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Secrets At Hogwarts

It is a great feeling when we have something to rub in Draco Malfoy's face. He walks around like he owns the school, but Gryffindor beat Slytherin in the first Quidditch match of the season. It was fantastic and if Harry wasn't Seeker, than I don't think we would have won. He's really good, you know. Especially on his broom, the Nimbus Two-Thousand. I think I said it before, it's the fastest broom in the world. The Slytherin Seeker had no chance. Malfoy wasn't too pleased about it, either.

I can't believe how fast this year has gone. Christmas has been and gone and we are already in to the new year. Before I started here, I remember Fred, George, Percy, Charlie and Bill all coming home from the Christmas holidays, so I thought that was what I would be doing. And I was. That was until mum sent a letter. During the morning post, I got a letter from mum saying that she and dad were going to visit Charlie in Romania and that I would have to stay at Hogwarts. I didn't mind and all, but it would have been nice for them to ask if I wanted to go. I haven't seen Charlie in a while.

But Harry was staying (he didn't want to go back with the Muggles and he didn't think they would want him back), so I stayed with him too. I thought it was going to be a great holiday. Barely anyone would be at Hogwarts so we thought we would be free to roam the castle. But, now that we are friends with Hermione Granger, she kind of set us this assignment.

Weird things have been happening at Hogwarts. It has something to do with that three headed dog we saw months ago. We were curious (well Harry more than anyone) about what it was guarding. We have searched and searched and searched for any information, but there is nothing. All we know is that the dog is called Fluffy and he belongs to Hagrid. I'm not sure what Hagrid was thinking when he bought...um...Fluffy, but he seems very fond of him. I, personally, wouldn't want to go near Fluffy.

Hagrid didn't mean to tell us about the dog and after pursuing him more, he also let slip about some bloke called Nicholas Flamel. Naturally (seeing as we knew more than we should have already), we went about trying to discover who Flamel is. Harry and I searched everywhere over Christmas, but couldn't find a single thing about him, but of course, Hermione could.

Her trust in books is unbelievable. It's like she will find the answers to the universe in them! But this time, it was really helpful. This Nicholas Flamel is hundreds of years old, because he is the creator of the Philosopher's Stone. It is meant to make you live forever. I think that would be pretty cool, living forever. Maybe if I ever meet him one day I could ask him how he manages it.

Anyway, so we discovered that that was what the dog is guarding, but we're not really sure why. Harry is convinced someone is trying to steal it (I personally think it's Snape. It sounds like something he would do. You know, want to live forever, so he can torture kids for thousands of years to come).

Oh, that reminds me. The Philosopher's Stone is not the only unusual thing here. Apparently there are a lot of other things that people don't want discovered (one of them is really cool and the other is really scary).

Harry, a while back, discovered this mirror. He said he could see his parents in it, but when he showed me the next day, all I could see was me as Quidditch Captain and Head Boy. No one else in my family had ever achieved both before. My parents were so proud of me in the mirror and I was pretty much their favourite. I was older there, so I reckon it shows the future (Harry disagrees, because his parents are dead). So I'm really looking forward to me seventh year at Hogwarts. For once, I'll be better than Percy.

Hagrid is also keeping another secret (that's not the scary part, but it leads up to the scary part). He bought a dragon egg from some stranger in a pub and managed to smuggle it in to his hut. Don't get me wrong, I think dragons are really awesome creatures, but...well, they're illegal to keep as pets. I'm not sure what Hagrid's obsession with odd animals are, but he's going to land himself into trouble one day (or in this case, Harry, Hermione, Neville and Malfoy).

Hagrid had just called us down to visit him because Norbert (the dragon) had just hatched. We were all reluctant to go. We really couldn't afford to get into anymore trouble. But, we went down anyway and sure enough there is this baby dragon in his house. It was small then, but really, it was going to grow.

And it did. Norbert grew so big in just a few weeks that he was barely able to fit inside Hagrid's small house. But Hagrid insisted on keeping him. Eventually, though, I think even he started to realise he couldn't keep the bloody dragon forever. So I wrote to Charlie (remember how he works with dragons?) and asked if Norbert could come over to Romania. Charlie agreed and said some of his friends would help smuggle him out of Hogwarts.

Well, it worked, but I didn't go. On one of our visits, Norbert bit me. At first it was just a small bite, but then it really started to get infected and eventually Harry and Hermione convinced me to get it checked out. So I went to the hospital wing.

Madam Pomfrey (who works there) is really good at healing things. She can pretty much fix everything and with a few potions, my finger was on the mend. But I still had to stay in there just to be on the safe side.

In the mean time, Malfoy was nosing around. He knew we were up to something and was determined to find out what it was. He convinced Pomfrey that he had come to visit me to borrow a book (like, if she really knew us, she would not have believed a single word of that rubbish. The Malfoys and the Weasleys have never been friends).

So he stole one of my books and I didn't realise until much later, that the book he took was the one with Charlie's letter in it. It was awful. I felt so bad. Here we were, trying to get an illegal dragon out of Hogwarts and I just hand the evidence over to the enemy. It was all my fault that Harry, Hermione and Neville all got a detention. All my fault.

Despite knowing that Malfoy knew, Harry and Hermione took Norbert to meet Charlie's friends and they took him. All of that went really well. No one ever knew that Hagrid had had a dragon. But in their excitement, they left the Invisibility Cloak (it's Harry's and it has been really useful. I wish I had one) and Filch caught them. Neville also got caught (even though he had nothing to do with it). I guess the best part about this mess which I caused, is that Malfoy was also in trouble. In his attempt to catch us out, McGonagall busted him. So all four of them had detention.

This is where the scary stuff comes into it. As punishment, they were meant to go into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid. He set them on a task to help find an injured unicorn. All the while, I was sitting back in the common room, wondering what was happening to them. What if they were hurt? What if something happened? It would have been all my fault.

Hagrid sent them in pairs. Neville, Hermione and Hagrid and then Harry, Malfoy and Fang (Hagrid's dog). Obviously I wasn't there, so I am not too clear on what really happened, but as far as I can tell, Harry and Malfoy ran into You Know Who. He was the one who had hurt the unicorn and he was the one feeding off it.

Can you believe it? You Know Who is still alive! It's so scary. We all thought Harry had defeated him, but apparently he never did. He just weakened him.

But we now know why the Philosopher's Stone is being kept at Hogwarts. You Know Who is after it. He wants it so he can become human again. And we reckon Snape is trying to help him get to it. That would make sense, you know. He'd help the darkest wizard of all time return. Even Hermione is convinced now.

So, yeah, that is basically what has happened to me over the past few months. As you can see, I've had a lot going on (not including all the homework and lessons-and finding time to actually, you know, write). My first year at Hogwarts is turning out to be very eventful.