Erin Page // Ginny Weasley

Happy International Women's Day everyone! To celebrate, I am going to be a woman for the ENTIRE DAY.

You should celebrate too, especially if you are a woman, or were a woman, or know and love any women. I'm lucky that all three of those apply to me.

I think I've solved the snowy, cold weather, zero parking, late for class, general-suckitude problem.

I'm going to learn to apparate.

Why didn't I think of this sooner?

It's official, all my papers are DONE. That sound you here? That's me popping the champagne open. Okay, maybe not. It's me popping a Diet Coke open because I still have a biology exam to study for for tomorrow, but after that I am done. Freedom will taste so sweet. Then I just have to go Christmas shopping, which is usually a drag, but this year's shopping is happening in Diagon Alley, so instead it is the Coolest Thing Ever. Also, there will be flying and other magical hijinks. Do the Christmas hols get better than this? I submit that they do not!

You know, I may not actually need any more caffeine...

Time for Halloween parties. The girls from the soccer team had this idea that we should do a theme and everyone go as Harry Potter characters. I know, right? This is going to be epically weird. I'm going as Tonks, because, you know, bright pink hair. Besides, she's awesome and Ginny always looked up to her and our red-head goalie already claimed Ginny. (OMG, weirdest thing I've typed all week). It gives me a good excuse to stick my wand in my back pocket too. Is there a better night for harmless pranks than this? I think not!

( Jo and Paul Shrewsbury )

( Carson, Otto, Rose, and Sofia )

So... I may have bought an owl. I couldn't help it. The man at the shop was trying to get rid of him. He said nobody would take him because he kept biting people's fingers. I don't believe it. He's a sweetheart, and he hasn't bitten me. Really, I can't picture him attacking anyone. He's all tiny and cute. He reminds me of Pigwidgeon but more brown than gray. I'm going to name him Snitch, because I'm super creative like that.

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It's so interesting, everyone letting out all their secrets and stuff. Some of it's awful, but some of it is kind of neat, like everyone is being their real selves for once. I'm not too worried. I mean, I like to think that I live pretty honestly. I always try to just be myself, because, really, who else am I going to be? Everyone else is taken.

The only secrets I keep are the sort of things that would make life harder on other people. Like, I can't tell all my friends that I'm a reincarnate, because I'm preeeetttty sure that would freak them out. And I definitely can't tell my mom, because she would flip her shit.

I mean, I can't even tell my mom that I'm a lesbian. Even that would freak her out, so no one in the family knows. I guess that's a pretty normal secret to keep? Pretty much everyone at school knows. I mean, everyone who would care. So I guess I'm not always myself. Or I'm two selves. I'm like the self at home and the real self I am here. Or maybe I'm three selves, because I've got Ginny too. Wow, that's really trippy.

Getting ready to move. Training camp is going on for another week, but dorms suck so I'm going to be all stealthy about it. Besides, I can't leave my awesome new roommate all by her lonesome. (Hi awesome new roommate. You can't see it, but I'm waving now!) I'm so the typical poor college student. Everything I own fits in the back of a hatchback, and I don't even have to put the seats down. Which is good, because if I did the soccer balls would roll around everywhere. I don't know how I ended up having four. I think they multiply, like puffskeins, but not as cuddly.

Yes! Three day weekend. This is awesome, I can actually do some fun stuff. I want to go to Diagon Alley, because my caretaker mentioned that it was one of the places that was out there? How cool is that? Has anyone on here been there? That's why I signed on. (By they way. Yeah, total newbie here. I'm Erin! Hi? Be nice!) I was hoping I could get some advice, or directions, or something. At least make sure the place wasn't completely overrun by Death Eaters or something, because that would suuuuuck.

Oh, also, while I'm here, dose anybody play Quidditch? Or anything like it? I've got Ginny's broom, and I really want to try it out, but it's hard to find a good place to fly.

( She's a rebel, she's a saint, she's the salt of the earth and she's dangerous. )