Disclaimer: All characters are owned J K Rowling and I think this plot has been used before so please don't sue!

Author's Note: Please can you review this. I know it is slow getting started but be patient this story is going to brilliant

I may do a second journal from Hermione's point of view. If you have any thoughts on this please mention in your review.

Enough blabbing.

Dear Journal,

This year started of very strangely. My work with the Order of the Phoenix was limited due to the amount of press harassment Dumbledore and the other Aurors were having.

I knew he would come back. A mind like his could never be destroyed. Even though I don't really approve of what he has done I still respect him and know that he is the most gifted and intelligent person I have ever met. Even Dumbledore can't hold up against the stealth of Voldemort. If he could he would have destroyed him by now.

I am sitting in my office right now, as it seems something has gone terribly wrong.

I have arrived two weeks early to Hogwarts so to get my lesson plans in order plus I wanted to ask Dumbledore if I could take up the vacant post as Defence against Dark Arts teacher but have been confronted with that beast. Dumbledore has gone soft once again and has brought his little pet, Lupin, back as Defence against Dark Arts teacher. How unfair!

Dumbledore says it is so that hairy mutt can keep an eye on Potter but I disagree. Lupin had Dumbledore wrapped around his dirty claw. Anyway, why is it always Potter this, Potter that? There are many other gifted children studying at Hogwarts i.e. Hermione Granger.

She shows more intelligence than the whole of the Weasley family put together and all she needs is helping hand to help this little rose bud to blossom. But Dumbledore does not approve of one to one tutoring except in that case of his precious little Potter.

I try my hardest to boost her confidence and feed her hungry mind but if I were to praise her too much I think that people would notice. The other thing which restricts me is her being a mudblood so if I were seen to be helping her to excel, not that she does not already, then somebody, most likely that little worm Malfoy, would go and tell his big Daddy and he in turn would tell his master Voldemort. This would be horrific.

If Voldemort found out I had a soft spot for Miss Granger then she would be in grave danger. I cannot reveal too much just in case somebody does find this but I have received a very interesting letter.

I must insure that my crush is never revealed and do my best to protect Hermione.

Yours truly,
Potion Master