Chapter 4: Family Isn't Always Great

Dear Diary,August 18, 2004

You know my sister can just be awful but then be ok to be around? Well my dad's the same way. Though I barely get to see him and when I do see him I either get yelled at like tonight or he goes to his room and works. See he's the only one who works in my family. My mom is housewife but she used to work, but I'm getting of the subject.

The day was going great for once. Didn't get yelled at all yet. I was even left home alone. They have been doing that a lot lately but I'm not complaining. I like the peace and quiet. But then came evening. My mom and my sister came home and my grandmother was with them. It was some special anniversary or something. Then my dad came home and we had dinner. I went into my parents' room to watch TV and everything was going great until by best girl friend, Ginerva Weasley, called.

Now even though her name is Ginerva everyone calls her Ginny. Anyways no one is allowed to talk on the phone in my parents' room and I was breaking a major rule. I kept telling her that I wasn't supposed to talk on the phone in there but she wouldn't listen. See she was on the other line with this guy and his friend. She wanted met o pretend to be someone else because the guys have never met the person I was supposed to pretend to be. I kept saying no and I guess she got fed up and that she really wanted me to do this, she patched me in on a three-way call. I didn't appreciate this very much.

The call ended because I got in major trouble with my mom. She kept yelling at me and that I knew I wasn't allowed to talk on the phone in her room and I got what she was saying but she just wouldn't let it go. She kept coming in and bugging and nagging me about it and it was getting on my nerves but she finally went to sleep.

After that you would have thought the horror would end but it didn't. When my dad was going to bed he came into the living room where my sister and I were watching some TV and said that we had better not stay up that late. This wasn't the bad part though. You see he gives us homework of his own and we have to do it because if we don't get punished.

Well guess what? We did do it or at least I did, but it wasn't up to this standards. So he said he didn't wan to pressure us very much and I was thinking what the hell does he know about being pressured in my place right now. Then he gave us the punishment of instead of our usual homework from him we had to do three times as much and it had to be all done before lunch. How harsh can a person get? He was riding on my last nerve and that's usually my mom who takes that spot.

Oh and the reason for not putting all the names is not because I don't know them, it's because I'm just being careful of who might read this. Diaries aren't the safest things. People might do anything to read someone's diary, depending on the person. Sure I wrote about magic and some names including mine. The people who decide to steal this diary and read it might just think that I'm crazy or even insane, and I shall admit that I do think that I am crazy but not crazy enough to be insane though. I will put spells on this diary when I get to Hogwarts though.

Always but not likely forever,

Hermione Granger