August 19,
1992
Summer was different this year. Usually we go to see mom and dad, but this year Gran her friend and her grandson and myself went on a cruise of the Mediterranean. It was actually fun. I am still on the trip and should get back in time to leave for school. I am really glad to be away from all that's going on back home. I just wonder how Gran was convinced to go on a Muggle type vacation. I only wrote now to remember to say something about what I just saw in the papers that I found in Grans cabin. Ron and his family won a contest and got a whole pile of money . There was a picture of them on the front page of the paper they were in Egypt and looked real happy. The bad news is that there is an escaped criminal, Sirius Black, on the lose in London. Some how he got out of Azkaban. Gran said that he killed 13 people with one curse and is thought to be the one that lead You-Know-Who to the Potters. Maybe he is coming back to finish what his leader couldn't do. Allen, the grandson of Gran's friend and the Quidditch guy, is a real nice guy and I should have given him a chance when Gran wanted me to take lessons from him. We have been working out in the ships gym and talking a lot. I think we may actually be becoming friends. Its so strange I use to have such a hard time at making friends and everything. I don't know what changed to make me so good at it. I wonder if Emily will be interested in what happened this summer, cause I can't wait to tell her.
August 31
Well we have been back for a whole twenty minuets and Gran started in on me. She as far as I know is still at the dinner table ranting about what wonderful powerful blah. blah..blah .my granddad and father were and how I will just never even amount to them even if I had tried. She said that if I don't get a decent number of O.W.L.s in my fifth year that I will just have to give up all hope and go to a Muggle school so I can at least fit in somewhere in the world. I really want to kick her sometimes. One of these days I am going to make a list of people that I want to kick so I can remember who it was when I get older or the courage to actually do it. I have to get up early to catch the train.
September 1
I wanted to just sleep all the way to the school on the train ride here, but no I had to start worrying about all the stuff that goes along with going to school with Potter. I went to see him and the rest of them in their compartment cause I couldn't find Emily. The new DADA teacher was there and sound asleep. He looked like he hadn't slept in a couple of years. The name Remus J. Lupin was written along the side of his bag. He looks nice enough just from that. Malfoy had came with his muscle and left when they had the new teacher pointed out to them. I thought that that would be the end of it and a peaceful ride all the way to school. Ha! The rain began to fall hard and the whole train went dark I think that it even stopped. We were only about ten minuets from the train station when it happened. The whole compartment went dark and cold like all the happiness and warm feelings left the room never to return. Several black hooded figures entered Professor Lupin woke and did something to them that frightened them away after telling them that we didn't have Black with us. Potter was on the ground when the lights cane back He was kind of twitching. Professor Lupin fixed every thing with a bar of chocolate. I knew that chocolate was magical. Anyway, he says that that they were Dementors, the guards of Azkaban. When Malfoy heard that Potter had a hard time dealing with them he couldn't wait to tease him. It was rather funny. At dinner we were told that the Dementors would be guarding the school and that we were not to be sneaking around. I had a feeling that he was talking to Potter and his bunch. Percy was made Head Boy. I think that that needs no explanation. He would be another of the people on that list. Hagrid is now our new Care of Magical Creatures class which I feel somehow endangers my life and the life of those in the class. He really has a thing for dangerous, well, everything. I mean he did have a dragon in his house for most of the first year. Well this certainly has been a long day and I have letters to write. I promised Allen that I would write about my first day if it was eventful enough and I think that this would qualify as just that.
September 3
Well the first two days of class have come and gone. I miss the ship and the quite it brought to me over the summer. I took Divinations. My excuse is that I was possessed by rabid monkeys. That is the stupidest class. She made a prediction about each of us during the class and hers for me was something about my Gran and she asked me not to break her tea cups. Um. anyone could have predicted that one. I always break something. Potions was the same I messed up a potion, fixed it, he tested it on Trevor, it worked so he assumed that Granger helped and I lost 5 points to the house. Hagrid had a Hippogriff for the first class. Oh, that was bad. Malfoy smarted off to it and it attacked him. I had to sit there and not laugh while he was taken to the hospital wing. He was swearing all the way that he was on the brink of death. Ron had to chop thing for him in potions because of it. Lupin's class was the best ever. We went to the teachers break room to deal with a Bogart. Snape was in there and left promptly he told Lupin what a good for nothing I was and he made me the first person to have a go at the Bogart I was surprised I actually did a good job. I made it look like Snape in one of my Gran's hats and Dresses it was funny. I haven't had a chance to speak with Emily and well she hasn't exactly been making an effort to speak to me so I figure I should leave it at that. I may write Allen and ask him what I should do.
October 2
I haven't been writing cause well there is nothing to write about. The only thing interesting is that 'Mione has a cat that has it in for Ron's rat. It really is sad the poor rat looks like it is sick with worry. I would just let the cat eat it and then have my mum by me a new one. But I guess they really aren't use to having the money to do things like that with. I haven't been able to find a single thing do write about that is interesting I wish that something would happen. Well that was the kiss of death. I need to go try and find my permission slip to go to Hogsmeade.
October 16
She sent it to McGonagall directly. I am not sure how to feel. I am glad she did but offended that she didn't trust me to do it myself. Potter has been told that he cant go to town. I can only imagine the ways that he is thinking of right now to sneak passed the guards and into town. I bet that even if he gets caught that he will get away with it. Everyone will feel sorry for him and he will be poor babied instead of punished like someone else.
October 31
Well the town was nice. There were a lot of stores and things I think that next time I will have to remember to take money with me so that I can shop. Harry had tea with Lupin. He was talking to the rest of them about it. He apparently had taken a potion that Snape had made. He was feeling under the weather and it was to make him feel better. They all expect that he is really trying to kill him. Oh, but the best part of the evening was when we comeback and the fat lady was gone from her panting and Peeves was more than happy to tell Dumbledore that it was Sirius Black slashed her up and ran. He seemed rather happy about the whole thing. Everyone seems to be rather on edge about the whole thing. Well I have a letter to write.
