08; Filtered away from Vriska

[bluhbluhhugestairs]

[So you may or may not have noticed that ever since camp, Tavros has been MIA. He's not responded to any journal entries, nor has he contacted anyone in person. In fact, he hasn't even been keeping up with anything on the journals at all, considering the fact hasn't even touched his journal. The reason? Ever since he took out Vriska's eye when she attacked him, he's become a recluse. He's barely left his room and hasn't left his house at all. If anyone could see him, they'd notice he looks thinner than normal, too, as he hasn't been eating properly. Having an eye fall into your lap is a traumatizing experience. Having your friends eye fall in your lap because of your spell is a million times worse.

But along with all of this is also guilt. He feels really, really bad for not having gone to see her in St. Mungo's or just checking up on her at all. It's now that the guilt has finally gotten to him enough to try and see how she's doing. Only he's going about it the cowards way and not asking her directly.]

sHE PROBABLY HATES ME, a LOT,
aND i DON'T, uM, bLAME HER AT ALL,
bECAUSE WHAT i DID WAS HORRIBLE,
aND i THINK THE BEST WAY TO, dESCRIBE ME IS,
dEFINITELY A MONSTER,
oR WORSE THAN A MONSTER, pROBABLY,

bUT HOW IS SHE,
dOES ANYONE KNOW?
uM, vRISKA, i MEAN,
fOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES,

aND EVERYONE ELSE, i GUESS,
i HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE SINCE CAMP,
eVERYONE IS, oKAY RIGHT?

3rd Cup of Coffee

[thisperfectsaucer]

I suppose I might as well join in the recent wave of announcement posts. I have also been given the honor of being made a fifth year prefect, for Hufflepuff. Congratulations to all of my fellow prefects and a hello to those now under my care! Rapunzel, if you'd like to talk whenever you have time? Since we're both Hufflepuff prefects I think it might be prudent to discuss how we're going to handle our duties.

Those of you who volunteered to help with the filtering charm, I haven't forgotten you! I've been researching theory and it really shouldn't be difficult at all to create the charm we want. If you are alright with waiting until school is back in session, as most of us can't do magic, I think we can have it in effect a few days after the start of term.

In slightly less serious news and in the spirit of heading Maxim off before he starts to brag too obnoxiously about it, he and I have finally given in to the inevitable and

[A pause, some blots]

we are

[Blotttt. He's thinking how best to phrase this, okay?]

officially dating. If he seems particularly smug and unbearable, you now know why.

(no subject)

[moveslikejaeger]

van is a butt
he is my butt now but he is still a butt
i just thought you all should know

In Which Cimorene Makes a Business Move and Shows Her House Pride

[moussebuckets]

School starts in two weeks, so I have an offer to make to all of you!

I'm going into seventh year and don't really need a lot of my old books (and given my aunt's tendency to collect them, I have more than one copy of a couple of the lower-year ones).

So, I'm selling them used for a bit of extra money. Each book is only a galleon and most are in good condition unless I've specified otherwise. I'm also willing to haggle for the more 'well loved' ones.

A Standard Book of Spells grades 1-5 by Miranda Goshawk (one each, years one and two are very well-loved)
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot (x2)
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them by Newt Scamander (x3) (one of them has an awful lot of notes added; I'll be selling that one last, another has a bite taken out of the back cover)
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore (x2)
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection (burn on the cover)
Monster Book of Monsters (a little beat-up, moody)
Intermediate Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard

Let me know if you'd like any and I'll owl them to you or meet you in Diagon Alley or at the start of school, whichever's most convenient. Oh! And for those of you that don't know me, I'm Cimorene Linderwall, Gryffindor. Hi, all you first years! You'd better wind up in my house.