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Eve’s Diary - Entry #98
Date: 26th of August, 2028
Dear Diary,
A lot has happened this summer. Nothing I’ve really gotten involved with, just stuff I’ve heard about. I’ve mostly stayed at home and read or played outside or hung out with Bobby, and it’s been really nice. Many a nap were had in the hammock in the woods, and I’ve done a good bit of swimming and crafting, too! I fixed some clothes, and did a lot of painting and drawing. I even went fruit picking and had a picnic and everything. Oh, and I saw a shooting star, which was cool!
But anyways, as for things happening in the world… At the beginning of summer, it was Little Lamplight, I believe, that flooded? And then there was a dueling tourney which I went to briefly, it was in this really pretty… Cave… Like… Place? And then the Ashworths had a gala, also in a cave kind of thing.
The Eurocup happened recently so a lot of Hogwarts students were camping with their families but I didn’t go. I’m actually not sure who won, either. I don’t really keep up with any of that stuff. I enjoy quidditch, but I wonder if it’s just the flying aspect that I like? I’m not really one for competitions and stuff. It looks fun and maybe I should try to get more into it, I might like it… I dunno. Dad likes it, anyway. Actually, so does my mum and stepdad.
Apparently though, the goblins at Gringotts took everyone’s gold? So… No one has any money, which is kind of terrifying. I don’t know what we or anyone else is going to do, but I’ve heard that there are efforts out to make sure that there are food drives and we even got a letter that someone at the… Ministry I think? Is helping incoming first years get their wands. I’ve been using spell-o-tape on my wand to keep it held together and I really hope it lasts. I know mum has been growing a lot of food in her garden, and with a little magic, we can make it last, I think. There’s talk of a gardening club that’s going to pick up at Hogwarts, which is exciting, also. Nothing is really changing for me as far as Hogwarts goes, because we got letters confirming that we still don’t have to pay for food or tuition or anything. The only thing I’m worried about is my uniform, honestly… It’s a bit tight and we can’t go get new ones anymore. We put it off for too long, I guess. Hopefully I can mend that with magic?
I’m really excited for Autumn. I love spring a lot, I think Beltane is my favourite sabbat and lately my mind has been full of green and rain, but… Hogsmeade in Autumn is… Wonderful. All the hot drinks and the treats and the pumpkins, wearing jumpers and scarves and the colours of the leaves changing. I think I just love it when the seasons change in general.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about butterflies, and luna moths and atlas moths especially. And monarch butterflies. I kind of want everything covered in them, if I’m honest, and I’ve been having dreams about them lately, which is sort of fun. And more dreams about flying - like, with wings instead of a broom, but I’ve been having plenty of broom-flying dreams, too!
I’m feeling really optimistic about the new year, honestly. I’m ready for the new adventure, I think. More than I have been before.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #97
Date: 2nd of July, 2028
Dear Diary,
Well, summer is officially here and I have come back home. I can’t tell you how good it feels to be able to just sleep in, to linger and explore in my dreams, and then spend my days playing outside with Puck and Cornelius and the rats, from sunup to sundown. I have a nice stack of books to get through this summer, but I haven’t touched them yet because I just want to spend the first little bit not using my brain as much as possible.
Little Lamplight has an event happening right now, I haven’t gone yet but I probably will. I want to say hi to my friends and see what’s going on! Anyways, let me catch you up on how the year ended before we talk about summer any more than I already have.
Towards the end of exams, I had a really nice moment with Marigold and Everett where we danced and twirled in the rain until we were dizzy and then we just laid in it. It was very cathartic. I love the rain so much, I wish we’d get more thunderstorms.
The Champion’s Feast happened, and there was smoked salmon which made me really happy, but then some drama happened. The Champions were supposed to give their speeches, but then they got interrupted when it came out that they had proof that their acting headmaster was the one behind Golovin’s murder, and then it was this whole thing and we had to evacuate the halls, there was something about that tall dark-haired Durmstrang girl being tortured and held hostage in his cabin on their ship? Anyways, the Ministry came and arrested him, there was a lot of fighting and anger.
And then the next day was the task. There was this muddy bog sort of thing surrounding a forest, and at the center of the forest was a phoenix surrounded by a ring of fire. And there were so many traps! Lars got into the forest and the ring of fire first. The champions had to shed everything but their wand and the clothes on their back, but they didn’t know they were being followed by a pogrebin which prevented them from keeping forward. Lars’ revealed itself when he got frustrated and knelt down, so he eliminated it and moved forward. And then he went into this… Celestial, ethereal mirror world, where he encountered himself in a mirror and got asked all these personal questions.
In the end, he couldn’t answer the questions properly and fought his way out. Then, he ended up at this bridge thing, where the cup was, and he got the cup before anyone else and then appeared in the sky with all these fireworks, so Durmstrang won in the end! Golovin’s ghost showed up and partied with his students, before vanishing at the end of the night, at peace I think! It was very emotional.
Down below, where Elliott and Cardan were, though… Cardan had the hardest time getting into the forest, and Elliott couldn’t get past the phoenix because of his own pogrebin. Cardan ended up casting something on Elliott, and then the two started fighting. They all got taken back to their tents and… That was that!
Slytherin ended up winning the house cup, though, and I’m actually quite happy about that. I think Elliott deserved that win, and I feel like he and Professor Rask do a really good job with the Slytherins. I hate seeing people perpetuate stereotypes about the houses, you know? Snakes are clever, and it made me really happy to see that cleverness put to work to bring their house pride! (Plus now I get to see the colour green every time I walk into the Great Hall and that makes me really happy, it’s my favourite colour.)
Oh, I also started colouring my hair bright, unnatural colours even before school ended. It was pink for awhile, and now it’s blue. I didn’t get stopped by any professors or prefects or anything. Maybe I’ll keep doing this next year… We shall see.
Anyways, we then said goodbye to the schools. There was… a lot of crying. It’s going to be so weird, going into next year without them. The school will feel… Emptier. Less interesting. I have a couple ideas for things to do to make things a little more fun, though. It’ll be interesting and… I can’t believe I’m going into my third year… And Mari and Talula and Bobby and that whole group are going into their fifth years. It’s wild to me.
I sat with Bobby on the train ride home, and we ate candy and played exploding snap. I fell asleep on his shoulder. It was really nice, and we’re going to play Dungeons and Dragons this summer. Dad got me an adventurer’s guide book that he thought I’d like, so I might try my hand at being a dungeon master? It’s called Candlekeep Mysteries and it’s got a lot to do with the Feywild! So I’m really excited about it. And I want to go watch Bobby play rugby.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the Fae and Irish mythology and lore about them, and I’ve been drawing a bit, too. I’m so glad that it’s summer. I feel like I can breathe again. I’m not sure what it was about this year that drained me as badly as it did, I didn’t really do anything. But maybe that’s what it was - I wasn’t drawing or writing or even really hanging out with my friends. I should try to change that next year, and maybe it’ll be better?
Oh, there was one other thing, before I go. I had a really weird, vivid dream. It was like I was floating in the ocean, and I could see the moon in a clear sky. She was so huge, and it felt like the ocean was carrying me towards her. And then I started to sink, and I was very aware of a large creature being in the water with me, which is like, my nightmare. I hate swimming with creatures! So I started to panic, and then I started to drown, and there was all this loud crashing… I think there was other things happening, and it was so vivid at the time, but the memories broke into pieces the moment I woke up and kinda just faded away, instantly.
