Harry decided that nature had a sick sense of irony, bringing out its finery for summer when the world as everyone knew it changed for the worse.  There were birds everywhere, green grass, blue sky, unbearably hot sun...the perfect recipe for what should have been a peaceful day for students grateful for the end of term. 

Instead, he was making this trek on a deserted road to what had to be an empty town to meet a friend of Hermione's who had promised to help.  He kicked at a rock and watched it skip over the dirt path to rest in the grass.  Something had it out for everyone he ever cared for and if he ever found it, he was going to beat it's head in.  They didn't deserve to dragged into his stupid mess especially now that there was a Prophecy over his head.

"...neither can live while the other survives....."

He shook his head, hoping to drown out Trelawney's eerie voice.  Hermione would say to concentrate on thing at a time and chip away at the bigger picture piece by piece.

So piece one would be getting this bloke from Hogsmeade.

[small sigh, voice is a bit gravelly from fatigue and long hours in the library]

End of term is almost here, finally.  OWLs are okay so far, but I really think I could have done better on some of the theory.  I listed everything they wanted....didn't I?  Wait.  [groan]  I knew I should have listed the third alternate spellcasting method for that spell in Transfiguration.  What if that makes them count off points?  [sound of quill scratching paper furiously, low muttering; snippet of, "Notes for next year," can be heard]

Oh, how could I?  I was up all night for that test, just like the other ones, except for the Charms OWLs, and I highly suspect that you had something to do with that, Apollo.  Really, you can't go around using your powers--

[Shouting in the background, and the next time Hermione talks, her voice is far from the microphone]

"What's going on?"

[Male Voice]  "Umbridge is going out to Hagrid's hut!"

"For what?"

"She's going to sack him like Trelawney!"

"WHAT?!  Harry, we have to go out there!"

[sound of chair scraping the floor, rush of feet, and voices blending together.  Microphone cuts off after ten minutes of silence.]

((Backdated to around 12:30.  Let's get this show on the road!))

Okay, fellow DDDers. If you've been watching her journal, you know Hermione's been working through the books and you also know that it's time for the Department of Mysteries showdown. The handy dandy timeline crafted by the people at the HP Lexicon (which can be found here) put OWLs on either the 8th or the 15th with the big event happening the Wednesday and Thursday during the second week of OWLs.  So...you can guess what's about to happen.



Any questions or proclamations of "ur doin' it wrong"?

EDIT:  ...Of course, if things happen Wednesday and Thursday, all the events will happen a day later.  ORZ

OWLs start in the morning and I'm still awake reading Potions notes, someone please make me go to sleep.

Not Sirius.  Harry just found him again.

And the DA and Umbridge.  And this...Prophecy.  Why wouldn't he tell us?  This is something important!

[sounds of sniffling]

He doesn't deserve this! 

[sob, microphone cuts out after a bit of static]

((This is backdated to yesterday afternoon since she got some time on her hands and finished OotP.   Canon's going to be moving kind of fast now since it's near the end of the school year.  ORZ, I need penance for ignoring the hell out of canon.))

I'm sorry I haven't been around lately.  So many things have been happening in the past couple of weeks.  I forgot to mention that Harry gave an interview to The Quibbler last month.  It wasn't exactly the most respectable place for warning people about V-Voldemort, but it's out there.  Having Rita Skeeter in the byline probably helped the issues sell out.  That woman.  She's just as bad as Umbridge, but sometimes you need to deal with necessary evils.

Fred and George quit school as well.  Flew out the door, set off fireworks, an entire show.  Those two.  I'm surprised they didn't blow up some obscure part of the castle to put the finishing touch on their departure.  There is a swamp on one of the floors now.  Really quite extraordinary magic they managed to pull off, no one has been able to get rid of it yet.  If only they'd put all that knowledge to better use.  Honestly, all that potential gone.  Ron desperately wants to join them in whatever they're going to do, but thank goodness that his mum won't stand for it. 

Oh, and I had my career consultation with Professor McGonagall!  She told me that anyone would take me in their occupation, but really, I need to narrow my choices down!  There's a teaching job at Hogwarts, an Auror, working for the Ministry, going abroad for more study....it's really quite open!  Maybe I'll talk to one of Mum's friends about the medical field.  I've always fancied being a Healer. 

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....Once Jack gets back,  we need to talk.  And I'm close to the end of the book on my year.  Perhaps another week or two.  All my studying is keeping me from finishing.
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((OOC: lol, watch the mun catch up on ridiculous amounts of canon.))