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Jul. 24th, 2010 @ 05:35 am [OOC: Roger's Bio]
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: "Before It's Too Late" by the Goo Goo Dolls
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Name: Roger Davies
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 8/20/1978
Year: 7th
House: Ravenclaw
Blood status: Halfblood
Physical characteristics: Roger is on the taller side, at an even six feet, athletically built but more lean and wiry than bulky, with dark hair and blue eyes. He is typically reasonably well-presented and seen with a pleasant countenance, though until initial caffeine intake of the day has occurred, neither sentient nor motile. Nevertheless, he is considered one of the more handsome boys in the school, and seems to attract more than his share of female attention.

( Don't fall, just be who you are, it's all that we need in our lives... )
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Feb. 5th, 2008 @ 01:52 am Journal Entry #20
Current Location: the library
Current Mood: discontent
Well. It's official that there will be no Dementors sent to monitor the school or the environs any time soon, so those who are looking forward to Hogsmeade weekend, the upcoming Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, and other activities this month need not worry about having to master a Patronus Charm in order to enjoy themselves and keeping them at a distance.

On the other hand, the fact that TEN Death Eaters escaped without incurring any sort of resistance from the above creatures really, really doesn't bode well, does it? So on that note, people who are going to Hogsmeade and all that should probably not do anything foolish. Like, oh, sneak around or be off anywhere they're not supposed to be. Just in case that the increasingly totalitarian nature of the Umbridge regime isn't hint enough that there might be repercussions.

( Private to Ravenclaws sans Cho )
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Jan. 20th, 2008 @ 08:05 pm Journal Entry #19
Current Location: our so-called "DADA class"
Current Mood: pissed off
Is she on crack? I don't think I need to specify which 'she'. But fucking hell, is she on crack?!

An A?! A bloody A?! I followed her stupid, irrelevant, illogical and completely bullshit instructions to the letter! And she gave me an A?! All right, it could be worse and she could've failed me, but when others who DEFINITELY didn't take the assignment seriously... argh!!!!! Okay. Crossing it all out. It would be absolutely tactless otherwise.

WHY do I have to be stuck learning NEWT-level DADA from this COW?!!
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Jan. 15th, 2008 @ 04:09 am Journal Entry #18
Current Location: the library
Current Mood: aggravated
So, I resurface from NEWT revision and return to the school, only to find that in the class that is supposed to be the most important NEWT for the career choice I'd like to have, I'm supposed to come up with an essay on non-magical, completely irrelevant ways of fending off an attack in Knockturn Alley.

What the fuck? Pardon my language, but what the fuck?

Does she honestly expect us to write three scrolls detailing such things as "I'll start screaming to attract the attention of others who may help me and hope for the best"? Or perhaps "I hope to hell that I have a canister of pepper spray and perhaps a Muggle firearm handy"?

Actually, she probably does. Who wants to brainstorm non-defense, non-magical means of protecting oneself? I get the feeling that she'll flunk anyone who mentions even so much as an Expelliarmus.

Now of course the main point of concern is HOW this has to do with ANYTHING that might possibly be on the NEWT. But then again, that would be searching for LOGIC from HER.
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Dec. 25th, 2007 @ 07:28 pm Journal Entry #17
Current Location: my room
Current Mood: uncomfortable
To-Do List, 25 December Evening

1) Dinner with parents, grandparents (on both sides), Uncle Andrew and Aunt Maria (on mum's side) and Uncle Paul and Aunt Therese (on dad's), plus assorted cousins and various of dad's coworkers.

2) Coffee.

3) Adapt information about NEWTs and schooling to Muggle equivalent A-levels and so on to answer questions from everyone.

4) Help wash dishes and conveniently avoid Jacqueline Barrett, the rather crazy and overly enthusiastic daughter of dad's coworker.

5) Get cornered by the above en route to living room.

6) Make excuses, make escape to loo, stay inside until coast is ascertained to be clear.

7) More coffee after dinner, corner Uncle Andrew Williamson (the Auror) and ask numerous questions about NEWTs and the Auror programme.

8) Conversation abruptly cut off as Jacqueline enters.

9) Sigh.

