Disclaimer: As always - I don't own any of the characters (or places for that matter) in this fic. It's all J.K.Rowling's and I'm just borrowing them. Even the main storyline belongs to her. I own only the fic and some pranks in it. And Hermie's new personality *grin*
A/N: First of all I want to apologize. I know I haven't posted chapters for quite a long time now, but I really had no means to do so. I was in Greece for two weeks and I didn't have access to a computer in that time. And even if I would have had - my stories are only in my computer so I wouldn't have any access to them anyway. Then, when I came back, FF.N didn't want to let me post chapters, so I kinda gave up after a few days... Well, now I'm back, so I try to make it up to all of you. Deal?
--Altair
Dear Diary...
It's winter! And I love it. The snow... the grounds are covered in several feet of it and it's just so beautyfil. Well, it's freezing cold here, but the beauty all around us makes mor than enough up for it. Only that I feel sorry for the owls. It's too cold for them, you see. Mails from parents are becoming more the exception than the rule because no-one is really into letting their pets freeze to death. Only very imporant messages are delivered. Even Malfoy doesn't become owls as ofen as he used to. I think that's why he doesn't tease Harry about not getting any owls anymore.
The Weasley-twins have a week worth of detention. There was a snowball-fight between Gryffindors and they took the chance and bewitched some snowballs to follow Professor Quirrell around and hit him on the back oh the poor man's turban. Even if it was funny - why did they have to pick a teacher as their target? I'm sure they wouldn't be in that much trouble if they would have made a fellow student their target. Percy would have been perfect, just to give some examples. Or Malfoy. He would have been even better. And not to forget the Parkinson-girl. On the other hand - I wouldn't have mind if they would have made the snowballs hit Snape. He's evil, you know. But somebody as nice as Professor Quirrell! He may be weird, but he's still really nice to us.
We're been looking for that Nicholas-Flamel-guy all over. Harry keeps telling that he has read the name somewhere before, but he can't remember where excactly. It's been really hard the last weeks. All the schoolwork, the homework and then the searching in the library... I swear I haven't slept in weeks. But I can't let the boys find out about me being tired. I even skipped writing my Diary so I could get more sleep. But it doesn't help. We haven't found anything about him yet. And the Christmas-break is drawing nearer with every day. I'm going home, of course. I haven't seen my parents for months and I really miss talking to them. And there's so much I'd like to tell them about the school! Harry signed up to stay at school over holydays. But he doesn't seem to mind. He says it's probably going to be the best Christmas he ever had. And from what I've heard about his life in the Muggle world, he's probably right about that. Ron is going to remain at school, too. His parents are going to visit his older brother... I think his name was Charles or something... Ron talks about him very much. He says Charlie works in Romania. And that his big brother's job has something to do with dragons. Wow! I wish I could work with dragons some day!
Anyway. As I am going to leave the school over Christmas, I cannot research Nicholas Flamel for that long. And I really doubt the boys will work on it with me gone, even if they assure me every day that they're not going to forget to do the research. Sometimes I wonder if they even think that the result could be very important. What if the thing Fluffy is protecting is something really dangerous and Snape gets his hands on it before we can do something about it? What if it's something you could destroy the whole world with? Or even worse - what if it's something you could destroy whole England with?! If there's one thing I have learned in my time at Hogwarts it's that you can do almost anything with magic. And that I wouldn't trust Professor Snape with very powerful magic. I really don't see why Professor Dumbledore doesn't just sack him and get a new Potions master for us. No-one could be worse than Snape!
