++July 13th, 2001 /\ Still Home in Switch Lane
My Lord, I haven't written for a while. It took me like 2 days to find this journal. Greg (My 17 teen year old brother) stole it again from me. He passed his Apparation test and he Apparated right into my room when I was out shopping with mamma. I bought my school stuff yesterday and that's when he stole it. I magically lock my room, and the normal Alohomora won't work on it. I have a special spell I use on it to get it open; I had forgotten that Apparation can cross any border accept powerful magical barriers. Like the one mamma put up when she was throwing things at father because….well, never mind. That's a longer story than I'm willing to write, I bought just one new book this year, I Standard Book of Spells Grade 4 /I . That's the only new one I get every year. Oh well, It's a little boring. I got a few more on Astronomy only because I almost failed that class last year. Anyway, shopping for new things is always fun. The Apothecary stinks as always and I broke two of my vials last year when my Shrinking Solution backfired.
Greg says I'm worthless, He and I had a fight about who gets better grades. He won. He always wins. He can recite Every single Incantation Triangle for every single Transfiguration spell up to his sixth year. It's disgusting. I wish I could do that, my brain is just smaller than normal I guess. His grades stink in Arithmancy, I got A's last year, but he got B minuses. The whole entire year. I don't think Professor Vector has put together that we are siblings yet, just because of our grades and similar attitudes in class. (Except for the fact he uses I use more curse words in one day than he uses in a year.) We're in different houses too. He's in Hufflepuff and I'm in Ravenclaw. It's so weird, I should have been in Hufflepuff, and he should have been in Ravenclaw. He's the smart and noble one, I'm just a nobody. I'm just Greg's little sister…aw isn't she cute?' All of the Hufflepuff girls fall over Greg just because he's got these deep gray eyes and this square jaw and this really nice brown hair. He's not all that beautiful up close, and he's not all that nice up close either. He's rude and mean to me, and he invades my privacy. I really have to get Jill to teach me some of those Grecian Curses. Jill's family is Greek and they lived on the foot of Mt. Olympus for a few thousand years. It's very scary to watch her close her eyes and recite her entire family tree back to her, like, 1,000 times great somethingorother.
More about my friends, there are three other girls in my year with me. Jillian (Jill) Persephone, she's the Geek one. Her family was named after the goddess. Kate Trazella Kasten. We called her K.T. She's the artistic one, she has painted the ceiling above her bed every year and when they paint over it every summer she just does it again. The last one, besides me, is Zela Yonstalg. She's very quiet and she has never said more than a few words to me in one sitting. She's Egyptian and after a little conference with Professor Dumbledore about her. She is related to the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. In her blood line there have been traces of Nefertitti and a little of King Tut, although her real history is a tad undefined because of her incommunicado attitude, she really is a classic example of an Ancient Egyptian. She's beautiful she had a date for the Yule Ball last year even though she was only in the third year. And Believe it or not a Slytherin asked her second, and a Gryffindor got first dibs. His name was Kufu Audio. Their names match, it's so cute!! The Slytherin, Darien Prin, didn't like this arrangement very much, let's just say Kufu had some problems getting his robe off the night after the Ball. I wasn't there, but I did have someone ask me, but I'm not going to get into that today.
This year might be fun, we actually have a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher that has stayed at school for more than one year. This will be her second year here. Kitty Wells is her name and she is really nice. She's a great teacher and she believes in practical and book lessons. We get the work and then we actually get to try it out. The last time Hogwarts had a teacher like that was…hmmmm….'93 I think. That was the werewolf. I think, oh well My mentor who is going to be in the Ministry this year was a first year when he taught; his class though he was an excellent and very fair teacher. Professor Wells is like that she gives you the grade you deserve whether it be a 2 or a 10. My puppy just jumped onto my lap, he's a chocolate lab and his name is Canyon. I named his, my parents seem to think I'm the only one who can full describe something. So they gave me a week to looked at him and decide what his name will be. His eyes a blue, which is different for a lab, and when you look into them they seem to be endless, like tiny pits of puppy love. Okay enough with the love stuff. I'm starting to get a headache. Holy Crap! It's midnight, I'm tired now that I finally looked at my watch. Until tomorrow.
