Jonah Wagtail

Today's Draw
-Third Iteration Caroc pack, c. 1219

The Keeper of Eight. A time of continuation - as close to a 'status quo' card as the Caroc allows, the Keeper of Eight depicts a young man, stripped to the waist. He carries a shepherd's crook and is guiding eight small creatures through a field. The creatures are indeterminate: they flicker and shift as the viewer watches, fangs growing and shrinking as they take on forms both benevolent and grotesque. The shepherd is sickly - the sweat on his brow is cold, and he falters now and then. The shadow of the Bringer falls upon him occasionally, and it is then that causes the headaches. No great upheavals, no major opportunities. Trivia, small matters may be resolved, but nothing more.


I think I'm getting better with this deck! I only threw up once, which is a record. I don't know why I keep using the bloody thing, but not everyone can use the Caroc so...maybe I'm just trying to stand out. They say it sends one in fifty Seers mental, so the odds are pretty good. Of course, forty Seers in every fifty can't see a fucking thing with them, so hopefully I'm one of the Nine.

Oh yeah, and I bet everyone's already aware of this but that Hogsmeade visit was your last chance to buy me something for my birthday on the 13th! You all knew that, I know, but a friendly reminder never hurts anything. I'll be eighteen, fucking hell.

Today's Draw
-Fifth Iteration Caroc pack, c. 1676

The Skull of Annulment. Something is coming.

I can't focus on th
There's something that I can't
Can't quite tell what

I need a quick lie down.

Apparently this headache won't go away until I make a bloody public service announcement, so here it is: stay away from the second floor corridor near the Defence Against the Dark Arts office between four and five this afternoon. Someone's charmed one of the suits of armour to scream really loud - and there's a fifth year who's going to react really messily to it.

There: you've had your warning, now sod off.

[Warded Private to Sam Summers]

Perhaps the High Priestess card was meant to be drawn for you, not me.

[/Private]

Today's Draw

The High Priestess (reversed) Raw emotion clouds your judgement. Are you too self-absorbed to see what is happening around you? Perhap a gentle nudge to improve your sexual technique. The High Priestess often symbolises the reader, not the read. The Priestess walks the secret paths and holds the answers to the questions we do not ask. A period of study is endangered by untempered emotion.

I don't need to be psychic to work THAT out, the useless fu

Had an odd dream last night. I was being chased by eagle-feather quills, constantly scritch-scratching their way towards me. They followed me on skittering feet, no matter where I went. It was weird.

( Hexed Private to Arawn Thruston )

Today's Draw

The Fool Unpredictability, potential. Beginnings, adventure. Embrace the unexpected.

Well, obviously.

Friendly bit of advice, to all you jokesters out there. Loving your work don't ever stop etc, but if any object enters the Slytherin dorms (and, more specifically, the one that I fall asleep in every night) without the express consent of at least one of its inhabitants between now and the second we set foot outside these walls for the last time, then I promise that I'll find the sender and violently force said object into a very sensitive part of your anatomy.

There won't be any further warnings. Congratulations to those of you who made the Quidditch teams - results are out later, aren't they?

I never get totally used to sharing a dorm. Eventually you sort of fall into a routine, but you never properly get used to it, if you have your own room at home. All the little sounds that come from five boys in one confined space really hit home, and (I don't know about you) but I get really annoyed in the first couple of weeks. Then it passes, and I just get on with things until next time. Except...there's not going to be a next time, is there? This is the last time I'll settle in after the summer, the last time I'll catch up with you treasured friends*. That's sort of sobering.

I think I'm going for a shower while I can. It's time to start savouring things at this school, because they're not coming again. I'm going to have to be an adult soon.

( Hexed Private to Divination Students )

*Sarcasm

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