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Lloyd grunted as he reached for the pepper on the shelf in his cabinet. He hated cooking. What a waste of time. Normally he'd let the chicken tenderize itself, let the spices dust themselves about, demand that the frying pan sizzle immediately. Actually doing it was much harder.

Tastes like fish sticks, he thought as he swallowed a forkful of the meal. Dissapointed. Things did tend to taste like fish sticks quite often these days.

Who knew the taste of my meals depended on a little peice of wood? His wand, ten and a half inches, gopherwood, a unicorn hair in the centerm, lay splintered on the top shelf of his closet. Totally useless.

Don't know where I went wrong, he thought. He'd been seventeen and on top of the world, about to leave Hogwarts, when he'd played around a bit with some Muggles. That brat kid, Draco--it was his stupid house-elf that had ratted him out.

Stupid kid.

Ugh.

I have got to get my mind off the wizarding world.