Remus Lupin

Here we all are, back again after what was, for me at least, an unexpectedly pleasant Christmas. Christmas Eve was spent in the Great Hall, in the company of Miss Granger, where I learned some truly fascinating things. I know I am surrounded by young people day in day out, so I should be used to their ways, but their capacity for enthusiasm, about all manner of things, still surprise me sometimes. I wonder, on occasions, just how the current situation has changed us all - maybe the young now hunger for knowledge and truth in a way we didn't when I was young. Then I remember Lily some of the people I knew at school, and think perhaps it was just me who expressed my passion for learning quietly!

Speaking of which, I hear someone has been into the old caretaker's office. Those items were confiscated for a reason, lads. I do hope they manage to find their way back to the office, so I'm not forced to hunt them down and confiscate them again.