June 1, 2016 Update

WOW! Secret Santa, I am having my Dark Mark erased and a picture of your choosing magicked on my forearm instead.

I have lusted after Horace Slughorn's Hourglass ever since I saw it in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and now...

I AM THE PROUD OWNER OF ONE!!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the package tonight. The pictures really don't do it justice. It is gorgeous, really well-made, very sturdy glass and metal and just glows! And what's more, it's calibrated to measure out an hour. (Whether or not that runs faster if I'm with someone boring, I have yet to find out!)

The sands of time run quickly, but not as quickly as my heart beats for my wonderful, generous, fantastic, Harry Potter Secret Santa!

*THANK YOU, THANK YOU, you luscious, Lucius Malfoy of a Secret Santa!!! xxxx oooo xxxxx *

Original Post:

I was lounging in the cool limpid aquamarine light streaming in from the windows on the Great Lake and listening to the merpeople singing while House Elves gave me a mani-pedi.

OF COURSE I'm a pureblood, but I won't bother to name drop here, let's just say it rhymes with "there's nothing I lack..."

I was about to kick one of the House Elves for giving me the wrong shade of silver and green on my large toenail when I heard a scratching and a hooting outside the great yew doors of our Slytherin Common Room. Naturally, I dispatched one of the House Elves to investigate, and drew my wand, just in case.

In flew a great Horned Owl, bearing a package marked, "EXTREMELY URGENT--DO NOT OPEN WITH SHARP IMPLEMENT."

*It had my name on it!" Oh GOODY! My RedditGifts exchange gift had arrived!

I was so excited that I kicked over three House Elves, and disapparated the fourth (still not sure where she is) opening the package while standing on my head. Of course, this was only after I performed a Hex-Breaker spell, in case this was another attempt by Malfoy to get back at me for turning in his father, the Blood Traitor!

My Secret Santa had discovered that I am a Slytherin Prefect and purchased me a proper Silver and Green Prefect badge from Borgin and Burkes! Now those first years will cower before my power! Ahem. (They'd better get used to cowering, since I'm a Death Eater...erm...well, I have got the mask from my Grand...erm...you don't need to know that.) NOW I am a PROPER PREFECT! And this badge is BEWITCHED to let me know if any students are out of the Common Room after hours: it emits a silver serpent that leads me right to the little mudblood buggers!

So, in brief...the PERFECT GIFT!

And to sweeten the deal, a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans! So far all my favorites: earwax, beetle, gillyweed, unicorn blood...I haven't found one that I haven't liked yet!

So Well Done Santa!!!! In fact, extraordinarily well done! I don't suppose you'd like to join an extra curricular club to regain the purity of the Wizarding Race? Well, just let me know in the comments. We do have lots of fun with the Unforgivable Curses---did you know that Crucio can be used to perm your hair? Yes! Super ringlets! I learned that one from my Grandmother.

Well, THANK YOU, SANTA!!! You are obviously a Slytherin, because you are intelligent, ambitious, astoundingly clever, (However did you know I was a Slytherin Prefect?) But I guess that even if you are from another House, I'll still love you and your lovely gifts of a Prefect Pin and Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. Thank you, and if you ever need a hex...well, you know how to summon me: MORSMORDRE!

With love and xxx,

Bellatrix (who is off to eat all the green Bertie Botts Beans she can find before bedtime) ;)