Just so you know, I'll be away for the next week and don't know if I'll be able to update or not. I'll do my best, though.

Subject: Personal Blogs

Seeing as how everyone on here is so opinionated (and after seeing one or two first years crying at their computers), Dumbledore and I have decided to give each student the opportunity to create a personal blog and an IM account. These will be as private or as public as you wish. You may continue posting on the public blog if you so choose, but please keep your choice insults out of the public sector.

(Yes, Draco, I am talking to you. You caused this. Don't be proud.)

Posted by: Minerva McGonagall

The Ramblings of a New Student

Hermione Granger

As soon as Professor McGonagall announced personal blogs, I got one. They're quite handy, considering that they're protected not only with passwords, but with protective spells--you know, anti-hacking spells. I heard a rumor that if you hesitate with entering your password too long, a literal firewall will come between you and the keyboard. My parents had a blog and they never had that problem. Too bad they can't see this one. Professor McGonagall said that to Muggles, it just looks like the site is down.

I know I mentioned this before, but those stairways are awful! Awful and amazing at the same time! I guess they're just amazing because I've never seen anything like them before, but that trick step has already gotten me twice! Ugh! You'd think that after three weeks here I'd have gotten the hang of it, but nooo...

Anyways, I'm already doing pretty well in my classes. Good thing, too, because Dad said that if we're going to have a witch in the family, she'd better be good at it. He was joking...sort of. I think.

Transfiguration is one of the most interesting classes I have, but it's the hardest. So far, I'm the only one who's managed to turn a match into a needle, which is pretty cool. Defense Against the Dark Arts is interesting, too. These past three weeks have pretty much torn to pieces whatever I thought of vampires and werewolves. Muggle legends are nothing compared to real information about the real thing.

I guess that's all I have to say about my first few weeks at Hogwarts.

Comments:

Don't worry, Hermione. You'll catch on to the staircases before too long. And let me congratulate you one more time at being top in your year at Transfiguration. Keep up the good work!

Professor McGonagall

P.S.: The firewall rumor is just that--a rumor.

Uhh...Here's My Blog

Ronald Weasley

Yeah. This is my blog.

Can't think of much to say. Malfoy stinks. Harry's cool. (I blocked Malfoy from this blog, by the way.)

Can't stand Potions.

Otherwise, I love it here. Hogwarts is just as fun as all my brothers told me it is.

Got homework. Bye.

Comments:

Woohoo! First to comment! Malfoy does stink, doesn't he? But this school rules! Oh, and REAL Weasleys show no wisdom!

Fred and George Weasley

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Hey...you mentioned me in your blog! Cool! I love Hogwarts, too.

Harry Potter

Thoughts from Crabbe and Goyle

We lik cheez.

And pi.

Kwidditch is kool, two.

Comments:

Umm...great. You spelled cheese, pie, like, Quidditch and cool wrong.

Draco Malfoy

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HAHA, Draco! My friends are smarter than your friends!

Ronald Weasley

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We'll see about THAT, Weasley.

Draco Malfoy

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At least Harry can spell pie right!

Ronald Weasley