Thursday, September 5th, Breakfast, the Great Hall,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! It SO came. I knew it would. That will teach James to mess with ME!!!!!!

Thursday, September 5th, 4:17 p.m., Gryffindor common room,

I'm really quite proud of myself. I really do rock. Lily even agrees. That might be mostly just because she hates James, but still. And James was SO embarrassed. I mean, his face was BRIGHT red. It was hilarious. I have never loved my parents more than I do right now. I have never loved myself more than I do right now for that matter.

Not being a snitch is SO overrated. It's much more fun to get your older brother (of 10 ½ months) in trouble. Personally, I don't even think he got it all that bad. I mean, every time I look in the mirror I'm reminded about the horrid gash across my face. And yes, I admit that when I went to see Madame Pomphrey she assured me that it would go away within a week and it wouldn't even leave a scar, but I have a sickening feeling that she's going to be very wrong. I doubt I could ever be that lucky. I know that Madame Pomphrey's a professional and all, but that can't mean that she's always right, can it?

I was beginning to think it wasn't going to come. The howler, I mean. So you wouldn't believe my excitement when I saw the red envelope in the beak of our owl from home flying over the Gryffindor table towards James. And the look on his face when he realized that he'd just gotten a howler was priceless. I swear that the picture of his face at that moment will probably stay in my head for the rest of my life. Seriously. But that didn't even compare to his beet red face of embarrassment after the howler had come to an end. And James NEVER blushes. I've never seen his face get even a little pink. Even when he's embarrassed in front of Lily. Which made me wonder why he was so embarrassed about it. Though I wasn't complaining, this made my victory even better. Especially when he fled from the room right after. He literally fled. James Potter never, EVER flees anywhere, ever.

He seemed to be confused at first about how they had found out. But then when I caught his eye and he saw the smirk I was wearing he knew. I could tell. Though I couldn't actually see myself (obviously) I can imagine that I had on that obnoxious smirk that only a brother or sister wears after getting another brother or sister in trouble. I know the smirk well, I've seen it on James millions of times before.

My happiness over the whole thing was slightly dampened though, because of what my mom said at the end of the howler. I still can't believe it. And of course Sirius is ALL smug about it, which just makes me even more angry.

She said, (or more like yelled), "WHY CAN'T YOU BE MORE LIKE SIRIUS?" Why can't you be more like Sirius???? Who is she kidding? 'Why can't you be more like Kat?' Now THAT makes sense. Even 'why can't you be more like Braden or Libby' I could understand. Anyone else, really, I would be fine with. But SIRIUS? First of all, if anything, Sirius is more to blame for the whole thing than James is. Plus, I explicitly told her that Sirius was just as involved as James was. I clearly, CLEARLY stressed that point. Multiple times. I think being told to be more like Sirius might have made James even more embarrassed. I mean, if my parents told me to be more like Sirius I would be embarrassed too. I don't know why my parents think that Sirius can do no harm. I guess it's nice that they have a little soft spot for him, what with his family problems and all, but I really thing they take it WAY overboard.

So he's been on about that all day. Sirius, I mean. Not that I've been around him all that much (or that I ever am, because I like my life to be Sirius-free as much as possible). See, I've been avoiding James as much as possible today. Because although I am feeling pretty good about what happened, I'd rather not find out what James might do to me out of anger. So far I've really only seen him at breakfast (before he fled in embarrassment) and during Transfiguration (where he would never get away with doing me any sort of harm).

Though what brought my day down even MORE was Potions. Double Potions with Slytherin. And it wasn't even Aiden's comments of, "Hope Slughorn has an extra cauldron, Potter, because otherwise you'll be screwed when you melt a hole in the bottom of yours." Because I really don't care, at all. First of all, it was a really lame insult. I mean, seriously. Second of all, aren't Gryffindors supposed to be mean to Slytherins and NOT fellow Gryffindors? Besides the fact that I'm not even bad in Potions, not that I'm all that great in it. I think that Aiden's just in a foul mood. In fact, I noticed that he's been quite grumpy all week.

I should say in a quick side note that there are five Gryffindor boys. Penn, Aiden, Graham, Liam, and Porter. They're all good friends with each other. Besides me and my other friends there's another Gryffindor girl, Blake, who we get along with but aren't particularly friends with. She has some friends in Hufflepuff I think. The best way to describe her would probably be that she's one of those types who's obsessed with herself, but not as much as she's obsessed with Sirius. Beverly has been acting eerily like her this past week, which is starting to really worry me.

Anyway, Slughorn started reading off the partners for the class. Last time I got stuck with Penn, and he almost blew up our potion. He (Slughorn) said that he's going to assign us permanent partners soon.

I was a little disgruntled when Keely and Riley got put together. Because I wanted to be with one of them, or really any one of my friends. I was also thinking it would really be nice to be with Emily, because of course she's really smart, and I would be sure to get good marks if I were with her. But I not only didn't get paired with one of my friends, I didn't even get paired with Penn or even Liam (who's absolutely hopeless in potions). I didn't even get paired with a Slytherin who I find mildly bearable (though I really hate them all).

No, I got paired with REGULUS BLACK. Yes, the younger brother of Sirius Black. There is one person that I cannot stand more than Sirius (well, besides Snape…and all the other Slytherins, and James can be quite obnoxious at times, so can Aiden) and that is Regulus Black. So go figure that the one person I hate the most in the world is the person I get paired with. Because that's obviously how my luck goes. Speaking of luck, I was starting to seriously considered the possibility that I'd been cursed recently to be unlucky or something (if there's even that kind of a curse…there must be). Though, I think I was cursed by that when I was born as the younger sister of James. I'm pretty sure it's part of the job description. Or maybe it's just because I was born into the Potter family. I'm not quite sure. The point is, though, I had been having a pretty good day until then (besides the fact that I feel like my parent's love my brother's friend more than they love me, THEIR OWN DAUGHTER!!).