November 3
Harry has been seeing Grims. I think that it is for Ron's Rat the cat is really wanting him dead. The painting that is guarding the tower is the dumbest thing. It keeps trying to pick a fight with everyone going in and out of the tower. Snape has been taking over the DADA class for Lupin. He said that he is real sick. Potter thinks that it is the potion, but I mean he has looked sick on and off since he was on the train. He has us writing a paper on werewolves. No matter how hard every one tried to tell him that we weren't that far yet he just kept insisting that we write the paper. I need to get to work on it I think it is due tomorrow and I know nothing about them.
November 10
I think that Oliver Wood has Finally lost his mind. The boy is obsessive about winning the house cup for Quidditch and he was given the news today that they would be playing against Hufflepuff for the first game instead of Slytherin like they had been practicing for this whole time. Ever since he has been walking around and talking to himself about strategy and how they weren't ready for them . It is hard not to laugh at him. He really has no reason to worry. I mean hello, look who you are playing. Look at them funny and they will hide. The cat is after that rat again. Poor thing he looks worse every time I see him.
November 17
Well I went to a game and I actually enjoyed it. Not because I like Quidditch but about half way through the game a bunch of dementors stormed the field and Harry fell from the sky to land on the rain soaked earth. His broom how ever didn't have it so lucky it flew right into the womping willow and was reduced to a bag of splinters which was handed to him in the hospital after he was told that they had lost. I really think that is the only way that Hufflepuff could have won in the first place. Dumbledore is kind of scary when he is mad he charged the field and ran the dementors away I think he could have killed someone right then. He has this vain in his forehead that throbs when he gets up set. Oliver is still in the showers and has been since the game ended several hours ago I think he is trying to drown himself. I wasn't the only one who thought so all the guys on the team have been taking turns going to check on him and he hasn't moved they say that he is just sitting there and staring.
November 20
We don't have to do that essay. Lupin found out when someone asked if we really had to do it and he said no and he would talk with Snape. I am really, well, disappointed and happy in a way. I worked real had on it but I an not to sure that I would have done that well on the thing. We have another trip coming up before break and I plan to use this opportunity to do my Christmas shopping. I think that I am getting Allen something cause he said that he found the perfect thing for me and well I would feel bad if he gave me something and I didn't give him anything. I just don't know what to get him. And I don't even think that I have any money with me to buy anything.
December 10
Well I have no idea how he does it but there are times when I wish I was him. Harry was in town every one but the teachers seemed to see him and a group of them sat right in bloody front of him and they never saw him. Granted it was Hagrid and a bunch of Potter lovers. Hagrid was more than likely to wasted to ... Anyway he and Ron were talking about this map that Harry got form some unnamed source that has some magical abilities or something and Black being Harry's Godfather. Imagine that, Harry has a murder for a Godfather. His parents really knew how to pick their friends.
December 15
I didn't want to come home I wish I could have stayed at school for break. We are going to have Gran's friends over and I have to help play the good little host. Allen will be there so I won't be completely alone but not all the time and we don't have company is when Gran is at her worst. I hope they are all there the whole time I am. I really don't want to have to deal with her nitpicking right now.
December 24
4 more years. Just 4 more bloody years. I think I will open my own shop and sell potions ingredients or something that has to do with herbology. Maybe work as an assistant to someone first, then go out on my own, just as long as I am away from her. I could right now just pack every thing up and move out I have the money. I have more than enough. I looked into it. I think that I will see if I can get a job this summer to make sure that I have enough to do what ever. I was given my present, the same as always, money. Then she calls me an ungrateful stingy brat cause I didn't run out and spend it all right away. Allen and I got the same things for each other. Color change ink, it changes color with the writers mood and parchment. I thought it would make his usually boring letters more interesting I wonder what that says about my letters. I now have to go amuse some bratty 3 year old who is the grand child of one of her stupid friends. 4 years seems to far away.
December 29
I tried to see if I could go back early and well she just wouldn't have it. Black on the lose and all. Stupid Potter. Why dose every thing always have to do with him. If Snape wouldn't have given us all this homework to do I don't think that I would have survived this break. I almost feel like writing him a think you letter. I wonder what he would do if I did.
January 2 1993
I cant believe that I missed it. I don't ever see how I could forgive myself for this one. The three musketeers broke up. oh how could I have missed this. I knew I should have stayed here. Potter got a present for Christmas, a firebolt I think, form someone he has on idea who. 'Mione thinks evil plot by the Dark Lord and tells. They haven't spoken since. Wood is about to kill her. His face gets all red and.. well they have to stay on separate sides of the room . I cant believe this. I am never leaving for another break again.
January 10
This really has been a boring year. I mean there are no giant dogs on the second floor and there are no evil beings running around that have been let out of secret chambers under the school. Just an escaped convict that hasn't done any thing but sound scary. Harry has started spending a lot of time with Lupin doing something that he said has to do with dementors. 'Mione has been studying and well that's it they still aren't talking to her. I cant believe that they haven't made up yet. I honestly didn't think that they would stretch it out this long. I think that it is going to cause disruption in the normalness of this year. I just wonder how she can take two classes that happen at different times.
January 30
Potter might not get his new broom back before the next game and wood is all upset. He was mad cause McGonagall got a bit testy with him when he said that he didn't care if it was unsafe or not he just wanted to get Harry on a broom that would help them win that game. I wonder why she got mad. Harry is still seeing a lot of Lupin and its beginning to make me wonder if it he is really just working on a way to get the dementors to go away???? No Lupin has to have better taste than that.
February 17
Well he is getting that broom back. I caught Oliver doing a little dance in the hall when he found out. It was the most amusing thing that I saw all day. I was so distracted by the image of him dancing that I forgot the pass word and had to fight with the painting and it really isn't a good idea I think I was saying things I shouldn't oh well its not my fault I cant keep track of all of those pass words. They change like every week. Every one was real impressed by that broom and I don't see why. Its just a broom . Ron's happiness was short lived however. He found his bed covered in rat blood and with cat hair all over. Poor thing looks like he finally became lunch or I guess it would be dinner wouldn't it. I think I need to go morn the late Scabbers the rat, or listen to him and Granger fight with each other.
