Holiday

[alt_sally_anne]

My holiday with the Strettons is going very well!

Gemma Stretton saw me reading my journal and wanted to see it so I'm writing this entry so she can see how it works!

Gemma is four years old so it'll be seven whole years before she gets to go to Hogwarts.  She thinks she'll probably be a Ravenclaw like her big brother Jeremy and their parents but she says it wouldn't be SO bad to be a Slytherin because after all, I'm a Slytherin and she likes me a lot.  Her magic manifested this year which was very exciting to her, her parents gave her new brown shoes and she had wanted new red shoes and she turned them red! She's wearing her beautiful red shoes right now in fact.

She says she'd like to wish a Happy Christmas to all of my friends.

Now I'm going to post it so she'll be able to see how it looks in the journal when I'm done writing it. The exciting thing is that EVERYONE ELSE can see it too, not only my friends but people I haven't even met (though I don't know why they'd bother reading my journal). Happy Christmas to everyone!

Comments

[alt_ron]

Happy Christmas, Gemma Stretton! And, you, too.

I Solemnly Swear I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Whoa. How do you even do that?

Just pretend everything's all right when it's totally not, but you can't tell a four-year-old kid any of it. I couldn't do that.

[alt_pansy]

Say hello to Gemma for me, Sally-Anne!

I cannot wait to have you come for Christmas.

Re: I Solemnly Swear I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

I had to do something fast, Gemma came in while I was writing and wanted to see.

I distracted her enough she stopped wondering why I'd switched inkwells.

[alt_sally_anne]

Gemma says, 'Happy Christmas, Ron Weasley!'

[alt_sally_anne]

I did, and she says 'hello' back.

She thinks these journals are the niftest thing ever and can't wait until she has one of her own. I told her they're more fun if you learn to read first.

[alt_sally_anne]

And I can't WAIT to see you. I'm really looking forward to having a nice long talk. And to decorating the tree of course and baking cookies!

[alt_crouch_jr]

Everyone can see what you write here. It's wise of you to recognise that.

Happy Christmas to the Strettons, and to you, Miss Perks--from those of us with eyes to see.

[alt_pansy]

Oh, believe me, we'll have tonnes and tonnes to talk about.

Thanks, by the way, for helping me with that thing. It really, really helped.

[alt_sally_anne]

Happy Christmas, Mr Crouch.

Re: I Solemnly Swear I Am Up To No Good

[alt_neville]

If everything depends on you keeping the secret, I guess you could. I mean you have to, if you don't have any choice.

It's must be awful though, Sally-Anne. Trying to pretend after seeing that. At least you've got the lock, so you can tell somebody, so write to us if you need to. I'll keep my journal close this week.

[alt_neville]

Hello and Happy Christmas to Gemma Stretton! If you don't end up being a Ravenclaw, you might be a Gryffindor--and that would be a wizard thing, too!

Re: I Solemnly Swear I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

It would have been awful to keep the secret from everyone until I saw Pansy on Thursday. I might have sent an owl but those get read by the Ministry every now and again so this is better.