Post by marius n. black on Jul 29, 2012 22:51:14 GMT -5
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true][atrb=style, background-color: #fff; width: 505px; border-top: 10px #9ACFE0 solid, bTable]  ! marius HISTORY IS ALL BUT IN THE PAST THE FOLLOWING ARE SELECT ENTRIES FROM MARIUS' JOURNALS Journal Entry: October 21st. Eleven Years Old. Today is my eleventh birthday and I finally got my letter for Hogwarts. I am so excited, especially to get all my things from Diagon Alley. Father says it will take the whole year til I actually get everything. He says we don't have the money to buy it all at once. I really want an owl. My sister says she wants to get a cat next year. I hate cats. They aren't very useful. Dad took off today so we are spending the whole day together. I can't wait. My siblings have to come with too though. I wish they were old enough to watch over themselves. Journal Entry: January 1st. Twelve Years Old. First Year. It's new years day. I had spent christmas at home but now I am back at Hogwarts. There is so much that I have learned already and it's only been half a year! I like all of my classes so far. History of Magic is pretty boring though. It's taught by a ghost that has been there for as long as anyone can remember. Apparently one day he died but his ghost still got up and started teaching. No one knows if he even knows he's dead. I don't even think he leaves his classroom. I wonder if he ever did when he was a live. I made lots of friends this year. I wish my brother and sister were here sometimes. We saw each other at christmas though and will have the whole summer to catch up. There will be twice as many adventures to tell each other. I have to go down for dinner now. Journal Entry: November 15th. Fourteen Years Old. Third Year. I can't help but remind myself it's already my third year at Hogwarts. I'm really enjoying my two new electives. They are both hard, though. Arithmancy has to do with numbers and having everything add up in order to make a prediction. I hear it's harder than Divination but that the teacher is completely psycho and you can just make up most of your answers. Ancient runes is like learning a second language. You have to know what everything means and do a lot of memorization, but I like it. I met a girl from hufflepuff today. She was very pretty and she smelled really good too. I wonder what my brother will think. We have talked in a long time. I haven't seen much of my sister either. I see them together a lot though. Maybe I'll suggest having lunch together when I get a chance. If they have time. They always seem to have their friends pulling them every which way. That must be nice. Half of the ravenclaw table was studying at breakfast. There must be some big test I'm forgetting about. Journal Entry: February 14th. Sixteen Years Old. Fifth Year. Today is Valentine's day. I haven't written in this journal since the end of last year's term. I guess I was actually busy over the summer. It slipped from my mind. I am a bit surprised to even find it among my things at school. I'm in my fifth year at Hogwarts right now. I've had my eye on a one of my mates in Ravenclaw for a little while but I haven't gotten the nerve to say anything to her. She doesn't make me feel invisible though. I'm not quite as studious as the other students in Ravenclaw so I don't really bond with many of them. I guess I just tend to soak up more information during classes and a simple read through of our books. I have been doing great. Anyway, this lack of studying with almost every other single ravenclaw seems to have made me invisible. I don't know if they think I don't belong here or have a problem with my thought process. I've made a promise with my siblings to eat together at least once a week. They seem so popular among their Gryffindor friends though. I hope I don't just end up eating alone, wherever we decide to eat. Journal Entry: October 10th. Sixteen Years Old. Sixth Year. I did something horrible over the weekend. Apparently my brother had gotten a new girlfriend in the last two weeks (I'm glad he told me) and on sunday he found me snogging her on the steps of the owlery. He hasn't spoken to me all week and when we had lunch with our sister he wouldn't even look me in the eye. He won't believe that his girlfriend didn't tell me she was dating him. She didn't even mention his name. However she told my brother that I had told her I was him, and I had done my hair out different so that we looked alike. I don't understand how he could believe that when we look completely different from each other. Even more so that I also got hurt. I thought we had a connection and that it would have been a deeper relationship. I guess that is girls for you. Unpredictable in what they want from you. My sister says she believes me but she doesn't want to get involved. She wants to be on good terms with us both and I understand. I just wish she would try to reason with our brother, her twin. I don't think I'll be able to stand the next few weeks with him throwing daggers at me. Love seems to confuse the minds into rejecting reality. It's horrible to allow such a thing to tear friendships and even family apart. Well, I'll be spending the next week trying to apologize to my brother. I'm not sure how much I will be writing in that time. Journal Entry: August 31st. Seventeen Years Old. Seventh Year. My name is Marius Nathaniel Black. I was named after my Great Uncle who was a squib and subsequently got disowned from the family for being so. My mother's grandfather's name was Nathaniel. My family name, 'Black' has a very dark past. I'm surprised my Grandfather (on my father's side) even kept it after he was disowned. He had loaned most of his money to Sirius Black after he was disowned in hopes of making a better name for our family's name. My Grandfather died shortly before my Grandmother gave birth to my father. She named him Alphard as well, though I don't know if he just doesn't mentions he's Alphard Black II or if his mother named him without it. I think his name is what kept my grandmother going even after her husband died. Father says she started to get more and more sick every time he went to school. She passed away once he began completely living on his own and my mother showed up in the picture. Genevieve Gaunt. She was muggleborn but my father loved her. He still does. I didn't know her. She died giving birth to my brother and sister. We've been a close-knit family ever since. It's been hard on our father to provide for the three of us and himself, by himself. For my final year at Hogwarts I have bought and started a new journal. The term starts tomorrow and I plan to write in this book everyday, no matter how uneventful my day ends up being. I've spent the summer writing short stories but none of my ideas have seemed very golden. I'm hoping I'll be able to accumulate something over this next year. I want to be published one day. If that doesn't work out, perhaps I will be an archaeologist and dive into runeology further. Maybe I could record my adventures and make a story out of that. My brother and I are talking again. He finally broke it off with that girl he had been dating for the past year. He found out her 'family trip' was actually a trip with some boy she was seeing at Beauxbaton. As soon as it happened he apologized to me. I told him it was fine and apologized for what happened when they had first started dating. He still seems kind of broken about it, but I think once he is around his friends he'll be back to normal. He's too social to be like me, and just stand about, not really involved in the festivities. I can be a little shy and reserved, but my friends think I'm a rather goofy guy underneath. I guess that's good. My siblings and I have once again agreed to each lunch and dinner together once a week but also spend one of our weekends together at Hogsmeade once a month. My brother also made me promise to ask whatever girl I'm about to snog with if she has a boyfriend first. I agreed to try to, but sometimes the ladies are so desperate you can't even get a word out. We both laughed momentarily at the likely hood of that happening. I hope this year at Hogwarts will be interesting. full name: marius nathaniel black nickname(s): mars age|birthday: seventeen | october twenty-first blood type: halfblood sexuality: heterosexual house|year: ravenclaw | seventh occupation: student nationality: british/scottish hometown: mould-on-the-wold wand type: fourteen inches, blackthorn, thestral tail hair alliance: order of the silver dagger [style=background-color: #9ACFE0; width: 485px; height: 10px;] alias: Robyn age: Seventeen rp experience: Four years at least. |
