Dear Journal
Let the record show that I abhor the very thought of writing my thoughts down in a wretched book, its practically begging for someone to read it and condemn you. Alas my mother is a very vindictive woman, and in her quest to 'save' her only son, she has decided that I need to write in a journal, so I can be saved from even my own dark thoughts. At first I had refused her request, I even burned the first two journals she gave me, but the woman is more cunning than even I suspected, blackmailing me she threatened to 'accidentally' reveal my secret to the whole school. If it was anyone else I might have doubted the validity of that statement, and for a moment I almost did, but I know my mother, and she would put Salazar Slytherin to shame she is so cunning and often cruel if it serves her purpose. She's the true head of the Malfoy family, my father, and now I, are nothing but figureheads for her rein. Obviously I relented to her demands, for I am writing within this atrocity, but I had a few stipulations of my own. I've set up so many charms on this book, that no Slytherin shall ever be able to read it, for I know they are all planning to try. They are watching me write in it now with greedy eyes, they want to know my secrets, but I shall deny them that privilege. Let them try.
With Resentment
Sincerely
Draconis Lucius Malfoy, head of the noble house of Malfoy