Abbey's Files
2 SEPTEMBER 1999
My name is Abbey Mason and I am nearly sixteen years old. I have really wavy and bright red hair and hazel colored eyes. Funny that my 'family' is all blond. Not really, I am adopted.
My parents and older brother died in a fire when I was four months old. They lived in Britain, as did the Masons, but my father got transferred to the States when I was five. I don't have an accent anymore, but whenever Erin and I go back to Scotland, I slip back into my native tongue.
My father works for a wizarding magazine called 'The Quibbler'. I am great friends with the daughter of the editor. Luna and I have so much in common and she introduced me to this great girl in our year named Ginny Weasly. Luna is in Ravenclaw, like me, and she introduced me to her on the train yesterday .She thought that we would be good friends since we look so alike. I guess Luna was right. Who knew that the eccentric Luna Lovegood could be so sensible?
Today we started our last year at Hogwarts, and my first year here. I have been attending Salem Prepatory School since I was six.
In the States you 'get your letter' at six years old, so you become highly schooled in nearly all practices of magic before we enter our formal job training. Even though Salem is a magic school, we are given the choice of a magic only education, or a mix of muggle education as well. Muggle stuff is such a bore. Anyway, back to the normal train of thoughts….
Today was a blur. Luna guided me through breakfast and then Charms, Divination, Transfiguration, lunch, and double potions. Tomorrow I have Herbology, Potions, DADA, and Care of Magical Creatures and Arithmancy. Luna and I had Charms and Transfiguration with Ginny. I have to leave my precious files to their rest. I have to
go do my hideous homework…
3 SEPTEMBER 1999
Yet another hectic day, but it was all right. Unfortunately, Luna had no classes together today, but I had every single one with ginny. I don't understand why teachers give us so much homework on the second bay back, or there at all. Tonight in the common room, Luna told a very famous story about a boy in England who was able to stop the most evil wizard of all time as a baby. I thought that this was either an old wives tale or just a bedtime story about long ago. I was apparently wrong in this fact. He would be in the year ahead of us, but this "Harry Potter" took his seventh year off with his two best friends in search of something that would kill He-who-must-not-be-named. Apparently, he was Ginny's boyfriend and he still loved her, but there was something about YNW (A/N You-Know-Who YNW. He-who-must-not-be-named HWMNBN) might try and kill her to get to Harry. Tragic. But here is the interesting thing, Luna showed me a picture of him from the paper (Apparently Harry despises the Daily Prophet, and he should when there is stuff like the Quibbler out there!) and he looked a lot like my dad. My mom and Erin were best friends at Hogwarts and there was a picture of her and my parents at their wedding ( there was another man in the photo, presumably the best man, but I only saw him for a second, because he walked out of the picture)! It is kind of funny, as in funny-weird.
Ginny's Files
2 SEPTEMBER 1999
Dear Diary:
When Luna came into our train compartment, it was like she was carrying a mirror. I went to hug her and there was a girl, who was apparently in our year. Luna introduced her as Abbey Mason. It sounds as if Abbey was born in England and she lived here until she was five. Then her dad moved the family to New England (Funny, isn't it! Well you are just a journal so it doesn't matter if you think it is funny.) Her dad is the editor for the American Quibbler, but she doesn't seem nearly as, well, loony as Luna. Abbey has red hair, hazelish-brownish eyes, and she looks a lot like me. I had Transfiguration and Charms with Abbey today and even though I have been the best in transfigiuration in our year, She does seventh year "Transfigs" like they are first year spells. I wonder if she is Hermione's long-lost little sister. Freaky. Alas, I must return to the long and tedious tradition of Homework. Goodbye from the fiery redheaded seventh year.
3 SEPTEMBER 1999
Dear Diary:
Today Luna had all of her elective classes, as did Abbey and I (did I just write that? It sounds like my mother!) But in a different order. It is rather odd that a Ravenclaw and a Gryffindor have all of these classes together. I suppose that Flitwick and McGonagall planned this. I forgot to write about how odd it was to see a gigantic seventh year standing in the sea of first years.
Speaking of odd, Abbey carries around this funny little thing she calls a cumpyootir. She says that it is a muggle device that she got reconfigured to run on magic. Sounds like something my dad would do. In this cumpyootir she keeps music, pictures, an "inter-net" and her journal. She says that it is safer than using an actual diary (after Riddle I will definitely believe her on that) because best friends prying eyes can't get in it's locked. Very Odd.
4 SEPTEMBER 1999
Dear diary:
This morning after breakfast, Luna and Abbey showed me a newspaper clipping from after the Ministry incident of the six of us. It was a little disconcerting, because in the picture Harry's arm is around my shoulder. I guess it just made me feel a little weird. Then, here comes the really, really, REALLY disconcerting part. There is a picture of Abbey's birth parents and her adoptive mom (and a best man, but his face was shadowed). Abbey's dad looks almost exactly like Harry except for the obvious differences (no scar and eye color). That was really weird. This weekend we are going to research stuff in the library, if we can find out who Abbey's parents are, that would mean that we would know who she is.
On a less-freaky note, as I am still Quidditch captain, I have to hold tryouts. Here is a list of the slots that need filling:
Keeper
One Chaser
Seeker
Last year Dean and Seamus made a very good keeper/chaser team. Peakes and Coote work very well still. Demelza will most likely be captain next year. Urgh. I can't take my mind off of what Abbey and Luna told me.
Abbey's Files
4 SEPTEMBER 1999
I think that Ginny is a little shocked about the whole photo thing. She says I should ask Hagrid, the gamekeeper. He apparently was a good friend of Harry's and his parents. Tomorrow we will go down to his hut, and ask him, but Luna warned us to phrase our questions carefully. Unfortunately, I have quite a bit of charms homework this evening, so I must bid my files Adieu
PS- I tried to explain to ginny what a computer was, but I still don't think she got it.