Pansy, he looks awful. Everyone's saying he'll recover but they're being strange and vague about it, or else acting all business-as-usual. It reminds me of all that secrecy that went on when they tried to kill Mother.

Aunt Bellatrix is here and she and Mother have been talking about something all night, and when I passed by in the hallway they both got quiet so fast, but then Mother asked me if I needed anything to drink before bed in a way that sounded too bright. And now she just wrote in her book to tell me that she and Auntie Bella might be going to the Ministry tonight. What for?

Mother said I don't have to go back to school with everyone else. I can go late. It seems bad that they would let me do that. As if they want me to be around, in case it gets worse.