March 3
Well, I did it. I went to my first Quidditch Game at school. I wanted to see this broom in action. See for myself what makes this thing so great and " the best there is". I am not that impressed. It looks like a broom to me. It was a game to be there for, Malfoy and some other Slytherins decided to dress up like dementors and and storm the field to distract Potter from the snitch and then Ravenclaw would have won and that would be the end of Woods Cup dreams. But no it didn't happen according to plan. Harry shot some silvery thing at them and grabbed the snitch just in time to win the game Just like a hero. Potter was then kissed by every one of the girls on the team and I think he would have rather been kissed by Cho the Seeker on the other team. The "dementors" are going to be punished and I doubt that they will be since Snape is handling it. Well there is now a big party going on down stairs, I think that I am going to go and join the party I feel like being a bit sociable for some reason.
March 4
I had just put you down and the party had ended (darn) so I was reading. I was still to wound up to sleep or something like that anyways. I had my curtains drawn as not to wake the others with all of my light. Well, I was about to go to sleep when I heard the door open I thought that it was someone was coming to bed late then Ron was screaming bloody murder. Everyone was up to see what happened. His bed curtains had been ripped and he was as Pale as Sir Nick and shaking like mad. He claims that Black was over him with a knife. On one could figure out how he had got in. I all the sudden got a sinking feeling in the pit in my stomach. I had made a list. I couldn't help it. I cant remember all of those pass words. Percy has been walking around like a big shot cause he got to stay up with all the teachers and guard the rest of the school. I do wish that Black would have found the little Git alone in a dark room with no one around to save him or even hear him scream for help. I really hate that little... Anyway every one is scared and we now have trolls watching the fat lady who has, thank god, returned to us. Filch has taken to boarding up unnecessary doors and fire places. I really don't think that that's how he got in last night. I mean if Harry can get to town and back ..well I think that I need to get up and go get ready to deal with everyone. Sleeping in the floor in the Great Hall is not the most rest full thing to do and I don't suggest it.
March 5
Ron has been enjoying all of his attention. He has become like a mini Potter. Everyone think that he is so brave and all like that. All he did was scream like a little girl. How is that brave??? His story changes every time he tells it too. Gran sent me a Howler yesterday morning. It was full of the usual you're a worthless piece of carp that will never amount to anything and that I have disgraced the family yadda.. yadda.. blah.. blah.. blah.. its all the same stuff that she always says to me. Harry gave me this look like he felt sorry for me when I came back after it was all over. Hagrid wrote him a letter and I couldn't read it very I mean the man doesn't have the best handwriting in the world. I think that I saw the word Buckbeak I think that he is on trial to be executed as a danger to the community. Well he did attack Malfoy and I know that Malfoy was a big idiot and did every thing that he was told not to.. Oh well, I think that 'Mione has been helping him try to find a way to get him off. They are still not speaking to her. Its been great with all the silence and easier to listen to them talk about things. They just sit and talk in the dorm room like they are the only one in the room.
March 18
We have another trip to town this week. Potter is planning to sneak into town and use this map of his. I think that he said that he got it from FredandGeorge I am really kind of curious to see how this thing works. 'Mione has threatened to tell if he does and the blew her off. I don't think that they have said a work or even been any where near civil to her at all. I think that now is a good time to get started on the vampire essay so I don't have to work on it while every one is gone.
March 22
So, I was walking around and guess who I saw. My friend Mr. Potter . He was standing in front of a witch statue and he had a piece of paper in his hand and had just finished putting something which I assume to have been his invisibility cloak and a bag. Well I decided to go and say hi to my dear friend and you know what he acted like he wanted me to go away. Can you believe that? Well I bugged him by talking about going to the library and the essay for Lupin. He had the same reaction until Snape showed up and then he all of the sudden was my best friend in the world. We went to the common room and he then he all of the sudden had to go get something from and I got the feeling hat he just wanted me out of the way. I would have followed but I was already to far behind and well I don't know how to get into the passage. People came back telling all kinds of stories about how they had seen a head floating and laughing at Malfoy as he was covered in mud and the head looked like Potter!!! No that cant be he was with me. Well that's what he will tell the teachers when he gets caught and he will want or expect me to say that he is telling the truth. Snape had him in his office until the paper started insulting him. Then he called Lupin. Who is a loyal member of they Harry Potter fan club. He is asked to help and he then plays it off as nothing and he then took Potter and Ron, who had came to make his own rescue attempt, to his own office and they got off scot-free. Snape and Potter did have it out over Potters dad saving Snapes life and him being upset cause he would have died if Harry's dad wouldn't have saved him. ' Mione was crying when they came back and said something about Buckbeak. I wonder if it was good or bad.
March 28
Well the letter is about the Ministry deciding to execute Buckbeak. Hagrid is a mess and his classes are getting, well they are still as bad and dangerous as they were before, but the teacher is paying less attention than he did before. Potter and the gang are back together. They have united forces to help the hippogriff avoid death. I can wait till Easter break. Its been so long since we have had an actual break that I think it will be nice to just sit and do nothing for a change. Its hard to believe that this year is almost over and Harry hasn't saved the school or wizarding world from impending doom. It almost seems wrong. Like he is being denied something. That and I have had almost nothing to write about fore almost a month.
April 16
Why do they always give us homework on days that I plan to rest.?? I think that I may die in all of the homework that they have given us. Snape assigned an in-depth essay on each ingredient in every potion we have done in the past two months. Its really stressful around her the 5th years are taking turns having nervous breakdowns. Its really funny FredandGeorge have even been acting a little funny. They haven't played a joke on anyone in like about a week.
April 21
I think I am done. And with only three hours of the day left. Stupid teachers. The next match is coming up soon and wood has been going on and on about how we haven't won since Ron's brother was in school and Wood is wanting to win before he leaves and well this is his last chance. He has been grilling every one about strategy and things like that. He even started asking me questions. It was really funny cause I haven't got a clue about whats going on in the stupid game. So I just said what ever I thought sounded good it took him about thirty minuets to figure out that I wasn't on the team. Someone needs to tell this guy that its just a game.
