September 3rd

Dear Journal,

Yesterday I was too tired to write after I did my homework so I decided to write today.

Hogwarts is awesome! The feast on the first day of school was so cool! The headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, just snapped his fingers and the food appeared in front of us!

Oh, and guess what house I'm in. Gryffindor! That's the same house as Harry Potter. It's so awesome! I even got to sit by him at the beginning of term feast! Other than that I've seen him around, but he was never really able to sign his card or give me his autograph because he was on his way to a class or something like that.

Hold on a second! He's downstairs right now in the common room! Ahh! Here's my chance. Ok, come on Hallie. Get off your bed, walk down the stairs and get his autograph. Ok, I'm going.

"Harry, could I have your autograph?"

"Sure," he replied, "That's the first time I've heard that one." (He said this to Ron and Hermione.

"Should I write something with it?" he asked.

"Sure, if you like," I replied.

"Then, that's what I'll do,"

Then he wrote his autograph:

Welcome to Hogwarts, Hallie. Hope you like it—Harry Potter

"Thanks," I said.

"Anytime, Hallie. Anytime," he replied.

Just as I was walking away Hermione caught my attention.

"Hey, Hallie," she said, "Would you like mine and Ron's autographs too?"

"Yeah, definitely!" I exclaimed and they both gave me their autographs:

Study hard, Hallie. It's going to mater in the upcoming years of your life. If you need help, with anything,you know where to find me—Hermione Granger

And here is Ron's:

Have fun! Looking for some trouble you can talk to Hermione about that too! ("Ron don't give her any ideas," Hermione said this while Ron was writing.) Well, that's about it. Yep—Ron Weasley

Afterwards (Same day)

Hello again Journal,

You haven't been writing all this down, have you? Oy! I guess that's the problem with having a magical diary.

Well, anyway, I went to get one autograph and I got three. They seemed like really nice people. I should get to know more about them. I wonder if they'll let me sit with them at lunch. I'll ask them tomorrow.

Today's and yesterday's classes sucked! Today we had Double Transfiguration (love that class), History of Magic (boring), Double Potions (it's even worse than what I thought it would be), Charms (fun class), Flying Class, and Herbology. And yesterday's classes were worse than today's classes: Double Defense Against the Darks Arts (Hate that class), Double potions (again hate it), Double Charms, and Double History of Magic.

And speaking of Defense Against the Dark Arts, guess who the teacher is. It's Gilderoy Lockhart himself (YUCK!). He is like the worst teacher there is in this school. If there was a top ten list for the worst teachers at Hogwarts, his name would be in every spot. All he did the whole class period was talk about what he had done throughout his life and then, at the end of the period, he let some rat-like creatures run about the room for the last ten minutes and expected us to round them up into their cage. (I heard he gave the second years some pixies!) Thankfully, I had heard my parents use a stunning charm and tried it out on the rats to see if it worked and it did. So that class really sucked! I hope we don't have it for like another week! We probably will though. Ok, I'm going to go to bed now it's getting kind of late and I want to be able to get up in the morning. Bye-bye.

Hallie