And then there were 6
Day 16.
Good morning! It I such a nice day! I'm going to play Quidditch today and Hermione and I are going back to Diagon Alley. Ok. Today isn't all that spectacular but I have been able to really enjoy myself ever since.. oh it still makes me smile to think about it. He came to me. After almost the entire summer dreaming about him. Harry Potter came back. But I'm not pushing it. I will talk to him and stuff but other than that I don't go any further. I'm afraid that if I go to far he will take another step back. He's like a scared puppy. You take a step closer and he recoils and runs away. But if you ignore the puppy or leave the puppy alone it slowly comes to you. Boys. The mere species. Never will understand them. Anyway. I'm about to go to go shopping now.
Bye
Ginny
Later,
Wow. Shopping with Hermione. Who knew she could be so shopping crazed? She went around to all these stores. I picked out a bunch of new robes for travelling and all that and then Hermione took me to some Muggle stores and she showed me all this new stuff. I bought new jeans and more t-shirts (not that skimpy this time) I had to buy about five pairs of tights. Love them. Wear them all the time. Oh well.
Bill and Fleur are here. She tells us that Gabrielle is going to be going to Hogwarts for her sixth year. Who knew she was my age? Anyway with my all my cousins going to Hogwarts next week there is a lot of excitement in the air. Hermione is already talking about NEWT's. I found my OWL hard enough. Gabrielle is happily chattering away about McGonagall to me. We're all desperately trying to pack. Bill tells us that he is going on the train with us because he is the new Ancient Runes Professor. Hermione is delighted to be able to talk to her new professor before classes start. Mum tells us all about the other relatives of ours coming to Hogwarts this year. It looks like the whole family is going to be there. Wow.
I'm going down for tea now.
Ginny
Too late at night,
Well. We're packed. Almost. Harry and I sat next to each other at tea tonight. I'm glad he isn't recoiling now. It makes life better for me. Unfortunately my mother is still giving me Euphoria and Draught of Peace every morning now. Plus she is constantly watching me. I'm going to bed now.
Night
Ginny
Day 20
Sorry I haven't written lately. I've been too busy to write. Hermione and I took Gabrielle on another trip to Diagon Alley for her school supplies. Plus even only after four days I'd used up too much ink on this so I bought more for school and more for the diary. And then I had to find all those clothes I bought and begin to pack them. Now the only thing I have to do is get my mother to hurry my socks through the wash. We're constantly getting letters from Hogwarts now. There are owls to Bill about what he needs to teach and there are owl's to all of us informing us about the new security program or the safety campaign. Otherwise there hasn't been much news.. Oh hang on. When Dad came home again last night he told us that they caught Snape. They are going to give him the Kiss tonight. Apparently Draco has been caught too but that was just the other night he came and owned himself up. The Ministry released him and then Dad tells us that he volunteered to have him stay here until we all go to Hogwarts with him. Can you imagine that! Malfoy is coming here! To my house! Ron is livid with dad but Harry is pretty mellow about it. He's kept telling Ron that if worse got to worse he would be able to hex him. But yeah. Harry's been really good about it.
I will tell you about it tomorrow when he arrives.
Gabrielle is banging on the door. She wants to be let in to my room. We have to share. It's really annoying. She's nice enough but she never ever shuts up! I'm going now. Sorry about the short entry but I'll write tomorrow after he arrives.
Bye
Ginny
Day 21.
Only three days till we go back to Hogwarts. Draco arrived this morning and he was kinda.. how to put it.. pathetic? His hair wasn't all sleek as it used to be; it hadn't been cut in weeks I reckon. His face was all drawn and he was really polite. He didn't say a word. He just sat there as Mrs Weasley offered him food and everything. He just shook his head. It was weird. Then Mum tells me the spare room next to me was going to be his room. Ha! Torture time. My mother elates me further by telling me that his hair really should be cut and that I can do it for him! He he he he he! This could be fun. I'm off to torture Malfoy now.