I had more nightmares that night, too, but they felt different and I remembered them perfectly. I don’t want to talk about those, though. In a nutshell, it was just me being worried about Puck, but he’s perfectly fine and laying in bed with me. Anyways, it’s about time I get the day started, so I’m gonna go.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #96
Date: 15th of June, 2021
Dear Diary,
Well, it’s exams week, and things are definitely crazy to say the least. I hate taking tests, I don’t do well, and it’s even harder for me to be interested in anything when I don’t know what I really want to do. I have no passion right now. It stinks. Plus my wand keeps acting up, I think because of the crack in it. I’m just hoping I can make it through the end of this year.
I miss home. Not the new house, I mean, the new house is nice, but I miss my home-home. My childhood home, the one I grew up in. I dream about it all the time. But it’s not mine anymore. How can that be, though? How can someone else just… Live in it? It’s my house. Why am I so possessive over a house? Why can’t I let it go?
At any rate, there’s not much else going on, other than… We did Boggart class. Mine was Ruby. So that answers that question. I don’t really want to relive it, but at least now I know what happens when a boggart tries to cast a killing curse. That is a memory I’d very much like to forget.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #95
OOC Note - I’m slowly trying to return, I’m gonna see about taking it easy with diary entries and maybe reformatting how I do things. Everything is kind of up in the air at the minute, while I try to find my love for writing, Harry Potter and Mischief Managed again.
Date: 10th of June, 2028
Dear Diary,
So… It’s been awhile, and a little bit has happened since I last wrote. I did a polyjuice class, and I got to run around looking like Ressy. I thought it’d make me very… I dunno, it’s hard not comparing myself to her, but it sort of just… Made me appreciate her and my own differences? And Jamie made themselves look like an older Hufflepuff classmate, so we traded ties. It was a lot of fun.
We had a maze in Defense Against the Dark Arts filled with traps, and the goal was a jar of jam, I think? If I remember, that was the reward. Anyways, Professor Macauley let me borrow his cane to defend myself. And then we had the Easter Feast which is always fun.
There’s been some other things going on, there’s something about some sort of attack on the Durmstrang Headmaster but… I don’t know the details. Mostly I’ve been focusing on my studies and flying with Bobby in my free time. I’m really ready for summer and to get out of school, honestly. I’ve been kind of living in a fog. My chest feels really heavy all of the time and I find it hard to want to eat or get out of bed sometimes, you know? I’m ready to go swimming and run around in forests and explore and stuff. To not have to worry about anything.
I hope things look up from here, but right now I’m just riding the waves.
Much love, Everly
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Final Post for now
I don’t really know how to start this so I’m just gonna let my thoughts flow.
I know I don’t really have any interaction with this blog and I was doing it largely for myself and the few friends at Mischief Managed who actually read them, but it feels wrong to halt diary entries indefinitely and possibly forever and not actually explain why or give any sort of close, and I feel like I kind of need to do this for myself.
For awhile now, making diary entries has been a task. I haven’t looked forward to them in awhile which is probably blatantly obvious from the amount of times I’ve opened an entry with ‘I’m trying to get better about writing in you more often, sorry it’s been awhile’, and it always feels good when they’re done, and I love looking back at them and reading them, but I have no motivation or energy to ever write them.
I joined Mischief Managed in February of 2016 with a first year Hufflepuff named Aurora, and deep down, I wish I’d always kept her. I think she’d be a 6th year this year, maybe 7th? I used to know, but I don’t remember.
I always had a deep love of Harry Potter to the point that I remember crying in my bed in my highschool years, listening to Stateless because it just has a *vibe* that I associate with Harry Potter, and crying because I knew I’d never actually go to Hogwarts, I’d never get to *be there* and experience it. Roleplay was the closest thing I had to it and for awhile, Mischief Managed made that dream come true.
Now, there’s a sort of... gap where Mischief Managed doesn’t completely scratch my Harry Potter itch, and it’s a whole unrelated conversation about clashing of ideas and the breaking of the immersion and being very aware that I am in *second life* and it still feels like *second life*, not Harry Potter, but that’s besides the point. For years, Mischief Managed was my favourite thing and, IRL, it was known as my main hobby when it came to how my friends and family viewed me. I was the crazy harry potter fan who lived and breathed it every day, in my particular social circle.
Right now, unfortunately because of some things that are no ones fault and is just one of those things you have to live through and eventually cope with after who knows how long, Harry Potter and anything related brings me an incredible amount of pain, which is why I’ll be taking time away from Mischief Managed until I feel okay to come back.
Everlina was made specifically to be me. Me, and my childhood, and to a degree my life, if it were translated into the Harry Potter universe. For awhile, it was hard to keep roleplaying as her, because she didn’t feel like a character. It doesn’t feel like I can just turn her off, and it makes seperating her from myself very difficult. But she is still my ideal version of myself. Who I would have wanted myself to be when I was her age, and even a bit who I want to be now. It’s a weird dynamic.
I will always be grateful for the time I spent with Eve, how she has grown and changed, and everything she has experienced. I will be grateful for everything I learned through and with her. I am proud of myself for keeping this up as long as I have, and while it’s disappointing I can’t completely carry out her 7 years at Hogwarts (at least not with an extended break) I definitely did this longer than I anticipated. I started her right on my 21st birthday, and I’m 23 now and turning 24 in... 7 months. I got her to nearly 100 posts. The fact I could keep up with her that long (after having a whopping 31 characters at Mischief Managed, many of which I wrote but never actually played) is amazing to me.
There are several reasons I need to stay away from Mischief Managed. For awhile, I was struggling really bad with insecurity, my place in my friends’ lives and stories, and constantly comparing myself to others. While I feel I have largely gotten over that and come to a lot of revelations for myself, there are still some aspects about being on sim and the current stories that are running that remind me constantly of the pain that I’ve endured for probably two or so years now. And, I’m going to be blatantly honest because I doubt anyone has read this far anyways, but there is some toxicity and suffocating negativity that comes with Mischief Managed. It’s no secret (the amount of times we’ve been mentioned in gossip blogs says it all) and I’m not about to blame anyone for any of that because I feel we are all humans going through similar experiences, and likely using Second Life as a way to escape pain and things we need to address within ourselves but there is also a level of protection some individuals feel with being behind computer screens, that makes them think it is okay to use people for their own selfish reasons or put them down. I believe this is a projection of insecurities and pain that they may be refusing to work on in their own lives and thus take it out on the little pixel people because there’s a disconnect there when you’re not face to face. Which ultimately brings me to my last point - if it it’s making you so unhappy, why stay? Why subject yourself to pain? Why not step back and find what /does/ make you happy and feel secure within yourself? Why not take time to figure out the real root of your pain, rather than claiming that other people are to blame?
Which is why I’m taking the break I am. I’m not happy there, and I haven’t been for awhile. And specific events are certainly exaggerating my lack of ability to be there, but it has made me come to realise that, for the time being, I cannot continue to waste my time and money on a program/game that makes me unhappy a large amount of the time. The point of Mischief Managed is to not only be immersed in the Harry Potter universe, escape from everything else and fulfill this childhood dream, but to also write and have fun. I’m writing, but I don’t feel immersed, and I’m absolutely not having fun right now. And this is not, by any means, the fault of Mischief Managed, or anyone else. I am eternally grateful that Mischief Managed has given me an outlet to momentarily live that childhood dream, while introducing me to some of my absolute best friends in the universe and the people I love deeply and in ways I did not know I was capable of loving. But I definitely now understand the roleplayers who are very strict about separating IC from OOC and don’t touch drama, negativity and gossip in any way shape or form.
