April 5th

We've been told that we will be writing in these diaries for the rest of our school careers. I went from hating these to loving them. Now I have a record of how my life has been for my fifteenth year. So much has changed this year, and in an obscure way, these diaries have helped. I'd like to see what everyone else has in them, their records and so on, their secrets, but that's what they are, secrets. I'm turning sixteen tomorrow, a birthday I've never really cared about, just another year, another step closer to growing old. But looking back in this diary for year fifteen, I suppose it's a bit more than an assent into old age, it's an assent into life. Something that many of us haven't rightly experienced yet.

Hermione