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Dedication: To somebody very special to me, who totally doesn't understand this story, and he knows who he is, but I don't care. Cause I luv him anyway!
The Journal of Jaessa Aisling Starsley
Chapter Four: Oh Buddha...
September 9
10:47 am
my dorm room
I think I'm slap happy. Especially since I'm sitting here giggling. Yep, definitely slap happy. I can't stop laughing. Of course, that whole pint of ice cream at breakfast probably didn't help. This is really crazy too, because I'm watching Star Wars VI The Return of the Jedi and Luke's father just died. I should be bawling, but instead I'm laughing...
And I have Arithmacy homework, but, I have read ahead in all of my classes. In fact, I could probably already take my N.E.W.T.S. now, and pass while doing considerably well. Well, not right this second, seeing as I'm laughing my head off again...
I should go. Bray is banging on the door again. Something about needing her wand for potions class? But we never use our wands in that class...I'm confuzzled and laughing again!
Now she's sliding something under the door.
Jay
Jay,
I'm so sorry Jay! Please forgive me and let me in our room. Me and Drew were going to pull a prank on you, but I guess we went a little too far. I'm so sorry Jay! You'd understand if you found someone you really liked and who liked you back. I promise you would. Let me in Jay. I'm your sister, your twin. You can't keep me out forever. For one thing, you know I don't fit into any other Slytherins' robes, because all those girls wear their clothes skin tight, which I absolutely can't stand. You gotta let me in!
Very Sorrowly Yours, Bray
September 13
7:36 am
Okay, I finally let Bray back into the room. I'm still sort of mad, but he promised to spend some time with me writing some music in the Room of Requirement. We haven't sung or played anything together in a while, and I'd really like that. I guess bribes really do work!
But I would still like to know why Snape wanted us to use our wands in potions class...
Anyway, I did get back at Lily for the prank. I stole her diary and hid it! And she shouldn't find it until she wants to send a letter. And then, she still may not find it! Ahh, the joys and evilness of being a Slytherin. But I wonder things from time to time. Like, why is it that while Voldy-Moldy was destroyed, died, went poof, oh, umm, well, let's see, a long while back, people still connect the Slytherin house as evil and all being Voldemort supporters? I mean, I never knew my real parents, so I didn't even know about Voldy-Moldy until I was ten, or nearly eleven.
But, umm...I'm bored. All my professors said that I'm really far ahead. Which I can't be, seeing as I've been skipping classes...maybe they're saying that to try and make me happy. I wonder. Did someone get bit agan? It wasn't me. I swear! Those spiders may have reacted again when I got all upset about Bray and Drew.
Well, I had better go. Bray's yelling at me saying something about missing breakfast.
Jay
September 15
Jay! You had beter give me back my diary. I looked everywhere for it and I am not giving you ten bars of Honeydukes chocolate for ransom! You better give it back to me soon, or I may go off on you in person! I need that diary!
Lily
September, uh, 21
6:42 pm
Well, I guess it's my turn to get into trouble. See, Lily's mum had come up here when she heard about Lily's band practicing against Dumbledore's new rule that he had sent Lily in her Hogwarts letter. Ginny, being a red head and all, totally went off before Lily even had a chance to explain. I don't see how Lily's dad can stand Ginny sometimes! Then again, he is Harry Potter, boy wonder.
Anyway, me mum and da can't come to Hogwarts, seeing ad they're Muggles and all, but I still got into trouble! Dumbledore called me up to his office, you know, the forbidden place, the place any student would hate. They said he was crazy when Harry Potter, boy wonder, and that lot were here. Well, he's even worse now, if that's believable! Wait, you're a journal...But yes, I got called up to his office. It had to do with my skipping classes. Go figure. Anyways, this is how the conversation went:
"Well, I see you've made it up to my office in record time for yourself Jaessa. Would you like to sit down?" Dumbledore asked me.
I looked around nervously. "Umm, not really. But I guess I will," I said as I sat down in the only piece of green and silver furniture in the room.
"Lemon drop?" Dumbledore questions me again, while holding out a tin.
Getting tired of lemon drops, I replied, "Uh, no thanks." I thought for a moment before explaining, "Mint are better, they make you smarter."
Dumbledore just smiled and said, "That may be true, but I find lemon quite calms people down." Then after popping a lemon drop in his mouth, "But about smarts..."
"Is this about my attendance in class?" I asked.
"Yes. I've been informed by many teachers that you haven't been going to classes. Or, if you have, you won't pay attention and won't work on the assigned work. May I ask why?" Dumbledore told me, his eyes twinkling.
It sounded to me like he already knew the answer, but I replied anyway. "I've already read about all the seventh year material, and a lot of it is theory. The stuff that we do to perform in class, I've mastered already. Classes are just, well, boring," I told him.
"You may have read everything you're supposed to learn in class, but don't class discussions and more practicing just improve the knowledge you already have?" Dumbledore asked as one eyebrow raised, eager to hear my answer.
