All right

[alt_draco]

My first week is going well. My parents have already sent me a congratulatory package, of course. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's potions class, since I've always enjoyed brewing in the past.

Harry continues to insist on associating with Gryffindors and the like. Some of them hardly seem magical enough to attend an institution of this calibre.

Comments

[alt_harry]

It was kind of funny how mad Ron got when the feather wouldn't levitate.

Potions are with the Gryffindors again, so you'll have to get used to associating with them, though.

[alt_draco]

I suppose they're a necessary evil. If not for the Gryffindors, how would we know what it looks like when magic goes horribly wrong?

[alt_harry]

Sometime you're going to spill some potion on yourself, like that time at home, and then you're going to have purple elephant ears and you won't be laughing!

[alt_draco]

I was very young when I spilled that potion -- it had nothing to do with my innate magical ability and everything to do with my as-yet-unrealized height potential.

Also, why in Merlin's name would anyone brew a potion for purple elephant ears?

[alt_harry]

You were ten, that's not very young!

I don't know, because they wanted to feed it to Dobby? I think he'd look very fetching with purple elephant ears.

[alt_lucius]

I've been giving the matter some thought, and I wished to let you know that I don't want to make you uncomfortable using this journal as you see fit.

Harry said something the other day, about your efforts to please me. It has occurred to me that that admirable desire might make using the journal ... awkward for you. But not using it also presents a potential difficulty.

I know that you know the stakes, Draco, and we need not speak of it. I think you also know that the last thing either your mother or I want is to see you made to suffer.

Therefore, I am trusting you to use discretion, but I shall reward that discretion with a measure of privacy on your behalf. I shall endeavour not to monitor your remarks here with undue diligence.

Remember who you are and your obligations. If you need me, you have but to say so. But let us make a bargain, you and I: do post occasionally for my and your mother's benefit, as you would an owl home, and I shall 'leave you alone' the rest of the time, unless I hear from you specifically to look.