Entrée de Journal Deux: Living Arrangements.

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

After my rather abrupt entrance the other day and a few attempts at trying to return; it would appear that I am stuck here, so I suppose proper introductions are in order.

My name is Malfoy, Draco Malfoy, a surname I hope will be familiar to at least a few of you, pureblood wizard, from a long line of purebloods and no doubt wealthier than you could hope to be.

I did study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, initially with Albus Dumbledore as headmaster and then Professor Snape my old head of house.

[Soft frown and a quiet pause for a moment before changing tack]

Anyway I have been told I live next door to an angel and that there's a demon on the other side of him, I've not actually met either of them but am I the only one that finds this a little bit disconcerting?

I'm not going to have the fires of hell suddenly lick up my bedroom door whilst some celestial battle goes on, am I? Whose bright idea was it to put those particular forms of life together?

Oh Joy...and apparently a demon hunter further down the hall from them...

Yes this will go well.

[sighs huffily and walks with the journal in his hand]

And guess who else the castle has deemed fit for sticking me on the same hall as...

[Insert girlish shriek before a yell issues out]

Bloody hell Longbottom! Your toad in my sodding loo!

Comments

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

He was killed about 300 years ago. We were 17 when we died.

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

I can see why you thought twelve generations was a lot now.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

How do you mean?

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Well if just one of your generations lasts 300 years then 12 generations must go back perhaps three and a half thousand years.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

No, they don't... vampires, in my world and in several others here, never die of natural causes. Immortality, if you will, at the price of death. We die to be reborn; my brother was simply... murdered. By those who Changed me, out of spite.

Twelve generations perhaps seems impressive to me because I was born at the end of the 17th century. Although we were a well-known family, and could trace our lines back to the aristocracy before we came to the colony of Massachussetts, there was no way to trace back that far - for anyone besides royalty. And even then... families changed, new ones married in.

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Our family covers a wall and as each person is born, dies, marries or is ostracised from the family, it changes accordingly.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Ah. Some sort of enchantment, then?

...do you regularly ostracize people?

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Depends on the crime. But it has happened from time to time.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you don't kill them, I suppose.

...which of course is something my kind does fairly regularly. Again with the being terrible at getting along. [she chuckles a little]

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Oh no killings happen...we just don't mention them.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Not in polite society, anyways? [another chuckle]

You hail from Europe, correct?

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was born in Wiltshire, in the Southwest of England, but my family were originally French...I gather anyway.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Ah, Parlez-vous français ?

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Oui je fais, ma mère a voulu que j'aie appris. Elle aimait bien la langue et était aisé dans lui, bien qu'elle n'était pas française se.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Much better than I do, it seems, bien que je compris.
Ça fait longtemps !

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

I know my family were very proud of their heritage. It was more a necessity and a symbol of refinement than anything else.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

I see. It was a symbol of refinement as well when I was young... it truly has been a long time, and I am afraid I am out of practice. Although I did regularly converse with humans back home, it was mostly in English, as I have remained in Massachusetts. I did spend a bit of time in Paris during La Belle Epoque, however.

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

I imagine it must have been quite a place then.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was indeed. One of the many perks of my current state, I suppose.

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

True, wizards are not quite THAT long lived.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

Longer than most humans, though?

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Yes, generally speaking.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

So not everyone in your world has magic? Do you live amongst those without?

[malfoy-purity.livejournal.com]

Not if I can help it...some do though. But I believ they mostly remain unaware. I have never associated myself with them.

[eyesweregold.livejournal.com]

A bit like us, then. Humans don't think we exist until they meet one of us. Well, meet in a prey-meets-predator sense. I actually spend a bit of time at home just wandering amongst them. They're all so hopelessly young and fragile... It's entertaining.