Avery Warrington

Well, I am actually really looking forward to the Mr and Miss Hogwarts competition! I, of course, signed up. I think it will be great fun, though I fear I may be one of the few to think that way. I think it's always nice to have events like this to show some school spirit and show off one's talent! I don't really get why they're making foreigners participate, but I hope people manage to enjoy it anyway, even if they wouldn't otherwise sign up.

So who has voluntarily signed up? Does everyone know their talents?

Also, if anyone needs help with makeup or needs a dress, I would be more than happy to help out!

Private to Vlad
Are you alright? I heard about what happened with Alice. But if that ridiculous gossip article is to be trusted, at least you still have your teammate?

Is there anything I can do for you though? I know Alice is my friend, but I care about you too.

Gosh, this week. Darlings, exams are so tiring, and after this stressful- and eventful- semester I think we all deserve a break. I'm not sure I'm excited to be home, exactly, since I think my mother is still angry with me, but I will certainly not say no to a break. I want to go somewhere. Would anyone be willing to explore someplace foreign and exotic with me? The presence of all these foreign students just makes me want to travel.

So what does everyone have planned for break?

And for the record, no, I am not pregnant.

Well. My mother is quite forward. She sent me a package with all kinds of baby things and a letter asking all these questions about my partner and inquiring about whether he was a proper young man. I think she hopes that (if he's pureblood and from a respectable family) we'll fall in love and raise a real child together. It's all rather ridiculous. Maybe I should tell her that I got knocked up, and we'll see if she's still so eager for me to grow up.

But at least Mikhail has all of these adorable new clothes! He'll be a very fashionable baby. Well, for the last few days of his life. Which is a rather morbid thought. Oh, Cassie, are you still offering family portraits? I'd love to get one before this ends!

I feel a little bad saying this, but I am kind of looking forward to the end of this project. But then we'll have exams to look forward to, which isn't exactly fun either. But all of that midterm stress only makes our holiday more relaxing, I suppose. I think once we're no longer parents, we should have some kind of adventure that's in no way related to school. Everything's been so crazy lately and we deserve something fun!

Being a parent is hard! Not that I really expected it to be easy, but I've been exhausted this week, even if little Mikhail is generally quite sweet and adorable. But at least we had Hogsmeade today, which was a lovely and much needed change of pace. Though it would have been better if we didn't have our babies with us. One woman gave me the nastiest look and all these condescending remarks when Mikhail started crying in one of the stores, and it was horribly embarrassing. I don't like being judged like that. But other than that, Hogsmeade was fun, as usual!

Private to Vlad
Why does Mikhail smell like alcohol?

Private to Cody
Is everything alright with you? It seems like you've been a little off lately, if you don't mind me saying so.

Public service announcement. I am not in love with Vlad. I am not in love with anyone. That is all. You may carry on now.

Private to Vlad
Oh god I am so sorry. Both for cornering you like that and revealing you secret. Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?

And I promise this isn't some scheme to get you to go out with me. I really don't want anything more than friendship from you. I promise.

Private to self
I don't really like Vlad so I should be relieved that he was very clearly completely uninterested in me. It means that things are less awkward now. It's a good thing. I'm glad he didn't agree to go out with me because he felt sorry for me. Or because he wanted to sleep with me.

But I don't know what it means that I can't even get a boy like Vlad to agree to one date. He seems like the kind of bloke who takes out loads for girls, but I don't seem to meet his standards. I'm not even worth a single chance. And yes, maybe he said no because I made it clear that I thought I liked him, but it wasn't like I asked him to marry me. I don't know. I really thought he would have said yes. Maybe it was the love potion, but I was so sure. Maybe I was just reading too much into our conversations. Yes, I know he's not harboring some secret crush on me, but I thought we had some kind connection, even if it was just platonic. I thought that if he cared about me at all, even if just a little, he'd b willing to give me just one chance. But maybe he doesn't care about me. He nearly fell over himself trying to avoid drinking alone with me, and that was before the love potion.

It's just. Love potion or not, this was the first time I ever did something like that. And it was the first time I've been rejected. And I know it shouldn't and that it's irrational, but it hurts because if the kind of boy that I'm usually involved with doesn't want me, who will.

