Xenophilius Lovegood

OOC: Still here. Keeping for records.

Beautiful day today. 9-09-78.

Does anyone ever visit St. Mungo's when they are not themselves sick or injured, know of someone that is a patient, or is employed there?

I've never heard of such.

Oh, Mr. Snape, perhaps there are those people without the skill at herbology.

Just like the 'Prophet' to report on things that have already happened.

Thankfully none of my possessions are missing if you don't count my memory of the event.

Back to work I go.

The significance of the number 7 is fascinating.

For example - 46 years ago today, A 5.1 kg meteorite shattered into at least 7 fragments and landed near the town of Archie, in the America's state of Missouri. 'Missouri' has 7 letters. And so does 'America'.

In Ancient Egypt there are 7 pathways to heaven and 7 heavenly cows. Osirius, God of the Afterlife, once led his father through the 7 halls of the Underworld.

There are 7 planetary metals - gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, mercury, and lead. 7 Stages of Alchemy - Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation, Coagulation.

7 named days of the week. And in the Muggle Christian bible, man was made in the 6th day and God rested on the 7th. Believe you me, people are quite complicated creatures aside from Thestrals and crumble-horned snorkacks.

And if you add today's date: 8 + 10 + 19 + 78 (look there's a 7 there) = 115. You add that: 1 + 1 + 5. What do you get? 7! Exactly.

...and my personal favourite:

There are 7 colours - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Violet.

I've said it once. I'll state it once more. The Daily Prophet is a sham. Completely and utterly. I'm surprised that it hasn't been brought to task for its false claims of being some sort of hub for divinators.

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