Adele Astra Lestrange
Pureblood Princess
Adele 
11th-Jan-2009 06:21 pm - 020; 11 January 2026; right on time you get closer and closer [celebrations & holidays, faustus, the art of being a lady]
Warded Private )

I am always excited about a new year! The darkest part of winter is over as January begins and the year turns, and you have new letters that you must remember - something more difficult perhaps to remember than you might like - and of course there are new years resolutions as well.

When I was a little girl Maman used to help me write them out using my letters, and we would put them on parchment and then I would decorate them and place them on my wall. They would be silly things, such as planting more tulips in the fall, or always being on time to dinner, quite simple, but there was something about the process of writing them out and placing them where I could see that somehow helped me to remember them better.

I hope you have all had a happy new year as well.
6th-Dec-2008 01:00 am - 019; 5 December 2025; wishes it could be as loved as she can be [celebrations & holidays, england vs france, faustus, home]
I do love the holiday season! It is so full of beautiful things. Right now, for instance, we have the entire manor decorated in garlands and sprigs of evergreen and it smells so lovely when one walks down the hall, that one can imagine that one is in the middle of a forest at all times, except rather warmer than it would be at the moment. I love the reds and the greens. I know that they are traditional and it seems that the most recent thing - if one is visiting the shops is to do blues or some other 'non-traditional' colour, and while there is nothing wrong with such. Christmas feels to me as if it must be reds and greens, or at the very least, burgandys and greens.

And I have done some Christmas shopping, but I really must do some more. And I am thinking that perhaps it would be an excellent idea to host a small new year's party. I certainly would like to do something social although the number of people I know here is still smaller than what I would know in France.

The snow flurries yesterday morning - well! It did almost make me love England. It is possible that I will get used to this country after all!

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23rd-Nov-2008 09:13 pm - 018; 23 November 2025; Whipping past the relecting pool [celebrations & holidays, england vs france, family, forbidden liasons]
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Warded to Sebastien )

Warded to Faustus )

Is the weather always this dreary in England?
16th-Nov-2008 11:39 pm - 017; 16 November 2025; sit in the chair and be good now [arabella, celebrations & holidays, family, forbidden liasons, of marriage and beaus]
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Christmas is so soon around the corner. I am realizing that I must begin my lists quite soon, and begin the process of gathering presents, and the preparations that make the season such a delight. I only wish that Maman and Pere could join us for Christmas, but it seems unlikely that such a thing shall be possible. Perhaps, I could suggest to Patrice and Sebastien that we join them in France!
5th-Nov-2008 12:19 pm - 016; 5 November 2025; maybe i'm the afterglow
[Warded to Patrice & Sebastien]
Would it be possible for me to join the Bletchley's at Arabella and Morgaine's flat for Guy Fawkes celebrations tonight?
1st-Nov-2008 09:25 pm - 015; 1 November 2025; well i ran from him in all kinds of ways [family, forbidden liasons, of marriage and beaus]
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Warded to Faus )

As Sebastien says, these journals are quite educational. It is very nice to have both of my brothers with me now. It is almost like being home in France.
30th-Oct-2008 11:03 pm - 014; 30 October 2025; maybe you are trick or treating me [celebrations & holidays, family, forbidden liasons]
[Warded Private]
Oh, but this is brilliant! I am so excited! Sabastien will be here, and it will be much less boring!!


[Warded to Faus]
Monsieur, guess what!?
27th-Oct-2008 10:37 pm - 013; 27 October 2025; she with her honey hair [family, maman darling, she who must not be named]
I love fall in France, it is such a lovely season. The trees and the leaves, and the gardens turn just so. It is much different in England, and I am finding it takes some getting used to after all. The gardens here are quite lovely, of course, but they are different than at home - if for no other reason than I have not had so much to do with their beauty. Perhaps next year, if I am still living with Patrice and the Brother's Wife, I shall spend more time in the gardens and next summer and fall I shall feel as if I own them a bit more.

Perhaps tomorrow I shall go out and do some digging around the bulbed flowers, actually. It will give me a reason to look forward to spring when the flowers will bloom again.

[Warded Private]
Patrice has been very interesting of recent. He will speak of nothing but the Potter's case, and I have rarely seen him in such good spirits. He says that this is an example of why we were fighting for our society and that in the world that should have been, this would never have been allowed.

And he does have a point that Harry Potter is a half-blood, and perhaps it is part of the reason that he does what he does. It is vile, certainly, and vulgar. Mais je ne sais pas.

Faustus is a half blood, and he is hardly vile, or vulgar. Oh, he might be a bit more free with his sexuality than Maman has encouraged me to be, but he is not so very different than some of the men I knew at Beauxbatons, many of which were pure blooded.

And I still find myself troubled by Maman having liked Monsieur Faus' father. I cannot wrap my mind around it.


[Warded to Purebloods + Faus]
Is anyone doing anything nice for Halloween?
11th-Oct-2008 03:08 pm - 012; 11 October 2025; Everybody else's girl [forbidden liasons]
[Warded Private]
I most certainly have not been thinking about having sex with Faustus for the past three days straight.

This is why Maman tells me not to discuss these things with men. It only means that I keep thinking of things I should not be thinking about.

I am not thinking about Faus.
8th-Oct-2008 09:15 pm - 011; 8 October 2025; Particle by particle she slowly changes
I think mayhap I should get myself a pet. I had a cat in France and I do miss her dearly. She was a lovely thing, but Maman thought it would not be good for her to move. Sometimes I wonder if it was simply that Maman did not wish for her to leave. She was, after all, a kitten or grandkitten really, of one of Maman's cats. But the house is so large and the Brother's Wife seems to often be out.

I can read, of course, and I do. Grandpere had fabulous libraries and although some of them were taken they are not what they used to be, there are still books a plenty to keep me with reading material, but I feel very much as if I should be doing something more meaningful with my life.

Maman always tried to teach me different healing charms. Perhaps I should look for a book with those and see what I can teach myself.

[Warded Private]
They should be jealous. That is an excellent cottage pie, and I made the fruit salad myself earlier. But I'm pleased I could do something, even if it were only to send a bit of food.

I find myself completely bewildered. At one moment I believe that they have thought us all Death Eaters, and therefore if you are pureblood, if your parents were Death Eaters, you might as well be also. At other moments, I am certain that what Pere says is true: that they cannot possibly behave as well as we do. I do not even know all of the details of what happened, but they are halfbloods, yes?

But then Monsieur Faus must go and be different from all of them. Intelligent, and stubborn, yes, but clearly skilled and kind, and I must admit it, he is handsome.

Is he the exception to the rule? Or are they? Or are neither of them exceptions to rules, and people are just generally good or bad regardless of parentage? I somehow think this is what Faus would say is true. And I do not know. It seems to me that most of the people I know, the families that I know, the sort of thing that seems to have occurred, would not have occurred. But then, my father was a Death Eater, and Faustus would say that makes him a bad person.

The Muggle restaurant was not what I was expecting, and the food was every bit as good as any I have had at our home.

It is confusing, and Faus is confusing. And I should not keep talking to him, but I continue to anyway. Pere would mind. Patrice would mind. But he is just a friend, so there is nothing for them to mind. Monsieur Faus would not be interested in me, I think. And being friends with a halfblood was never a problem.


[Warded to Faustus]
I hope you were able to get some sleep and are better rested. What has happened?

Edited later
Monsieur. Why are people so Is everyone except me so open about sex? I feel as if I am the only girl who has not
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