I, Avery Warrington, have a serious confession to make. I am in love with Vladimir Poliakoff. For awhile, I refused to see it; I even imagined myself with other men, for which I am quite sorry. But this morning, when I caught sight of you at breakfast, it suddenly occurred to me that you are the one. I think I began to fall in love with you when I first heard you sing in your brilliant band all those years ago, but spending time with you and getting to know you this past year has only made my feelings grow, and suddenly, it was impossible to hold them in! You are just so handsome and amazing and talented and wonderful, and I feel like I'd just explode if I didn't say something. I love you. There.

So, Vlad. Do you feel the same? Are you willing to give us a chance? And is there anything I can do to ensure that you say yes? Because, really, I think I'd just die without you.

This is an experiment to see whether blonds really do have more fun! You may be asking yourself why, Avery, how exactly do you plan to test that? Well, my dears, the next time you see me, you may notice something quite different about me.

( wave wand for pictures )

I think it looks cute! And it was time for a change even if this is likely just temporary.

Oh, and this week, you may call me Katerina. To keep with the whole 'being someone else' theme.

Private to Corrie and Eddie
I think we should do something dramatic and different. Like dye our hair for a week so no one recognizes us and we can be someone new.

Private to Garrett
I never thanked you for standing up for me to Sidney. I appreciate it.

Are you feeling better?

Private to Cody
So do you go around saving all of the damsels in distress?

Private to Scorpius
How are you holding up after the whole failed wards thing? I hope Sidney isn't still giving you trouble.

/Private

Merlin, things have been quite eventful lately. Wards were broken and then the quiditch match and sex ed starts on Wednesday. For better or for worse, there's never a dull moment around here. But at least the quidditch match served as a nice distraction from the earlier events of the week! I always enjoy watching the games, even though I can barely watch people get hit. The games seem especially violent this year, don't they? And I'm still not sure what to make of sex ed. What kinds of things do you think they'll teach us? I can't imagine they'll teach something I don't already know, but you never knows! Maybe it will be useful. I'm mostly just glad that I'm not teaching it. That seems like it would be so hard! You'd think they'd want experts teaching us, but I imagine they have some reason for wanting the prefects to do it.

It also feels like we already have loads of work, and we've barely been back for a month. I don't have the energy for schoolwork right now though. I think instead I'm going to go on an epic quest for hot cocoa because I am freezing, even in my approximately ten layers.

I think this Handsome Men's Club is a fun idea! I just wish we had a female equivalent. Being beautiful is quite difficult! I have heard their are petitions involved, and I may consider vouching for someone's attractiveness. One would think that the opinion of a pretty girl would help!

[Private to female friends. So basically any girl who wants to respond and doesn't hate her]
Finally snogged a foreign boy.

I feel so accomplished.

Though I am sure my mother would be scandalized because she thinks I should be looking for a husband, and a husband and a snog are absolutely not the same thing.

[Private to self]
Though I hoped it would distract me from Scorpius and my mother but it didn't, not really. It was far less satisfying than I hoped. It was just too easy. I already know I can get a boy to want to snog me, but I don't know how to get anything more than that. I don't know if I'm good for anything more than that. I think I'm just the girl you flirt with at a party. Or just the girl you talk to about nail polish or clothes, but never anything deeper. But I guess that's partially my fault for not correcting anyone when they think I'm just shallow and ditzy. Maybe that is all I am. I don't know sometimes, when I'm one thing with my mother and one thing here. But I suppose I might as well be shallow and ambitionless since I'm not allowed to have dreams of my own. My life has already been decided for me so what's the point.

Mother's nagging isn't helping anything. She can't get over how Scor and I went to the Gala together, and she keeps going on about how it's time I found a suitable boyfriend to marry and have children with right after I leave school and she keeps threatening to find one for me if I can't do it myself. She doesn't understand that a boy like him would never want to date me. Which, again, is my fault; I can't help it if I want to have fun while I still can, but the downside is that those types of boys- those types of people- will never take me seriously. And I suppose that's partially what I wanted. I didn't want the right kind of boys to take an interest in me, I don't want a husband or potential husband or whatever life my mother wants for me. I don't know if I actually even want a boyfriend or if I just want to be important to someone.

