Disclaimer: Colin was created by J.K. Rowling.
The Most Exciting Things In My Life
"I would like to say that I have had a long life, but I haven't. I have had a good life. When I was little I did not think that I would have had the adventures that were to come my way.
"How do you know you are different when you are magic and your family and friends aren't? You really don't know until somebody points it out. They might say, 'What are you doing, Colin?' or they might ask, 'How did you make the cookie jar come crashing off the shelf?' Then they try to explain it away. Things just happened.
"Do you know how exciting it is to have that magic acknowledged by a wizard showing up at your house in Chester with a letter saying that you have been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? It was the fifth most exciting thing that happened to me in my life!
"What were numbers one through four you might ask? Well, all the top five are tied, with no one being more than the others, except for number one. I will give them to you in chronological order. Number four was going to Diagon Alley for the first time and getting my books and wand. Wow! A whole new world was opened to me, and my brother Dennis, of course. I took those books home and read them especially the ones about the history of Hogwarts and the one about wizardry in the twentieth century. That second one is where I found out about Harry Potter. I heard his name mentioned when I was in Diagon Alley. He was in a dust up at the bookshop and some wizards were arguing. Later I found out that it was Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley. Anyway I read about Harry Potter and found out that he was only a year older than I. The boy-who-lived was only a year older than I and I would be going to school with him. I told Dennis I would get pictures.
"The third most exciting thing was actually meeting Harry Potter. He was kind of distracted and really didn't want me to take his picture, but he wasn't downright rude like others were. I wanted Dennis to see everything before he came to Hogwarts, too.
"The second most exciting thing was waking up from being petrified ALIVE! I WAS ALIVE AND I WAS STILL A WIZARD. When you are petrified you lie there and you listen to everything that is going on around you and you try to communicate but nobody hears you. Well, that isn't exactly true. The other petrified people can hear you. I found this out when Hermione was brought into the room. She was ranting about nobody following the clues she left. She was railing against the stupidity of everyone in charge and everyone else she could think of. Finally, this other girl that was brought in at the same time, Penelope I think-she was a prefect, screamed in her mind, 'HERMIONE, GIVE IT A BREAK. THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN HEAR YOU ARE LYING ON BEDS NEAR YOU. SHUT UP!' Whoa, there was some pent up anger there on both sides.
"Anyway the most exciting thing in my life is that I am a ghost and can stay in Hogwarts forever!"
Hogwarts School DADA Assignment #2 part 2