Dorcas Meadowes is not dead yet

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Roger Bott will be the next target, I bet. We need to watch him. Anyone know who he is or where he lives?

Street party! Who's coming? We can all wear those ridiculous masks if it will make you feel better.

I swear, if Sirius doesn't stop pulling down all my painstakingly crafted spider-webs, I'm going to banish him into the garden. I am busy trying to make food look like eyeballs, thankyou.

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Since I'm already scouring the papers - both muggle and magical - for my catalogue of victims, I'm happy to keep an eye out for anybody writing an article or a letter or whatever that might make them a target. I'll put their names in this journal for the more DADA-inclined amongst you to spring into action protecting them.

I think Miss Mansaray has a point. Perhaps I should be monitoring muggle news as well as wizarding. It's not like the Death Eaters are going to leave the muggles alone.

I actually like having an elf. Sirius is a rubbish house-boyfriend without her. At least when I come home there's a clean house and cooked food, even if Sirius paid for it rather than doing it himself. Botty's very taciturn, but I think that's pretty normal in house-elves. She's happy to talk about her work but as soon as I try and have a regular conversation, she clams up. I suppose that's Sirius' part of the deal. Between them they make a good 1950s housewife.

Lily
Any news?

Alice
Any news?

Rest in peace, Evette Lyman. Your books were not to my taste, but your presence in this world was very much welcome. You will be sorely missed.

Another one for my list. Let me know if you see any media coverage. I'm collating all of it.

Thanks for all your help.

Smart and nice and alive, you fuckerheads.

Order
Death Eaters got my dad. I think it was Bellatrix Lestrange, because she was being weird about my family on the journals the other day. He's alright, bleeding a bit and still in pain when he moves, but he'll be okay. Mainly he's shaken up - shaken up and angry. They've been offered auror protection but I think to be honest they're just going to move and re-ward. My mum's kind of jumpy; I think back at that house she'll see Death Eaters every way she turns.

I know we've said it before, but watch your families.

Sirius
I've been thinking.

Hangovers are not supposed to be this long.

Books are man's best friend. But like any best friend, sometimes you want to smack them in the teeth for not being exactly what you want at that moment in time.

Private
I know he's worried about Remus, but I am really not feeling the love right now.

Sirius
Do you want me to get anything in for Remus?

Friends
I think Sirius is going to be busy tonight. Anyone want to go out?

Order of the Phoenix
A few of us were thinking of following some of our suspected Death Eaters who have suspected ties to Tobias Gibbon. That's a fair amount of suspicion, but hopefully we won't draw any towards ourselves to go with it. For those of you who are in, here is the list. Claim yourself a Death Eater.

Thomas Gibbon (uncle) and Panthino Gibbon (cousin)
Horatio Yates and Edward Parkinson (schoolfriends)
Brendan Goyle (colleague)
Amycus Carrow (once served detention together, although I can't find out for what)

Possible New Year's Resolutions

Fall in lo
Stop swearing - um, no
Read more - um, not really possible
Give the houseelf a makeover - interesting, but I think she actually has more style than me
Kick some arse - sounds good

Private to friends
It's my birthday on Wednesday, and I don't really want a party, especially since we're doing a Christmas one a few days after. I was thinking about going out somewhere, a bunch of us. I heard about this place near Aberdeen called the Ice Maze which sounds fun. Anyone fancy it? Apparently it's really slippy and you can partially see through the ice, so you can see, like, the next corridor along but not any further than that. And sometimes the walls move. And in the middle is a pub that serves hot chocolate.

Oh, because she was muggle born! You think?

I heard a furniture shop was ransacked yesterday. Normally this wouldn't be of particular concern to me, but it is owned by a muggle-born, and every criminal incident involving a muggle-born is suspicious right now. Record it in my catalogue: yes/no?

Private
Sirius still isn't going out. And he's acting kind of weird. Like he wants to look at me and he also doesn't want to look at me. I'm assuming it's because of me being around when Regulus was killed, but it's weird and I'm not sure how to deal with it. Subtle is not exactly my middle name.

Lily and Alice
If a guy's weird with you, what does that mean?

Sirius
Shall I pick up chips on the way home over?

I don't believe it. One man killing all those muggles? No. Not with the necessary speed to get through that many before the Hit Wizards showed up.

I tried to go to Cheddar today to find out more about the people who died. I'm still cataloguing all the missing people and the victims of the war, and I wanted names and a little bit of information about each of the muggles. No such luck. The muggles in charge have put up these really pathetic fences with 'police line do not cross' written on them, and the Ministry have erected wards over the top of them, so it's more of a prediction than a threat. I'll have to keep trying to get hold of the muggle papers.

Rest in peace, unnamed muggles with families, friends, and histories.

Private
Sirius isn't doing so well. I don't really expect him to. He's not leaving the house. He seems to like having me around, though, so I'm there most nights, making sure he's okay. I don't know if I should be pushing him to go out or to do anything, but I think he'll come round in his own time. If he's still like this a lot later, then maybe I'll do something.