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With each new year comes more glory to the Protectorate, all thanks to the grace, foresight, and leadership or our Lord and Protector. Let us take this day to reflect upon the gifts he bestows upon us: honour, freedom, and pride.

Thanks also go out to family and friends who welcomed us to parties and other gatherings this season. Your heartfelt generosity is thoroughly appreciated.

As for 1995...

The very best is yet to come.

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Date: 2012-01-01 11:45 pm (UTC)

From:

alt_bellatrix

Private message to Braithewaite

This wait for Jan 9 is excruciating.

Had never before noticed how inconveniently long the period between full moons is.

Date: 2012-01-01 11:56 pm (UTC)

From:

alt_bellatrix

Private message to Rodolphus

I find your decision to get drunk at Buckingham nauseating. And pathetic. Don't expect me to address the matter beyond this - which amounts to the airing of these thoughts that are no doubt shared by others. And Him, above all.

Date: 2012-01-02 02:37 am (UTC)

From:

alt_rodolphus

Re: Private message to Rodolphus

Oh, wife. You speak as if I were the only one drunk, instead of it being that you were the only one sober. I am deeply sorry if you felt left out.

Thank you for airing your thoughts. They are duly noted.

Date: 2012-01-02 12:27 am (UTC)

From:

alt_bellatrix

Private message to Hydra

Hydra,

I have been formulating several thoughts regarding your future, and I wish to share them with you now, while they are still a while off. That way, I think we can avoid any pouts of protest, hmm?

I have a strong inclination to give you to your Aunt Narcissa for the summer, perhaps pulling you from consideration for the CCF programme in the process. As much as the CCF programme is an honour, I don't know that it is entirely necessary for someone on your particular trajectory. My sister can teach you far more about what it is you'll need to know in order to be Harry Marvolo's husband one day.

Now, on that note, how goes your oh-so-grand plan to provoke his jealousies using that squib-boy?

Date: 2012-01-02 12:37 am (UTC)

From:

alt_hydra

Re: Private message to Hydra

~~I've never pout~~

Mummy, what is it you think that Auntie Narcissa can teach me? I do think would enjoy spending time with her this summer. Isn't CCF awfully important for what it says about you as a person, though, no matter what the trajectory?

Harry hasn't been seeing Honoria Sandoval since the ball, not that I know of. So that's good news at least.

From,
Hydra

Date: 2012-01-02 12:40 am (UTC)

From:

alt_bellatrix

Re: Private message to Hydra

Do not write to me and then scribble it out. Do you think your Mummy is an idiot? I know all too well these passive-aggressive habits of writing something vitriolic, only to cross it out and pretend as if it never happened. All too common among the youth, in particular, and I won't have you doing it to me. If you want to mock me, small one, you can do it to my face and see how much pleasure you take from it then.

Date: 2012-01-02 12:48 am (UTC)

From:

alt_hydra

Re: Private message to Hydra

I'm sorry, Mummy. I wasn't being passive-aggressive and I wasn't mocking you, truly. I'm sorry.

From,
Hydra

Date: 2012-01-02 01:00 am (UTC)

From:

alt_bellatrix

Re: Private message to Hydra

Be sure of it.

But to answer your question: you ought to have seen your Aunt Narcissa at all these parties in the week past. As much good as it might do the Protectorate, it cannot be denied that she does know how to glow. She is also an expert at wrapping various men around her little finger. First Father (now THAT was an achievement), now countless others, all tied there so as to secure the attentions of one above all the rest.

When you were younger I did not peg you for one who would be suited to follow in her footsteps. You were too plain and simple, as I saw it (and what your Father saw can be dismissed out of hand). Now, however, I've come to see that the charm you hold on your Father may in fact be an echo of what my sister held over ours. And as for your looks - you'll never model, but there's clearly something to them, as the rabble over your appearance at the Yule Ball seems to indicate.

As to Harry: I don't know that his disinterest in Honoria Sandoval counts as interest in you. Do better. And at least see that you get something useful from that squib-boy while you're at it. Practice of some kind - though do mind that you keep it from your Father.

Date: 2012-01-02 01:08 am (UTC)

From:

alt_hydra

Re: Private message to Hydra

I...think I know what you mean. Aunt Narcissa knows how to be kind and polite, but also how to speak her mind. And she makes people feel welcome, no matter whatever else they might be feeling. People are just happy to be with her.

Practice... Well, Justin is helping me with arithmancy, because he's good at maths. Unless you meant something else.

From,
Hydra

Date: 2012-01-02 02:25 am (UTC)

From:

alt_bellatrix

Re: Private message to Hydra

That is accurate, if simple. Which rather goes back to my first point.

You do need help with arithmancy, no doubt, but that is not precisely what I meant. Use your imagination, child, or else ask your Aunt Narcissa.

And - see to it that you don't get too attached. You know how foolishly sentimental you can be. He'll go back to France at the end of the year and will be sure to forget you and move on with his life. You best be prepared to do the same.