10) More coffee, go over notes and rearrange revision schedule based on new information, now in privacy of own room.

11) Study a few sections for Potions, textbook cunningly disguised as "Chemistry".

12) Abruptly shut "Chemistry" textbook as Jacqueline barges in.

13) Reiterate that she should perhaps go down and socialise with her family, and that her parents would not be pleased to find her stalking conversing with me in my bedroom.

14) Get asked to follow my own advice and socialise with HER.

15) Sigh.

16) Inform her that I'm dating someone from my school, and mentally beg pardon of the powers that be that the fabrication was somewhat necessary if I wanted to be left alone at all.

17) Get pouted at, mentally bash head against wall, contemplate bringing coffeepot up to room and locking door.

18) Bring coffeepot up to room and lock door after making the rounds and exchanging a few pleasantries with everyone.

19) Wrap Angelina's present.

20) Coffee.

21) Study in peace.

Happy Christmas, everyone!
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Dec. 15th, 2007 @ 07:22 pm Journal Entry #16
Current Location: Charms corridor
Current Mood: indescribable
Sweet Rowena...

All right, all right, I realise that there's less than a week before school breaks for hols, and that people may not see each other for a bit of time before school resumes, but for pity's sake, this isn't the separation of Romeo and Juliet!

Wow, I think I just lost about seventy-five percent of my vision. Bloody hell, in such a hurry that a pair of boxers got thrown onto that suit of armour with the red tinsel and there is now a huge puddle of Mrs Scower's spilt in the broom closet? Not to mention the fact that I REALLY REALLY didn't want to see that?

As an FYI, curfew is still what it was all term. Please do not violate it just because you're feeling frisky cheerful that the holidays are coming up. Also, Prefects and Filch shall still patrol the hallways as usual, so please, don't get up to any wild shenanigans unless you want to shock and traumatise undeserving people get in trouble. Thank you.
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Dec. 5th, 2007 @ 03:02 am Journal Entry #15
Current Location: the library
Current Mood: busy
Hols are coming up in a fortnight. What are everyone's plans?

Hey, it's either that or talk about the mistletoe. Or getting a snog from Ursula Grinnell under the mistletoe. And I'm not sure what to say about that one. I don't REALLY know her that well.

Oh joy. Tonight I'm going to have to supervise detention for Oakby for Yet Another Incident. Here is hoping to hell that he'll just keep his mouth shut for the duration of the experience and NOT tempt me into saying something unprofessional by commenting on any of my female friends.
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Nov. 23rd, 2007 @ 07:35 pm Journal Entry #14
Current Location: the Great Hall
Current Mood: busy
( Private to Ravenclaw Quidditch Team )

Let's see how this game goes, then.

Oh, and let's PLEASE keep the reign of terror comments to a minimum.
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Nov. 14th, 2007 @ 01:30 am Journal Entry #13
Current Location: ravenclaw common room
Current Mood: surprised
It is a very strange phenomenon indeed.

Silas looks peeved, Natalie looks smug and has been arriving ON TIME for ALL her Prefect patrols and duties, and in fact has been cheerful enough to offer to pick up some of MY Prefect patrols for the next week and a half so that I can extend Quidditch practice on Thursdays since we've our first game on the 24th.

What's going on?
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Nov. 5th, 2007 @ 02:44 pm Journal Entry #12
Current Location: the library
Current Mood: working
All right. That's a new low for Umbridge, I'd have to say.

I am, however, thanking any deities out there that no one on my team's liable to start anything in front of her.

What are everyone's plans for this upcoming Hogsmeade weekend?

( Private to Fawcett )
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Nov. 2nd, 2007 @ 04:54 am Journal Entry #11
Current Location: seventh year dorm
Current Mood: silly
Total Number of Detentions Handed Out by Prefects Pertaining to Upcoming Gryffindor/Slytherin match: 201
Total Number of Detentions Handed Out by Ravenclaw Prefects Pertaining to Aforementioned match: 127
Number of Detentions Handed Out by Yours Truly: 18
Number of Detentions Handed Out by S. Fawcett: 42
Number of Detentions Handed Out by Cho Chang: 43

Don't let that get you down, Fawcett. I'm sure the spectacular rugby-style tackle you performed on Graham Pritchard when he tried to escape the scene of the latest hit-and-run incident still cements your reputation once and for all as one of Ravenclaw's-- nay, the school's-- resident Bad Cop.
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Oct. 24th, 2007 @ 04:44 am Journal Entry #10
Current Location: the great hall
Current Mood: busy
It starts.

