Thursday,
September 1st, 1977.
12:00 p.m. Train to Hogwarts.

When I was younger, my mum always chastised me for seeming more interested in other people's lives than my own. She didn't understand that I wanted to be a writer one day, and that other people would end up being the characters of my stories. But I should probably consider myself lucky, mostly because she always bought me journals and let me go to that muggle writing camp over the summer. It occurs to me now that this story is going to be a confusing one, mostly because of the fact that I'm taking on one of the greatest challenges that camp sent me home with. I'm supposed to observe someone I know and write about them, and let whether they know it or not be my choice depending on my ethics. It's kinda funny now, but I immediately knew who I would write about.
I'd like to introduce you to my friend, Destiny June.
That chapter title I put up must be pretty confusing, considering that it makes it seem like I'm Destiny. But I'm not, I'm just a friend. We're not even in the same house, I just think that with the right encouragement, she has a story worth telling.
Look I'm really sorry if this is sorta confusing, I know that I'm sorta supposed to be impartial to all this but it's hard to start out impartial, so I'm just going to start out with the facts about Des for you.
Her name is Destiny Alicia June and she's in my year, so a 7th year this year. She's in Gryffindor and pals around a bit with Lily Evans, and thus ends up with this set of troublemakers in Gryffindor house- these boys that call themselves the Marauders. The boys in it are James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. One of the main traits associated with Gryffindor is their bravery, and the thing I've learned the most about at this school is that traits can come in many different forms in different people.
I know that Lily is brave for being able to handle herself after that whole bad blood thing with Severus Snape during fifth year, and that Remus Lupin is brave for dealing with his werewolf-ism. James Potter is brave for being so quick to protect his friends (and probably for asking Lily out so many times it's not even funny). Sirius I think deals with a lot of stuff at home... family disowning him and such, but I think he lives with James now. Destiny is brave for trying to keep in high spirits after her parents died shortly after her twelfth birthday. I never really understood Pettigrew but there's still time for observation there.
Okay, so still trying to be impartial, but in my house an associated trait is loyalty. Most people seem to think that loyalty only has to do with stuff like sticking up for your friends and knowing who your enemies are and such, but I tend to think of it a bit differently. Considering my knack for finding out secrets, I consider loyalty to be my promise to myself to never tell anyone's secrets without their permission. I don't think this counts because I'm writing on this challenge for myself, not really for the sake of readers... Not anyone that can use these secrets for anything. Anyway, lets get onto what you actually want to know.
Destiny can write music, but hasn't told anyone about it. It's crazy how sweetly she can create a song out of what seems like nowhere, I mean come on that's magic. She has an animagus form that I'm pretty sure she was taught by her parents, and her patronus is a rabbit. She's pretty shy but a 'wiz' at transfiguration charms, and if she let her true bubbly and outrageous personality out beyond that one time that everyone had a bit too much butterbeer at Hogsmeade last year, she could probably out charm Sirius Black. I think that there's a story between those two.
So bear with me a bit? I'll try to do a bit more formal and less personally involved of a chapter when I get the chance next time.
Signed, K.B.

Thank you for reading, and feel free to ask any questions you like Lovelies.~
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