May 3
Did you know that Harry has been seeing grims?and they play with 'Mione's cat.! This ladies and gentlemen is the savior of the world. How did he get this job? Well the last game was today. We won. The place was all Christmas looking with all of the red and green. Snape even wore color. Lee's commentary is the only reason that I have started going to the games. He is a very colorful characters. Percy has been dancing and jumping around like an idiot. Wood has been crying randomly or when ever he sees the cup. We have tests soon and the 5th and 7th years are a little over worked with all of the studying for the OWLs and NEWTs . I really don't look forward to taking any of those tests.
May 12
We now have our testing schedules. I still don't get it how can she be taking all of those classes at the same time and never have missed a one. I just don't get it. Why does she think that she needs to do this. I mean no matter what how good she is or how smart or what ever some wizards will still see her a mudblood why cant she just live with that. Not everyone is going to like her just because she is good at something. That almost sounded like a very Draco thing to say. Oh well I guess that he and I think a like on something's.
May 31
So, all of the tests were the same as last year I think that I did better in DADA than I have done in a long time. But other than that, the same as always. Lupin test was by far the most fun I have ever taken. It was an obstacle course over all of the things that we have learned. 'Mione didn't make it passed the Boggart. I almost feel sorry for her. She has had a bit of a year. I don't think I mentioned that she slapped Malfoy. But she did and now she is risking getting in trouble to go get the invisibility cloak so they can all sneak down to Hagrids. It will be Buckbeaks last day on this earth. I have this urge to watch out the window tonight to see what happens. Its bound to be interesting if Harry is going to get in the way. ..........
Okay. I shouldn't have looked I don't think that I can completely understand what I have just seen but I an sure that there is an explanation for the whole thing. I decided that I would watch to see how Potter and his sidekicks saved the day this time. I watched Hagrid open his door and close it again like he was inviting someone in but no one was there. I think its safe to assume that it was them under the cloak. A few minuets later there is a large group of men heading for the large hut by the forest. I then see Harry and 'Mione running as if not to be seen from the front of the castle to the forest. I see shadows moving in the windows of the hut but cant really make out much more than that. Then I notice that 'Miones cat seems to be walking toward something then she starts chasing what looked like a rat or a mouse of some kind. At this point Ron has uncloaked and is running after the cat and the whatever it was. He grabbed something and started to return to where I think the other two were standing when a large bear, dog, monster thing came from some where around the Womping Willow. It pounced on Harry then went after Ron rapping its teeth around him like he was some kind of chew toy. They then disappeared under the tree. Potter, 'Mione and the cat followed leaving the cloak behind somewhere. Lupin mad a mad dash for the tree a few minutes later. The men left Hagrid's and I don't think they killed anything like they had wanted to cause one seemed to be a little disappointed. After the had disappeared from sight Snape ran from the school to the tree he stopped to pick up the cloak and vanished. How on earth did he know that the thing was there? I sat for several hours watching the tree. Figures began to emerge from the base of the tree like there was something in there that was about to eat them and there was along with the bear-dog-thing was a wolf the were fighting eventually the wolf ran off for the woods just in time for the dementors to show up. The dog turned into a man and was out the dementors seemed to be too much for him. 'Mione tried to help but was eventually over come that left it all to Potter. He tried but wasn't doing so well. Then Harry number 2 helped from the bushes and then was gone. Snape, The bear-dog-man, Potter, Ron, and Granger all lay there till finally Snape came to and floated them all away. Around thirty minutes later I was still sitting there trying to figure out what I had just witnessed. The man that looked up set cause he couldn't kill anything just left and was heading towards the dementors. I hope the are okay enough to be out soon I can not get this.. what was that a large something just flew from the forest and toward the school and there is goes. If they don't talk about it I may just have to ask. Oh my head hurts. I think that I need to sleep or at least not sit here any more. I don't hink I can handle seeing any thing else.
June 4
I cant find out anything. From what I get from they way Hagrid has been acting I think that the thing I saw was Buckbeak. That's all I have. The three musketeers wont be out for a couple of more days now. I went to see if I could hear Snape talk about something from that night but all I can get is him ranting about not getting his Order of Merlin cause of Potter. I did see him and Lupin in a very heated discussion about Snape letting it slip to certain people that he was a werewolf. Lupin was yelling at him. I have never seen him do that. He seemed to think that it was Snape's fault that he was one. I think Snape thinks its his fault too cause he looked real guilty but before he could say anything else I was spotted and asked to umm. leave. I think that Lupin has to leave now cause of him having this urge to eat children once a month. Poor guy. I really liked him. I wonder how it could be Snape's fault Lupin is the way he is?
June 7
Well I haven't heard them say anything yet I think they are really waiting to be alone to talk about it. I have been going over all that has happened in the past couple of years and you know I think that they would make a really good book, or even a series of them like one for each year. But who would want to read about Harry Potter on any of the rest of them for that matter. I have started getting the paper from the muggle town that I live near and I have been looking for an add for summer help. I told Gran and she thinks that it will be good for me teach me responsibility and things like that. So I at least don have to sneak around to do it. I just wish that I could find something that I want to do.
June 16
Well they spoke. Apparently, Harry's father, Lupin, Black, and a man named Pettegrew were all friends and they made the map when they were in school. Pettegrew was working for the dark lord and he is really the one who helped off Harry's mum and dad. Then he staged his own death to put the blame on Black, who escaped on the back of Buckbeak. 'Mione had a time turner that allowed her to take all of those classes and aided them in the rescue of both Black and the hippogriff. We leave in about a week or so, and Harry hasn't even found out that Lupin is not coming back. He will really take that one hard. I mean they were so close. Its just good to know that my first assumptions about there relationship was wrong and they really were just working on a way to get the dementors to run away.
June 25
I really hate train rides they seem to take so long. I would sleep but I can't and I don't know why. Oh wait yes I do. Its Ron's dumb owl. Black sent it to him as a please-forgive-me-cause -I-told-you-that- your-rat-was-a- person-who-is-working-for-the-dark-lord present. It looks like a fuzzy ball with wings that has had way too much sugar. He also gave Harry a note to got to town next year and told him that he was the one who sent him to firebolt. This made Granger do a little "I told you" so dance but she was still wrong cause he didn't tamper with it at all. I have several job interviews starting next week so I hope one of them turns out good.
