Written for the If You Dare Challenge prompt #62, the Writing Script Boot Camp prompt #31 (question), and the Sherlock Competition Part 3 #3.


When you open this book, be prepared to follow the rules

Read the stories of your past and fellow students, but don't spread rumors

Write your own story, a drabble or tale

Be wary that others will read this well

You cannot just read and not share

Lest bad luck follow you everywhere

And when your tale is through, this journal will disappear

And you shall see it again no where

"Now promise that you will keep the tales in here a secret by signing your name. And if we think you're lying, this book will be gone before you can ever read the tales"


The Tale of Sirius Black

November 12, 1971~

I think this journal is rather peculiar. There are some entries that date all the way back to the Found Father's Era. How it's been preserved so long and remains so thin must be a work of magic.

Get my pun?

No, seriously though, it's quite amazing to see so many different people writing in here from so many different years! I'm the first one from this age to write, and I'm quite flattered about it. No one's written for 1971 since school started.

The book picked a good first candidate.

I wonder why something like this isn't documented? Historians must be fascinated with it. Maybe people who might try to steal this book away from the school probably never actually get to see it.

I hope Snape doesn't get it. He'd drone on and on about his disdain for James and his adoration for Lily. We're eleven. Liking a girl is like… forbidden. He should be out playing sports instead of playing the potion teacher's pet all day. Doesn't he have a life or something?

No, probably not. This is Severus Snape we're talking about. He doesn't have any friends. I bet he'll be a dork for the rest of his life.

That would be a really awful life in my opinion.

Today we had a competition in class. It wasn't too bad. Good old Remus placed first. It was in transfiguration earlier. Whoever could perform a spell the best and the quickest won a prize. We were timed.

I'm pretty jealous.

Snape placed fourth. He somehow did better than me, but James did better than him. I can live with that.

I know above I said that we shouldn't be crushing on girls yet, but I have to admit that Lily is kind of cute. She's got this long pretty hair and she's cool at times. But I think James might fancy her. He's just too bloody shy with girls to try anything. I bet it takes him years to make a move.

But hey, I'm just guessing.

I guess the one thing I really want to write about is Peter. See, there are four of us that kind of form this group of friends; Remus, James, Peter and I. Don't get me wrong, I think Peter's a fine guy, but something about him bothers me. Maybe it's because he has a squished face. Or maybe it's because he always seems like he's hiding something.

He's kind of a weird friend. Sometimes I don't know what to think of him.

I think I hear James moving next to me. I bet I can't let anyone see this either, can I? Well, this was fun, but I think it was more interesting to read the previous entries more so than my own. At least my entry isn't laughable.

Dolores Umbridge's entry was laughable.

To all future readers, don't forget that Snape's a weirdo.

~Sirius Black, 1971