I woke up the next morning after a restful night's sleep. I dressed and walked with Dana down to breakfast. I was half-way through my porridge when I heard my mother's screaming from the other side of the table. Startled, I looked over and saw Ron, sinking in his chair. Now, this was very funny until I heard that my father was facing an inquiry at work.
"Hey, isn't that your brother?" Dana asked.
"Erm, yeah, it is. He flew our dad's car to school yesterday," I replied.
Dana's eyes got wide as she said, "But why didn't they just take the train?"
"I don't know, Hermione told me that they couldn't get on the platform for some reason." I said.
Then I looked back over at Ron, as the yelling had ceased. Hermione was looking sternly down at Ron, and Harry looked very guilty. Then Professor McGonagall handed me my schedule and I looked it over. Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Transfiguration, and Herbology today. The Gryffindor first years made their way to Lockhart's classroom. I sat between Dana and Colin Creevey. I was a tad nervous about this class. I had seen Gilderoy Lockhart in Diagon Alley, and he seemed quite full of himself. I had no idea what he had planned for our first lesson. My mum fancied Lockhart, but I couldn't see why. Sure, he was good-looking, but thats about all he had going for him. I wasn't even sure he did all of those things.I was quite good at seeing through people, and it seemed an awful lot like he hadn't done any of those things. My thoughts were interrupted as someone walked in the door and practically strutted across the room to the front.
"Hello class, I am Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and third-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award -- but I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at her!" he said, showing off his smile.
He was obviously waiting for the class to laugh. No one did. I thought that he must be saying the same thing to all of his classes. My suspicions were affirmed about him being full of himself. No modest person would ever introduce themself by stating all of their achievements.
"Okay then, how about a pop-quiz? Let's see how well you've read my books," He said, as he handed out the quizzes.
I looked down and rolled my eyes as I read the questions. All of them were about him and his achievements. I looked around, realized that no one else knew the answers either, and sat there quietly for half an hour, hoping that he wasn't taking an actual grade on this. When Lockhart picked up the tests, he was obviously disapointed that no one knew everything about him, and went on with the rest of the lesson.
After class was over, me and Dana quickly collected our stuff and rushed out, eager to get as far away as possible from him. We started walking to the dungeons.
"Can you believe him?!" Dana practically screamed, "He's so full of himself! Ugh, I hope we don't have any other teachers like that."
"Yeah, me too," I agreed, "but thankfully, he won't be here more than a year. My brothers told me that the job's jinxed."
"Oh, good," she replied.
Professor Snape started the class by taking the roll call. All in all, it was a pretty boring class. We divided into pairs and made a simple potion to cure boils. I thought that mine turned out quite well, and was pleased with myself as we left the room, heading for lunch. After Colin ate, he rushed out of the room, following Harry Potter. I rolled her eyes, he was obsessed. Of course, I fancied him, but I would NEVER go up and talk to him, or admit it to anyone. Except, of course, Tom.
After dinner that night, Dana and I were sitting on some chairs by the fire in the Gryffindor common room, doing our homework. I couldn't believe that there was so much homework already, it was only the first day! After Dana and the other girls in our room were asleep, I sat in her bed, writing in my diary.
Dear Diary,
My first day just ended, everyone else is asleep. Sorry I didn't have time to talk to you yesterday, it was so busy, and nerve-wracking, but exciting!
That's great Ginny, and it's quite alright.
Good.
So how was your first day?
Well, I made a new friend, her name is Dana Brooks, and she's pretty nice. I like most of my teachers, except Snape. And Lockhart. Snape's downright mean, and Lockharts so full of himself. McGonagall seems okay, pretty strict though. Professor Sprout seems nice enough. That's all the teachers I've had so far. My brother, Ron, got a howler at breakfast this morning. He and Harry flew my dad's car to Hogwarts yesterday.
Wow, sounds like an interesting day.
It was, I'm so happy to be here! I think I have to go though, Tom, I'm really tired, and I think I should write my parents a letter.
Okay, good night Ginny
And with that, I closed the diary and got a piece of parchment, a quill, and some ink out of my bag, and began to write to her parents.
Dear Mum and Dad,
I got into Gryffindor! I was so scared that I wouldn't be, but the sorting hat put me in with no hesitation. I made a friend, her name's Dana Brooks. Nothing else really interesting happened, and I'm pretty tired, so I'm going to go. Bye!
Love, Ginny
And then I turned out my light, got under the covers, and was asleep almost instantly.
Author's Note: Yay, chapter three is here! I'm not too happy with my writing on this one, but it's kind of hard to write the diary parts, so sorry :/ I'm going to finish up COS in the next few chapters, I'm eager to get to the older books, Ginny's much more fun then. If you have any ideas for this story, feel free to let me know! Please rate and review, I'd love to hear what you think. It'll only take a second, scroll down just a bit farther!