I am sad I couldn’t carry out Eve’s 7 years like I had intended to. To be the first person to really do that, make my own story in the Harry Potter universe and have it there for me and anyone else to look on and read forever, like my own extension of the books, is incredible, and even more so to do it from the perspective of my own self as though I was there is a dream. But I am ready to close this chapter. I don’t know if I’ll ever return to it, on Eve or someone new, and whether I do or do not, I will always be grateful for the experience.
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #94
Date: 31st of March, 2028
Dear Diary,
I’ve been having a hard time motivating myself to write in you, but a lot has happened.
Firstly, I haven’t spoken to or seen Ruby since our fight, which I guess is good in a way, but I’m still worried about him. Is it dumb that I’m worried about him? I guess so. But I can’t help it, I am.
We had Charms Class, and I made Professor Devon this enchanted embroidered handkerchief. And then we practiced spells, so I sat underneath a desk and just sort of worked on things. I’ve been getting better at my spells, I haven’t been failing hardly at all which is nice!
Ressy had a gold-themed birthday and it was a lot of fun, I got to eat rock candy which was cool because I usually only ever have rock candy when dad takes me to the zoo. And I got her these candles that never melt down and smell like… Well they do the thing amortentia does as far as smells go, which is super nice.
For St. Patrick’s Day, I went down to the campfire to pick four leaf clovers. Bobby met me there… I guess it was sort of a date? Anyways we pressed four leaf clovers and used spell-o-tape to turn them into bookmarks, and we’re gonna hide them around the library. But, that’s not the most important part… The most important part is we… Kissed? Twice. Once at the campfire after I tried to kiss him (and missed, I got his cheek) and then he kissed me and then… He gave me a piggyback ride to the common room and asked if it was okay to kiss me again so I said yes and then he called me beautiful and… I don’t remember ever being called beautiful, not like that. And it makes me feel very… Warm and at home and now I know what butterflies feel like and it kind of is like all the books I read, you know? It’s… I mean… Yeah.
The faeries have started hatching, and I made a new friend by offering biscuits with raspberry jam and complimenting her a lot. I don’t know what her name is, but we’ll figure that out later. Anyways, she follows me around, which is really nice.
For Ostara (the spring equinox) I spent much of the day cleaning the common room and my dorm out. I used to do spring cleaning at home but I can’t quite do that here so, I did what I could and then I hung out with my new friend and walked the grounds. It’s very muddy, so I’ve been walking around barefoot because I like how the mud feels between my toes, even when it’s cold.
There was a cute spring fling party thrown in the dueling room, too. They made the floor all grassy and had all these pink snacks and there was this elephant statue in the middle with flowers on it, which I loved. It reminded me of the elephant I gave Elliott, and the one I gave my grandpa, too.
We also had Hogsmeade weekend, and this fair with duelists and quidditch pros! Autographs were being sold and there were all these stalls, so I got some jellybeans and chocolate candies. But this goblin protest showed up, and they started throwing rotten fruit and stuff at everyone and there had to be shields put up. I didn’t stay long.
Anyways, that’s what’s been happening. I hope that things get better, they’ve been pretty okay for now at least and, I’ve been doing okay with just focusing on drawing and my spellwork and spending time outside now that the snow is all melted. And spending time with Bobby and my friends, of course. I love them a lot and I’m very grateful for them. I’m also curious about the third task… It’ll be here before we know it. I can’t believe my second year at Hogwarts is already almost over.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #93
Date: 8th of March, 2028
Dear Diary,
I cut my hair and made it red again, but I dunno. It didn’t make me as happy as it did before. I don’t know if anything makes me truly happy right now. That sounds selfish.
The past couple days, I’ve been sitting in my dorm a lot. When my dorm-mates aren’t in the room with me, I open Lars’ box and just… Watch the stars, for what feels like hours. It’s weirdly helping me feel better about existing? Like, I’m really tiny. All of this is tiny. It reminds me of this poem I really like. I’ll paste it here:
I'm sending you this postcard,
From the dark side of the moon,
So you know I got here safely,
And that I will be home soon,
For today I held our planet,
Between the fingers on my hand,
And learnt there's more stars out here,
Than our earth has grains of sand,
So now the life I ran from,
Doesn't seem like such a wreck,
When the town I grew up in,
Isn't more than just a speck,
And although my life feels tiny,
As I look back at our home,
I've realised we're the only ones,
Who don't live it alone,
That sometimes even shooting stars,
Send pieces down to earth,
When their solitary beauty,
Starts to cost more than it's worth,
I am sending you this postcard,
From the silence of the skies,
To remind you that there's beauty,
In our microscopic size,
So I hope next time you feel alone,
The moon shows you you're not,
And how lucky we all are to find,
Our home on this blue dot.
Anyways. I also got… 19 pamphlets from these different dueling leagues? Apparently they’re scouting me and I could sign on with one after graduation? I’ve been looking at the Caernarfon Krakens purely because my dad and I have this inside joke about one of his cats, and we say ‘Release the Kraken!’ because before Hogwarts, she would sit on my lap while I played D&D and would mess with the dice, and we’d joke that she’d be a surprise boss because she’s so big compared to the miniatures. But uh, yeah. I dunno, I also like the sound of the Holyhead Banshees or the Manchester Mandrakes. Or the Pennyghael Picts.
I talked to Ressy and Jamie and Talula the other night. Jamie had given Ressy this magical floaty metal mermaid for her birthday, which is in a couple days. March 13. She’ll be 13. I didn’t realise I was older than her, sometimes it feels like the reverse. Anyways, she says she’s gonna try to throw a party, and Talula convinced her to make it gold themed. I told her that was funny, because she showed up in my dream and she was all yellow and golden. And Tom is gonna make Jamie paint up this poster for dueling that has him in it with his head as a dragon or something? I dunno, I sort of zoned out.
I told Ressy and Jamie and Talula about what happened with Ruby. They were really mad and defended me which was nice but… I still… I mean after everything he did and said, I still don’t like hearing people talk badly about him like that. Am I broken? I feel broken.
I’m not gonna bring it up with anyone anymore, I don’t think. Though I should probably tell Marigold. I will. She showed up at lunch but I was really distracted and kind of wanted to be alone so I left. I just hope this can blow over and I can move on but… I don’t know. I miss him. I miss what we were. It feels like there’s a hole in my chest. It makes it hard to breathe.
I hope the next few days are good. I have to figure out what to get Ressy for her birthday. I have no clue.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #92
Date: 6th of March, 2028
Dear Diary,
So much has happened that I have to tell you about! I’ve been so scattered and busy with school and friends and the task coming up that I haven’t had a chance to write, but I’ll try to where I can!
So we had Hufflepuff Hangout, and I talked to Marigold, Siren, Caitlin and Quinn about my worries with Bobby and Ruby. Well, they basically said that I could be worrying myself over nothing, and that I should just talk to Ruby and see how he actually feels. So I did! And we also made chocolates, I made mine in the shape of bunnies and frogs.
Anyways, I talked to Ruby in the library. Told him he was my best friend and I love him but also that I fancy him, and Bobby too. He seemed supportive and didn’t say anything about feeling the same way! Seemed like he was just happy for me, which was great. I felt much less stressed out about it. So I gave him my chocolates and everything was good!
