A new therapist will be joining our ranks soon. Ms. Bonham will be leaving us for reasons I don't feel like I should disclose here but that shouldn't really upset too many of you since only one of you even went to see her.

The new doctor is named Mr. Brayden Montague. When he arrives I will leave it up to him about whether he will come to see you or if I will ask you to meet with him.

The growing lackadaisical approach to patient therapy and the lack of the patient journal project has put quite a few of you at the top of my list. Please keep in mind that failure to follow through with these requirements will have you removed from this Retreat.

As I'm sure all of you have noticed by now, we have a new patient so please welcome Ms. Hannah Abbott. Please show her your respect and give her every courtesy as she settles down into her life here and gets used to everything.

By now I hope that you have completed your last assignment with your peer therapy partner and have asked them five questions. Hopefully this has helped you to get to know them a little better. Your peer therapy partner, however, won't be of any help to you until you have learned to trust them.

This brings us to our next Peer Therapy assignment. When you and your partner are ready, please come to my office.

Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, I would like the two of you to come to my office this evening after dinner, around 19:00.

It seems that Pansy Parkinson required much more personal attention than we were able to give her here at the Retreat so she has been sent back to Saint Mungo's. It's possible that she will return when she's feeling a little bit better but until then I have rearranged your Peer Therapy Partners.

Morag McDougal will now be partnered with Astoria Greengrass and Daphne Greengrass will be partnered with Marcus Flint.

Remember your peer therapy assignment, ask your partner 5 questions so you can learn a little bit about them. It is recommended that you discuss the responses you learned in your journal but not required. It is required, however, that your therapist signs off on this task to insure it is completed. Other outstanding assignments are the anonymous questionnaire posted in the foyer. Choose six questions and answer them, post your responses in the foyer for others to read. This exercise is optional but highly encouraged.

I have also decided to make the Activity Director's latest venture mandatory. All patients must attend Ms. Pennyfeather's party on Wednesday evening.

Since everyone seems to be so excited at the prospect of Peer Therapy, I've decided maybe we should have an activity after all!

So, each of you need to come up with five questions to ask your partner. By next Wednesday, you must meet with your partner and find out the answers to your questions. Afterwards I'd like you to write a journal entry about your partner and the things you learned.

Your Peer Therapy partners have been decided upon. There still is no time spent together yet required although I would encourage you to meet with said partner and get to know them as in the future you will be spending a great deal of time with them.

You are not allowed to switch partners and will only receive a new one if your current partner is deemed well enough to rejoin society.

Peer Therapy Partners are as follows:

MANDY BROCKLEHURST and TRACEY DAVIS
HARRY POTTER and DRACO MALFOY
PANSY PARKINSON and MORAG MACDOUGAL
DAPHNE GREENGRASS and
ASTORIA GREENGRASS and

The Greengrass sisters will not participate in peer therapy until suitable partners for them have been found. If any pair is willing to temporarily adopt either Astoria or Daphne, it would be appreciated I'm sure.

I'd like to, once again, welcome all of you to the Retreat. While our numbers right now are rather diminutive, as you can see, we have a lot of room for expansion. Even though I've already met with all of you once I'm going to summarize what we talked about during orientation since it was a lot of information to digest at once.

Please feel free to charm this entry to your memories if you feel you will need to reference it in the future.

At orientation I gave you each your journal. While they started out as black leather bound books with gold leafed pages you each had the opportunity to customize your journal in order to make it personal to you. While you are allowed to hex entries from the eyes of the other patients here should you choose to do so, your therapist should have full access to your journal should they ask for it. It is a required part of your therapy to write one journal entry a week.

Each of you have also been assigned a peer therapy partner. This person was specially chosen by myself based off the criteria that they were a person you could learn something from so please do not switch partners if you aren't comfortable with yours at first. I encourage you to meet with your partners once a week but for now you aren't required to spend a certain amount of time with them. From time to time I and your therapist will give you activities to do with your partner. Please do your best to complete these tasks.

Furthermore, on Tuesday of every week my patients are free to come to my office and discuss any problems or issues they're having at the Retreat. For example, if you and your room mate aren't getting along and you don't think you could stand to live with them another day. We will talk over anything you have to say.

Of course my office is always open to any of you at any time but for concerns that don't affect your immediate safety or aren't about your therapy should be saved for this scheduled time slot

I've given each of you a map of the Retreat. Please note if anyone hurts themselves they should notify a staff member immediately as they are the only ones who can unlock the door to the first aid office.

You are required to meet with your therapist sometime within the next five days so please make an appointment with them soon.

Finally, you will find below a form I would like each of you to fill out anonymously and post on the bulletin board in the foyer on the first floor. This will help everyone to get to know each other a little bit better and you may just find you have more in common with the other people here than you thought. Please choose at least six questions to answer.

( Anonymous Form )