Dear Appalling Diary,
Today I began creating a potion that will reveal to me the identity of the student who sent me that dreadful letter. Once I know who they are I will be able to satisfactorily deduct house points from them and give them detentions for the rest of the year. Oh how I love deducting house points. It is one of my few joys in life.
Now I have also been trying to deduce in my mind who this apparently unfortunate girl could be who is in so-called love with me. Merlin's beard, she probably does not even know the meaning of that word. Not the way I do.
All that I have determined is that there must be a link between the girl who "loves" me and the girl that the senile old man keeps talking about. There must be. Why else would Dumbledore inquire about her, if not for the reason that she is in "love" with me? And yes, I will continue to put love in quotations because that cannot be what she feels for me. Infatuation maybe, but not love.
Severus Snape
