Darling Luna,
It is very boring at home. Saffy and Sarah are studying very hard so they can law in University, Indigo is working all the time, and so is David! Daddy and Mummy are busy getting housekeeping money for Christmas and Caddy is being a Mummy to Buttercup while Michael is teaching everyone to drive. Linny and I are forced to do our boring, boring, BORING, muggle studies as well as our homework for Hogwarts.
Linny says Hello! And now I must say Goodbye.
Lots of love
From
Rose
Dear Darling Rose,
It is not very boring here at Hogwarts but the people are so very dull. I have never thought Ravenclaws would not use their logic and wit but they are ignoring those in favour of blaming poor Linny for opening the Chamber of Secrets. Hermione, Ron, and Neville are working very hard to prove them all wrong. I wish I can help but they are very secretive.
Tell Linny hello back, and Tom says hello as well.
Lots of love
From
Luna
Darling Luna, Hermione, Ron, and Neville,
This is Rose and Linny here, well Rose is writing because she demanded to but Linny is telling her what to say. It is still very boring here, Mrs Levin has been put in charge of looking after us after Rose set the kitchen table on fire (it was an accident and mostly Daddy's fault) and now we have to look after cats as well as do two loads of homework. Caddy also made us babysit Buttercup (Carlos! We must call him Carlos...), Mummy, Daddy, and Michael have decided never again after Buttercup almost got electrocuted (this time it was Rose's fault – no it wasn't, it was Linny's fault too!).
Indigo says magic just makes us madder than usual and hungrier since we need food shopping three times a week. Both Indigo and David say hello and to leave them alone they have too much homework for Christmas. Saffy and Sarah are now home too but they are also saying leave us alone we have too much homework. They said it will be like this all the time at University and that University is not fun apart from one week of partying, snogging, and making friends. Caddy backed them up as she told us all about her one week of parting and making friends...and erm no snogging, Michael Darling, you're the only one for me (we somehow don't believe that). Indigo did not like the idea of Sarah snogging but she showed him she liked snogging him best...EW. We can't wait for Christmas and hope you like our presents Hedwig should be giving you with this letter. We will see you soon afterwards...
Lots of love,
From
Rose and Linny
P.S. Hermione, Ron, and Neville are brewing Polyjuice and that's why they're keeping secrets.
Dear Darling Rose and Linny,
This is Luna, with Neville and Ron nearby. Merry Christmas! I thank you both for the chalk and sketch pads. Ron says thank you for the muggle sweets, and Neville says thank you for the muggle book of plants and Hermione would say thank you for the novels but she is in the Hospital Wing (I will tell you more about that soon). I hope you liked our presents and had a very enjoyable day. I know I did, Daddy had gone away to find me a Snorkack so I spent the day eating a very big feast after opening all my lovely presents and then spent a quiet afternoon reading my new book on fairy tales before Moaning Myrtle made a strange announcement.
Hermione has got a tail! According to Ron and Neville they were trying to make Polyjuice Potion to trick Malfoy into confessing and while it worked for Ron and Neville it did not work for poor Hermione. Poor Hermione used cat hair and now looks like a human-cat; I try very hard not to giggle at her face when I saw her.
I hope you and your family are well and that Buttercup did not get almost electrocuted again, it sounds very painful.
Lots of love,
From
Luna (and Neville, Ron, and Hermione)
Darling Hermione,
This is Rose, Linny was going to write but I said I wanted to, so now I am writing to you.
Here is several get well pictures, the first one of a sketch of you reading is from Linny, the second one of Hogwarts that doesn't look like Hogwarts is from Mummy, the third one is actually a boring card that Daddy brought because painting get well pictures are not really art says Daddy. And finally, the best of all is from me!
I hope you like it, David and Sarah said they did and that they wish they were ill so I can paint them a get well picture too. I hope they do not because then I won't get to do what I want and be stuck making get well pictures forever.
Get better, get better, get better, get better, as our magic chant goes and see you soon.
