Magic had that effect on people.  When you weren’t going several hundred miles away from home to learn maths or science, boarding school began to look a bit more inviting.

They grow like fancy flowers, but they grow nowhere...

It still felt incredibly weird, not having a family.  Not that I’d had much of one before but still.  And it was slowly dawning on me, that I had nowhere to go.

I’d discovered an interesting sounding hex in the library – something to do with antlers, I believe – and was itching to try it out. 

Two words.  Dementor Vane. 

I didn’t know where to go.  I was upset and angry and I’ve recently discovered that my brain doesn’t function so well when that happens

“Demeter…” I repeat “Vane?” 
Charlotte laughed, “Yes, that Demeter.  Because there are just so many of them.”

James and I were locked away in the astronomy tower.  But don’t get carried away.  We were in the middle of astronomy the class, so were reduced to making googly eyes at one another.

It’s been a stressful couple of days anyway, what with the assassination attempt.  Okay, I’m being very overdramatic but still.  Someone sent me bubotuber puss in the post.  That only happens to really unpopular politicians or women who date really popular Quidditch players.