You know, I'm really quite glad that Gryffindor and Slytherin play each other first this year. There's a bit less of the hexing of people from each other's houses for the other teams. So hopefully, by mid-November, this will die down and we won't have to worry about it any more. Nevertheless, I'm not quite sure that the screeching fit between the fourth-years of the rival houses that I unfortunately had to break up was completely necessary. It was definitely too early in the morning and too much blood in the caffeine system to listen to that shouting match.

On a happier note, I'm glad most people seem to have had fun at the pool party. I'm a bit sorry I had to leave early though then again, I'm not quite sure I could've prevented Natalie from going on her drinking spree.
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Oct. 16th, 2007 @ 02:36 am Journal Entry #9
Current Location: the library
Current Mood: amused
The most amusing thing about today's thankfully very brief inspection by Pinkzilla of NEWT-level Arithmancy was the fact that about two minutes in, she started getting absolutely lost due to the fact that Calcular Studies are apparently WAY over her head. I have to admit, I'm somewhat impressed by Ursula Grinnell's deliberate use of the most technical terms possible when Professor Vector asked her a question about Periodic Functions.
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Oct. 8th, 2007 @ 07:26 pm Journal Entry #8
Current Location: en route to Flitwick's office
Current Mood: furious
She banned Quidditch. And all student organisations. Vicky Frobisher of Gryffindor was practically in hysterics when she found out that Charms club was no longer in existence.

Excuse my language, but what the effing fuck? And when I spoke to her about it after DADA, she simpered, patted my hand (sick-making) and told me that having all these competitive, discordant, different-minded factions (FACTIONS!) in the school made for a negative environment where people were liable to "not get along nicely with each other".

She's still not let Ravenclaw reform its team yet. Slytherin has been allowed, of course, which leads one to conclude that Malfoy had, once again, something to do with this matter. I can ALMOST understand why Weasley the younger wants to try to wring the kid's neck. Every single Prefect meeting.

Off to speak to Flitwick.
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Oct. 2nd, 2007 @ 07:06 pm Journal Entry #7
Current Location: Quidditch Pitch
Current Mood: mellow
So, what are everyone's plans this upcoming Hogsmeade weekend? Mine involve purchasing coffee and related products, parchment, ink and perhaps a book or two on Quidditch. As these activities won't take all day, anyone up for lunch/drinks/whatever else at some other time?
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Sep. 26th, 2007 @ 04:59 pm Journal Entry #6
Current Location: Ravenclaw Common Room
Current Mood: blah
To anyone who typically goes to DADA tutoring, don't bother next week, as there won't be any.

So, the "fallout", as it were, from the incident in which my Prefect patrols were reset is that for the last few days, I've noticed Parkinson, Haughton, and a few other friends of Malfoy lurking about whenever I was in the library, or the hallways, or out on the pitch.

Sooooo, lo and behold, Umbridge decides to show up at the last tutoring session. Susannah and I had no sooner demonstrated a simple Expelliarmus than we heard her annoying little "hem, hem" and a fluttery "Oh, I'm sorry, dears, but that's not on the curriculum". Apparently neither were Shielding spells, countercurses, or really, anything that the students needed to know for OWLs and NEWTs and was NOT being taught in her class.

In short, "it wouldn't do" to interfere with her curriculum, and cloud the "poor students'" minds. Susannah and I acquiesced, and therefore escaped getting into trouble as it seems unwise to get on her bad side and butt heads with her, whatever one thinks of her, considering how she's kind of in power right now, whether or not we like it. But the end result is that there will be no more DADA tutoring.

