Chapter 4: A few months in.

Ok, so I'm beginning to get a bit freaked out now. Teachers have been talking in hushed voices, and even more rules have been put into place. People have even begun to question whether or not the school will close, and we can't let that happen. Even Ginny has been acting strange recently, she didn't show up for Charms the other day, and I normally sit by her. It was very lonely without her, nobody spoke to me. Sometimes I like being on my own, like now. It gives me time to think. However, I do really enjoy spending time with other people, especially Ginny, I think we get on very well in lessons, and it's nice to have someone to practise spells with.

I need to find out what this is all about, more and more people are being petrified, and almost everyone's scared. The strangest thing about it is though, is people are saying that it's all Harry Potter's fault. He spoke parseltongue in one of the new defence lessons the other day, and everyone thinks he's evil. I don't see why, as everything seems to point in completely the opposite direction. For starters, he once defeated the most evil sorcerer of all time, so why would he be working with him? And secondly, when he spoke in parseltongue, he was warning a snake OFF one of the boys in his class, but apparently it sounded like he was 'egging it on.' (Which of course, makes no sense, because apparently, as soon as Harry started talking to the snake, it began to back down.)

This makes me even more determined to prove all the Harry haters wrong, and I WILL find out what's been going on here, and will try my best to put a stop to it, as I absolutely cannot let this school shut down, it means too much to me, my family and everybody else. I'm going to do what Mother would have wanted me to do-which is stick my nose in where it probably isn't wanted at first, even though they'll all thank me in the end.

Daddy wrote to me for the first time this year yesterday, and the letter arrived at breakfast this morning. He says I take after my Mum, according to him, she was in Ravenclaw house too. I bet she would have been really proud of me, I hope she's up there somewhere, I hope she knows how much I miss her.