And then I went to talk to Bobby in the caves. I told him I do fancy him and I guess we’re gonna just see what happens? It’s all exciting and makes me feel like I’ve eaten butterflies. Swallowed them whole, anyways. I don’t like the thought of chewing on them. I bet it tastes gross and feels weird, plus, that’s sad. But yeah! We haven’t kissed or anything, just on the cheek and stuff. And he calls me little fairy? Which makes me ridiculously happy. I wish I really was a fairy, still, and spring is coming which means they’ll be hatching soon! Oh, he calls me little egg, too, speaking of hatching. I just find that nickname funny.
Oh and we had Defense Against the Dark Arts, and met a fifteen year old vampire named Ricky! He was just turned a year or two ago when he was fourteen! And he had pale blond hair and these huge red eyes, and he talked to me a lot during class when we were all asking questions. I think he was flirting with me? And he asked me if I wanted to live forever, so I was kind of an idiot and wondered about what would happen if the sun swallowed the earth, would all vampires just become stars? But then!! He wrote me a love letter! I’ve never gotten a love letter before! Anyways, I’ll clip it here.
Ever-lina,
Fitting name for a girl who might want to live forever.
I'm off now, but I'll keep your precious face in my heart, when the nights go from mystical to haunting, and from thrilling to lonely.
One day, some day, one night, some night,
We will meet again.
Look to the stars and think of me.
Yours,
Ricky
[The diary entry picks up again in a different shade of ink, and Eve’s handwriting is a little more calm and less messy.]
I never finished my last entry, but, we had the task! We all went out to the lake into this stadium, and it was in a big ring and then we could look into the water like it was a television. The champions had to get into the water and it turns out they had to rescue people! Lars wore this mask thing, and Cardan rode a shark which was pretty cool. Everyone got really emotional, though, because it looked like the captives were drowning or something. But anyways, it was all okay in the end. Oh! And the Durmstrang Headmaster, the one who died? He’s back, but he’s a ghost! Apparently Jamie took it really hard and he doesn’t understand why everyone cries when he’s around. I think it’s kind of cool, to be honest. I wonder if he’ll stay at Hogwarts, or if he’ll haunt Durmstrang when it’s time to go back?
We also had another Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and we talked about hypnosis, which made me think about astral travel, lucid dreaming and how that might work together. Like, if you could just project your soul out of your body to avoid being hypnotised. How would that work?
Oh, and I lost my parent’s engagement ring, which is making me really sad. I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t find it! I hope my mum and dad don’t notice. I mean obviously they’re not married anymore, but it had my birthstone in it, and I’ve never not worn it!
[There’s another break before the entry picks up once again in another shade of ink. Eve’s handwriting is messy and some of the words are splotched from tears.]
Everything has gotten… Bad. I don’t even know where to start, because I want it to just be a bad dream.
I was talking to Ruby in the clocktower, and we started talking about my family. Somehow, he didn’t know that I was a halfblood and… He scared me really badly. He started freaking out, hurting himself, told me I lied to him and I just wanted to steal his magic and it was just like his guardian told him, that everyone was trying to trick him and I… I don’t know, it all sounded absolutely mad. I begged him to go to the Hospital Wing with me, but he kept trying to get away from me, and tried to cast everte statum on me twice. In the end, he accidentally broke his wand and then pushed me to the ground. I got a big splinter in my hand, I think from his wand.
So I ran away. I ran all the way back to the common room, and Bobby was there, and he held me and bandaged my hand and we ended up falling asleep in the common room. I really hoped that when I woke up today, it would just be a bad dream. That it wouldn’t be real. I don’t know what to do now knowing that it is.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. All I can think about is how Ruby and I used to explore the summer before Hogwarts, or how we made promises to each other under the new years fireworks, or when he held me when I cried because of what had happened with Octavia. And he threw all of that away because of something I have no control over, and all this mad paranoia stuff that I don’t understand at all.
He kept calling me the M word. Not even halfbreed. He went straight for… Mudblood. And he said he hated me. I’ve never felt this kind of pain before. It’s like my Ruby is gone and I don’t know where he is but he’s been replaced by a stranger. I can’t imagine living in a world where Ruby and I aren’t friends, even less so a world where he hates me and wants to hurt me.
I don’t know what to do, but… I’m exhausted. I’m glad yesterday was Friday. I think I might just sleep today. I’m scared to leave my common room. I don’t want to see him. The clock tower used to be my favourite place in the school, but now it’s just like a graveyard where our friendship was murdered. That sounds really dramatic, but it’s how I feel.
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #91
Date: 14th of February, 2028
Dear Diary,
Well! It has been a very eventful couple of weeks leading to Valentines, and most of it is good! Honestly, I’m so excited for spring. I’m ready for the snow and ice to go away, and I’ve come to realise that aside from Halloween, Valentines might be my favourite holiday. I mean, I love all of them but, yeah.
So I tried this potion called essence of euphoria for the first time, with Ruby. I bought some last Hogsmeade Weekend. Ruby and I played some question games, and it was really silly. It made me feel very… light and soft. Like I had sunshine in my belly, which, the potion is all sunshine yellow, so that makes sense. And Ruby kept saying all these things, calling me pretty and stuff. It was a good memory, I think. I want to buy more from Hogsmeade, but I have to save my allowance a little.
I got to talk to Aures a little, and I met some other Gryffindors - one named Andie, the other named Candice. Candice seems nice, and I offered to help her with herbology homework because she was struggling with aconite. Andie is… lively. And energetic, but… I’ve heard her say some mean things to Jamie, so I’m not sure how to feel about her. Ressy likes her though, so… I dunno.
In Potions Theory, we got to talk about Love Potions which I guess is something we do every year around this time of year. Not that I’m complaining, I have that subject matter practically memorised. I love the idea of love potions! Or maybe I just love love. Anyways, we got to smell amortentia again. I smelled chocolate chip cookies, and firewood like the smoke from campfires and fireplaces, and honeysuckle, which made me really wish it was spring again. I wish I could wear amortentia as a perfume. I wonder if you could actually do that? And then you’d smell like whatever attracts other people. I wouldn’t want that kind of attention, though, I’d want to just smell it for myself, you know?
Jamie found me in the art room when I was painting some stuff I had seen from the vision. We talked about it for a long time. I learned some things about the vision I hadn’t known, and so did they, because we both focused on different things when we were seeing it. It’s so strange to share that exact memory with someone else, but, it’s also kind of cool, and comforting. Jamie told me that they’re dating Ressy now, and I thought I’d be jealous, but… I think it’s sort of good? I know Ressy has always wanted other friends, and I do too, so it sort of feels like even though we’re kind of growing in different directions right now, it means it’ll be better to grow together later. Like, become our own people rather than being isolated together, I guess.
Cupid’s Corner and the rose grams came back again. I got one rose from Jamie, and it was a new friend rose. I’m going to hang it from the poster frame of my bed so that it dries in a good shape, and then I’ll keep it forever. And then I put in Cupid’s Corner messages for a few people, but not as much as I did last year or that I would’ve liked to, and I didn’t send any roses at all. I guess I felt really tired and lazy. Maybe a bit sad and homesick? Like, I’m all pent up, and I keep dreaming of just getting on my broom and flying away for a little bit, having an adventure.
In Divinations, we did divination with cats! I was very glad to not have brought Puck to this lesson, because he doesn’t really get along with other cats. Like, he doesn’t mind them, but if he gets frustrated or wants to go outside, he’ll bother them. Anyways, I got to divine with this orange cat, the tag said Sir Pounce de Leon, but if he were my cat, I’d have named him Goose or Cashmere. I love his name, anyways. And I ended up staying in the room way after everyone else had left, because he fell asleep in my lap and it seemed like it was against the law to move.