Ta Ta!
Ginny
Later.
Ha ha ha ha.. That was fun. I didn't make him look awful but I did tease him for quite a while. He couldn't see what Hermione and I were doing and the whole time we were going, 'Oh the bald badger look really suits him. Isn't he cutesy!' He didn't say anything but he looked sorta scared. Anyway. We settled on trimming it back to its normal length but we made sure that it couldn't be gelled back. We kinda did cruelly curl his hair and made him look a little bit soft. It was cute though. Now he has a hair cut similar to Harry's. Oh. We did uncurl it after we showed it to him of course. Anyway. I'm going to pack this diary in my bag for the train now.
See you at Hogwarts!
Day 24,
Onboard the Hogwarts express. I'm on the train now and I am sitting in a full compartment. Naturally it's only supposed to be able to seat six but when you have lots of cousins, friends, and visitors at Hogwarts the rules change slightly. Hermione and Ron are sitting together holding hands squished up together. Gabrielle is sitting against the window with her head being pushed into the glass beside Ron. Harry and I are sitting together beside Ron and Hermione on the same bench. It's very awkward. Hermione and I are sitting there shoulder to shoulder and Harry is being squashed into Malfoy. Mum told us we had to watch him at school so the poor ferret got an owl from McGonagall saying he was being resorted into Gryffindor so we could watch him. Neville is sitting on the opposite bench with Luna who looks as if she might have just floated in here by accident. It is overly squishy. Then we have Hedwig, Pig, Crookshanks and Arnold (my Puff). Poor Bill got roped into sitting in the same cabin and he is looking a little apprehensively at Crookshanks who is baring his teeth at him. Oh and Fleur is also squished into the cabin because she didn't want to leave Bill alone at Hogwarts. Fleur is just going to be living in Hogsmeade though. But over all we are all squished. It's like sardines. Lucky we're friends… well except Draco.
We talked to some of the Slytherins this morning, they looked surprised to see Malfoy but angry to see how he had been squeezed into Gryffindor robes. Apparently Crabbe and Goyle have been moved to a Junior Delinquent Hall in the Ministry. He he he he..
Anyway. I'm going to get changed, I can see Hogwarts now.
Later,
Ahh… dorm, sweet dorm. Gabrielle was placed in Ravenclaw in the holidays. Thank God. She can't talk to me all night! But Lavender Brown is gone. She's being home-schooled by her parents! Poor thing. Parvati and Padma are gone too. Apparently they got sent to Beauxbatons because their parents live just outside there. There aren't enough girls to fill one whole dorm anymore so they put all the year level girls together. Hermione (now head girl) is sleeping in her bed beside me and there are a couple of third years. Oh and two first years. No fourth, fifth or second years though.
Harry told me that Seamus is gone and so is Dean. Apparently Michael Corner has gone too. Good. All the exes gone! Anyway. The boy's numbers have decreased too but they fit into about two large dorms. There's about sixteen of them. Anyway. We will be having our classes in whole groups. All the houses in sixth years will go to Potions together. Then we will all go to our next lessons together etc. And in important classes like DADA all the students will come together with all the seventh years. Yay! One class with Harry and Hermione. Unfortunately Gabrielle is also in that class. And guess what. McGonagall couldn't find a DADA professor so at the Sorting she pounced on Harry and asked him to take up the position. So now Harry has to take classes once a week. He is going to set each class practical work and then teach others specialised methods. I can't wait to see this! He has to teach his girlfriend to defend herself.. he he he…
Everyone's a little anxious because as far as anyone can remember the school has been a magnificent place. The ceiling was grey and dreary as we walked in last night. And the hourglasses don't have that royalty they used to. The Gryffindor rubies don't shine anymore. And you can still see it's tarnished surface where the teachers had to repair the glass. It's sad really.