1992
Summer was different this year. Usually we go to see mom and dad, but this year Gran her friend and her grandson and myself went on a cruise of the Mediterranean. It was actually fun. I am still on the trip and should get back in time to leave for school. I am really glad to be away from all that's going on back home. I just wonder how Gran was convinced to go on a Muggle type vacation. I only wrote now to remember to say something about what I just saw in the papers that I found in Grans cabin. Ron and his family won a contest and got a whole pile of money . There was a picture of them on the front page of the paper they were in Egypt and looked real happy. The bad news is that there is an escaped criminal, Sirius Black, on the lose in London. Some how he got out of Azkaban. Gran said that he killed 13 people with one curse and is thought to be the one that lead You-Know-Who to the Potters. Maybe he is coming back to finish what his leader couldn't do. Allen, the grandson of Gran's friend and the Quidditch guy, is a real nice guy and I should have given him a chance when Gran wanted me to take lessons from him. We have been working out in the ships gym and talking a lot. I think we may actually be becoming friends. Its so strange I use to have such a hard time at making friends and everything. I don't know what changed to make me so good at it. I wonder if Emily will be interested in what happened this summer, cause I can't wait to tell her.
August 31
Well we have been back for a whole twenty minuets and Gran started in on me. She as far as I know is still at the dinner table ranting about what wonderful powerful blah. blah..blah .my granddad and father were and how I will just never even amount to them even if I had tried. She said that if I don't get a decent number of O.W.L.s in my fifth year that I will just have to give up all hope and go to a Muggle school so I can at least fit in somewhere in the world. I really want to kick her sometimes. One of these days I am going to make a list of people that I want to kick so I can remember who it was when I get older or the courage to actually do it. I have to get up early to catch the train.
September 1
I wanted to just sleep all the way to the school on the train ride here, but no I had to start worrying about all the stuff that goes along with going to school with Potter. I went to see him and the rest of them in their compartment cause I couldn't find Emily. The new DADA teacher was there and sound asleep. He looked like he hadn't slept in a couple of years. The name Remus J. Lupin was written along the side of his bag. He looks nice enough just from that. Malfoy had came with his muscle and left when they had the new teacher pointed out to them. I thought that that would be the end of it and a peaceful ride all the way to school. Ha! The rain began to fall hard and the whole train went dark I think that it even stopped. We were only about ten minuets from the train station when it happened. The whole compartment went dark and cold like all the happiness and warm feelings left the room never to return. Several black hooded figures entered Professor Lupin woke and did something to them that frightened them away after telling them that we didn't have Black with us. Potter was on the ground when the lights cane back He was kind of twitching. Professor Lupin fixed every thing with a bar of chocolate. I knew that chocolate was magical. Anyway, he says that that they were Dementors, the guards of Azkaban. When Malfoy heard that Potter had a hard time dealing with them he couldn't wait to tease him. It was rather funny. At dinner we were told that the Dementors would be guarding the school and that we were not to be sneaking around. I had a feeling that he was talking to Potter and his bunch. Percy was made Head Boy. I think that that needs no explanation. He would be another of the people on that list. Hagrid is now our new Care of Magical Creatures class which I feel somehow endangers my life and the life of those in the class. He really has a thing for dangerous, well, everything. I mean he did have a dragon in his house for most of the first year. Well this certainly has been a long day and I have letters to write. I promised Allen that I would write about my first day if it was eventful enough and I think that this would qualify as just that.
September 3
Well the first two days of class have come and gone. I miss the ship and the quite it brought to me over the summer. I took Divinations. My excuse is that I was possessed by rabid monkeys. That is the stupidest class. She made a prediction about each of us during the class and hers for me was something about my Gran and she asked me not to break her tea cups. Um. anyone could have predicted that one. I always break something. Potions was the same I messed up a potion, fixed it, he tested it on Trevor, it worked so he assumed that Granger helped and I lost 5 points to the house. Hagrid had a Hippogriff for the first class. Oh, that was bad. Malfoy smarted off to it and it attacked him. I had to sit there and not laugh while he was taken to the hospital wing. He was swearing all the way that he was on the brink of death. Ron had to chop thing for him in potions because of it. Lupin's class was the best ever. We went to the teachers break room to deal with a Bogart. Snape was in there and left promptly he told Lupin what a good for nothing I was and he made me the first person to have a go at the Bogart I was surprised I actually did a good job. I made it look like Snape in one of my Gran's hats and Dresses it was funny. I haven't had a chance to speak with Emily and well she hasn't exactly been making an effort to speak to me so I figure I should leave it at that. I may write Allen and ask him what I should do.
October 2
I haven't been writing cause well there is nothing to write about. The only thing interesting is that 'Mione has a cat that has it in for Ron's rat. It really is sad the poor rat looks like it is sick with worry. I would just let the cat eat it and then have my mum by me a new one. But I guess they really aren't use to having the money to do things like that with. I haven't been able to find a single thing do write about that is interesting I wish that something would happen. Well that was the kiss of death. I need to go try and find my permission slip to go to Hogsmeade.
October 16
She sent it to McGonagall directly. I am not sure how to feel. I am glad she did but offended that she didn't trust me to do it myself. Potter has been told that he cant go to town. I can only imagine the ways that he is thinking of right now to sneak passed the guards and into town. I bet that even if he gets caught that he will get away with it. Everyone will feel sorry for him and he will be poor babied instead of punished like someone else.
October 31
Well the town was nice. There were a lot of stores and things I think that next time I will have to remember to take money with me so that I can shop. Harry had tea with Lupin. He was talking to the rest of them about it. He apparently had taken a potion that Snape had made. He was feeling under the weather and it was to make him feel better. They all expect that he is really trying to kill him. Oh, but the best part of the evening was when we comeback and the fat lady was gone from her panting and Peeves was more than happy to tell Dumbledore that it was Sirius Black slashed her up and ran. He seemed rather happy about the whole thing. Everyone seems to be rather on edge about the whole thing. Well I have a letter to write.
