While I do appreciate the effort that my fellow Ravenclaw and prefect has taken to foster inter-House relationships, there are better ways to have gone about so than by non-consensually signing up your fellow students for the date auction.

Nevertheless. Since I find my name no less on the list than if I had put it there myself, I have to follow through with this absurdity. I encourage everyone to sign up if you would like someone to go with you to the date auction and I encourage you to do it before someone else does it for you, and in particular I would be pleased to see a Ravenclaw name or two that my roommate didn't put up on the board.

If you do find yourself signed up non-consensually, go to your prefect and come to me and I encourage you to look on the bright side and use it as an opportunity to perhaps get to know a fellow student you wouldn't have otherwise.

[Filtered to Jin]
Believe me when I say that I am entirely a victim here, dear.

_help.
[/filter]

To everyone who laughed when I slipped and fell on my way into the Great Hall:

Thank you. There is a special place for you.

Why is there all of this ice on the floor? I don't... I'm so confused.

_{[ooc: Touya's special power is that he has a field of ice spreading out at a 10-20 foot radius around him. By giving him this special power, what I did not give him was the grace and skill to avoid slipping on it. At least it's far enough out that other people will slip too.]}

Happy 18th Birthday, Jin! I wish you every happiness on this special day.

[after some hesitation, this next bit is filtered.]
I love you.

...Interesting. I'm feeling much more...lyrical than usual.

_{[OOC: Touya isn't usually much of a singer. Pretty deep voice for such a little cutie, huh. This event will be fun.]</a>}

There must have been stealth milk in something at dinner tonight. Augh, misery. Will definitely be paying much closer attention to what goes on my plate.

At the moment, I'm likely going to skip breakfast.

I can't just... I Have you ever just stared at the page, wondering what to write because there's no possible way that anything you write could actually--

Wait. What's wrong with my

What's going on now.

Well. That's a little irritating.

Nevertheless. Tonight was a very good night.

O-oh. It seems I was selected to be Head Boy this year.

This is such an honour... I honestly... I've never even been Prefect before, how did I certainly wasn't expecting to be Head Boy. This year is shaping up to be quite exciting, indeed. Nonetheless, I'm sure that I've risen to taller challenges before. I was chosen out of my class to be Head Boy, and I will absolutely make sure that they don't regret that choice.

Touya Hikari, Head Boy. Well, it will look excellent on my resume, if nothing else.

[OOC: I'm pitching a fit of excitement. YAAAY. Also, Touya's a lot more excited than he seems. XD]

Less than a week until my last year at Hogwarts begins. It's almost sad, how fast the time has flown.

I still remember the day that Jin came and sat with me, September first, seven years ago. He barged into my compartment without so much as a by-your-leave, flung himself into the adjacent seat, and hasn't shut up since.

[Filtered to Jin, for extraordinary soppiness and because he's writing this almost like a will]
You're my best friend, Jin. I wouldn't have gotten through the past seven years without you. Whatever happens, remember that.
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And the world has changed around us, too. It's not just the long road to being an adult that's made the world seem a lot darker. I'm incredibly grateful that I still have my grandparents, my friend, and my health.
[There's a pause at the end of the line, like he's thinking about what to say next.]

The NEWTs that I have to take in the spring... not so much.

Jin, I take it you'll need help studying for those. Let's try not to let that wait until two weeks before.

Since Grandmother and Grandfather are still recovering from our recent trip to Japan, and I'm 17, I'm going to be making the annual trip to Diagon Alley unaccompanied this year.

That being said, I would like to take advantage of my newfound freedom to attempt to be social right before my last year at Hogwarts. To that end, I was wondering if anyone would like to meet me in the Leaky Cauldron so that we can go buy our school supplies together.

[*Diagon Alley thread is here! You don't have to have commented on this post to join in. But expect Touya to be surprised to see you, if he even knows you, if you don't. :D]

今日は -- that is to say, hello.

I've just returned to England after an exciting holiday in Japan with my grandparents. My summer has been largely uneventful, but I return from Japan with some sweets from the magical community there (which I explored while my grandparents were otherwise occupied).

It will be nice to spend a little bit of time with my parents before the summer ends and it's back to Hogwarts. I'm still in a bit of shock that this will be my last year (assuming I don't return in some other function in a few years).

I hardly know why I'm bothering to update this journal. No one likely cares what's become of me over the summer.