I am determined to make this year as good as any other. I brought my photo album in hope that those blank spaces can be filled. I am going to bed now. I have Transfiguration first.
Night
Ginny
Day 28.
School is so boring. But I am enjoying spending time with Harry by the lake. It's great. But Gabrielle is still annoying me. She has finally found some friends. Halleluiah! She wouldn't leave me alone before. Now she is just always in my face with her friends. Unfortunately she has the eyes of many many boys. They keep coming up to her and she doesn't know how to shoo pesky boys off. She did go to a girls school before that. So now I have to hex each boy that keeps coming up to her. She isn't helping though. She has soft blonde curly hair and she wears it down all throughout the school day and it catches the lights when she tosses her head. It's really long too. I tell her until the boys leave her alone she should wear it up. I had to do that in my fourth year because there were boys bothering me always. Really annoying they are. I'm in the study hall at the moment. This is one of McGonagall's fantastic safety campaigns. All the students at Hogwarts have to prepare for exams altogether. We only get work to do in class now but they give us a essay at the end of the week on everything we've done so we still have to study. Even though I should be doing Slughorn's essay at the moment but instead I decided tp write in here instead,
Hang on McGonagall's coming round. I'll be back later.
Later.
Back in my dorm. Finally. I am writing back in here to inform you about the students numbers again. We saw one of the Hufflepuff girls have a shouting match with her mother this morning. She had snuck out of her home on the first of September. She came to Hogwarts without her mother knowing and now she had been found. The girl was gone this afternoon. Also a couple of boys are dragged off home too. Things have really gotten tense. Slowly our numbers are decreasing. Things are getting tense.
Too tired to write now
Ginny
Day 29.
Absolutely nothing happened today.
Day 30.
BORING….
Day 34,
Do I even bother?
Day 40.
We have been at school for under a month now. Yay! School is boring.. Well except Harry's lessons. They're good. We're learning interesting stuff now. But otherwise its boring. We're not allowed to go to Hogsmeade and there is no Quidditch this year. School is pointless now. We have lost about three other students now. And McGonagall is so stressed that she's beginning to be nice. She is getting us to do our work, study eat and sleep. But on weekends we are only allowed out for an hour each day into the grounds. There is no privacy here. I haven't even seen Harry except for in his classes. All the seventh years have to sit at one table in the study hall and sixth years sit in another place. When do eventually get outside, all the girls have to sit by the lake and the boys have to stay inside. It's for safety reasons. When we get shooed inside the boys come out. I get a chance to talk to Hermione before bed and she says that even her and Ron's relationship is suffering. All the teachers are constantly around. They have duties to patrol us I the study hall and the Order stand outside our Common Rooms and Dorms at night. And then on those precious hours outside we get watched again. It's impossible to be normal now. Hermione has shown me the gadget she bought that lets her turn on her Muggle stuff in Hogwarts. She has a laptop and when we wait in those long blank spaces for teacher to tell us to go to the study hall or to go to dinner she and I will watch Muggle movies in it. And sometimes she'll even play some of her music that she listens to with her Muggle friends. Hermione's lucky. Because she can't talk to me during the day and in those long stretches she can e-mail her friends. Emails fascinate me. And she goes on IM and talks to her friends too. It is so much faster than an owl. I sit with Hermione when she does this and so I have managed to meet a lot of her friends. They are quite nice to me actually. Shows my level of boredom. I am using Muggle items to talk to Muggles. Hermione and I went to the library to try and find SOMETHING to read. But surprise surprise, they didn't have any new books. Apparently it was too dangerous to have new orders fly in every month. There might be dangerous items hidden in them. So I had to sink as low as to ask mum to owl Hermione and me magazines once a month. How desperate is that! MAGAZINES!
Anyway,
I've had enough. I'm going to see if I can con Mad-Eye into letting me into the boy's dorm.
Ginny
A/N: Sorry about the extremely boring chapter. It will get better. Just stick with me guys!
