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Everto Angelus: Definitely; Sirius is hilarious and should be a real person...um, wait, he's not? What is this you are saying? ellilyo: "somehow, u guys make me grin after only a couple of lines." :Blushes: Wow,thanks! We try.:grins: Aylah: No, you weren't confusing...we were just joking, saying Sirius wasn't fictionaland blinking ("What do you mean, he's fictional?" :blinks in confusion: "He's not real?"). ryoko6: We're having waaaay too much fun to stop...and thanks, btw. Elfstorm: Groozlestig, mentioned in chappie #1 and aka Booger Stick, is the potions professor. Shesounds like a horse and she looks a bit like one, too.Hopefully this chapter will be longer...we've added more rules! And no, this isNOT the last of the rules. :grins evilly:Rocks-my-socks:No worries there...this thing will go on as longas possible. :Grins VERY evilly: And nothing can stop us! Nothing, I tell you! Hahahahahaha--cough--hack--choke--wheeze--THUD. Darkwing Duck: "You okay?" Duck Dodgers: "Shut up, you fool! Help me up!" Darkwing: "Excuse us for a moment." BAM. "Much better." (As we have said, the authors have not killed one another YET...lol we shan't,our alter egos don't mesh well but the :twitch: people work well together...right, Darkwing? Darkwing?) THE DUCK HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. Okay,we're done now. Nuppu: :blushes again: Wow, thanks for a great review! We're so glad you like this story...and no, despiterequesting coughorderingcough that you scare people in elevators...lol...we're not as odd as we seem. (Darkwing: "We're not?") As promised, this entry is a tad longer, and involves yet another list of "rules"...some of which we don't really want to know who was responsible for them. :grins:

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THE DIARY OF JAMES POTTER

The Deepest Secrets of James Potter's Life

Do Not Read Unless You Wish to Die a Very Painful Death Involving My Friend Sirius Black (Who is Authorized to Read This) and Chocolate Frogs

(Scribbled in ink on the cover) JAMES POTTER'S MANLY JOURNAL

October 5

First years are like house elves: they toil, sweat, and bleed for us and they're happy about it. They enjoy it immensely, they really do. I honestly don't understand why it's frowned upon to hire first years to do one's bidding! What is the world coming to? It's not as if we don't pay them...

On that note, what else are first years for? There are far too many of them anyway, Sirius was right. Can't believe he got a week's detention. Besides, it's not like we treat them like house elves, we did let them keep their own clothes (Sirius suggested uniforms but that would have made it easier for Snivelly to spot, the stupid git.).

I've discovered a couple new rules while snooping around Dumbledore's office—I swear, he's either foggy-brained or, more likely, he puts them out on purpose—a few, I'm proud to say, were entirely my own doing.

7. Sirius Black is not permitted within a three meter radius of the first-year dormitories.

8. Quidditch game balls and anything else with self-propelling capabilities are not EVER permitted in the library.

9. Cauldrons and rope are not to be used to pull food up the side of the Astronomy Tower at any time, especially during class.

10. The large potion cauldrons are not to be used as "tanks" or any other type of vehicle; this rule is to be strictly enforced regarding stairs.

11. Enslavement of a student/a body of students is not to be considered a behavioral study.

12. It is absolutely forbidden to Glamour the enchanted Great Hall ceiling with cracks and thus attempt to convince first years that the sky is falling.

If I may say so, the last was a great and eternally brilliant idea of mine. I believe that number 9, too, had something to do wi—

OH! I think I see Lily coming this way!

JAMES

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