We did the flutterby bush class again, which I always love, and then it was time to prepare for the Hearty Party. Mum sent me this dress I had from a few years ago, but she’d used magic to colour it, and my granny tailored it to fit me better since I’ve grown a little. And then she gave me this sparkly undershirt thingy to wear with it, and a big pink ribbon. Oh, and this piece of costume jewelry that’s like a big opal to wear as a necklace. Honestly, this was probably my favourite outfit I’ve ever worn, and I didn’t really wanna take it off. I just love love! And love themes! And for the party, I coloured the ends of my hair red and then braided it and tied it up.
The Hearty Party this year was pretty cool. The theme was Medusa and Athena, which I thought was interesting. I heard they’ve done greek themes for years now. They apparently did Poseidon at one point, and there was sushi and stuff and it was all underwater themed, and I wish I could have seen it! I ate berry flavoured cheesecake and fruit lemonade, and then I ended up leaving early because there was so many people in there and so much going on, that I got a little overwhelmed.
I ran into Casey, also. He’d gotten into some sort of fight with Peach and she stormed off, and Andie and this Slytherin girl Alexandra teased him. He seemed really upset, so I stopped him and told him if he needed to talk to a friend, or anything like that, I’m here. He went to the common rooms and I haven’t seen him since, but it’s only been a day so… I just hope he’s okay and has friends to talk to if he needs it.
And then this is where it gets… interesting? Weird? Bobby found me in the clocktower. I was playing exploding snap by myself, so we started talking and were gonna play some games, but then a bunch of older students showed up, so he picked me up and carried me to this secret room behind a painting! I don’t think I’ve been carried since I was little, and even then it was by my parents!
Anyways, we started to play the game. We talked about favourite holidays, worst things we’ve ever done. We talked about what we thought about marriage and family, like, when we’re older. He says he wants to have a yacht which is like a big fancy rich people boat, and I told him I want to travel in a van or even a caravan and sometimes by broom, like, see the world?
But then we started talking about crushes, and he told me that Talula had talked to him about me and that she thought I might like him, which, she’s not wrong. And I told Bobby that I did like him, and Ruby, too, and he told me he liked me back! And he kissed me on the cheek! But then, he asked if we were supposed to kiss or something, and… And I got so nervous that I just kissed him on the cheek and ran away!
I had told him I didn’t want to make things weird with out friendship, but, I also kind of don’t want to let this go. I don’t really know what to do. Bobby is one of my closest friends, it’d wreck me if I lost him for some reason or another, but, maybe I’m overthinking it? I need to ask Marigold or Talula or someone for their thoughts. Someone older, with some experience. Though, Talula did talk about Chadwick apparently being a knob, so… I dunno.
My brain is all kinds of confused, now. But, we’ll figure it out. I’m sure it’ll all be okay. So! Until then.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #90
Date: 7th of February, 2028
Dear Diary,
A lot has happened so… Let’s see where to start.
We had Art Class, and talked about all the different mediums for art and stuff. That was awhile ago, so my memory of it is fuzzy. But, basically, art is all around us. Food, music, furniture, clothes. It’s everything. The human touch, you know? Creativity and imagination, making something that lives in your brain exist in the real world. Aures and I got to take a look at some of the paintings in the long gallery for a little, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot since that class.
In Herbology we talked about wand woods. I can see the unicorn hair inside my wand, now. I’ve wrapped it with a silk ribbon, but I’ll probably have to get a new wand soon. Oh, and Ruby and I made cinnamon rolls in Homemaking Magic. I like that professor a lot, she’s really nice. I made orange cinnamon rolls because those are my favourite, and they remind me of my mom.
Sadly, though, I’m sort of slipping in all my other classes. I’ve been feeling really sick lately, like… my stomach is always upset or twisted in knots, and my chest feels heavy. Well, my everything feels heavy, really. My whole body. And I also feel numb a lot of the time. Sometimes I wonder why I bother trying, and things feel pointless for a little bit, but then one of my friends talks to me or I go and make something and I feel okay again. I don’t know. I’ve just felt really disconnected lately. Like I’m not alive anymore.
I’ve been having a lot of weird dreams lately, and I’ve sort of been… controlling them, too. I wake up from sleep and feel this weird, falling, tearing sort of feeling inside of me. It’s kind of… tingly isn’t the right word but it’s the only word I have. Like when you get a random chill, but longer and dulled. I wrote my mum about it, and she told me that there’s a theory about something called astral projection and astral travel, and that the feeling I felt, she believed, was that of my soul leaving my body. I’ve been lucid dreaming because when I wake up and feel that feeling, I know I’m still half asleep and dreaming, so I sort of fall back asleep with the goal in mind to control my dream to be whatever I want, and then it sort of works! I’ve never been able to control my dreams before, it’s really cool.
Though I did dream something that I couldn’t control. Something that I don’t think was a dream. I think I had a vision. There was… forging. Like weapons? And goblins, talking about waging war against the wizards. And a wizard was controlling them. They were making a ring and… I don’t know why, but the ring felt important. And then I saw flashes from that battle in the forest again. Men dying. The unicorn that was killed, impaling someone. It felt like it was impaling me but, I knew it wasn’t me. I saw someone with a blind eye carrying a boy who looked like Ruby away. Except the boy was older, and taller. I didn’t recognise the girl. I saw the ring fall from a hand as it turned to dust. There was a mask, and these hateful eyes behind it. More of the goblins waging war, more of that ring… So much hate, and fear.
I was having a hard time sleeping after that, but Puck has been by my side when I sleep, especially lately, and that’s helped a lot. Not just with the sleeping but the loneliness too. I’m really homesick. I sort of can’t wait to get out of the castle, at least for a little bit. I wish spring would come and melt the snow.
My dad sent me something in the mail. He said it comes from a video game, but since I can’t play it… He sent me a book and a stuffed animal instead! The book is about this place called Thedas, with all these characters who live in Ferelden, amongst some other cities and stuff. There’s elves, dwarves, and these horned giants called Qunari, and mages and knights and all sorts. I really like the Dalish elves. Oh! And the stuffed animal is this enchanted plush fennec fox, because apparently fennec foxes are native to Ferelden, along with these… mole rat sorts of creatures called nugs. I’ve named my fox Alistair Rose, because there’s a ‘codex entry’ about a knight named Alistair who gives the main character a rose.
Today, for Hufflepuff Hangout, Priaulx had us go to the dueling room and do a sort of talent show. Nora did this acting thing, I think it was Macbeth? And Marigold showed how she could throw Sebastien because she’s trained in martial arts! And I read one of the codex entries from the book dad sent me. It’s about the elven goddess of the hunt. I’ll copy it down here -
Hear me, sons and daughters of the People -
I am Sister of the Moon, Mother of Hares,
Lady of the Hunt: Andruil.
Remember my teachings,
Remember the Vir Tanadhal:
The Way of Three Trees
That I have given you.
Vir Assan: the Way of the Arrow
Be swift and silent;
Strike true, do not waver
And let not your prey suffer.
That is my Way.
Vir Bor'assan: the Way of the Bow
As the sapling bends, so must you.
In yielding, find resilience;
In pliancy, find strength.
That is my Way.
Vir Adahlen: the Way of the Wood
Receive the gifts of the hunt with mindfulness.
Respect the sacrifice of my children
Know that your passing shall nourish them in turn.
That is my Way.
