Below are the 3 most recent journal entries recorded in bydegrees' InsaneJournal:

Friday, December 5th, 2008
8:55 pm	Thursday 17 September 1942 This is not going well. I didn't expect Alice to be pleased about this damn business, and she certainly isn't, and even less pleased that I didn't talk to her about it before yesterday evening. Which means that when we talk to Elizabeth, we won't be presenting a united front. Or I could talk to her alone, except that I can't because Alice said that she deserved to know that she wasn't the only woman in the house who would be upset about having her daughter's marriage arranged over tea. I had wished they could be better friends, or at least on more amiable terms, but it's hardly worth this price. And then at the end of all this I have to write to Kathleen, or Elizabeth can if she can be convinced to. I wouldn't half mind hearing Mercy's opinion on this, she's been caught up in this kind of mess far longer than we have. Of course, it won't be soon that I hear her real opinion on marriages, de jure or de facto. Or on parenting. Alice brought up Arianwen, of course. She wasn't engaged to Martius Starn for the same reasons, that we can tell anyway, but Poppaea Rosier is, of course, Dracaena's sister. I am sure Florian Leffoy is nothing like Starn — Ed reports he's a charming child — but does this make us any better than Cariadoc Rosier, giving away Elizabeth's daughter? I didn't tell Alice what this Miss Naszvadi said, that the alternative would perhaps be sacrificing myself. As perhaps Cariadoc should have done to save Mercy and Arianwen and Llewellyn from whatever it is that Poppaea has over them all. As perhaps I should have done. I never imagined I would have fellow feeling with that man over this, of all things. Current Mood: guilty (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
8:50 am	Sunday 13 September 1942 Would that we'd managed to work all this out a few days ago, dammit. Then I would only have to confess to St Mungo's that my family has yet again failed to look after its own, rather than to the school and possibly the Aurors as well. Elizabeth has gone to bed with a headache, poor thing. I would write these owls anyway, but it's hard on Alice, she's more than half Arthur's mother these days. But Mercy doesn't put up much of a show of wanting to go home when there's a baby in the house, so they're up in the nursery and Mercy at least as happy as she can be, when we haven't yet heard if Arianwen or Evan were at this party. (Cariadoc must do the right thing by that woman. But it's not as though they don't all know and haven't always known that I think that.) For that matter, what does "safe and unharmed" mean in the context of my own children? I do hope Ed and Sal realise that being treated as adults, in this house, is contingent on them behaving like adults. If I find that they were at this party, or tacitly encouraged Bilius in any way, I will be thoroughly ashamed of them both. I really do not understand what is going on at Hogwarts this year. Two professors and three girls dead (although Binns was an even bet to die at school even when I was making the book on it, so I pray that that was indeed natural). If the war has come to Hogwarts and we are not being informed then the Prophet is right, for all its sensationalism: the Inquisition is not doing its job, and I want my children home. Now, to work. Current Mood: determined (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 1st, 2003
12:24 pm	Older entries by bydegrees Older lightning_war journal entries by Isaac Diggory can be found in bradburyfamily: Wednesday 9 September 1942 Tuesday 1 September 1942 (Comment on this)