July 19th 1997
Firstly, I should say who I am, so that if for some bizarre reason, someone in the future is reading this, they know who they're reading about. I'm Harry Potter.
Well, if you want to get technical, it's Harold James Polaris Potter-Black. Honestly, though, what were my parents thinking? Harold is such a stuffy name, and I'm not stuffy at all. --- well, not most of the time, anyway.
Secondly, I should say how on earth I ended up writing in a – gag me – diary. Personally, I think this is my godfathers way of pissing me off as much as I managed to piss him off. Sirius, on the other hand, says that it's a way to 'cope with my emotions without feeling the need to do something so idiotic as sneaking out of the house and getting drunker than even he has ever been when I have hundreds of crazy, evil people who would like nothing more than to see me dead.'
Having said that, I hope to god he never reads this. Then again, there's no god in the universe that actually likes me, so I'll just assume that sometime soon, either in the future or the past – hey, weirder things have happened to me – he'll be reading this.
Having said that, I think this is the most lame punishment he's ever come up with. A diary?! That's almost as ridiculous as my name. Not as stuffy, though. (Sirius is more stuffy than my name, though. I'd forget that he'd ever been a Marauder if it wasn't for the fact that his nickname is on the map that I at one point had in my possession.)
I think that if his younger self were to meet him, he'd be utterly disgusted.
(Sigh.) I suppose I'm being far too harsh. Don't get me wrong, I love him to death, and he's a great godfather, but he's so – so, I don't know, suffocating, sometimes, it's irritating as hell. I guess he's just being overprotective. Then again, after everything he's been through, I can see plenty of reasons for him to be overprotective.
If I were him, I wouldn't overprotective. I'd be insane. Seriously, he's been through so much. I don't know. Knowing that he has reasons for being that way and accepting it without being angry are two entirely different things.
I've never been one to pull pranks. Alright, so that's a lie. I just generally don't take credit for my pranks because my kind of trouble is more along the lines of either saving-the-world-syndrome or outrightstupidity. I rarely get caught when I pull pranks but when I do… well, let's just say I piss a lot of people off.
Those are both direct quotes from Sirius. Honest
So. I'm supposed to write at least 500 words every single day and I'm less than fifty words away from finishing this entry. It wasn't quite as boring as I thought I would be. (Don't tell anyone I said that, though. It's a secret.) apparently dinner is ready so I'm going to go now. Sometimes I'm extremely grateful that Sirius doesn't cook – can you imagine? I think I'd get food poisoning – and that we don't have to fend for ourselves on that either. Thank god for Moony. (Who, would you believe it, is more of a Marauder than Sirius. Honestly…)
H.J.P.P.B.