Remember the Ways of the Hunter
And I shall be with you.
We also had drama club. Everyone decided they wanted to do a version of the Tale of the Three Brothers, but with the three champions instead. Professor Macauley told me to audition for Cardan but… If I’m going to audition for anyone, it’d probably be Elliott. That being said, I don’t think I will. I’m sure there are other people better suited to the role, and I think I’d rather focus on continuing the play I had started writing last year.
We had Hogsmeade Weekend, and I got to see Bonnie, which was really nice. I miss her. Sometimes I feel a little lost without her. And I got some sweets for my stash - some fruity cakes, and bottles of butterbeer and pumpkin juice. I also bought a little potion from the shop… It’s called the essence of euphoria. Apparently, it’s really popular with the older students. It’s very sticky and sunshine yellow, and smells good. So I’m going to see if Ruby wants to try it, and play some games. So! Until then.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #89
Date: 18th of January, 2028
Dear Diary,
Not a lot has happened since classes started back up. I’ve been slacking, and it’s been giving me a lot of anxiety. Like I’m my own worst enemy when it comes to schoolwork. I really need to get better about practicing my spells. But when I talk to Professors, they’re really happy with my work. They must not notice how lazy I am and how much I procrastinate.
I visited Dumbledore’s grave with Bobby. We made a fire because we felt like he might be cold, and we talked about how he was probably more deserving of a mausoleum, but he was a humble man, or so I’ve read. We talked about being remembered after we die, and I promised him I’d make sure to never forget him, and he promised me the same.
Our new charms professor, Professor Purchase, seems interesting. He talked about learning to use magic sort of like a performance, and from what I gather, he is or was an actor? But I like the way he talks about magic, and how to use it.
Our art professor is Professor Wellbelove, and I’m really glad I get to take art now because it gives me more motivation to paint and draw again. I’ve been spending more time in the art room by myself. It’s been really nice.
My wand’s condition is getting worse. I swear I can see the unicorn hair inside of light catches the crack in the wood just right. It’s really worrisome. I’m too hard on my things, I always end up breaking them or wearing them down really quickly.
I also spoke with a Gryffindor, Jamie. They asked me a lot of questions about divinations, and seers and stuff. I talked about my Grandfather, how visions come to me mostly in dreams, and how I try to use what knowledge I have to help people if I can. And that if I can’t help it and it’s heavy, talking about it with someone or writing about it helps a lot. So I think I made a new friend, because they promised I could always talk to them, and I promised them the same. It was really nice.
I love the snow. I’ve been walking around outside a lot, reading. Especially early in the mornings, before everyone wakes up. I wish I could go into the forest. It looks so interesting, and I bet there’s treasure inside. I keep dreaming of treasure. Especially near that weird crater with the light that I wrote about before.
Anyways, that’s all for now.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #88
Date: 6th of January, 2028
Dear Diary,
Well, winter break is over, and it was eventful. And Christmas at Hogwarts is kind of wonderful! I wonder if it’s always like this, or if it was extra special because of the Triwizard Tournament? I have heard kids say that if they stay at Hogwarts for Christmas, there’s a feast like the one we had, so I’m not sure… I do miss home, though.
So I held my Death Day Party for Yule (the Winter Solstice) and a whole lot more people showed up this time than they did for the one I threw last year. People gave photos, and there were all these gross smelling pastries Marigold helped me make. We stuffed them with some really concentrated cranberry and garlic, and stinky cheese, and we stuffed rotting pumpkins with fish and stinky cheese too. We had candles and black decorations on our trees, and a bonfire that turned blue from the ghosts!
I invited the Durmstrang Students, including Lars, and I gave back a photo I had of Golovin. Lars got upset because of this one ghost with a sword in his chest, and he ended up leaving. I felt really bad, and I’m worried I made it worse. But I haven’t seen them since the funeral. Bonnie also showed up, and asked me if I had any information or knew anything, but I told her I didn’t. I wish I did. I hate seeing so many people in such pain.
Ressy made us a little room to stay in for Christmas Eve, up on the seventh floor. She turned a little classroom into this pillow fort thing with hot chocolate and cookies and Christmas decorations, and it was really cute. We hung out in our pajamas and just talked and read, and had fun. We slept there, too, and I had good dreams for once. My dreams have been all kinds of messed up, lately, but that night, I remembered dreaming about adventure, and having wings. I wish I had wings I could fly with…
For Christmas, I got my own broom! It’s called a Moontrimmer broom, and it’s old and good for flying up really high! I’m really happy to finally have my own broom. I’ve been wrapping it up and tucking it safe behind my bed every night, and I got to fly around the castle a little bit, on it, which was cool. I could never do that with classes on, I’d get yelled at!
I also got a locket from my mother, and an extra soft blanket and some books to read. I didn’t get any enchanted plushies or anything like I had last year, but I did get a very pretty nutcracker, which sits on the desk next to my bed in the dorms.
We had Christmas Dinner at Hogwarts, which was really good. It was a big feast, and there were crackers everywhere! Nora and I pulled a few, and told jokes and stuff. I got to eat turkish delight and those chocolate sticks that have fruit jelly inside? Which are my favourites! And of course lots of mashed potatoes.
There was a “Jam Session” in the dueling room, and Magnus, Sebastien (the Beaxbaton’s second), Professor Rask, and Emily were all playing instruments. A redheaded Ravenclaw boy joined them, and it was just… A lot of fun! I love music, and I feel like I miss it a lot at the castle. We can’t have electronic music players or anything here, after all, so most of the music I hear is Ressy playing violin.
I had a very quiet New Years, alone. I hung out in a tower and I drew, and watched people set off fireworks in Hogsmeade when it was midnight. I think people in the castle were celebrating, too, and it kind of made me wish I had bought fireworks to celebrate with them, but it’s okay. And for lunch that day, I had black eyed peas and mashed potatoes, which reminded me of home.
They had this polar dip thing down by the lake that morning, too. I jumped in and… It was the worst feeling! Absolutely freezing! I’m very grateful that we have the hot-air charm, and there were plenty of blankets, too. I learned I can stand walking around in the snow barefoot, though, so that’s cool! Pun… not intended.
And then we had the funeral for the Durmstrang Headmaster. He was in a glass coffin, holding a branch, and he looked really peaceful. It was by the Whomping Willow, because he apparently loved the Whomping Willow? And it took him down into the ground with its roots. I cried a lot. The Durmstrangers had some… difficulties with this really tall man who is supposed to be their new Headmaster, I guess, and they all sang that song that their Headmaster loved a lot.
Now we’re back to school. We have a new Charms Professor, and a new Art Professor, and we’re meeting both of them today, which is really exciting! So, until then...
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #87
Date: 20th of December, 2027
Dear Diary,
I’m writing this at the Yule Ball! I know I should be enjoying the festivities, but I’m so excited I simply cannot contain myself.
I mean, you already know I love dressing up. I ended up getting out the wings I had made for last year’s Winter Ball, and they go really well with my outfit. And everyone looks so amazing! Marigold looks like an elven princess! She made her hair so long it drags on the floor, and put flowers in it, and has these pretty metal elf ears and this really elegant blue dress. She’s going with the Beauxbatons second! Can you imagine being one of the Champion’s dates?
And Talula is wearing the prettiest purple dress I’ve ever seen. The colour goes so good with her blonde hair and her green eyes. She looks like the princess or heroine of a deeply romantic fairytale. I hope Chadwick appreciates her! I can only hope I grow up to be half as pretty as she is.
