Brendan Potter

I don't even want to remark on the Daily Prophet article a few days ago except to say that you can do almost anything and if you make the right deal you'll get away with almost anything too. But I guess all of that falls under the life's not fair category.

I've been thinking about a trip to Cornwall for a week or two. Just a bit of a vacation, see if the surf is good. That sort of thing. As much as I had been itching to get back to sky diving, the jump on New Year's will hold me over for awhile, I'm thinking. But surfing, haven't done that for awhile. It's still a little cold out for a trip to the beach, but that just means a smaller crowd. Nothing definite though, mostly just thinking for now.

No plans that I know of for St Patrick's Day. I'm not much of a drinker, really. I don't know if going out and getting pissed off your rocker is necessarily a good plan these days anyway.

Plans for Valentine's Day require a baby sitter. Anybody available? I know it's short notice, but honestly with everything that's been going on I completely forgot the day. It's been pretty hectic up until now. But yes. I need a babysitter and will pay handsomely. Even if I'm related to you but I'm sure most of you have plans. Plan B is tethering Lainey to the coffee table to make sure she doesn't wander off and hurt herself.

Now that Lainey is almost five, I've been considering putting her into primary school. It's the plan her mother and I always had for her. I just don't want her to miss out on anything and I think she'd like being with other kids her age besides, of course, her future husband Hunter.

I was joking about tethering her to the coffee table.

( Private to Chaz Wagtail )

( Cassidy )

( Posy )

I have to worry about my siblings and their all too frequent trips to St Mungo's. Maybe I'm not a hero of law enforcement like Dominic or Cassidy and I'm not a hot-head like Emily but I'm still a Potter and I suppose that carries some responsibility, but I refuse to put the weight of the world on myself. My Dad can go out and save the world again if he wants to and my brother can follow in his footsteps, but I'll keep my family safe first. I've already lost Aidan.

I didn't know any of the young men recently deceased, but the frequency of murder in the magical community is getting more and more oppressive. My daughter isn't even allowed outside without someone I trust watching her every move. I have to worry about some mental case trying to kill my girlfriend.

I've missed, what, a week and a half of work and what's waiting for me in my inbox? Complaints about Quidditch rules. They haven't changed in hundreds of years, I'm not going to be the one to encourage changing them now. I'm pretty sure all of these complaints are from one person anyway.

The past week or so has been shit. When something like this happens do people just look for ways to make it worse? Some people need to keep their fucking bravado in check before we're burying them next. Or maybe they just like the attention. added later: Yes, this is about you, Dominic.

( Private to Family & Friends )

Back at St Mungo's for a few days. Moral of the story: Don't leave until a healer tells you to.

I saw who did it but those bloody cowards and their masks. I even fought her and couldn't stop her. All the people running about and she went for Aidan, probably the least threatening person there. And I wasn't there in time to stop it. If I ever find out who that bitch was, I'll kill her.

They made me stay the night at the hospital they wanted me to stay tonight too and I just left. Said my insides are a little scrambled, but I should be okay eventually. I think I'll be taking a few days off of work though. I was going to go to Mum and Dad's house, but I think they're still at the hospital with Dom and Emily. They wouldn't let me out of bed last night so I didn't go to visit, sorry about that. Now I just want to pick up Lainey and go home.

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With everything that's happened lately, I have to take the time out to reflect on, for example, how big of a man it takes to attack a girl barely out of school because she expressed her opinion.

( Order )

Work has been... work. As far as Ministry departments go, with everything that's been going on, Magical Games and Sports doesn't really do much. I guess its something to be thankful for. I get to leave my work at work. I also get to leave work at a decent hour. Such is work.

In lieu of the news that I am something like a painting that nobody can understand, I've decided to get another tattoo. In honour of my little brother, Dominic. And I'll ask if they can find a way to leave the ink smell. I just need to figure out what that tattoo would be.

( Posy )

( Felicity )

Amazingly my Christmas shopping is complete. Lainey will be lost amongst wrapping paper Christmas morning, which is perfectly fine with me. I need to make plans with Mum for visiting for Christmas. There'll be no avoiding anybody that day. Perhaps it's time to find some nerve medication. All the brothers and sisters are shopped for as well, Mum and Dad are done, the spattering of cousins, aunts, and uncles as well. The house is decorated, though I have to admit I hired someone to do it, I'm no good at that sort of thing, and the tree is up. Lainey and I are decorating it tomorrow night. Anyone want to come over and help?

I guess I should say something about this curfew business. It really isn't that big of a deal. I don't necessarily think it'll stop anything because the minute you restrict people, a minute later they rebel against it. It hardly matters to me. Sadly I'm rarely out past 9 these days unless I can talk someone into babysitting for me.

Oh, I got a new tattoo. Just an outline right now, I have to go back to get it finished up. It was taking too long and I had to pick up Lainey. Also I've signed up for a jump on New Year's Day. Skydiving in the dead of winter was too stupid to pass up. Anyone care to join me? I've been told there's plenty of room available.

Been reading up on winter skydiving. I've only ever been during the summer. It'd be a way to liven it up, I think. Maybe I could manage to persuade Mum to take Lainey for a weekend. It'd be a good way for her to see the family without me having to be there. Of course, that'll only happen once Aidan takes his spotted monster home with him because that thing isn't staying in my flat by itself.

( Drawn in the journal when Brendan wasn't looking )

Lainey and I just got back from Romania this morning. The bloody portkey was late and I didn't want to try side-apparation with her over such a large distance. Just what the hell have you lot been up to while I was gone? Nobody thought to tell me anything? I just got word that Emily had been arrested and Dominic was in St Mungo's and now there was some sort of riot I wasn't invited to? I'm not supposed to be the last to know these things. That's Aidan, remember?