"From the Brilliant Mind of Harry Potter" by Quidditch, Anyone?
Chapter Six
25 October
For once, I actually have a good reason to neglect writing. Every day is practically the same, sort of like when Dudley's video camera breaks and keeps playing the same scene on the television all the time. I imagine it would be pointless to write every this very entry: "I got up today. I went to class. My friends hate each other. I went to bed. No Voldemort." for a whole week. So I took a break. Some holiday, eh?
Something mildly interested did happen today, though. Nothing huge; Ron 'accidentally' knocked over an entire bucket of Ever-Itch pollen onto Hermione in Herbology. I've never heard Hermione curse before, but I thought I detected some un-Hermioneish language used while she tried to itch the small of her back in between sneezes. Ron rather enjoyed the sight. He enjoyed lying back in a chair and not helping even more. I think we all enjoyed it when he tipped over that chair and landed in a pile of hippogriff fertilizer. So I guess the disaster was actual quite enjoyable in one unorthodox way or another.
Half-smiling,
Harry
27 October
Why am I writing right now?!?! I am in a total panic about losing my Transfiguration essay! It took me a whole week to finish, and for the first time in... well, a fairly long time... that I thought I did an okay job writing a paper. I knew I put it right by my spare quills in my bag, but now it's just gone!
Now, wait a moment! Let's say this is all Voldemort's fault! I surely can't be failed just because some evil wizard took my homework! Right? RIGHT???
Oh, bugger... you know how bloody dumb that would sound? "Sorry, Professor, I couldn't hand in my essay because the Dark Lord ate it." Plus, I think he's pretty sure how to do landmark transfigurations, so why would he need my essay?
Right, I guess I'll just look under my bed for the eighteenth time.
Losing it (even though I think I already lost 'it', meaning my homework... or something...),
Harry
P.S. not to sound judgmental (or just plain mental) or anything, but I've noticed Ron is helping me look, but Hermione's just sitting and reading the same page of her Greek Muggle History book over and over. Strange.
28 October
I thought I would start off my Monday in complete misery (I had given up looking for the paper and didn't have time to write another), but something very abnormal happened. None other than Crookshanks comes down from the girls' dorm with a bit of paper in his mouth. I take it out and was going to throw it away, but I noticed my handwriting. Crookshanks had found my essay! I can tell he just found it because it was hardly even torn.
Next time I guess I'll think twice before kicking that dumb cat for Ron.
New-found kitty lover (now, that's a closing!),
Harry
Still 28 October
I absolutely cannot believe this!!!
Why would Hermione take my essay? It's not like she wanted to copy it! Has she gone insane?
Shortly after I found my essay, Lavender comes up to me right before class. She heard that I had lost my paper and was all anxious to inform me that she saw it under Hermione's bed. She didn't think much of it at the time but then heard how upset I was for loosing it so came to find me. I told her I found it and everything seemed resolved, but then I realized- why was it under Hermione's bed?
I went to find her and ask her if she knew why it would be there. She didn't say much and quickly said how she forgot her parchment in the Common Room. Ron was close by and I heard him snort. He was saying something like this:
RON: What an act.
ME: Huh?
RON: Harry (I think he leaned in closer at this point), she stole it intentionally! That was no mistake.
ME: (trying not to laugh) Right, Ron.
RON: She did it to get back at you.
ME: But I didn't do anything to her!
I obviously thought he was just be weird, paranoid, anti-Hermione (AKA completely normal) Ron, but then Parvati piped up and told me how she thought Hermione was a bit mad at me for the past few days.
I didn't want to believe it, but throughout the day she wouldn't even look at me. What had I done to upset her?
It's not my fault!
Harry
A few chapters back I think I was writing about Sirius and typed something like "blah blah Sirius Snuffles blah blah". It was like that because when I typed it, a line appeared through Sirius, as if Harry had made a line through it himself. It just got screwed up on the site.
Yeah, I know I'm being dumb and no one probably even noticed, but I'm just paranoid people think I'm stupid and I always have to correct the littlest things when I can. Is there such thing as Internet white-out?