do a Secret Santa type thing? Have you ever done that? With this, each person in the order would get a random person (maybe pick names out of a hat? Or maybe there is some spell you can use to randomise things?) Then you have to get a gift for only that one person. It might be less overwhelming. Or maybe they'll skip gift-giving all together.
I'm sorry you're missing your family : (
Alex,
No, Mam and Pap never knew about Hogwarts or anything. My mum ran off to Cambodia to heal orphans or something after my letter arrived. She kind of snapped. I spent that last summer with my Dad's parents in the states while he tried to talk her into coming home. It didn't work and he ended up telling everyone I was accepted into a little known but well renowned girl's school. So no, really just my brother and my dad know.
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