AN: The next two installments are all one chapter that has been split up. It is rightly titled Ensemble because each segment is a journal or diary entry from one of the main characters. I must give a special shout to my friend Matt who did the outline for Ron's entry. Thank you Matt! First up are Harry and Ron:
Chapter 11: Ensemble
Harry, November 3:
I'm worried for Seraphim. I don't know what kind of relationship she's getting herself into, if she's getting into it at all. Malfoy is still Malfoy and there's quite a lot he's got to answer for. They may start dating now, but what happens later? What happens if they're still dating when the war breaks out? And I'm certain there will be a war. Neither of them has chosen a definite side, although it's quite clear which side each would choose if things keep progressing without a romantic relationship.
If they're together when the war starts, which side will they be on? Will one pull the other to the side they ally with? Will they be split apart and end up possibly fighting each other? I know I'm not one to think ahead but this is bothering me.
Malfoy isn't a fully bad person. I think. I think he's just had bad influences and learned from example. I'm the opposite. I saw my influences and decided they were not what I wanted to be. I don't know what's going to happen now that Malfoy is, whether he likes it or not, going to start having good influences. I just wonder how they'll affect him.
I'm sort of ashamed to say so, but I don't really care what happens to Malfoy as long as Seraphim is all right in the end. Yet. I wonder if, with time, we'll grow to become…friends? That could be a major turning point for just about everything. An alliance between all four houses in Hogwarts, or at least between the 'leaders' of all the houses. I wonder how many of the Slytherins would actually join forces with Voldemort if he came to power again. And would Malfoy be one of them, regardless of his relationship (existent or non-existent) with Seraphim?
Things are changing. With the war getting closer, I think everyone knows that things won't be the same forever. Maybe that's why I'm so accepting of this new alliance. I know a couple of years ago I would have thought anyone who said I would end up helping Malfoy of my own free will had swallowed too much of a differing potion. But here I am.
I should be having a bad feeling about this, but I don't. I really don't. They almost look…cute together. I mean, she's so levelheaded and she could help him to control that…mouth of his. It's almost funny. I'm reading into this too much, maybe it'll seem lighter in the morning.
Ron, November 7:
Oh bloody hell! Professor GarbageBinns is rambling again. He's going on about how "Magic users should use their magic as Muggles use the public transit system." What the bloody hell is a 'public transit system'?
Well, a lot has been going on lately, lots of really bizarre things. For one, Snape wore a quite colourful scarf to class yesterday and claimed it was a mistake with a flecking potion; too much durnswor turned the thing into a bubbling mess and splotched onto his scarf. If it was a flecking potion, I'll eat my hat. Another odd turn of events is that Seraphim is head over heels over the most insolent bloody git, the King of Snakes, (aka Satan), Draco Malfoy. That little pervert, he probably wants to just have his way with her and be on his; way I mean. She would probably just another notch on his bedpost. I honestly doubt that he even knows what love is. I mean, look at his upbringing: his father, his grandfather, his friends. Idiots, all of them. Why is it that she can't just start going with Harry? Is that too much to ask?
On another note, Fleur wrote me another letter. It was quite understandable. She wrote about how Charlie used "flew powder" and yelled "New Deli" instead of "New Delhi", and he ended up in a Meat Deli in New York where she was visiting. She also scolded me for not coming to see her as often as I should. As if that were possible at the moment. But her English is getting quite good according to the last owl Mum sent me.
Hmm... See, Fleur is attractive. What does that little snake have that's attractive about him? I mean honestly, Seraphim literally means highest of all angels; what does Draco mean? Dragon, in Latin, a relatively dead language. In all legends, dragons are the villains and are usually slain by the hero. I did a bit of research (goodness, I'm starting to sound like Hermione) and it turns out that 'Harry' means 'home ruler', defender, hero and 'Harold' means 'leader of the army.' Sound familiar? I don't understand. Females are such abnormal creatures.
My name means 'advice.' Can't they take a hint as well as my advice? I hope they don't start dating; then I'll have to tolerate the nuisance and be civil because of Seraphim.