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I've met with Tyche Jenkins and Heph Bobolis a couple of times this summer since talking about recruitment. Sadly at this time, Tyche is undraftable. She seems to have completely and uncritically accepted the Protectorate's policies. I get the feeling she just wants to follow along and not make waves. Unless things change I don't think she could be moved to actively support (or for that matter oppose) a revolution.

Heph is more complicated. He's nervous about the future (but what NEWT student isn't?), isn't sure his family can protect him anymore (because of the Challenge) and sort of just angry about life. He doesn't have a focus for his upset or know what he wants to have happen. In particular he's very unhappy about the Council Challenge where he had to denounce his uncle Seyton Urquhart for his serial philandering. I got him drunk. Well we both got pissed he was just more pissed than me. He's gotten the cold shoulder from extended family over the summer and there's talk of a stakeholder revolt at the Wanderers to toss him out because of the sorts of women Heph implied he was interested in. I'm not sure if we should try to recruit him now or not. His ties to his family have been so tight and given their positions in the realm I don't know which way he'd choose to fly. Protect his family's position or work to make things better and hope that his family will find it's way in the new order? I just really don't know. Unless things change he certainly wouldn't actively oppose change, but I'm not confident that he's ready to work with the likes of "the Traitors Sirius Black and the Longbottoms"

Is there something I could talk to him about doing that wouldn't involve him in full blown treason, but might pave the way for future action?

Well, I am finally, finally home.

I have a massive training regime to follow over the next while. As well as appointments with various healers and specialists daily and sometimes twice daily over the next too weeks. Then we'll see which will be retained and which cut.

I look forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight, being pampered by Mum and Jenni, maybe even woken up by the littles in the morning.

I would like to repeat my thanks for all the cards, gifts and well witches.

I'm sure that NEWTs went well for all my year mates and that OWLs continue to go well. I no everyone worked as hard as they could given hour trying circumstances.

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Was it a bit too much work to ask for the Professors’ supervision before you started tossing around curses you found in some books on the floor in the restricted section? Two Council Wizards only ordered us all not to duel like that without supervision in front of half of the Council, right after Mr Crouch cast the most complicated warding any of us had ever seen in person to protect everyone nearby. Did you need the Lord Protector Himself to give the order at Court in front of the entire Council?

Look at what I was doing with Harry and Draco. Did you think we were drinking tea and eating finger sandwiches? No, we were out racing through the edge of the Forest at top speed throwing spells as fast as we could, working ourselves to exhaustion under the supervision of Auror Peel.

You two are my closest friends. Out of anyone at school, you ought to know I love competition and pushing myself to the limit, so on the surface it sounds like exactly the sort of thing my two loyal friends should have invited me to. But you didn’t. Now why could that be? Because you knew I’d have been horrified and have had to report your stupid arses for being bloody morons. If you’d come to me that first night, Melinda and I might have been able to shut it down with some points off for being out after curfew. We could have restarted it under supervision and with the proper precautions Professor Dolohov talked about, but no! You had to let Saumels almost get killed, five others suffer life-altering curse effects because you didn’t have a wizard around who really knew what they were doing to make sure all the effects had been dispelled.

You two are incredibly lucky not to have your magic bound like certain others. How hard do you think that’s going to make studying for NEWTs for the rest of the year?

Hiding something this big and important from me makes me question how good of a friend you see me as. I get not snitching on someone out after curfew to snog or a jinx in the halls, but this was risking friends’ lives. The person who finally went to Professor Dolohov saved lives. How would you feel if it had been one of us and there hadn’t been a tattler? The death of a friend on your conscience forever, even if you didn’t cast the curse.

I’m glad the holidays are going to give us a break from constantly being in the same room. I’m just so angry with you both right now.

Peel really does look well fit, even if they are just her MLE uniform robes. I wonder how many blokes are watching her pace pitchside rather than the action, or just pointing their Omnioculars her way.

Ronald's really struggling. 70-20 this early is not promising, though he did just save that nasty low sidearm shot from Montague with Pucey in his face. I'd be more impressed with that one if he hadn't looked so surprised and if the one from Draco hadn't bounced straight off his hand and in.

I wish that Lauren Marks and Andie Haley would just bloody shut up about their hair. Yes I know they are three rows up, but I just keep hearing them and losing focus on the game.

And no I still don't know what the hold up was. All the people I could ask are busy. We'll find out after the game I hope, but since I can't see Raz I'm guessing security. I'm certainly not going over to ask Hembridge.