Lots of love,
From
Rose (and Linny)
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Despite their happy Christmas with the whole Casson family Linny and Rose were miserable upon their return to Hogwarts. This was mostly because several Hufflepuffs had spat on them on their way in the Great Hall...and that Hermione was still a cat. They hate cats after spending three whole weeks cleaning cat poo.
The nasty things did not go away. The Hufflepuffs decided that the attacks had stopped because Linny had been caught in the act and been sent away and now they all think they will start attacking people again.
Rose called them all puff-heads and lost several points for it.
Not that she cared.
Then a few weeks into term (where Rose wrote several long insulting letters to Saffy, Indigo, Caddy, and Mummy and Daddy about the Hufflepuffs and Linny barely got to use Hedwig because of this) Linny found a strange diary. Neither Rose nor Tom gave much thought about this because it was boring but Luna seemed to dislike the book and shuddered whenever Linny pulled it out.
Rose soon forgot about the diary because of Valentine's Day.
She would like to murder Tom but Luna told her that Azkaban is horrible.
The day started horribly as she walked into a pink nightmare, there was pink confetti falling from the ceiling, the breakfast was pink and red, and Professor Lockhart was wearing pink too! She decided instantly to write to Caddy and tell her not to have a pink themed wedding.
At the Gryffindor table everyone swapped Valentines cards; Rose gave one to Linny that was all green, and another homemade one to Tom with gold inked roses on. She was disappointed when Tom didn't give her a card but he winked at her and promised he had something big planned.
"Happy Valentine's Day!" Lockhart shouted. "And may I thank the forty-six people who have so far sent me cards! Yes, I have taken the liberty of arranging this little surprise for you all — and it doesn't end here!"
Lockhart clapped his hands and through the doors to the entrance hall marched a dozen surly-looking dwarfs. Not just any dwarfs, however. Lockhart had them all wearing golden wings and carrying harps.
"My friendly, card-carrying cupids!" beamed Lockhart. "They will be roving around the school today delivering your valentines! And the fun doesn't stop here! I'm sure my colleagues will want to enter into the spirit of the occasion! Why not ask Professor Snape to show you how to whip up a Love Potion! And while you're at it, Professor Flitwick knows more about Entrancing Enchantments than any wizard I've ever met, the sly old dog!"
Professor Flitwick buried his face in his hands. Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.
Rose stood up and held her hand up high. She began to bounce up and down as she called out Professor Lockhart's name.
"Yes, young lady?" Professor Lockhart said with a smile.
"Why are you wearing pink?" Rose demanded. "I thought men only wore pink when they liked other men."
All of the boys roared with laughter as Lockhart flushed bright pink to match his robes. The teachers were having great difficulty to hide their own laughter as well as Lockhart spluttered out a scolding and Rose received a detention for her innocent question.
Rose was greatly surprised to receive fifty points when she entered the dungeon twenty minutes later. The whole school went into shock over it during dinner later that day after all it is rare for Snape to give points to a Gryffindor.
Anyway back to Tom. Not long after lunch Rose was attacked by one of those dwarfs dressed in a nappy that was determined to sing to her. To make matters worse the dwarf accidentally, most likely on purpose, pushed her into Professor McGonagall's classroom and drowned her in roses as she struggled to get back on her feet.
"Here's your singing valentine from Tom Levin," the dwarf said as he strung his harp. "Rosie, Rosie, give me your answer do, I'm half crazy from spending time with you, I can't afford a brain cell, but you'll look sweet, if you did my homework for two."
Rose lost thirty of the fifty points she earned by slapping Tom on the shoulder before she left the class room trailing roses all over the place.
It was one thing to get an embarrassing singing valentine but to have one with a terrible song based on a terrible nursery rhyme which was written out of silliness and no original thought (one of Saffy's and Sarah's favourite insults for boyfriends) well that made her mad and she wasn't going to forgive him any time soon.
She forgave him pretty quickly when he presented a chocolate cake to her though.
HPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHP
A diary told them that Hagrid was the one who opened the Chamber.
Rose said it was dirty liar and tried to set fire to it only for her spell to backfire and burn all of their homework.
Needless to say Hermione was not impressed.
Not long afterwards the diary went missing and then barely a few days later Hermione and a Ravenclaw Luna liked were attacked.
Then Hagrid got arrested and Dumbledore was kicked out, which was bad, very bad, very, very, very bad.
And to top things off they still have to do exams!
It was very late one night in May when Rose, pale, shaky and feeling rather sick woke Tom up. Linny and Ron stood either side of her, they would have taken Neville with them but he drew the line after the last time he was in the Forest.
"Wassup?" Tom mumbled.
"We almost died can we sleep with you?" Rose asked.
"WHAT?"
"Shut it, Levin!" one of the fifth year boys hissed.
"Giant spider..." Ron said. Linny peered at Ron in interest, he looked very pale to the point his freckles really stood out like splotches of paint, even his lips were white, and they barely moved as he whispered those two words out.
He hadn't seen anyone this scared since Indigo was on the window ledge. Obviously Tom had a similar experience since he just groaned and allowed them to crawl into his bed. Linny huddled against Rose who was curled up against Tom, her head resting on his chest, while Ron sprawled out on the bed over their legs.
It was a miracle they got out alive.
Thank god for accidental magic.
Linny was certain it was not only Rose who set the trees on fire but also Ron and maybe him too. He felt a strange spark in him started by his horror, terror, and anger that the spider could betray Hagrid's trust so easily and then a sudden burst of warmth as if there was a flame dancing inside of him.
He closed his eyes and was slowly drifting to sleep as Aragog's words echoed in his mind...
He sat up as everything clicked together.
"Moaning Myrtle's bathroom!"
"Go to sleep Linny!" Tom snapped.
Honestly it was no wonder Indigo was such a grump if his younger siblings kept interrupting his sleep like this.
PRPRPRPRPRPRPRPRPRPRPRPR
Rose turned to look at the pale girl beside her.
She did not like Ginny Weasley. Ginny Weasley was very boring, at first all she talked about was sport and Rose's brother (which Rose did not like at all!) but then all she did was write in something and blush whenever Linny was near her. It was very boring. Luna said Ginny was her childhood friend and yet Ginny has made no attempt to even talk to Luna which Rose could not understand because Luna. Is. Very. Cool. But today Ginny was acting very odd. Very odd indeed.
She was very pale. Pale as Ron when he saw all those big spiders. And she kept twitching and fidgeting, and at one point she even rocked backwards and forwards like a little baby. It was very distracting in class and Rose stopped paying attention so she could watch Ginny.
When Professor Flitwick was leading them to their next class Rose saw Ginny stop walking and allow everyone go ahead. She slowed down and waited till everyone had gone before she turned to see Ginny run off somewhere.
Rose followed.
By the time she caught up Ginny had thrown her bag down on the floor and was staring up at the wall with the writing on.
"What are you doing?" Rose said angrily.
If it turned out this was all Ginny's fault and Linny was the one who got the blame then she will. Tear. Every. Last. Strand. Out. Of. Her. Hair.
Ginny turned to face her and Rose let out a yelp. Not only was Ginny deadly pale but her eyes were glowing a demonic red! She must be possessed by the devil!
Ginny let out a long hiss and Rose fell to the floor in pain.
So much pain. It really hurt. She had never been this hurt before not even when she stubbed her toe and that was very, very painful.
She could hear footsteps and she screamed as Ginny poked her wound. She closed her eyes and tried very hard not to cry but tears ran down her face anyway. She turned to her side and all she could see is swirls of scarlet and crimson and deep dark burgundy.
She was surrounded by blood.
Her own blood.
It all goes dark.
Authors' Note: I know, I know, evil cliff-hanger! But to get another update you know what to do...review! I want to also say that a certain bit I do not own it was an extract of J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets chapter 13 The Very Secret Diary. Oh and please review.