November 3
Harry has been seeing Grims. I think that it is for Ron's Rat the cat is really wanting him dead. The painting that is guarding the tower is the dumbest thing. It keeps trying to pick a fight with everyone going in and out of the tower. Snape has been taking over the DADA class for Lupin. He said that he is real sick. Potter thinks that it is the potion, but I mean he has looked sick on and off since he was on the train. He has us writing a paper on werewolves. No matter how hard every one tried to tell him that we weren't that far yet he just kept insisting that we write the paper. I need to get to work on it I think it is due tomorrow and I know nothing about them.
November 10
I think that Oliver Wood has Finally lost his mind. The boy is obsessive about winning the house cup for Quidditch and he was given the news today that they would be playing against Hufflepuff for the first game instead of Slytherin like they had been practicing for this whole time. Ever since he has been walking around and talking to himself about strategy and how they weren't ready for them . It is hard not to laugh at him. He really has no reason to worry. I mean hello, look who you are playing. Look at them funny and they will hide. The cat is after that rat again. Poor thing he looks worse every time I see him.
November 17
Well I went to a game and I actually enjoyed it. Not because I like Quidditch but about half way through the game a bunch of dementors stormed the field and Harry fell from the sky to land on the rain soaked earth. His broom how ever didn't have it so lucky it flew right into the womping willow and was reduced to a bag of splinters which was handed to him in the hospital after he was told that they had lost. I really think that is the only way that Hufflepuff could have won in the first place. Dumbledore is kind of scary when he is mad he charged the field and ran the dementors away I think he could have killed someone right then. He has this vain in his forehead that throbs when he gets up set. Oliver is still in the showers and has been since the game ended several hours ago I think he is trying to drown himself. I wasn't the only one who thought so all the guys on the team have been taking turns going to check on him and he hasn't moved they say that he is just sitting there and staring.
November 20
We don't have to do that essay. Lupin found out when someone asked if we really had to do it and he said no and he would talk with Snape. I am really, well, disappointed and happy in a way. I worked real had on it but I an not to sure that I would have done that well on the thing. We have another trip coming up before break and I plan to use this opportunity to do my Christmas shopping. I think that I am getting Allen something cause he said that he found the perfect thing for me and well I would feel bad if he gave me something and I didn't give him anything. I just don't know what to get him. And I don't even think that I have any money with me to buy anything.
December 10
Well I have no idea how he does it but there are times when I wish I was him. Harry was in town every one but the teachers seemed to see him and a group of them sat right in bloody front of him and they never saw him. Granted it was Hagrid and a bunch of Potter lovers. Hagrid was more than likely to wasted to ... Anyway he and Ron were talking about this map that Harry got form some unnamed source that has some magical abilities or something and Black being Harry's Godfather. Imagine that, Harry has a murder for a Godfather. His parents really knew how to pick their friends.
December 15
I didn't want to come home I wish I could have stayed at school for break. We are going to have Gran's friends over and I have to help play the good little host. Allen will be there so I won't be completely alone but not all the time and we don't have company is when Gran is at her worst. I hope they are all there the whole time I am. I really don't want to have to deal with her nitpicking right now.
December 24
4 more years. Just 4 more bloody years. I think I will open my own shop and sell potions ingredients or something that has to do with herbology. Maybe work as an assistant to someone first, then go out on my own, just as long as I am away from her. I could right now just pack every thing up and move out I have the money. I have more than enough. I looked into it. I think that I will see if I can get a job this summer to make sure that I have enough to do what ever. I was given my present, the same as always, money. Then she calls me an ungrateful stingy brat cause I didn't run out and spend it all right away. Allen and I got the same things for each other. Color change ink, it changes color with the writers mood and parchment. I thought it would make his usually boring letters more interesting I wonder what that says about my letters. I now have to go amuse some bratty 3 year old who is the grand child of one of her stupid friends. 4 years seems to far away.
December 29
I tried to see if I could go back early and well she just wouldn't have it. Black on the lose and all. Stupid Potter. Why dose every thing always have to do with him. If Snape wouldn't have given us all this homework to do I don't think that I would have survived this break. I almost feel like writing him a think you letter. I wonder what he would do if I did.
January 2 1993
I cant believe that I missed it. I don't ever see how I could forgive myself for this one. The three musketeers broke up. oh how could I have missed this. I knew I should have stayed here. Potter got a present for Christmas, a firebolt I think, form someone he has on idea who. 'Mione thinks evil plot by the Dark Lord and tells. They haven't spoken since. Wood is about to kill her. His face gets all red and.. well they have to stay on separate sides of the room . I cant believe this. I am never leaving for another break again.
January 10
This really has been a boring year. I mean there are no giant dogs on the second floor and there are no evil beings running around that have been let out of secret chambers under the school. Just an escaped convict that hasn't done any thing but sound scary. Harry has started spending a lot of time with Lupin doing something that he said has to do with dementors. 'Mione has been studying and well that's it they still aren't talking to her. I cant believe that they haven't made up yet. I honestly didn't think that they would stretch it out this long. I think that it is going to cause disruption in the normalness of this year. I just wonder how she can take two classes that happen at different times.
January 30
Potter might not get his new broom back before the next game and wood is all upset. He was mad cause McGonagall got a bit testy with him when he said that he didn't care if it was unsafe or not he just wanted to get Harry on a broom that would help them win that game. I wonder why she got mad. Harry is still seeing a lot of Lupin and its beginning to make me wonder if it he is really just working on a way to get the dementors to go away???? No Lupin has to have better taste than that.
February 17
Well he is getting that broom back. I caught Oliver doing a little dance in the hall when he found out. It was the most amusing thing that I saw all day. I was so distracted by the image of him dancing that I forgot the pass word and had to fight with the painting and it really isn't a good idea I think I was saying things I shouldn't oh well its not my fault I cant keep track of all of those pass words. They change like every week. Every one was real impressed by that broom and I don't see why. Its just a broom . Ron's happiness was short lived however. He found his bed covered in rat blood and with cat hair all over. Poor thing looks like he finally became lunch or I guess it would be dinner wouldn't it. I think I need to go morn the late Scabbers the rat, or listen to him and Granger fight with each other.
