The next morning, I was sitting alone at breakfast. Neville, the boy that was sharing the compartment with us the night before, plopped down next to me.
"I don't think we've officially met yet," he said, sticking out his hand, "I'm Neville Longbottom."
"Ginny Weasley," I replied, taking his hand and smiling.
"Ron's sister? You're the youngest Weasley, right?" he asked.
"Yeah," I said, felling a little uncomfortable. I hated being reffered to as "The youngest Weasley" or "The girl Weasley," I was Ginny, my own person.
"Cool," he said and helped himself to some sausage.
My first class of the day was Transfiguration. I walked to the class with Dana and we sat down together, shortly joined by Colin Creevey, who smiled at me. There was a seat left at our table, and a Gryffindor boy by the name of Cormac McLaggen on the opposite end of Colin after realizing that there were no more seats left.
"Hi, Ginny and Dana, right? Cormac McLaggen, I never properly introduced myself last year," he said.
"Erm, hi," I said, and Dana smiled.
"Good afternoon class," said Professor McGonagall, and the lesson began.
All in all, it was a pretty good lesson, I was one of the first to properly change my teacup into an alarm clock.
"So, are you going to tell me what happened to you last year?" Dana asked later that day, on the way to lunch.
I felt like I owed her and explaination. After all, I was quite rude to her. Plus, we were friends and she seemed trustworthy enough.
"Er, sure. Erm, don't tell anyone else, okay?" I asked.
"Of course," she assured me.
"Well, I found this diary the summer before, so I started writing in it, and it wrote back-"
"What?! And you kept writing?!?!" she exclaimed.
"Yes, well, it seemed like the perfect thing for me at the time, so I kept writing all the time. That's why I never did any school work, I was always talking to this diary. I guess it sort of posessed me, because I would fall asleep with it open, and then wake up next to whoever was petrified. I don't know exactly how it worked, but it would use me to attack people and write on the walls, and eventually open the Chamber of Secrets. I would've died, but Harry Potter," I blushed when I said this, "came to save me. He destroyed the diary and killed the basalisk," I explained quickly in one breath.
"Wow," is all she could say.
When we entered the Great Hall, April and Holly rushed up to us.
"Did you hear?!" exclaimed April.
"Professor Hagrid's going to get sacked!" said Holly, without waiting for an answer.
"What?!" I practically shouted, "what for?"
"In one of his lessons, a Hippogriff attacked Draco Malfoy," April said.
"It's probably just Malfoy making a big deal out of things as usual. Is he really going to get sacked?" I asked.
"That's what I heard. Plus, Malfoy IS in the Hospital Wing," Holly replied.
I wheeled around and went out of the Great Hall, ignoring my friends calling after me. After a few seconds, Dana caught up to me.
"Where on earth are you going?" she exclaimed.
"To see Hagrid," I said, not slowing down.
"Are you nuts? Why? Besides, what about lunch?" she asked.
"No, because he's my friend, and I'm not hungry anymore," I replied.
I saw her roll her eyes, but she continued to follow me. When we reached Hagrid's hut, I knocked on the door. It opened slowly, to reveal a puffy-eyed Hagrid.
"Oh, 'ello Ginny," he said.
"Hi Hagrid, is it true you're going to be sacked? It's a rumour that's going around. And my friend said that Malfoy's in the Hospital Wing," I said, looking him straight in the eye.
"It aint Buckbeak's faul', Malfoy provoked 'im," he replied, before opening the door all the way and letting us in. We sat down at the table.
"But are you getting sacked?" I asked.
"I don' know, there's goin' ter be a hearing," he said, "Sorry, but who're you?"
"Oh, this is Dana," I said.
"Hi Dana, well, yeh shoul' probably be gettin' back to the school," he said, "Yer missin' lunch."
We got up, exited his house, and made our way back to the Great Hall, barely having time to eat.
Author's Note: Yeah, so it's really short, but I wanted to get a new chapter uploaded quickly. Also, I'm going to try to go to the library or borrow the books that I lost from a friend, but I don't know how soon I can. But anyways, review, the next chapter will be up soon.