Malfoy is getting on our nerves again. Now that the owl-based-teasing has fallen out due to the really freezing winter, he has come up with his new teasing-line. This time he actually dare to say something about him feeling sorry for those who have to stay at school over holidays. Something about not being wanted home, too. And then, after class, he insulted Ron's family! In front of Hagrid! And when Ron tried to make him pay for thT, Snape turned up and took five points off Gryffindor. He didn't even listen to Hagrid! Oh, if I just could get my hands at that little bastard! Hmm... well, well, well... who says I can't? There has to be a spell or something that could make him shut up for a while. I mean, who says you can only play pranks to people in your own house? The Weasley-twins terrorize the whole school, why then can't I allow myself a little revange? Even better if it involves Malfoy being humiliated! Umm... let's see...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Isn't the world just wonderful? The Great Hall being decorated with holly and mistletoe and christmas trees and tiny icicles and candles (we were walking with Hagrid and 'caught' the teachers by decorating), christmas break starting tomorrow, Draco Malfoy missing the Christmas Feast we had (he did not turn up and rumors are that he was too ashamed because of his pale face being covered with freckles all of the sudden and his blond hair having turned into a weasleyish-red (is that even a word?). My, my, I wonder what happened?
Anyway. We didn't find anything at the library. Again. Harry was told off by Madam Pince (he had been stupid enough to walk into the Restricted Section of the Library) and just left Ron and I with all the work alone. Well, as I said before - we weren't successful. And I'm going to go home and... I won't be able to work on The Flamel Case for that long. I really would if I only had some access to a Wizard Library on holidays, but I don't. That's why I intend to research some spells that could come handy someday. You know... humiliating enemies... that kind of thing. You wouldn't believe how many ways there are to make a fool out of someone by magical means. There are spells, you could never even imagine! Oh, what am I talking about! Of course you could. You are the Diary of a witch (OK, a soon-to-be-witch, but still..), you are supposed to know (or at least be able to imagine) things of all sorts.
Ouch! That was me being hit by a pillow. The girls insist me to finish writing now and go to sleep. I really can't understand them. Which normal person wants to sleep at... half past two in the morning?! OK, I got the point.
Good night, dear Diary!
Hermione
A/N: I hope you liked it. I'll go back to writing now. Please be kind and review. I haven't gotten any reviews lately and it makes me really sad. Even depressed. And I almost killed Remus off in my story 'The Spy in the Inner Circle' last time. In other words - at the end of the last posted chapter of that story, it was almost sure that he was dead. But my brother (and beta) Luinthoron was really upset with me after that and that's why there's still the slim chance that he might have escaped... See - that's what happens whan I'm too depressed. Just kidding *grin* Even though I really did (or did I?) finish Remus off in that story.
--Altair
A/N: First of all I want to apologize. I know I haven't posted chapters for quite a long time now, but I really had no means to do so. I was in Greece for two weeks and I didn't have access to a computer in that time. And even if I would have had - my stories are only in my computer so I wouldn't have any access to them anyway. Then, when I came back, FF.N didn't want to let me post chapters, so I kinda gave up after a few days... Well, now I'm back, so I try to make it up to all of you. Deal?
--Altair
Dear Diary...
It's winter! And I love it. The snow... the grounds are covered in several feet of it and it's just so beautyfil. Well, it's freezing cold here, but the beauty all around us makes mor than enough up for it. Only that I feel sorry for the owls. It's too cold for them, you see. Mails from parents are becoming more the exception than the rule because no-one is really into letting their pets freeze to death. Only very imporant messages are delivered. Even Malfoy doesn't become owls as ofen as he used to. I think that's why he doesn't tease Harry about not getting any owls anymore.
The Weasley-twins have a week worth of detention. There was a snowball-fight between Gryffindors and they took the chance and bewitched some snowballs to follow Professor Quirrell around and hit him on the back oh the poor man's turban. Even if it was funny - why did they have to pick a teacher as their target? I'm sure they wouldn't be in that much trouble if they would have made a fellow student their target. Percy would have been perfect, just to give some examples. Or Malfoy. He would have been even better. And not to forget the Parkinson-girl. On the other hand - I wouldn't have mind if they would have made the snowballs hit Snape. He's evil, you know. But somebody as nice as Professor Quirrell! He may be weird, but he's still really nice to us.
