***AUTHOR'S NOTE***

Due to how short this update is, I will most likely post another chapter as well later this week. Unless I forget.

NaNoWriMo season is here, I'm quite distracted, so I apologize if I don't post anything more before next Friday!

24 October

Zoya,

I did like it. It was so sweet of them. Getting the whole school to sing for me was so sweet.

You will definitely have to show me the scrap book when it's done. Thanks for the extra batteries and memory card. I used them almost right away. We get mail during breakfast, so I took a couple of Allie-pooh and Scorpius eating. They both had their mouths full and blank half-asleep faces. So hilarious. Also, I think I'm going to call Scorpius Sunshine from now on. He is the more serious one in our little trifecta. I think it fits really well. I turned to him just now and called him Sunshine. He didn't like it. He scowled. So funny. I'm very pleased.

I can't wait to get candy… Don't get me wrong, wizard candy is just as good, if not better. However, I miss the candy from my childhood. Sometimes you have to catch wizard candy, like with chocolate frogs and stuff, but that's part of the fun. Most of it has other fun qualities. All of it is delicious.

Allie-pooh, Sunshine, and I have nearly finished our costumes! I'm excited. They look so good! Some of the other Slytherin have seen us working on our costumes and decided to dress up too. I'm excited for Halloween, I'm glad it's only one week away!

I'll probably talk to McGonagall about expanding the tradition if this year turns out ok! Fingers crossed!

Potions is a bit like cooking, but even harder. Like even one twitch more than the called for stirs can completely ruin a potion. Maybe one day I could be a potions professor… I could stay at Hogwarts…. Yes.

I'm kind of excited to come home for Christmas, I guess, but not so much to see my brother. I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind you hanging around. I'm sorry that your cousins kind of suck!

Well hopefully she lets you do martial arts eventually! Good luck with swimming, and you'd better not drown! Then I'd have to find a way to bring you back so I could beat you up for dying on me.

~Morgan