Top Secret
by Shealtiel
Rated: T for sexual references, adult themes, violence and mild coarse language
Summary: "Oak, fourteen inches, unpliant and resilient, excellent for Transfiguration with a knack for Charms. Veela hair core."

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Tuesday, September 7th, 1971
9:03pm
Gryffindor Common Room

Classes have been weird, but good. The subjects are super strange. We do Potions, which I'm pretty good at, although Lily's better. That's just mixing ingredients and stuff to make special potions that do different things. Some cure sicknesses or change your appearance, and you can even make love potions. It's really cool. Most of the ingredients are magical plants and herbs and some things from animals. Anyway, we also do Herbology, which is learning about plants and herbs and stuff, and it's all new stuff that I've never heard of. I guess most of it is magical.

We do Transfiguration as well, which is like, transforming things. And we'll eventually even learn to transfigure ourselves to look different! I'm really good at Transfiguration, although there's a boy in our Year that's even better than I am. His name is James. His parents are both Wizards, so he already knows some spells and stuff. He's kind of a cocky jerk though. His friend Sirius is pretty good at Transfiguration too, but he's even better at Defence Against the Dark Arts, which is one of my favourite classes. That's how we learn to defend ourselves against bad magic and magical creatures and all that sort of stuff.

I think my very favourite class is Charms though, and maybe that's because I'm the best in the class, but Professor Flitwick (who everyone says is half goblin) is really nice and he's a really good teacher. We also do Astronomy, which is probably the hardest subject, in my opinion, and we also do History of Magic, which is really boring. Our teacher, Professor Binns, is a ghost. Sirius told me that he died in his sleep one night, woke up as a ghost and went to teach his class without even noticing. He has this voice that could put you to sleep though, it's so monotone and boring. Hearing about all the things that have happened in the Wizarding world in the past can be interesting though, if I'm not falling asleep.

The last class we do is Flying. We have these brooms, and we're learning to fly on them, like real witches! Lily's not very good at it. I'm pretty good though. James is a natural, but I think he already knew how to fly from growing up with magical parents, so that's not really fair. Plus, he just brags about how good he is all the time, so it's just annoying. Our instructor, Professor Girnoff, teaches another class called Ancient Runes to older Years as well as taking First Year Flying classes.

So all up, it's been a pretty weird week. There's just so much I don't know. I've met all the other people in Gryffindor in our Year though, and they're alright. There's Lily, obviously, and then James and Sirius, who I was talking about before, and then there are four other boys in our Year. There's Peter, who's super cute and funny, and then there's Remus who's really sweet and quiet, but stares a lot. He hangs out with Lily and me. Sirius and James like to joke around a lot, and they play a lot of tricks on Peter, so Peter sometimes hangs out with us too to get away from the two of them. I think mostly they're just jealous, because people find them annoying, but everyone likes Peter because he's so nice and funny. There's also Gregory Fudge and Dirk Boot. I tried to talk to them, but they wouldn't say anything to me.

The other girls in our Year are Janice Finch-Fletchley, Georgia Clearwater and Tamara Greengrass. I don't know any of them very well, but they've all been kind of snobby to me so far. I don't know why. I hope I haven't offended them or something. Anyway, bed time. Classes are tiring and we've already got a bunch of homework I've been working hard on, and we'll probably get more tomorrow, so I should sleep while I can.

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