Caitlin is wearing this red and yellow dress, and it looks so good with her red hair. And she has a flower in it to match. I mean, I could go on and on about how great everyone looks, honestly. I want to draw them all! I even saw another boy with wings, like me, but his were all feathery. I think Rya wore wings too, but I can’t see her from across the table because this ice sculpture is in the way.
And Ruby! Ruby looks like royalty! He did his own makeup, and made his face all gold and almost… dragon like? And he’s wearing these horns he said his mother made, which are all broken and floaty at the ends. He looks like a fae creature. And his hair is so long now! It’s longer than mine! And it’s all tied back with a ribbon, which makes him look like he came from the Victorian Era or maybe Medieval times? Whenever it was that men had very long hair and wore ribbons in them.
I’ve never seen the school look like this before! The grounds are all covered in twinkly lights and decorations, and they’ve made the courtyard outside of the Great Hall an ice skating rink with chocolate fountains and sleighs!
Inside the Great Hall is even more incredible, though. There are these huge round tables, with ice sculptures of all these creatures! Ruby and I are sitting at one that has a dragon. And the floor looked as though it were made of ice, and there was ice everywhere, like the windows and stuff! Just these giant ice crystals, with flowing white curtains.
And there are massive Christmas trees on a stage. I’ve never seen trees so big! And giant presents everywhere, though I don’t think they’re for opening. And we’ve ordered food from this giant menu. I ended up getting french onion soup and these things with smoked salmon, Ruby says they’re called bellinis? Anyways, they’re amazing! And I’m drinking something sparkly that tastes like… I don’t even know how to explain it. Like the night sky, and glittering stars? It’s so strange, but I will never want to stop drinking this!
The Va-Va-Veelas are singing now, and the Champions are all dancing with their dates. They all look so wonderful. We’ll get to dance, soon, so I’m going to put you back in my purse so I can dance with Ruby.
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Well… Diary… A lot of stuff has happened.
At the dance, there was a lot of chaos. The Durmstrange Headmaster… I thought he was just asleep but, he apparently… Died, at the table. Ruby pulled me out of the hall before I could really see anything, but I saw him fall ‘asleep.’ We spent the rest of the night exploring the grounds and the halls with all the decorations, and then the next day, when we went to Hogsmeade and the German Market, Marigold confirmed he had died at the dance.
The German Market was cool, there were all sorts of stalls of goods, and there was Santa taking wishes (he apparently had an American Accent) and it was decorated to look like Candy Land but… I felt really disconnected. Really hollow and kinda numb.
I’m holding the Death Day party in a little bit. I managed to get a photo of the Headmaster for it, and Blightly’s sister, and my Grandpa. And it all came together really nicely. A lot of ghosts are going to come, we got all the rotting stuff and finished the pastries. It’s been a nice Winter Solstice. I guess I’ll write in you later, after the party. I invited the Durmstrang students. I hope they come.
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #86
Date: 17th of December, 2027
Dear Diary,
I’m thirteen now! Can you believe it? I can go on websites without my parents permission and stuff now!
So Marigold, Aures and I made cakes in the kitchens. Marigold made this really pretty cake with these stacks, I think they’re called tiers? And she made it my favourite colour which is dark blueish green and put pink flowers on it. I think it’s the prettiest birthday cake I’ve ever had! And we made more sweets and hot chocolate and then went up to the art room and invited everyone to come paint and have sweets.
I don’t think most people painted, though. Marcella, a Hufflepuff first year, did a painting of me, and I kind of love it. I have it in my dorm right now, but I wanna send it home to show my mum and have her put it in my room for me. Oh! Arthur painted too.
A lot of people showed up, actually! The hot chocolate ran out pretty quick which was nice, and we were able to take the leftover sweets to the commons for the Hufflepuffs to eat. As far as gifts go, my classmates gave me a lot of things, and it was really sweet! I wasn’t expecting gifts but there was still some really cool things.
One girl, Brenna, gave me some macrons, and they were super good. I’ve eaten them all by now. One of the Durmstrang boys, Dominik, gave me a rose, and Riven sent me a cute homemade card and this clockwork owl wearing a yellow dress. Another Durmstrang boy, Magnus, gave me a photo of himself that was signed? Which might seem a little weird but I still treasure it and I’ll put it with my other photos in my room.
A Ravenclaw named Lynessa gave me this really pretty snowflake necklace and ring, and then Lars came, and gave me this box? And when you open the box, the whole room goes dark, and fills with stars! It’s incredible! He also said that all of Durmstrang would protect me if I needed it, so now I feel like the commander of a small army or something.
Oh, and a Slytherin girl named Ataka tried to give me… a whole bag of galleons, I don’t even know how many are in there, but I couldn’t accept it! So she said we’d pick something from a… catalogue or… something, I don’t know! To be honest, getting gifts is overwhelming. I always feel the urge to give back. So I hope people enjoyed themselves and the sweets. I chose the art room because I really wanted people to just paint and let go, you know?
Anyways, Marigold and I started talking crafts. I showed her all my letter writing stuff - my sealing wax and wax stamps, and my stationary and stuff, and she showed me these magical sprinkles and cookie cutters, so we went down to the kitchens and made pretty sugar cookies and spent some time decorating them, which was really nice.
Mum sent me and Ressy some matching Christmas sweaters, which made me really happy, and then we had dance lessons again. They tried to teach us the tango. I fell over four times. I don’t think the tango is for me.
Our Charms professor, Professor Idylwild, ended up having to leave the school. She left behind these really pretty feathers for everyone, with silk ribbons on them. Mine was white with flecks of grey and gold and stripes, sort of like a barn owl, and my ribbon was that deep blue green colour I like. She wrote a letter about an emergency happening, so I hope everything is okay. I wonder who we’ll have as our next Charms professor…
We had our last ghoul studies class before break, and we talked about the different types of death. Professor Esper said something that really stuck with me. He said there are three types of death - when your body dies, when you’re buried, and when your name is spoken for the last time. So before I die, I am going to make sure I have all of my loved ones and friends with me, and speak the names of every person I’ve ever loved who is no longer living.
I invited the professor to my Winter Solstice Death Day party, too. I’m really excited to throw it. Marigold is going to help me with making some very stinky cranberry and garlic foods for the ghosts.
Other than that, the Winter Ball will be this Saturday, and I’m super excited. The Va-Va-Veelas will be there to sing for us, which is awesome! I’m really looking forward to it, and I know Ressy is, too.
I have to get ready for class, so, until next time!
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #85
Date: 6th of December, 2027
Dear Diary,
Can you believe it’s already December? I can’t. So much has happened in a year… It feels both like it’s been longer than a year, but also that it hasn’t been long enough!
So we had the tree-lighting ceremony, and I think it’s one of my favourite things when the Great Hall is filled with all of the Christmas trees. They look so beautiful! And sometimes they use faeries or special bubbles to decorate the tree, and I love it. I’m still getting the stuff gathered for my Death Day party, but I think my trees will be covered in black decorations and a lot of candles.
We had Hogsmeade weekend, and it was good to go into the village, but I didn’t stay very long. It gets dark super early, and it’s been snowing a whole lot. Blizzards, in fact! So I stocked up on my candy, had some hot drinks, and walked back in the dark. It was a full moon, too, so they wanted us back early anyways for safety and stuff. Oh, I also visited Snitches Get Stitches, and I made some ornaments.
