Disclaimer: Here we go again....I am not J.K Rowling or Louise Rennison! I do wish I was, though!
Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to update, guys. Hope you enjoy this chapter, and review too (hey that rhymes lol)!!! Wow, am I pathetic. Plus, Julia is in the 5th year, and Harry is in the 6th (just to make that clear). Georgia is a muggle and doesn't go to Hogwarts.
Chapter 4: Party Planning
Still Sunday, October 5th
5:17 PM
Bumped into SG. He looked at me, smiled, and said, "Nice to see you're....er, back to normal." I felt really fed-up, so I snapped, "No, really?" in a really sarcastic way. Then my mates called me, as I am such a popular person in demand: "Julia! Come on, we've got bloody homework to do!" And Jenna added, "Nice one you've got there, Jules..." I could have died. Harry broke the awkward silence by saying, "See you around, er...Julia." I said without thinking, "Bye, er....Harry." That is the last straw. Tomorrow I move to Finland.
Monday, October 6th
4:44 PM
Planning birthday party with Mel, Beth, and Aggie while pretending to be listening to Prof. Anderson's lecture in Ancient Runes class. My birthday is on October 25th, which is incidentally the same day as a Hogsmaede trip.
Tons of people don't even go, because they are afraid of You-Know-Who. I don't really know how I feel about him (adoring love and eternal lust. Not.). He scares me too but I've never really seen him and my parents are muggles, so it's not like I've heard terrifying stories of tragic deaths caused by him since I was five (although Dad's stories about his own school days certainly are terrifying enough). Somehow everyone is afraid of him, but I really don't know. I mean, I know what he's like and the sort of stuff he does. But I've never faced him, I've never felt his pain.
My
greatest fear (as I figured out two years ago when we studied
Boggarts) is heights. That boggart turned into a huge ladder and I
could see myself falling! It seems silly, I know, but it was
horrifying to me, anyway. Oo-er, now I'm freaked out!
So, me,
Aggie, Mel, and Beth were discussing what we should do for my
birthday. We're thinking of getting lots of fab people for a big
yet private party in the Three Broomsticks. Madam Rosmerta probably
won't go for it, though, so our back up plan is a nice party in
Mel's older sister's house (she is twenty-four, working in Madam
Puddifoot's Café as a waitress. She says her job is major
crap but she needs the galleons. Her house is pretty big, so it's
definitely an option). Anyway, after Hogsmaede we plan to return,
have a cheerful dinner and then go for a midnight swim in the
prefect's bathroom (Beth was made a Hufflepuff prefect, and she has
the password. She says she'll make an exception and let us use it
since it is my 15th birthday, after all. Well that's
what she said after we persuaded her for about four years. The
prefect's bathroom really is beyond marvy, Beth once took us there
and the bathtub is quite lierally a swimming pool. Perfect for...er,
a swim. Although how us six will go out in the middle of the night
without being caught is beyond me).
Wednesday, October 8th
5:56 PM
Hummmmmmmmmmmmmm....who shall I invite to my ab-fab party? I want it to be Ace Gang and close friends only, so I guess this will be it:
Me (the guest star!)
Di
Jenna
Beth
Mel
Aggie
Dad (hahahhaha as if!)
Ginny
Common, she's been nice lately. And shell only come if I also throw in:
Miranda
Vicky
Wow, I really know how to commit social suicide.
Sunday, October 12th
3:05 PM
Told people about party. Also, I owled Madam Rosmerta. She said it was a nice idea but she couldn't do it (surprise, surprise) since there were too many customers coming in on a Saturday. I then owled Mel's sister and she said it was okay as long as I didn't bring too many people. Is 9 too many people?
Thursday, October 16th
4:21 PM
Well, 32 certainly is!! I told all my guest people not to tell anyone else about the party! Who blabbed? Oh, why do I bother pretending I don't know?
4:32 PM
I will kill Jenna.
4:48 PM
Apperently, she mentioned it to Elliot (this tall lad in our year), who mentioned it to his girlfriend Linda (a Ravenclaw in who's in Aggie's Arithmacy class), who mentioned it to Hermione Granger, who mentioned it to Harry! Harry Potter, official king of Sex God Land has been invited to my party! But so have all the lads in our year, and a couple 6th years too. Plus Magda, Aggie's sister, heard about it and invited some of her friends too.....Mel's sister will kill me.
Monday, October 20th
7:30 PM
Everyone is complimenting me and saying nice things like, "See you at the party," and "We'll be sure to bring extra bottles of butterbeer". Only Mel's sister won't think it's so nice. It's just as well that I die before completing my O.W.L.s.
7:45
PM
Harry said, "Hi!" Like, as in, the form of greeting,
'hi'. To me. Without me bumping into him or anything. I think
I've died and gone to heaven (or maybe I've been killed by Mel's
sister and....gone to heaven). I said "Hi," back and smiled.
Harry opened his mouth to say something when Ginny's older brother
Ron tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Common, mate." Harry
grinned at me and said, "See you at the party." I am definitely
never, ever moving to Finland!
Thursday, October 23rd
4:30 PM
Mel is trying to keep my mind off depression. She says her sister might not mind at all, and that she'd explain. I was too busy staring at Harry Sex God Potter while he laughed at something Ron had said. Maybe if I concentrate hard enough he'll look over here. Om. Look at me, Harry. Om. Om. Om. Ommmmmmmmmmmmm. Harry. Om. Oh, crap! He looked! And I was so startled I dropped the chocolate frog I was eating on the floor.
Hermione's cat pounced on it, sinking its claws onto Mel's foot. She yelped and the cat went insane! Hermione started pulling Crookshanks (as she called it) away. He actually got tangled in her hair and Ron started laughing. I caught it too and I couldn't stop. Harry just raised his eyebrows and Hermione went off muttering to herself with Crookshanks attached to her head. She looked like Ginny, only....oranger.
Friday, October 25th
4:45 PM
Tomorrow is the day!! I'm so exicted, and I think it's contagious (then again Jenna is always babbling non-stop, so maybe there's no difference).
1:04 AM
I must wake up extra early to meet Aggie for make-up and the essential.
