This Story Was Inspired by "Commentarius" by B.C. Daily- who was inspired by the writing of Meg Cabot.

Christine Armstrong is only trying to survive her sixth year at Hogwarts. What, with everything getting in the way of her passion for music- or her music getting in the way of everything else?- she finds herself with a surprisingly eventful year with an oddly-acting Sirius Black, her best friends Mary Macdonald and Lily Evans, who is desperately trying to get rid of the in love James Potter, complicated classes, a surprisingly large amount of broken rules, and a successful year of finished songs.

Days Until Hogwarts: ONE!

August 31st- The Anderson household

Why, oh why in the name of Merlin does summer have to pass by so slowly? Every summer hour of mine for the past-Merlin knows how many years-has been spent studying all the miserable subjects that I am doomed to fail anyways, including potions, herbology, history of magic, transfiguration, astronomy, charms, defence against the dark arts, as well as my elective courses: care for magical creatures, and divination. Yes, I am on the brink of failing all of my courses. To this, someone may think: is it even possible for a girl to be so idiotic with such terrible memorization skills, clumsiness, and inability to concentrate? But, look! Look at me! Living proof of the terribly horrific fact!

If only I were like my good friend Lily Evans-the vision of perfection: her flawless beauty, with her thick, dark red hair that fell to her shoulders, and her startlingly green almond-shaped eyes and fair skin, her outstanding memorization skills, her ability to concentrate for long hours on end, and be witty, charming, and vivacious- my life would a whole lot easier.

But no-that's not how the world works! I had to be cursed with quite, the opposite actually, of what I see perfection to be. Here I am with my hazel eyes and dark brown, wavy hair, my slightly tan skin…okay, so I'm not exactly the definition of what today's society deems unattractive…But why do we bloody care about what's on the outside? Its what's on the INSIDE! And what's inside my head is the brain possibly the size of a pea-if not less-and a terribly sarcastic, miserable individual. Why Lily Evans is friends with the terribly incompetent Christine Anderson, I will never know. But then again, Lily, the kind soul, she is my best friend. I guess there must be some kind of explanation to the peculiar fact that is my friendships…

Well, anyways, its lucky that I passed my OWLS last year. Now we have preparation for NEWTS, and its quite lucky as well that any of my teachers actually let me in any of their classes. Bless that abnormally good luck that I usually don't have!

Either way, with terrifying, exhausting exams or not, I am quite fond of Hogwarts. This is mainly because of my love for the magical castle, and for my wonderful friends.

In the suburban city of Bristol, England I don't truly have many friends. I lost contact with most of them after I had received my acceptance letter to Hogwarts-through utterly uncontrollable excitement about going to magic boarding school and all, they thought that I forgot about our friendship. Well…truth be told…I sort of did… So now, to keep some kind of vestige of social interaction, I send letters to Lily Evans, and our other good friend Mary Macdonald.

Mary Macdonald is my other best friend. Mary is what most of the student body at Hogwarts describes as "fun". She is different from Lily that way, because Lily's more of a bookworm, and Mary's more of a party animal.

Mary is on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and plays chaser. She loves to laugh, and loves to have a good time. She may drink a little too much butterbeer and/or firewhisky during Gryffindor celebrations (esp. after winning a game of Quidditch), although, she is not, and let me repeat, not, anything close to what people refer to as a "skank". She is actually quite the sweetheart, and one of the nicest people I know. Mary has an ambition to be an auror, therefore pushing herself for nothing less than Exceeds Expectations in all of her subjects. Mary is quite the definition of pretty and has long, straight blonde hair and big, sparkling blue eyes. She is a little on the skinny side, even though she eats like a pig every single bloody day while I sit cautiously thinking about my choices of consumption as to not gain weight.

Anyways! I there is one thing I forgot to say in this self-introduction type entry. I hate school...well my studies, anyway. And yes, I know many kids do at my age, but I really do. With a burning passion. Because school, to me, consists of a whole lot of work and torture that I will make no use of later on in life. That is- because I'm going to use my life to make music.

Yes-you heard it right-music. Not magic-music.

Now I know what you're probably thinking: why in the name of Merlin would you attend a magic school to do someone any other muggle could do-like music?

Well, you see, I'm a muggle-born. And I grew up listening to the musical masterpieces of groups and individuals in the muggle world, and knew, since the beginning, that this is what I would like to do.

Lucky me-the only thing that I ever thought myself lucky for-is I was born with maybe a slight amount of musical talent. I don't have a terrible voice, and have been writing songs for about five years now-being fifteen now-and my songs have greatly improved from my earlier work, which consisted of songs such as:

SCHOOL (by: Christine Anderson)

School-It sucks!
I can get a couple of bucks

Keeping zoo ducks

Or selling a tux

Driving trucks

Say, shucks-

School's yucks!

…How I managed to find so many rhymes to the word "sucks" will always remain a mystery, but there you have it. One of my first works.

At least since third year at Hogwarts, I am able attend to the very unpopulated extra-curricular classes that are Music, and Muggle Music-both taught by my favourite teacher Professor Flitwick, who also teaches me Charms, which is my favourite subject that I hate! (..Does that even make any sense?)

Later days!

Christine