Hermione
Well. I'll start by saying that I for one think that journal writing for a month is a very good idea. Better than doing a musical at any rate.
Now. On to the whole recording the thoughts and feelings part - oh wait, I haven't introduced myself. How horribly rude of me. Perhaps if I do it now no one will notice..... I'm Hermione Granger, I come from an - as far as I'm aware - all muggle family, and my best friends are Harry Potter (yes the Harry Potter - hang on, you already know that - being at Hogwarts yourself) and Ron Weasley. Oh, and I've just turned 16 and been made a prefect! It's so exciting! Unfortunately neither of the boys got in, but I don't think they mind too much!
OK, formalities dealt with - now here we go. My thoughts for the day.....
Friends. You can't live with them and you can't live without them. Take my two best friends for example:
Harry - lovely, sweet, clever (don't even bother trying to deny it Harry) - but my God..... seriously messed up in the head, especially concerning thoughts of the TriWizard Tournament last year and "You Know Who". I know it's not his fault, he's been through a lot, and having so much to deal with at 15 should probably make him a lot more messed up than he is.... but he blames himself for Cedric's death and everything else that happens to do with "You Know Who", and he lets Malfoy get to him with his bitchy comments (I swear he's more bitchy than the entire female population of Hogwarts put together!) - which just makes everything worse. Arrgghh! Sometimes I just want to slap Harry for being such an idiot and believing Malfoy's crap. Then at other times...... well, let's just say that this probably isn't the best place to be discussing it! Moving swiftly on..........
Ron - fiery hair, fiery temper - what more do you need to know? Only joking! Ron's one of those people who you never really know how to act around because his emotions run high and he can overreact to the smallest thing. He's the youngest boy in a huge family, and so often feels undervalued - although he's certainly not underloved. I know he feels that it doesn't matter what he does in his (school) life because whatever he does it's bound to have been done before by one of his siblings, but it does matter. It's the same with his relationship with Harry sometimes - he feels like he's always in the shadows. Ron's also incredibly sensitive when it comes to the issue of wealth - in that he's sad because he's from a relatively poor family, and what makes it worse is that Harry's rich from inheritance. But I know that Harry would gladly give every last knut in Gringotts to Ron and his family if he could - because he loves them like he would his own family. But Ron's too proud to ever accept money from Harry, and so just moans and complains - a lot.
Boys. My life would be a lot easier if I had girls for best friends, but I wouldn't trade Harry and Ron for anything!
My mini rant finished, I'll talk about my day. I had Potions this morning, which usually isn't so bad (even though it's Snape) because it's very interesting. But Snape was in a particularly vindictive mood today: and gave Neville a detention for daring to be even the slightest bit magical; Harry a detention for breathing; Ron a detention for giving him cheek because of Harry and Neville's detentions; Seamus a detention for blowing something up (it's not so bad, he's used to not having eyebrows!); and me a detention for attempting to help Neville with his potion. In fact - Snape gave very single Gryffindor detention. But not one single Slytherin! The injustice of it! Oh well, no point in complaining - it doesn't usually achieve much. It just means that another Wednesday will go by with no 5th year Gryffindors in the common room. For goodness sake, I'm a prefect - my house needs me there. What use am I to them locked up in a dungeon with Snape and the rest of my year cleaning stuff off the floor, or doing something for Filch. Grrrr..... when I'm head girl I'll show them!
I have to go now because I have a very, very long Transfiguration essay to finish for Professor McGonagall's class tomorrow, and I need to finish it in plenty of time because Harry has had Quidditch practice tonight and Ron's just been off somewhere being Ron...... and I'm sure that they'll both want me to 'assist' them with theirs!
Eww..... Crookshanks has just dumped a dead rat on the floor next to where I'm working! It's just as well Hedwig's not here or we could have an owl versus pussycat fight for food!
More later, when I have something else to talk about!
Love Hermione xx
Thank you for all of your lovely reviews! Ron will probably be up next - send any suggestions concerning his state of mind in with reviews!
Rachel xxx
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