"Yes sir. But the classes seem boring. I could be sleeping or doing something productive instead of sitting there in class. I'm of age now. I could be learning apparition and work on an animagus form. I've practiced all spells and charms I know and the one's we are supposed to learn this year before I came. I know them already, sir," I told Dumbledore respectively.
Dumbledore brought on a look I'm very familiar with then- the omnipotent look. "But that still doesn't give you an excuse for you to not show up in class, does it? You could help the other students, and maybe even improve. You know, some of the newest spells were discovered because of too much improvement Jaessa," Dumbledore pointed out.
"Yes sir. I'll go to class, if I must. Some of it still seems pointless though. Who wants to learn to see the future anyways?" I grumbled, well knowing that it wouldn't get me anywhere.
Dumbledore just smiled. "Ah, yes, Divination. Not a favorite class, eh? That's okay. Not all people can be a Seer now, can they? Go to class Jaessa. Something may surprise you."
I looked up at that, but recognized the dismissal. "Yes sir. If you don't mind, I'd like to get an ice cream before supper end."
"Go on, go on," Dumbledore said as I was getting out of my seat. "Teens and their sweets..." I heard him say as I left his office.
So I promised that I'd go back to class. I don't know why. I wonder what Dumbledore meant by "Something may surprise you."?
Jay
September 24
4:12 pm
somewhere...in a nook in the CR
Those first years won't come near me. They always leave when I come into the Common Room. They used to never do that. I wonder why this is happening?
I heard that one of them got bit.
But Bray, don't they know that we can't bite anyone unwilling, by law?
Yeah. But they don't know about the spiders yet.
Oh. That makes sense. I may have to owl them and give them a reference, in case they don't believe me. Maybe they won't be so scared. I know I said they were really annoying earlier. But I've sort of gotten used to them. Okay, I've become attached! Help! I've become attachment to little munchkin shrimps!
But the bites aren't my fault. I can't control spiders! I'm even sort of afraid of the bigger ones...
Now, I had better finish up somewhere else. I think I just heard Lily come into the Common Room. She still hasn't found her diary. And like in the note she wrote me, she doesn't plan on giving me the ransome I wanted. Ten chocolate Honeydukes bars isn't too much to ask now, is it? Good thing she won't give them to me though. I sort of lost her diary. Well, I could find it with a charm I put on it, but only I would be able to find it. But it's not where I put it...
Jay
September 26
9:21 am
Great Hall
Lily finally found her diary. And can you guess where? Well, I'll tell you what happened. Either James' or Sirius' owl had taken it out of the owlery where I had originally hid it. The owl took it to the Gryffindor Boy's dorm. Then, the owl decided to use it as a place to do it's business on. Yes, Lily's diary had been under a pile of owl doo for nearly two weeks!
I hope she used some cleansing spells on the diary before she started writing in it...
So, I mailed the note to the first year Slytherins about the spiders. I think they're trying to find the book now. I just saw them in the Library. I think they may believe me, a few at least, because a few decided to stick around the Common Room earlier this morning. Who knows, maybe they will become like my own 'younger siblings.' Actually, I have a younger sibling for real, and that's Bray! I was born first! Nyah!
Well, I think someone said something about planning a party or something crazy for tonight. I should go check it out I guess.
Jay
September 28
12:03 pm
Great Hall
Dear Buddha, please help any werewolves tonight during their transformations. And please help dear old Professor Sinestra get over poor old Professor Snape so he can have a normal life for a Snape. That is all dear Buddha...
Sorry, imagine that in chant. Drew was it? Started chanting to Buddha this week so I decided to chant also. Its fun, and it certainly makes these boring classes more interesting sometimes. Though some teachers really hate it, so now I chant quietly. Very quietly. Some are funny chants, some chants are sincere, and some are just a mix of everything that comes to mind.
I feel sorry for any werewolves. Tonight is the full moon, so I'll be having trouble concentrating too, tonight. All magical 'creatures' have troubles concentrating on the night of the full moon. At least, the blood-sucking and the ones that bite do. Tonight will be a lock-ourselves-in-our-room-tight tonight for me and Bray.
By the way, who is Buddha?
Jay
September 29
8:03 am
breakfast
Bray and me made it through last night all right. That was the first full moon of the school year. Dumbledore always sends us some animal, already dead, from a meat shop for us to use. It helps, but the full moon can still be quite bad.
I thought I heard a werewolf last night also. Either a first year or a transfer student is a homo lupus this year. That would be a werewolf, or more commonly called a were (pronounced like where). I'm not sure who the were could be though. The transfer students don't come out much, but usually I can sense magical 'creatures'...I dunno. A were on campus again. Oh, that'll be nice. Bray and me will finally have a counterpart!
Jay
A/N: Hi! I know, I know, I haven't updated in forever. I'm not even sure that anybody is reading this, but, oh well! Up this chapter goes anyway.
I want to say that this will be the last chapter going up for a while. I am putting this story on hiatus until I can write up some more chapters. I only have one chapter after this one, and it's not even typed up yet. So, I hope you will stay on with me, but it may be a while.
School has started, at least for me! Enjoy the new year!
Love, Jaessa
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