But I think I maybe want Scorpius to see me as more than that crazy girl who drags him on adventures, but I don't think that will happen. He's just so intelligent and driven and focused and wonderful and entirely too good for me.

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Happy New Year's, my lovelies! Can you believe that the school year is almost half over? It seems like it just begun, and it's sad to think that in a few months, our foreign friends will be leaving us. It's also sad to think that we'll be returning to school tomorrow. Our holidays is awfully short. But at least we had the Warbecks' wonderful Gala to keep our vacation entertaining! I for one had a lovely time. Essie, thank you so much for inviting all of us! The rest of my break was fairly uneventful though. Mother had me organizing her Christmas party because she thought it would be good practice, and, truth be told, spending so much time with my mother is tiresome. But I liked seeing the rest of my family! Especially my brother since I so rarely see him.

So, how is everyone? Get anything exciting for Christmas? Any New Year's resolutions?

Private to Corrie
I saw how Albus treated you at the Gala. Are you alright?

Private to Albus
You need to stop ruining every You really should learn how to behave act maturely. I understand that you're upset with Corrie, but that's no reason to ruin her night, let alone to hurt Scorpius and Anathema in the process. It's not fair for you to be so selfish all the time.

Private to self
New Year's Resolutions
1. Don't fail potions.
2. Don't depend only on Scorpius in order to not fail potions
3. Finally get a boyfriend Finally snog a foreign boy
5. Make sure my friends don't mess up their love lives. Someone needs to have their happy ending.

Private to Cielo, Georgie, Lisa, Larrisa, Alice, Edwin, Gabriel, Viktoriya
I have a proposition! Since we all have birthday so close together, would anyone be interested in throwing a joint party one night? Maybe even right after exams are over, the night before we leave. I think it would be a lot of fun, and it'd probably be easier than doing multiple small parties. And everyone could come!

Thoughts?

Oh, I was also thinking that maybe it could be a little classy, to offset Garrett's night of debauchery, or whatever he usually does for his birthday this weekend.

Private to Scorpius
If you need a study break, you know where to find me. You do need to relax. I don't want you to hurt yourself from stress.

Private to female friends. So like. All girls pretty much
I have a date to the Gala! Finally! I was worried that he'd no one would ask me. But Scorpius did! And it was weirdly awkward. But. The important part is that I have a date, and I didn't even have to do the asking this time.

Private to Corrie
Scor was also wondering if I'd help find a date for Albus. I know you broke it off, but I don't know. Is that weird? I don't have to help, if you don't want me to.

Private to Eddie
So ready to talk about Hal yet?

Private to Sam
SAMUEL CARMICHAEL, IF I KNEW YOUR MIDDLE NAME I WOULD USE IT.

It is Wednesday. You were on a date with Ophelia on Saturday.

Why do I not have details yet????

Private to Scorpius
We're okay right? You're not embarrassed, are you? Because with Essie, it sounded like you were ashamed Did you think it was ba

And I'm sorry about Essie. And about her saying something before we had the chance to talk about it.

Private to Corrie and Eddie
Why is this the first I am hearing about your snogs? Unacceptable!

Details please, thank you.

Private to Garrett
Garrett what did you do

Private to 6th year Puff Girls
Okay, I have a proposition for you all! Since we barely see each other any more, I though it would be fun to have a girls night! No, Eddie, we don't have to sit around giving each other makeovers (but we can!) We can just watch a film or catch up or raid the kitchen, I don't know yet. It can be a like a slumber party like in all those muggle films. And yes, I know we technically do that every night since we live together, but it's not the same.

And basically I will not take no for an answer, but yes, it can be after the first Hogwarts game.

Warded against uptight prefects and faculty
My loves, Halloween is almost upon us, and while the masquerade is sure to be lovely, one mustn't forget about the after party! Room of requirement, at midnight. Wear something fabulous (or scandalous, like I'll be wearing.)

Private to Melissa
In the spirit of family bonding, would you want to help out?

This is mostly an excuse to catch up with you.