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The Journal of Dean Thomas
Chapter 3-Wednesday
Wednesday
Today we had potions with the Slytherins. There wasn't anything different than usual that happened during that class. Professor Snape picked on all of the Gryffindors like normal, especially Neville. I feel sorry for him. Snape picks on him on purpose just because he isn't very good at potions. I actually think he might be good at it if Professor Snape wasn't always breathing down his neck. Anyway, Hermione tried to help Neville and Snape took away points from Gryffindor and said, "Let that be a lesson to you. There is no cheating in my classroom!" Why does Snape do that? Why does he get pleasure from making all of us Gryffindors suffer? What does he have against us? I guess some questions will never be answered. I don't think anyone will ever know why Snape is the way he is. He gave Draco Malfoy points for doing pretty much nothing. He said, "Mr. Malfoy mixed up his potion perfectly." Hermione mixed hers up right too, but did she get any points? Hell no! For few minutes of walking around the classroom and taking points away from Gryffindor students and awarding them to students in Slytherin. We tried to argue with him and he took away for points from our house. Don't you think that we should learn not to say anything? Why do Gryffindors have to be brave and daring? I bet Hufflepuffs don't get as many points taken away as our house does. And the Slytherins, I don't even want to talk about them. Anyway, that's what happened pretty much the whole class time. I don't think anyone will wonder why students in Gryffindor hate Potions class.
After class I saw Ginny. She was walking down the hall with her friends. I didn't really talk to her. I just told her hi smiled at her. She returned the smile and I felt greatly rewarded. Ginny has the most beautiful smile in the world. It's like the sun, so warm and bright. When she smiles, it seems to light up the whole room. I guess you would say that that one smile made my day. Okay, that makes me sound like I'm completely obsessed. I sometimes wonder what Ginny would say if I told her how much I like her. Hmm, it couldn't hurt could it? What's the worst that could happen? She could say no, and she could stop talking to me. I guess I should risk our friendship because I like her. If our friendship turns into something more, then it turns into something more. And if it doesn't, well, I guess then we'll stay friends forever. Right? I can live with just being her friend. Can't I? I mean, eventually I'll fall for someone else. Won't I?
A/N-Thanks to all of the people that reviewed my fic. I really appreciate all of the feedback that I get. I have gotten very good reviews so far nice and long and very insiteful! Thank you! I hope that you enjoyed this next chapter and I'll try to update soon. (I'm on Spring Break so I actually have a little bit of time!) I know that this fic isn't very long and the chapters are short. I'm really, really sorry but I can't write very long chapters in fics that are journals like this. If I had a journal I don't think I would write this much in it. I wrote this fic quite a while ago and I keep adding to it to make it longer. I'll try really hard to make the next chapters longer, but I'm not making any promises. Okay? Please review. Pretty, pretty please?