--Mina
My Lord, I haven't written for a while. It took me like 2 days to find this journal. Greg (My 17 teen year old brother) stole it again from me. He passed his Apparation test and he Apparated right into my room when I was out shopping with mamma. I bought my school stuff yesterday and that's when he stole it. I magically lock my room, and the normal Alohomora won't work on it. I have a special spell I use on it to get it open; I had forgotten that Apparation can cross any border accept powerful magical barriers. Like the one mamma put up when she was throwing things at father because….well, never mind. That's a longer story than I'm willing to write, I bought just one new book this year, I Standard Book of Spells Grade 4 /I . That's the only new one I get every year. Oh well, It's a little boring. I got a few more on Astronomy only because I almost failed that class last year. Anyway, shopping for new things is always fun. The Apothecary stinks as always and I broke two of my vials last year when my Shrinking Solution backfired.
Greg says I'm worthless, He and I had a fight about who gets better grades. He won. He always wins. He can recite Every single Incantation Triangle for every single Transfiguration spell up to his sixth year. It's disgusting. I wish I could do that, my brain is just smaller than normal I guess. His grades stink in Arithmancy, I got A's last year, but he got B minuses. The whole entire year. I don't think Professor Vector has put together that we are siblings yet, just because of our grades and similar attitudes in class. (Except for the fact he uses I use more curse words in one day than he uses in a year.) We're in different houses too. He's in Hufflepuff and I'm in Ravenclaw. It's so weird, I should have been in Hufflepuff, and he should have been in Ravenclaw. He's the smart and noble one, I'm just a nobody. I'm just Greg's little sister…aw isn't she cute?' All of the Hufflepuff girls fall over Greg just because he's got these deep gray eyes and this square jaw and this really nice brown hair. He's not all that beautiful up close, and he's not all that nice up close either. He's rude and mean to me, and he invades my privacy. I really have to get Jill to teach me some of those Grecian Curses. Jill's family is Greek and they lived on the foot of Mt. Olympus for a few thousand years. It's very scary to watch her close her eyes and recite her entire family tree back to her, like, 1,000 times great somethingorother.
More about my friends, there are three other girls in my year with me. Jillian (Jill) Persephone, she's the Geek one. Her family was named after the goddess. Kate Trazella Kasten. We called her K.T. She's the artistic one, she has painted the ceiling above her bed every year and when they paint over it every summer she just does it again. The last one, besides me, is Zela Yonstalg. She's very quiet and she has never said more than a few words to me in one sitting. She's Egyptian and after a little conference with Professor Dumbledore about her. She is related to the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. In her blood line there have been traces of Nefertitti and a little of King Tut, although her real history is a tad undefined because of her incommunicado attitude, she really is a classic example of an Ancient Egyptian. She's beautiful she had a date for the Yule Ball last year even though she was only in the third year. And Believe it or not a Slytherin asked her second, and a Gryffindor got first dibs. His name was Kufu Audio. Their names match, it's so cute!! The Slytherin, Darien Prin, didn't like this arrangement very much, let's just say Kufu had some problems getting his robe off the night after the Ball. I wasn't there, but I did have someone ask me, but I'm not going to get into that today.
This year might be fun, we actually have a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher that has stayed at school for more than one year. This will be her second year here. Kitty Wells is her name and she is really nice. She's a great teacher and she believes in practical and book lessons. We get the work and then we actually get to try it out. The last time Hogwarts had a teacher like that was…hmmmm….'93 I think. That was the werewolf. I think, oh well My mentor who is going to be in the Ministry this year was a first year when he taught; his class though he was an excellent and very fair teacher. Professor Wells is like that she gives you the grade you deserve whether it be a 2 or a 10. My puppy just jumped onto my lap, he's a chocolate lab and his name is Canyon. I named his, my parents seem to think I'm the only one who can full describe something. So they gave me a week to looked at him and decide what his name will be. His eyes a blue, which is different for a lab, and when you look into them they seem to be endless, like tiny pits of puppy love. Okay enough with the love stuff. I'm starting to get a headache. Holy Crap! It's midnight, I'm tired now that I finally looked at my watch. Until tomorrow.
--Mina