Disclaimers: I don't even know why I make these anymore, seeing as I established a few chapters ago that these are unneeded.
March 5, 1995
Dear Journal,
Guess what? It's just three months until my birthday! Isn't that lovely?
And yet here flies Eric, with not only a daily assortment of sweets but a letter from Father as well. I open it, and there falls out not a note in his impeccable handwriting, but a magazine clipping. I read it through, and smiled. Sometimes, unknowingly, Father knows me all too well.
Rita Skeeter's made up some rubbish about Potter liking Granger (since when? it was Weasel who near-exploded when he saw Granger with Krum, and I who may have been slightly attracted a while back) and then about Granger probably mixing up love potions to bewitch the pair of them. I mean, really! Love potions are ridiculously advanced! Not even Granger could make a satisfactory one. And that's not all. Pansy is the one that suggested it, quoted in the article. I stared, agape, at Pansy's initiative. "What?" she said, smiling proudly, "It's just like gossip, but on a larger scale."
"But-" I tried to form my thoughts into a simple clause, "it's not true." Not that I had a problem with that, it was just a little disconcerting.
"Of course not! Just because I tell my fellow Snakes the truth doesn't mean I always do... Don't worry. It's just about making a fuss, to keep the world from being boring."
I agreed just because I imagined the ruckus in Potions today. Instead of I holding the clipping, Pansy passed her subscription of the magazine about before class. When the troublesome threesome finally arrive, Pansy lazily tossed the Witch Weekly to Granger with a shout. Granger caught it and after we were herded into class, we saw them poring over the article.
Professor Snape caught them, and in a move that I never dreamed possible as a teachers privilege, he slowly and deliberately read aloud the entire article. The Slytherins howled with laughter as the reading continued, and in the end he separated them, with the unfortunate but not too unfortunate consequence of Granger sitting beside Pansy, therefore, near me. She was rather quiet, other than muttering angry curses at Snape while he taunted Potter, and it probably benefitted my classwork to see what she was doing.
Pansy was turned almost fully towards me, not wanting to "make contact with a Mudblood." I said nothing, just smiled slightly at her, and continued to work.
You know what I need? A good book,
DLM
March 6, 1995
Dear Journal,
Hogsmeade visit today. I convinced Pansy that today it needn't be another date, we both need time with our friends. So Pansy, Tracey, and Daphne perused Gladrags, Teddy, Blaise, and I managed to drag Crabbe and Goyle away from Honeydukes to visit Zonko's. We found Milly at Dervish and Banges, where she was having something repaired. I asked Milly if she was reading anything, and she gave me Walk Two Moons before we left the shop, saying, "Give it back Friday, before Potions." I could feel our friendship straining, since Pansy and I had been spending practically all of our time together and I sensed would be furious if I spent time alone with Milly, so all I really saw of her was when she, Pansy, and I hung out together.
After a few hours, we met up with the girls, who were now at the Post Office, and we all headed for the Three Broomsticks. Thankfully, Potty, Weasel, and Granger weren't there, but Milly was, so we joined her table and spread out among two, which we pushed together. Madam Rosmerta was quite astonished to see so many of us (obviously our "cliques" were quite separate to the common eye), but quickly left to fulfill our orders of nine butterbeers. We lounged and chattered on many different levels. Pansy sorted through and tried to interest me in the bulging bags she had filled at Gladrags, but Blaise was succeeding in that respect with his detailed accounts of the most recent and violent Falcon-Catapult game. So Pansy started conversing rapidly with Tracey, who was seated next to both Blaise and Vince, the later of whom was also failing to capture Tracey's attention. Gregory and Milly were playing Wizard chess, Milly beating him horribly and unashamedly. Daphne was applying make-up in the reflection of her butterbeer glass, and Teddy was the only who seemed to actually be drinking his butterbeer.
Quite an enjoyable visit and quite a fail for romance all around,
DLM
March 8, 1995
Dear Journal,
Walk Two Moons is well enough of a tale. I do wish, though, that protagonists of the books Milly gives me weren't so often girls.
Professor Hagrid has begun to finally bring nicer creatures to his classes. Sure, he went along with the unicorn curriculum that Professor Grubbly-Plank, which was pretty cool, but now he's brought in nifflers, all of his own accord. One niffler kept trying to steal Pansy's watch, so she finally tucked it into the neck of her robes. Greg showed stunning mental capacity when he tried to steal some of the leprechaun gold his niffler had found, though such ploys were useless anyway.
Todd the Terrible is gone, I say, gone!
DLM
April 11, 1995
Dear Journal,
I leave thee at Hogwarts over the holidays.
Happy Easter,
DLM
A/N: I know they're getting shorter, but so does the time. Keep reading and reviewing, and I'll keep writing. Updating twice daily is quite a lot anyway, so I hope your happy as Draco leaves his diary at Hogwarts and entrusts its safety to Milly.
Lovealwayshopes: Hi! Yes, I actually think the boys featured in Harry Potter all seem slightly clueless, though lovable. Perhaps Hermione would be able to compose a stunning love ballad, but it's doubtful that Ron would appreciate it. Ginny, we know from her first year, is skilled. Canonness? Good. As I've stated before, this fanfic is meant to be as non-AU as possible, as are all of my other current fanfictions and ideas.
Your Undoing: Here I scatter around my warnings, "this cannot last." I don't think that either of them can truly love each other as mates, but I feel their relationship stems from loving each other in a different way. They have to discover that eventually, so Draco can fall for Asteria and Pansy for... erm, I don't really know, someone at least.