Apparently that thing that fell from the sky is some sort of space thing, a meteorite I think it’s called? And it’s a big mystery. There’s a big beam of light coming out of the forest and into the sky, where it struck. I’ve been drawing it from a tower window, and I want to see it up close, too. No one knows what exactly it is or what to do with it. But I’ve been having weird dreams ever since it landed. They’re fuzzier and harder to read than usual, which I dislike. A lot of them are very stressful dreams about drawing in the darkness of space, while trying to catch stars. Or I’ll be chasing the Aurora Borealis and fall right out of the sky!
In Herbology, we talked about evergreens, which I love. I think Evergreen would be a cute nickname for me, since it’s so close to my real name, but how lame is it to give a nickname to yourself? Anyways, someone mentioned holly, and I talked about how I’d love to have Holly be my name, and then Dana and Marcella both told me they liked my name which made me get all flustered. And then I said that I just like stealing names, like the fae, which is sort of true because I have a big list of names in my journal and I write down more every time I hear one I like.
We had Defense Against the Dark Arts class with MaCauley in the art room. He told us to paint someone we hated, and I don’t really hate anyone, so I started painting Grindelwald from a picture in one of my history books. Aures and I ended up pranking the professor - she bit into an apple and stuck one of my gummy snakes in it, and then he ate it! But he took it really well and actually thought it was funny. We laughed a lot, which was nice, but then some Beauxbatons students started arguing… at? About? Elliott and that made me all anxious, and then we left.
Professor Blightly held dance lessons, which was fun, but I don’t think I’m any better at dancing. I have a hard time with… time? Timing. And I’m already pretty clumsy, so trying to dance in a box is hard. I think I got the hang of it though.
Today, I had lunch with Marigold, and she told me that she didn’t get to do much dancing because of some drama, and I don’t know what that’s about, but I feel bad that I didn’t notice that she wasn’t dancing. We talked about the Yule Ball though, and I think we’re both looking forward to it. I know I am, anyways. Oh, and Lars approached me again, with another Durmstrang student, and asked for a reading. He said he’d give me what I need, which I thought was odd.
But anyways, I read his tarots, and basically the cards said he could be jealous or insecure and have very high standards, is currently triumphing over a victory, but is also beating a dead horse and if he continues he’ll get exhausted. Essentially. There was more to it, but I think both him and the girl he was with understood. They seemed very thoughtful about it, anyways.
After that, there was Hufflepuff Hangout today, and we decorated the tree in our common room. I hung up a little ballerina my mum sent me, and a little nutcracker Marigold transfigured for me to go with it. I also hung up the metal gingerbread-men ornaments I’d made at Hogsmeade weekend.
My birthday is in a couple days. I’ll be 13. Isn’t that weird? I feel like that’s weird. I used to always want to be 13 because that’s how old you can be to get on websites without your parents permission, but I don’t use computers much anymore. Anyways, I’m not sure if I want to do anything for my birthday, because I was planning on waiting ‘till I got home, like I did last year. But since we’ll be stuck at the school… maybe I should do something? Does anyone even know it’s my birthday? Maybe I should talk to Marigold and bake a cake.
That’s about it for me. It’s very grey and dark, and super cold these days. I feel like I’m living in a snowglobe again, but I kind of love it. I feel very inspired. I keep thinking about the Aurora Borealis and faeries in the snow and my phoenix. I’ve been drawing her again, lately. I think winter inspires me for her. I’m probably going to go draw her now.
Or maybe work on a faerie-house. I could ask Dracheblume to let me put it near the forest, so if any faeries get cold, they can hide inside. I also really like flying lately, like, for fun. I want to fly around the castle, but I don’t think I’d be allowed. I’ve been having a lot of dreams about that, too. Flying through the towers at night, while it snows, the moon bright in the sky. Aures and I never did get around to making that hiding place on the roof...
I have things to think about!
Much love, Everly
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Eve’s Diary - Entry #84
Date: 26th of November, 2027
Dear Diary,
So the first task happened, and it was completely mad! And some other stuff has happened, as well.
So the first task was beasts! We all walked through the forest to this huge stadium they carved out of the mountain. Not gonna lie, I absolutely hated going up the stairs to get to the top. I love flying, but I hate heights if I’ve only got my feet to rely on. It’s different if I’m on a broom. The stairs were so narrow and rickety, I felt like they were going to break under me, or a breeze would come by and push me off.
So the very first creature we saw was a Snallygaster, which reminded me of a Griffin a little bit? It was this big white bird… dragon… lion thing. It made these really cool noises that I don’t even have words to describe. The Beauxbatons Champion had to face it. She got knocked around the ring a little, but was able to make it to the cave and get whatever the prize was. I think she broke her arm.
Elliott had to face off against something called a Nundu. It looked like a big cat with this like… Fleshy spiky main? And it made the worst sound I’d ever heard in my life, though Ruby thinks the sound was awesome. It was just… the absolute worst scream. It sounded like death. And it nearly killed Elliott, too! We thought it ate his arm, at first, but he’d managed to get his arm away in time. He did get his face clawed up, though. There was a lot of blood. He’s fine now, but he has a pretty nasty scar. And he got his prize too, of course.
And then finally, Durmstrang’s champion faced off against an Occamy, which is this snake… bird thing that grows and shrinks to fit it’s space. It seemed a lot more friendly than the other two creatures, like it was only attacking because Lars was casting spells at it. Anyways, he managed to trap it pretty good before it could grow bigger than the stadium, and was very… show-offish about it, and got his prize. Durmstrang ended up winning that task by 1 point. Elliott had gotten second place.
I talked to Marigold, a bit, and she’d mentioned something about her uncle having a suitcase full of… ‘critters’ which I guess is creatures? I’m not sure if they’re magical or what, I’ll have to ask her. And then Ruby asked me to go to the Yule Ball with him, which will be fun! I have my outfit all fixed up, with my dress from the charity shop, my sweater and snowflake necklace. I can’t wait to see what they do to the great hall. I heard that in past years, they’d done the Nutcracker, and also Narnia, and I’m so jealous that I wasn’t able to see that! I’m really excited.
We had flying class, and the Durmstrang students talked about a tradition they do where they chase the Northern Lights. I’m so jealous of that, too! I remember last year when I kept having dreams about the Northern Lights. I made Ruby promise to chase them with me when we’re older. I have to see them. I also think I’m going to ask for a broom for Christmas.
It was Marigold’s birthday this week, also! I didn’t know, so I gave her her Christmas present early, which was this enchanted dragon plushie that flies around alongside you. I really need to get a calendar so I can keep track of my friend’s birthdays.
Oh, and there was another explosion, when we were celebrating Marigold’s birthday in the great hall. It shook the school, and now there’s something glowing in the forest near Hogsmeade. I heard whisper that some people think it’s something that fell out of the sky? Which would be kind of cool. I wonder what a star looks like.
In Herbology, Dracheblume told us they’ll be putting the Christmas Trees in the Great Hall soon, so she had us forage for stuff to make into ornaments. I found a lot of pinecones and acorns to paint, and Ruby had us look for conkers. He acted really weird and far-away when we were looking for them, though. But then, we hung out in the Great Hall, and talked a lot.
We talked about spending the next summers together, going to concerts and stuff to see The Marrows, The Weird Sisters, The Va-Va-Veelas and some other bands, and he also talked about me coming to stay with him in Bulgaria for a summer, which sounds exciting. I’m happy to talk to him and spend more time with him.
Anyways, that’s about everything, I think. I’m super sleepy, so I’m probably going to go to bed.
Much love, Everly
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