I'll still be doing Charms, I suppose. And Fawcett and Warrington, if you want to reassign us somewhere else, feel free to do so.
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Sep. 19th, 2007 @ 09:39 pm Journal Entry #5
Current Location: en route to Ravenclaw
Current Mood: annoyed
Not to sound like a swotty responsible Prefect type or anything, but... did the recipients of the recent rash of Slytherin-targeted pranks ACTUALLY do something to incite that sort of retaliation, or were they just conveniently easy targets to have a go at? Let alone the unfortunate Ravenclaws who were also affected by the latest prank and kept all night by the obnoxious music playing close to their dorms? Snape gave detentions to three first-years two of whom were driven to tears because they were nodding off in class because of said prank.

People need to stop being gits just because they CAN. Though this situation is nowhere near the Malfoy bullshit of tonight, it's still the same sort of principle.

Oh, and, has the obnoxious music finally been shut off?
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Sep. 11th, 2007 @ 05:14 am Journal Entry #4
Current Mood: grumpy
Well now. High Inquisitor? Do they REALISE how that sounds?

I suppose that if the Ministry wishes for classes to be inspected, that is their prerogative. And if they have placed one of their employees in the school, it makes sense that said employee also has the task of doing these inspections.

So. Professor Umbridge inspected 7th year Charms yesterday, and asked Professor Flitwick a great number of questions on his teaching methods, his curriculum, and the information retention of his students. As Professor Flitwick is neither incompetent nor easily fooled or bullied inexperienced at his job, she could not find too much fault with HIM.

Of course, the next course of action on her part was to turn her interrogation towards the students to make sure that we WERE in fact learning in his class. And guess who was the target for most of said interrogation? Oh yes. The unfortunate sod whom she has learnt does CHARMS TUTORING. So clearly, she had to ascertain that I do not spend said tutorial sessions talking out of my arse and twiddling my thumbs because clearly anyone who tutors a subject wouldn't have ANY idea what he or she was talking about by addressing me as though I were three and asking me to demonstrate Summoning and Banishing spells. Repeatedly. I was running out of items to Accio by the end of it, unless I started on people, and THAT would just be silly.

You'd think she'd be better off making sure that students are actually learning something in HER classes rather than worry about the same in others' classes.

Except for the fact that it increasingly seems as though she's more concerned with what students SHOULDN'T learn than what they SHOULD.

In slightly better news, tryouts went decently. I think that this year's team shall play quite well. I am frankly more worried about my Seeker's emotional state than her performance on the pitch, though. Is that bad? It's not very befitting the competitive nature of a Quidditch captain, is it?

I need more coffee.
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Sep. 6th, 2007 @ 04:27 am Journal Entry #3
Current Location: ravenclaw common room
Current Mood: pensive
Well then.

I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that OWL and NEWT students wishing for tutoring in DADA arrived by the droves this evening. One of the seventh year Gryffindor girls seemed determined to stick to my side like glue for the entirety of the tutoring session, which was rather odd. I wasn't quite aware that the silly and rather infantile rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin extended past Quidditch and Team Potter vs Team Malfoy. In any case, that girl insisted on going over her revision with only me, and I don't think she spoke to Susannah at all. And then there was a fifth year girl from Slytherin whom from all accounts seems to be getting an O in DADA thus far at tutoring as well. Don't know what SHE was doing there, but extra practice can't hurt, I guess.

Especially as all the relevant books on DADA have disappeared from the library. I suppose that Umbridge doesn't give a damn if we flunk our exams. I'm really bloody glad that I had Eamon owl me all his old books before school started, but perhaps as a precaution I should charm the covers to something else. Clearly, we're not meant to learn any DADA this year for some sinister political purpose.

Well... no one would see anything amiss with a Quidditch captain perusing The History of the British Quidditch League in several volumes, I don't think.

On the bright side, it IS good practice to demonstrate spells and such to other students.

( Private to Gryffindors )
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Sep. 3rd, 2007 @ 11:02 pm Journal Entry #2
Current Mood: cranky
Unless the situation improves, which it clearly won't something drastic occurs, I am going to have to start ordering coffee BEFORE the Hogsmeade weekend.

It's either that, or NOT study extra for DADA and subsequently get less than an E or, in other words, FAIL the DADA NEWT practical.

I dislike the new teacher already, but somehow it seems unwise to say so aloud, so... crossing this out.
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