March 3
Well, I did it. I went to my first Quidditch Game at school. I wanted to see this broom in action. See for myself what makes this thing so great and " the best there is". I am not that impressed. It looks like a broom to me. It was a game to be there for, Malfoy and some other Slytherins decided to dress up like dementors and and storm the field to distract Potter from the snitch and then Ravenclaw would have won and that would be the end of Woods Cup dreams. But no it didn't happen according to plan. Harry shot some silvery thing at them and grabbed the snitch just in time to win the game Just like a hero. Potter was then kissed by every one of the girls on the team and I think he would have rather been kissed by Cho the Seeker on the other team. The "dementors" are going to be punished and I doubt that they will be since Snape is handling it. Well there is now a big party going on down stairs, I think that I am going to go and join the party I feel like being a bit sociable for some reason.
March 4
I had just put you down and the party had ended (darn) so I was reading. I was still to wound up to sleep or something like that anyways. I had my curtains drawn as not to wake the others with all of my light. Well, I was about to go to sleep when I heard the door open I thought that it was someone was coming to bed late then Ron was screaming bloody murder. Everyone was up to see what happened. His bed curtains had been ripped and he was as Pale as Sir Nick and shaking like mad. He claims that Black was over him with a knife. On one could figure out how he had got in. I all the sudden got a sinking feeling in the pit in my stomach. I had made a list. I couldn't help it. I cant remember all of those pass words. Percy has been walking around like a big shot cause he got to stay up with all the teachers and guard the rest of the school. I do wish that Black would have found the little Git alone in a dark room with no one around to save him or even hear him scream for help. I really hate that little... Anyway every one is scared and we now have trolls watching the fat lady who has, thank god, returned to us. Filch has taken to boarding up unnecessary doors and fire places. I really don't think that that's how he got in last night. I mean if Harry can get to town and back ..well I think that I need to get up and go get ready to deal with everyone. Sleeping in the floor in the Great Hall is not the most rest full thing to do and I don't suggest it.
March 5
Ron has been enjoying all of his attention. He has become like a mini Potter. Everyone think that he is so brave and all like that. All he did was scream like a little girl. How is that brave??? His story changes every time he tells it too. Gran sent me a Howler yesterday morning. It was full of the usual you're a worthless piece of carp that will never amount to anything and that I have disgraced the family yadda.. yadda.. blah.. blah.. blah.. its all the same stuff that she always says to me. Harry gave me this look like he felt sorry for me when I came back after it was all over. Hagrid wrote him a letter and I couldn't read it very I mean the man doesn't have the best handwriting in the world. I think that I saw the word Buckbeak I think that he is on trial to be executed as a danger to the community. Well he did attack Malfoy and I know that Malfoy was a big idiot and did every thing that he was told not to.. Oh well, I think that 'Mione has been helping him try to find a way to get him off. They are still not speaking to her. Its been great with all the silence and easier to listen to them talk about things. They just sit and talk in the dorm room like they are the only one in the room.
March 18
We have another trip to town this week. Potter is planning to sneak into town and use this map of his. I think that he said that he got it from FredandGeorge I am really kind of curious to see how this thing works. 'Mione has threatened to tell if he does and the blew her off. I don't think that they have said a work or even been any where near civil to her at all. I think that now is a good time to get started on the vampire essay so I don't have to work on it while every one is gone.
March 22
So, I was walking around and guess who I saw. My friend Mr. Potter . He was standing in front of a witch statue and he had a piece of paper in his hand and had just finished putting something which I assume to have been his invisibility cloak and a bag. Well I decided to go and say hi to my dear friend and you know what he acted like he wanted me to go away. Can you believe that? Well I bugged him by talking about going to the library and the essay for Lupin. He had the same reaction until Snape showed up and then he all of the sudden was my best friend in the world. We went to the common room and he then he all of the sudden had to go get something from and I got the feeling hat he just wanted me out of the way. I would have followed but I was already to far behind and well I don't know how to get into the passage. People came back telling all kinds of stories about how they had seen a head floating and laughing at Malfoy as he was covered in mud and the head looked like Potter!!! No that cant be he was with me. Well that's what he will tell the teachers when he gets caught and he will want or expect me to say that he is telling the truth. Snape had him in his office until the paper started insulting him. Then he called Lupin. Who is a loyal member of they Harry Potter fan club. He is asked to help and he then plays it off as nothing and he then took Potter and Ron, who had came to make his own rescue attempt, to his own office and they got off scot-free. Snape and Potter did have it out over Potters dad saving Snapes life and him being upset cause he would have died if Harry's dad wouldn't have saved him. ' Mione was crying when they came back and said something about Buckbeak. I wonder if it was good or bad.
March 28
Well the letter is about the Ministry deciding to execute Buckbeak. Hagrid is a mess and his classes are getting, well they are still as bad and dangerous as they were before, but the teacher is paying less attention than he did before. Potter and the gang are back together. They have united forces to help the hippogriff avoid death. I can wait till Easter break. Its been so long since we have had an actual break that I think it will be nice to just sit and do nothing for a change. Its hard to believe that this year is almost over and Harry hasn't saved the school or wizarding world from impending doom. It almost seems wrong. Like he is being denied something. That and I have had almost nothing to write about fore almost a month.
April 16
Why do they always give us homework on days that I plan to rest.?? I think that I may die in all of the homework that they have given us. Snape assigned an in-depth essay on each ingredient in every potion we have done in the past two months. Its really stressful around her the 5th years are taking turns having nervous breakdowns. Its really funny FredandGeorge have even been acting a little funny. They haven't played a joke on anyone in like about a week.
April 21
I think I am done. And with only three hours of the day left. Stupid teachers. The next match is coming up soon and wood has been going on and on about how we haven't won since Ron's brother was in school and Wood is wanting to win before he leaves and well this is his last chance. He has been grilling every one about strategy and things like that. He even started asking me questions. It was really funny cause I haven't got a clue about whats going on in the stupid game. So I just said what ever I thought sounded good it took him about thirty minuets to figure out that I wasn't on the team. Someone needs to tell this guy that its just a game.
