!BEWARE! HBP SPOILERS!

Dear Diary

By Lily Kate Evans

Dear Diary, Oh Diary, You'll never believe it! it's only my 1st week here and I've decided something...I LOVE IT HERE! I can't believe I thought I'd be scared. Sure I miss mum and dad a bit (not tunie), but I write home! Guess what? I made 6 new awesome friends! Samantha, Beth, Mara, Kirstin, Max, but most of all, Cheryl Harrow. Cheryl's tons prettier than I am, with perfect tan skin, and a long mane of silky raven hair, that falls over her, also perfect, shoulders. Cheryl's from an old wizarding family, and she's nice enough to help me get used to all the new phrases, and hexes, even though I've read plenty of books on the stuff.

Oh, and the classes here are spectacular! So far we've had History bit boring, charms my favorite subject here, I think I did well, transfiguration, but the highlight of the day was Defense Against the Dark Arts, know why? Because I got to beat the cr--sorry, mind my language, crush the famous, James Potter, in a duel.

"Who'd like to give it a go, now?" called Professor Slughorn cheerfully, in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He had just been teaching us some useful dueling spells like the Bat bogey hex, "Accio", the summoning spell, "Expelliarmus", the disarming spell, and "Immobulus", the freezing spell. He was an okay teacher in my opinion, very knowledgable, but sort of favoring...okay, okay, I'm teacher's pet, yet again! He was very nice though, and since it's our first week, I presume, let us pick our own seats, thank god! I really wanted to be seated with my friends, not, absolutely not near the Maurauders, a group of obnoxious well, 3/4 of them boys namely James Big-Head Potter and Sirius Arrogant Black, along with their posse: Remus Lupin he's really a nice guy, I don't know why he wastes his time on those two, maybe he'll knock some sense into them though ;-), and Peter, a snivelling pathetic boy with a rat like face who was not nearly as smart, athletic, or good-looking dont tell a soul, diary! as his friends, he's only hanging out with them for protection, I'm sure.

"I'll give it a go!" called James, who leapt up to the front of the room, swishing his wand, sword-like, and making the students laugh, including me. If you were there, diary, you would have too!

"Splendid, anyone else?" said Slughorn, pleased that James was so eager.

"I'll do it." sneered a voice from the back of the room, a voice who's curtain of greasy black hair covered his face, who's expression couldn't have been more cold. It was Snape.

"Excellent students, an opportunity for you to see how a real duel works. Well, no attacking of course, only disarming!" But no one listened to that.

Snape smirked, as he turned on James with a scary, almost mad expression on his face, and shouted, "Sectemsempra!" James leapt aside just in time to see a green zapping light, hit the storage closet next to him, which burst into a million pieces with a loud BANG!

"Severus! To Professor Dumbledore's office! Immidiately!"

Severus looked angry, but satisfied, at the expression on James face, which showed shock and then quickly turned to anger.

"Well, then," began Slughorn, who was nervously wiping his sweaty eyesbrow. "Anyone else dare to fight the "dodging Potter"? I was applaled that Slughorn could make a joke out of that. I've never heard of the spell that Snape performed, but according to the state of the closet, it was sometihng dark.

"I'll do it," I called from my seat, and I began walking up to the front of the classroom to face James. I had no clue what I was doing, I even shocked myself. I just had the urge to wipe that smug expression off James' face, the one he was wearing right now.

James leaned against Slughorn's desk in a really casual way and his handsome face broke into a grin, as he blew kisses at me, making me feel really weak at the knees, but I was determined not to show it.

"On 3, you duel!" called Slughorn. "One...two...and th--"

"Wait!" James interupted. "I'm not hexing her!"

"Ja-a-a-mes!"I groaned. "Not now! James had been flirting withme all wewk, butI wasn't about to let it happen in class.

"No, Lilykins. Hex me all you want, but I'm not laying a finger on you. Actually, i--"

"Stop it James. Right Now." I said, disgusted.

"Kids on 3, one, two, three!

James grinned at me, and leaned back against the desk again, clearly not gonna move. Then he looked at

Sirius, who gave him the thumbs up. I had an idea, and couldn't wait to wipe that smug expression off James

face.I didn't know many spells, but I did remember oneI was especially good at, from Charms yesterday.

"Wingardium Leviosa!"I said, and James flew up, and into the air.

"Put me down! Lily put me down!" cried James, as theother kidslaughed.

"If you insist." I said, and I flicked my wand down to the ground, where James came crashing down with a

yelp.

As I walked back to my seat, and all my new friends came over to congratulate me, laughing, I smiled when I

saw James merely shook his head in disbelief as Sirius came to help him up.

"I don't know why you didn't hex her when you had the chance, she's vicious, you know." said Sirius

"I...just...couldn't." answered James as he stood up, staring at me