It all started when I was eleven. I'd heard all about the famous Harry Potter all my life, but now I was starting Hogwarts and I'd get to see him. It was a hard year, Sirius Black had escaped and dementors were running around the school, but none of that mattered to me. I remember on the train to Hogwarts, I was looking for him. I didn't find him. But then when I was waiting to get sorted I saw him sitting at the Gryffindor table. When the hat went on my head I wished for Gryffindor. My wish was granted. All through my first year I was watching him, following him. I loved him. He didn't even know who I was. Once, right before my twelfth birthday, he asked me what time it was. I had to write down how excited that made me. So that's when I started my journal. I wrote down every time I saw him, everything I noticed about him, who he was with, what he was wearing, that sort of thing. I still have that journal, though I stopped writing in it years ago. He didn't really notice I existed until my fourth year. But even when he noticed me, I was that creepy girl who kept trying to give him love potion. I later realized my mistakes. When I saw him, on the train before fourth year, I was rude to his friends. I should've been really nice to them; I thought if I could get him alone I had a better shot. If I had asked to sit with him and him and his friends I could've gotten them to like me, and he might have liked me. And when I have him the love potion, it was too obvious, I should've slipped it into his drink during lunch, starting with an extremely mild dosage and increasing it gradually. That was what Ginny Weasley did. I know it because I saw her with the little bottles of potion. I know she was using it on him. I studied him, he thought of little Ginny Weasley as a sister, he considered her family. But if done properly a love potion can make someone fall for there own family. So she was really no better than me. Of course, in my fifth year he wasn't there. He was off saving the world. At the end of that year, he killed You-Know-Who. He was such a hero. He was done with Ginny Weasley by then. She didn't have a chance to give him the love potion while he was away, and when You-Know-Who was dead he thought of her as a sister again. He came back to do his final year. Ginny tried to give him the potion again that year, but he was too powerful for it to work by then. She should have tried something stronger, but she was too afraid he'd have her figured out. I, however, was able to use that time to work my magic on him. I had developed a new, better, strategy, I was going to make him love me.

Step one: Befriend Luna Lovegood

After careful planning I realized in order to get with Harry Potter (from here on to be referred to HP) I needed to find a way to get in his group. I needed to be friends with one of his friends. I chose my target carefully. Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley were there with him making up their seventh year, but Hermione Granger (HG from now on) was too suspicious to trust me and Ron was too busty lusting after HG. Ginny Weasley was one of my enemies and I knew she knew what I was up to. So that left Luna Lovegood (LL from now on), LL is now in HP's inner circle because was a key person in capturing some death eaters. Step one is now in progress.

Day one:

Today I asked LL about her father's magazine. She seemed to enjoy discussing this topic, I must remember to bring it up more often. I also mentioned that I loved her hair. I think she liked that, not many people compliment her.

Day two:

Today I asked LL to eat with me outside by the lake. She didn't have anything else to do so she agreed. I let her have my brownie and listened to her go on about crundeled-born-whoresmacks or whatever she calls them.

Day three:

I ate with LL again today. I mentioned that I liked her earrings and asked to borrow them. She said yes. I don't plan to actually wear them though.

Day four:

It was raining so I couldn't eat with LL by the lake today. I think I made progress though. I loaned her a hair tie in the bathroom this morning. We also chatted for a few minutes between classes.

Day five:

I was able to eat with LL outside today. I asked her to help me pick out a new set of robes at Hogsmeade tomorrow.

Day six:

LL and I went shopping today. It was actually kind of fun. She met up with HP for lunch and asked me to come along. HP was only there for a minute to have a drink with LL but I think I made an impression. I said hello to him and asked him how he was. I wonder if he recognized me as the girl who tried to give him love potion two years ago. Considering he let me so close to his drink, I'd say no.

Day seven:

LL was going around the school looking for new secret passage ways, she wants to have discovered them all before she graduates. I went with her. It was actually kind of cool. We found one on the sixth floor behind the bookcase.

Day eight:

Today I ate lunch outside with LL, she called me a friend. Step one complete.