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Dear diary,
This is bloody ridiculous. I hate it here.
Love, Forge
Dear diary,
I have met the sweetest boy ever. If Percy had to describe him there would be words as, ebony skin and obsidian eyes.
He’s a bloody disaster, mom is going to have a heart attack when she meets him.
Love Forge,
We made the team!!!
Charlie is so proud of us and Lee has promised to bribe Murphy into letting him commentate our first game. I can’t wait to show those snakes what the lions house is made off.
Forge,
Dear diary,
Pucey is a menace and should not be allowed on the team.
I know he is cheating, everyone knows he’s cheating and yet he gets away with it. Lee was getting really worked about it during the game.
‘Adrian is going for the hit, will Hooch call it? Fool! Oh, well maybe next time more luck.’
But I had not expected Lee to go after Pucey when the game was finished. We had won, his cheating didn’t matter, and really, Lee is not the violent type but something must have happened. He had a really nasty bruise on his neck, Oliver was not amused.
Forge,
October 27, 1992
I am worried about Ginny.
Under normal circumstances I would have been delighted by the news that Slytherin’s top chaser was in the hospital wing. But now. I am getting scared.
Lee is looking paler than Ginny and hasn’t left the hospital wing since last night. I really do hope for him that whoever he is waiting for to wake up will be alright.
Forge,
Our new Defense professor is awesome, even though some idiot thought it was a good idea to make it a joint class with the snakes. Lee, and all the girls, have a massive crush on the prof. Poor Lee is horrible at Defense and managed to make something blow up, there went his shot with the hot prof. He was blushing the entire lesson and looking at the other side of the classroom where the snakes sit. It’s not too bad to get into a embarrassing situation with your housemates, but no one wants to loose face in front of the Slytherins.
Love Forge,
June 12, 1994
I don’t know who has been teaching Lee Defense, but I also want some extra lessons. It must be someone outside of Gryffindor as Lee is gone every other evening. Normally Gred and I would presume he was dating someone outside the House, but Lee has denied any and all possible lovers we could come up with. We will crack him at some point, you’ll see.
Quidditch got cancelled. I sincerely do not know who is more heartbroken about it.
Forge,
Somehow this year is worse than the others. Umbridge is a disaster and not the kind me and Gred are fans of. Don’t know if we’ll stay either. Honestly what can Hogwarts still offer us, apart from an early death.
Love Forge,
Meet me in the transfiguration room, we need to talk.
L
She knows, Edgecombe told, you have to run!
A
Dear diary,
Me and Gred are leaving Hogwarts. Lee is staying behind, though we asked him to leave with us. He said he won’t leave someone behind, but still won’t say who he’s seeing. We’ll find out soon enough anyway, hopefully.
August 1, 1997
I need to put this on paper, to slightly order my thoughts. Because it is true madness for what I saw to be true. Fred wasn’t there to see it and I can’t explain this to him. Maybe he’ll read this and we can talk, but until then this’ll have to do.
Bill’s wedding was today. It was very pretty. Everything went as well as good be expected. Percy wasn’t there, as feared. Death Eaters crashed the party, as expected. Scrimgeour is dead, unexpected, to me; not Lee.
After Kingsley’s patronus warned us, Fred apparated to the jokeshop immediately while I tried to find Lee. By the time I found him Death Eaters were closing in and he was not fighting back. Not getting hurt either, but I know Lee. He is far better at Defense than I saw him fighting that Death Eater.
Anyway, everyone got rounded up and taken for questioning. Me and Lee stuck together until that very same Death Eater grabbed his arm and pulled him towards another room. Like, everyone got taken individually to a corner of the room, but Lee was the only one to be singled out. And then when I tried to find them when they let us leave, I heard something.
If I didn’t know better I would think they were shagging in the closet, but surely that can’t be right.
So I waited for them to leave. The Death Eater seemed to be around our age, didn’t recognise him but I know few snakes. Than Lee walked out of the closet, hair more rumpled than usual. Clothes not neat, not that they ever are, but worse. And something that looked suspiciously like a hickey barely hidden by his collar.
I cannot think of an explanation that does not involve Lee’s sweetheart being an ex-Slytherin and current Death Eater. And worst of all I have no idea who, or how to talk with Lee about it.
Diary,
Potterwatch is a massive success. Not least of all due to River’s undying love for his sweetheart in hiding. Of course this is not the only reason people listen, but I do like to believe there are at least a few romantics who listen to the entire episode simply to hear him say: ‘Maybe one more day Puce, and we’ll rise from the darkness into the blazing light of the sun.’
No one knows who this Puce is, it must be some kind of code name as no in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff has a name like that.
After the war he’ll surely tell us. We do have best friend privileges and need to pester him a bit regarding his lover.
Forge,
I can’t
The ministry asked us to testify against Lee.
Lee.
Not his lover, but Lee. They are already convinced Adrian is bad, have decided he will rot in Azkaban. No, they want to know in what capacity Lee was compromised during the war. They want us to give them what they need to lock him up forever.
I won’t.
I don’t know about the others, can’t speak for them, but I know. I know Lee was never compromised, when he says Adrian didn’t want to join the Death Eaters and was forced I’ll believe him.
I know my friend. Doesn’t matter he had a whole life hidden from everyone. I know and trust him.
It’s what Fred would have wanted.
Dear readers,
Today was the last of the Death Eater trials and one I might say the most looked forward to. Many a young wixen was transfixed on River’s charm during his commentary on Potterwatch and longed to know who was his dear Puce could be. Turns out it was Death Eater Adrian Pucey former Slytherin and loyal follower of You-Know-Who.
My surprise dear readers, could not be greater than yours.
And finally the day has come that the two of them will stand together in the blazing light of the sun, no longer hidden by the darkness of the night.
Rita Skeeter,