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Fantastic beasts characters and their journals

*In this HC post, no one is dead and everyone is friends with everyone, simply because I can’t handle sadness.*

Newt Scamander: He has many notebooks. One of them is a small, pocket sized one where he fills in reminders (Anniversary with Tina this sunday!, Mooncalves pallets are running out etc.), random ideas (fire whisky mixed with crushed beetle eyes are good for treating billywig stings) and things he learns about his beasts (demiguises generally enjoy melancholic violin music). It is very messy, and he replaces it regularly when he runs out of space. After every week or so, he likes to transfer those notes to a large, meticulously indexed and leather bound notebook, completed with sketches where appropriate, which is basically the first draft for his book. He also keeps detailed diaries documenting the growth of various creatures, every. single. creature. Newt has many notebooks.

Tina Goldstein: Being an auror is impressive, especially given the (sexist and racist) time period she lives in. Tina gets to where she is by setting out clear goals for herself in a journal that she has since young, pristine despite its age. She is the kind of person everyone wants to be with a detailed five year plan (which admittedly kind of falls apart when she gets demoted). Besides that, she also likes lists very much. Gift ideas, to-do lists, favourite books... Her journal has every list imaginable. She even has a list titled ‘Hot dogs around New York’, where she rates hot dog places by their i)tastiness, ii)vicinity to home/MACUSA, iii)amount of mustard used, among other things. She puts a new concealment charm on her notebook every once in awhile to keep her notebook private. 

Queenie Goldstein: She has a beautiful, expensive journal that Tina gave her as a Christmas gift, where she sketches out all her clothing designs. They are beautifully coloured, and she liked to attach fabric swatches, buttons and threads samples to it. Because of that, her notebook is very bulky. It is very neat, and the index is charmed to update itself. Most of her designs all for herself and Tina, though there is now a newer, smaller heading for Newt and Jacob. In the back of the notebook, she has scrawled on different people’s drink preferences (Tina, for example, likes her coffee black with a bit of cream, and her tea with little milk and loads of sugar). She seldom looks at it however, having learnt everyone’s preference by heart.

Jacob Kowalski: He has an old journal, passed to him from his grandma. In it were many recipes on pastries, breads and cakes, created and handwritten by Grandma herself. There are still a lot of blank pages,  and Jacob has used them to design the layout for his shop, written down contact details of suppliers, as well as some recipes of his own. Grandma kept her entries very tidy, with clean handwriting and carefully numbered procedures. Jacob, however, prefers a freer way of journalling. The notebook is also dirty from accidental food spills and coffee stains. Jacob refers to this notebook a lot, so it looks quite used and ready to fall apart. Luckily, Queenie has charmed it for him such that the notebook (cover, pages, spine) will stay together (but just barely). 

Percival Graves: Many people expect Percival Graves to have an schedule book with a rigid and carefully thought-out timetable, but that cannot be further away from the truth. A daily schedule is useless, since it can be easily derailed by emergencies or new leads on cases. Percival has a minimalistic notebook, with only a yearly view calendar and ruled pages. It is small enough to take with him wherever he goes, which is important since he is always out investigating. There may be casual reminders in the book from time to time, but most of it is indecipherable scribbles or lazy doodles (mostly of cats, which he has a secret fondness for), which he draws idly when thinking over his cases. His memory is good enough for remembering meetings with Madame President and other Very Important People. 

Credence Barebone: When he is in the orphanage, he has neither money nor freedom to keep a journal of his own. After the obscurus accident, he is given a notebook by Newt (along with a writing set), and he doesn’t know what to do with it at first. He is afraid of ‘ruining’ the notebook by writing on it. At Queenie’s suggestion, he starts to use it as a sort of diary, writing about his daily life, or sometimes, about his life when living with his mother. He even writes a letter addressed to Modesty once, apologising for not protecting her more from their mother, and for indirectly causing her death. He has also addressed letters to Mary-Lou, Chastity and Grindelwald, who manipulated him so fully. They aren’t finished, because he still hasn’t said everything he wants to say. Writing is an outlet for him, and it calms him down and helps him come to terms with what happened.