May 3
Did you know that Harry has been seeing grims?and they play with 'Mione's cat.! This ladies and gentlemen is the savior of the world. How did he get this job? Well the last game was today. We won. The place was all Christmas looking with all of the red and green. Snape even wore color. Lee's commentary is the only reason that I have started going to the games. He is a very colorful characters. Percy has been dancing and jumping around like an idiot. Wood has been crying randomly or when ever he sees the cup. We have tests soon and the 5th and 7th years are a little over worked with all of the studying for the OWLs and NEWTs . I really don't look forward to taking any of those tests.
May 12
We now have our testing schedules. I still don't get it how can she be taking all of those classes at the same time and never have missed a one. I just don't get it. Why does she think that she needs to do this. I mean no matter what how good she is or how smart or what ever some wizards will still see her a mudblood why cant she just live with that. Not everyone is going to like her just because she is good at something. That almost sounded like a very Draco thing to say. Oh well I guess that he and I think a like on something's.
May 31
So, all of the tests were the same as last year I think that I did better in DADA than I have done in a long time. But other than that, the same as always. Lupin test was by far the most fun I have ever taken. It was an obstacle course over all of the things that we have learned. 'Mione didn't make it passed the Boggart. I almost feel sorry for her. She has had a bit of a year. I don't think I mentioned that she slapped Malfoy. But she did and now she is risking getting in trouble to go get the invisibility cloak so they can all sneak down to Hagrids. It will be Buckbeaks last day on this earth. I have this urge to watch out the window tonight to see what happens. Its bound to be interesting if Harry is going to get in the way. ..........
Okay. I shouldn't have looked I don't think that I can completely understand what I have just seen but I an sure that there is an explanation for the whole thing. I decided that I would watch to see how Potter and his sidekicks saved the day this time. I watched Hagrid open his door and close it again like he was inviting someone in but no one was there. I think its safe to assume that it was them under the cloak. A few minuets later there is a large group of men heading for the large hut by the forest. I then see Harry and 'Mione running as if not to be seen from the front of the castle to the forest. I see shadows moving in the windows of the hut but cant really make out much more than that. Then I notice that 'Miones cat seems to be walking toward something then she starts chasing what looked like a rat or a mouse of some kind. At this point Ron has uncloaked and is running after the cat and the whatever it was. He grabbed something and started to return to where I think the other two were standing when a large bear, dog, monster thing came from some where around the Womping Willow. It pounced on Harry then went after Ron rapping its teeth around him like he was some kind of chew toy. They then disappeared under the tree. Potter, 'Mione and the cat followed leaving the cloak behind somewhere. Lupin mad a mad dash for the tree a few minutes later. The men left Hagrid's and I don't think they killed anything like they had wanted to cause one seemed to be a little disappointed. After the had disappeared from sight Snape ran from the school to the tree he stopped to pick up the cloak and vanished. How on earth did he know that the thing was there? I sat for several hours watching the tree. Figures began to emerge from the base of the tree like there was something in there that was about to eat them and there was along with the bear-dog-thing was a wolf the were fighting eventually the wolf ran off for the woods just in time for the dementors to show up. The dog turned into a man and was out the dementors seemed to be too much for him. 'Mione tried to help but was eventually over come that left it all to Potter. He tried but wasn't doing so well. Then Harry number 2 helped from the bushes and then was gone. Snape, The bear-dog-man, Potter, Ron, and Granger all lay there till finally Snape came to and floated them all away. Around thirty minutes later I was still sitting there trying to figure out what I had just witnessed. The man that looked up set cause he couldn't kill anything just left and was heading towards the dementors. I hope the are okay enough to be out soon I can not get this.. what was that a large something just flew from the forest and toward the school and there is goes. If they don't talk about it I may just have to ask. Oh my head hurts. I think that I need to sleep or at least not sit here any more. I don't hink I can handle seeing any thing else.
June 4
I cant find out anything. From what I get from they way Hagrid has been acting I think that the thing I saw was Buckbeak. That's all I have. The three musketeers wont be out for a couple of more days now. I went to see if I could hear Snape talk about something from that night but all I can get is him ranting about not getting his Order of Merlin cause of Potter. I did see him and Lupin in a very heated discussion about Snape letting it slip to certain people that he was a werewolf. Lupin was yelling at him. I have never seen him do that. He seemed to think that it was Snape's fault that he was one. I think Snape thinks its his fault too cause he looked real guilty but before he could say anything else I was spotted and asked to umm. leave. I think that Lupin has to leave now cause of him having this urge to eat children once a month. Poor guy. I really liked him. I wonder how it could be Snape's fault Lupin is the way he is?
June 7
Well I haven't heard them say anything yet I think they are really waiting to be alone to talk about it. I have been going over all that has happened in the past couple of years and you know I think that they would make a really good book, or even a series of them like one for each year. But who would want to read about Harry Potter on any of the rest of them for that matter. I have started getting the paper from the muggle town that I live near and I have been looking for an add for summer help. I told Gran and she thinks that it will be good for me teach me responsibility and things like that. So I at least don have to sneak around to do it. I just wish that I could find something that I want to do.
June 16
Well they spoke. Apparently, Harry's father, Lupin, Black, and a man named Pettegrew were all friends and they made the map when they were in school. Pettegrew was working for the dark lord and he is really the one who helped off Harry's mum and dad. Then he staged his own death to put the blame on Black, who escaped on the back of Buckbeak. 'Mione had a time turner that allowed her to take all of those classes and aided them in the rescue of both Black and the hippogriff. We leave in about a week or so, and Harry hasn't even found out that Lupin is not coming back. He will really take that one hard. I mean they were so close. Its just good to know that my first assumptions about there relationship was wrong and they really were just working on a way to get the dementors to run away.
June 25
I really hate train rides they seem to take so long. I would sleep but I can't and I don't know why. Oh wait yes I do. Its Ron's dumb owl. Black sent it to him as a please-forgive-me-cause -I-told-you-that- your-rat-was-a- person-who-is-working-for-the-dark-lord present. It looks like a fuzzy ball with wings that has had way too much sugar. He also gave Harry a note to got to town next year and told him that he was the one who sent him to firebolt. This made Granger do a little "I told you" so dance but she was still wrong cause he didn't tamper with it at all. I have several job interviews starting next week so I hope one of them turns out good.
