It's been a week since this whole thing started.  I can't seem to wrap my head around that- sometimes, it feels like it's been insanely long, and other times, it feels like it all happened in a moment.  Yet, life goes back to normal.  I go to the office, work gets done, day follows day.

Yet, it's different.  We were supposed to meet with Mandy and Zak today, to go over things for the appeal.  Now, any hope for an appeal is long gone.  I don't understand why they insist on keeping this idiotic registry system, when they have just proven to themselves that it doesn't work.  I'd think that if you were going to keep tabs on a werewolf, you would have people checking where they were, especially just before moonrise.  Someone isn't where they're supposed to be?  Go arrest them!  At least if Mandy was in Azkaban, we'd have had a chance of getting her out.  But instead, they just ignore what information they have until it suits them to use it.  Anyone who ever met Mandy, even for five minutes, would know that she never could have hurt anyone when she was in her right mind.  Which she was!  And-

It's just all so useless.  We did everything we could, legally (and really, even a little illegally, too.)  Harry talked to the Minister- and even he couldn't save Mandy. 

I know things have to change eventually.  I know we can't stop trying to make them change- for Remus, and the rest of the good people that, through no fault of their own, are being treated like animals by their own government.

It's just so bloody frustrating!!!