The worst part of the whole thing was that the only reason that Slughorn partnered us together is because he thought it was amusing because our older brothers are both best friends. I'm completely and utterly serious. Which bring it all back to the fact that if I weren't related to James OR if he weren't best friends with Sirius, then none of this would have happened.

"I just hope you two don't cause as much of a distraction as those troublemakers do," he said with this laugh, as though he thought that he was SO funny, which I'm sure he did. I, on the other hand, most certainly did not. In the least.

As I was walking over to Regulus I heard Aiden saying (and I am not even kidding), "Reggie and Katie sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…" I'm one hundred percent dead serious. Is he two years old or something? Because that's literally something you don't do after your eighth birthday or so. I mean, what is up with him? The burning a hole in my cauldron thing was bad enough, but this? I cannot even believe myself that I actually heard a 15 year old saying those words. I mean, I always knew that Aiden was majorly immature (not to mention an insufferably, obnoxious prat), but I guess I really had no idea. Though I really think that there must be some reason he's been acting even worse lately.

Bloody hell!!!! I really have to go. James just entered the common room and he is looking really angry. And now he's heading RIGHT TOWARDS ME!!!!!!!!

Thursday, September 5th, 5:12 p.m., my dorm,

I can't BELIEVE him. I mean, yeah, I did go and tell on him. But still, that's no excuse for the GIGANTIC LUMP ON MY FOREHEAD. I am not even kidding. The prat hit me on the head with a text book. I'm dead serious. So now I have a huge bloody (well, it's scabbed now I suppose) gash across my face AND a mountainous (I think that's a word) lump on my head. I look like Frankenstein or something, though I don't actually really know who Frankenstein is or what he looks like. And the huge gash is what started this whole thing in the first place. Is the boy daft? You don't go around hitting people with text books. ESPECIALLY not ladies (despite what he tells me, I definitely AM a lady because I, unlike him, don't hit other people with text books). My only consolation is that a) Lily hates him more than ever now, because he did such an awful thing, and that's plenty of punishment for him; and b) he got detention. I really have to get him back big-time for this one, and it will be much more than telling my parents so that he'll get a howler. The only problem is coming up with something. Something really, really bad.

It only made me angrier that both Sirius and Aiden (the two biggest prats I've ever met) were in the room and both of them started laughing hysterically. I swear they have a Let's Make Kat's Life Miserable club or something. Not to mention that both Liam and Penn laughed also…and Cooper…AND a bunch of other people who I noticed were ALL boys (what is wrong with boys anyway? I mean, who laughs when they see people getting hit in the head with textbooks, especially when it's a boy hitting his younger sister, WHO'S A GIRL!!! It's just rude to hit girls). I'll admit, there was one girl who laughed. That would be Evelyn. Can you BELIEVE her? Most of the other people were horrified. I have a feeling that James is going to feel bad about it soon when he fully realizes that he just hit someone (other than Sirius) over the head with a textbook.

Well, I'd better go. Emily just came in and she's bugging me to finish my charms essay. Though I doubt I will be able to with the massive headache I have (and if there was ever time I wasn't exaggerating it's now, though Emily doesn't believe me). This is Kat Potter, signing off. Over and out (and in significant pain)!

Saturday, September 7th, 12:15 p.m., Gryffindor common room,

Three quick updates:

1. Good news!!! Beverly doesn't have a crush on Sirius anymore! Not that I really have a problem with her having a crush on Sirius. I mean, she can like whoever she wants. It's just that she's been acting really, really weird and annoying. Plus I was worried for a while there that maybe she'd gone nutters. Because, how could you have a crush on Sirius and NOT have gone nutters? What I can't believe even more is how quickly she got over it. Then again, she says that she's had a crush on him since the end of last school year, so if you count the whole summer too, I guess that's a long time. Anyway, I'm happy because now she's back to her usual fun (not extremely annoying) self.

2. James got another howler from my parents yesterday. For hitting me over the head with a textbook. But it wasn't because I wrote them this time. It was because Lily gave James detention, because she's a prefect, and so McGonagall found out and she wrote my parents. Because it's a really awful thing. He didn't even seem embarrassed like he had the last time. Well, I think he is embarrassed that he hit me over the head with a textbook because he realizes what a horrible thing that is to do. And now that the whole school knows he's even more embarrassed. Not to mention that he is also feeling really guilty about it. Which I could let be punishment enough (his guilt, I mean) along with Lily hating him, having detention, and having just gotten another howler. But I am still plotting my revenge.

3. There's a Hogsmeade trip next Saturday. Keely and Beverly are trying to convince me to get a date for it. What would I want a date for? I mean, why go to Hogsmeade with some random guy that you don't really know and will probably never talk to again? If it was someone you liked, that would be different. I might as well just go with my friends, because I would have more fun with them than with some guy that would cause the whole day to be really awkward. I, Katelyn Anne Potter, will not give in. I will NOT, under any circumstances, have a date to the Hogsmeade trip no matter how much my friends bug me (besides the fact that I think the scar across my face would prevent that from happening anyway).

Sunday, September 8th, 4:32 p.m., my dorm,

I have a date.

A/N: I was just going through previous chapters and noticed some mistakes that I hadn't before (so I just fixed them). If you guys notice any obvious mistakes that I haven't caught, PLEASE let me know, I'd really appreciate it.

THANKS A BILLION!!!!!