[MOD] Hogwarts starts September 4th...

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Hey everyone,

Skuld here, sitting at a computer in a Swiss chalet my brother-in-law's family owns, where I can see the Matterhorn from out of my window. This is seriously sweet, and yet I still have to take time out of my day to sit on the internets because I'm just that dependent on the webz. Oh, I love my nerdiness.

Anyhoos, this is just a heads up to let you know that Hogwarts formally begins on September 1st but since beater_serpens is out of town at DragonCon, we'll actually be opening the posts on September 4th. We will all be meeting up on Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters to board the Hogwarts Express. As usual every year, we will all squeeze into the same compartment, and talk about our hopes and worries for our last year of schooling.

(Ali-chan and I have some plans for what's going to follow later in the year, but we'll organize and talk about that later.)

On the September 1st Daily Prophet (or possibly the day before) the article announcing Snape as the new Headmaster and the Carrows as DADA and Muggle Studies professors is published.

If you haven't written up a character profile by the time we go back to Hogwarts, please do so!

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Have you seen The Daily Prophet today?

They're putting together a survey of Muggle-born wizards and witches and calling the people in charge of interrogating them the Muggle-born Registration Commission! And claiming that Muggles must have stolen magic? This is completely ridiculous! Magic cannot be stolen or obtained by force, everybody knows that!

Dad is furious at what the Ministry is doing (even though it is really none of his business, at least officially), but he's just an ambassador, he's completely powerless. Not to mention the fact that apparently Minister Thicknesse has canceled all of his meetings with my father, and all the rest of the international ambassadors for the rest of the week on pretense of being very busy overseeing domestic affairs. I hope this angers the International Confederation of Wizards enough for them to do something about it, but somehow I doubt they're going to do anything. They aren't supposed to meddle...

I'm just glad that none of us are Muggle-borns. Alison, you're the closest of all of us to a Muggle, I hope they haven't got you, you've got blood from your mum's side, right?

Also, I hope I see Draco at King's Cross station, getting on the Hogwarts Express. I think I might slap him, and then try to strangle him later.