We're been looking for that Nicholas-Flamel-guy all over. Harry keeps telling that he has read the name somewhere before, but he can't remember where excactly. It's been really hard the last weeks. All the schoolwork, the homework and then the searching in the library... I swear I haven't slept in weeks. But I can't let the boys find out about me being tired. I even skipped writing my Diary so I could get more sleep. But it doesn't help. We haven't found anything about him yet. And the Christmas-break is drawing nearer with every day. I'm going home, of course. I haven't seen my parents for months and I really miss talking to them. And there's so much I'd like to tell them about the school! Harry signed up to stay at school over holydays. But he doesn't seem to mind. He says it's probably going to be the best Christmas he ever had. And from what I've heard about his life in the Muggle world, he's probably right about that. Ron is going to remain at school, too. His parents are going to visit his older brother... I think his name was Charles or something... Ron talks about him very much. He says Charlie works in Romania. And that his big brother's job has something to do with dragons. Wow! I wish I could work with dragons some day!
Anyway. As I am going to leave the school over Christmas, I cannot research Nicholas Flamel for that long. And I really doubt the boys will work on it with me gone, even if they assure me every day that they're not going to forget to do the research. Sometimes I wonder if they even think that the result could be very important. What if the thing Fluffy is protecting is something really dangerous and Snape gets his hands on it before we can do something about it? What if it's something you could destroy the whole world with? Or even worse - what if it's something you could destroy whole England with?! If there's one thing I have learned in my time at Hogwarts it's that you can do almost anything with magic. And that I wouldn't trust Professor Snape with very powerful magic. I really don't see why Professor Dumbledore doesn't just sack him and get a new Potions master for us. No-one could be worse than Snape!
Malfoy is getting on our nerves again. Now that the owl-based-teasing has fallen out due to the really freezing winter, he has come up with his new teasing-line. This time he actually dare to say something about him feeling sorry for those who have to stay at school over holidays. Something about not being wanted home, too. And then, after class, he insulted Ron's family! In front of Hagrid! And when Ron tried to make him pay for thT, Snape turned up and took five points off Gryffindor. He didn't even listen to Hagrid! Oh, if I just could get my hands at that little bastard! Hmm... well, well, well... who says I can't? There has to be a spell or something that could make him shut up for a while. I mean, who says you can only play pranks to people in your own house? The Weasley-twins terrorize the whole school, why then can't I allow myself a little revange? Even better if it involves Malfoy being humiliated! Umm... let's see...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Isn't the world just wonderful? The Great Hall being decorated with holly and mistletoe and christmas trees and tiny icicles and candles (we were walking with Hagrid and 'caught' the teachers by decorating), christmas break starting tomorrow, Draco Malfoy missing the Christmas Feast we had (he did not turn up and rumors are that he was too ashamed because of his pale face being covered with freckles all of the sudden and his blond hair having turned into a weasleyish-red (is that even a word?). My, my, I wonder what happened?
Anyway. We didn't find anything at the library. Again. Harry was told off by Madam Pince (he had been stupid enough to walk into the Restricted Section of the Library) and just left Ron and I with all the work alone. Well, as I said before - we weren't successful. And I'm going to go home and... I won't be able to work on The Flamel Case for that long. I really would if I only had some access to a Wizard Library on holidays, but I don't. That's why I intend to research some spells that could come handy someday. You know... humiliating enemies... that kind of thing. You wouldn't believe how many ways there are to make a fool out of someone by magical means. There are spells, you could never even imagine! Oh, what am I talking about! Of course you could. You are the Diary of a witch (OK, a soon-to-be-witch, but still..), you are supposed to know (or at least be able to imagine) things of all sorts.
Ouch! That was me being hit by a pillow. The girls insist me to finish writing now and go to sleep. I really can't understand them. Which normal person wants to sleep at... half past two in the morning?! OK, I got the point.
Good night, dear Diary!
Hermione
A/N: I hope you liked it. I'll go back to writing now. Please be kind and review. I haven't gotten any reviews lately and it makes me really sad. Even depressed. And I almost killed Remus off in my story 'The Spy in the Inner Circle' last time. In other words - at the end of the last posted chapter of that story, it was almost sure that he was dead. But my brother (and beta) Luinthoron was really upset with me after that and that's why there's still the slim chance that he might have escaped... See - that's what happens whan I'm too depressed. Just kidding *grin* Even though I really did (or did I?) finish Remus off in that story.
--Altair