THE DIARY OF A WITCH, VOLUME V
DISCLAIMER: The main plot of this is mostly from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which I of course did not write nor own the rights too, therefore I am not making any money off of this.
CHAPTER 6: FEBRUARY
Sunday, February 1, Great Hall, Breakfast,
Okay, I didn't think it was possible but I do believe this term is actually worse then the last one. I've had zero free time this week which is why I haven't written in this journal at all. To top it off, Quidditch practice is starting up again; we don't play till at least March though. We have to see who wins the game this month (which is Gryffindor v.s. Hufflepuff) and then we'll play Slytherin. If we lose that one we'll have to play at least once, maybe twice more to ultimately decide who goes to the Quidditch Final. Our going depends right now on who wins and loses these next couple of games.
Now with Quidditch practice added my week looks like this:
Monday:
History of Magic essay due
Divination chart due
Quidditch practice
Tuesday:
Transfiguration exam
Charms essay due
D.A.
Wednesday:
Astronomy essay due
Charms club
Quidditch practice
Thursday:
Herbology exam
Friday:
Charms club officers meeting
Quidditch practice
Monday, February 2, Locker Room After Quidditch Practice,
WHY did I miss practices again????
Tuesday, February 3, Great Hall,
Okay, that exam was brutal. I sincerely hope McGonagall was exaggerating when she warned us that this is what the O.W.L. examinations are like. But knowing McGonagall, she wasn't.
Wednesday, February 4, Astronomy,
Note: test next week in class.
Thursday, February 5, DADA,
Owen and I have made definite plans to work on OBUD on Sunday. Hopefully no tests pop up tomorrow. I wouldn't put it past Snape to inform us tomorrow that we have an exam on Monday; it's just his style.
Friday, February 6, Great Hall, Dinner,
Hah! No extra exams to study for! Snape just gave us more reading to do. I then got the regular weekly essay from Binns and that's not due till Friday along with a rune translation in Ancient Runes that will only take about thirty minutes tops. Owen just gave me a thumbs up form the Hufflepuff table which means he has no extra work either and we're good to go.
Saturday, February 7, Dorm Room,
Took me awhile to track them down but I managed to get all the animal's reports on Umbridge's daily routine because Owen and I figured we would figure that out and then figure out what time would be best to pull off what I'm planning to do.
Sunday, February 8, Library,
THE DAILY PATTERNS OF DOLORES UMBRIDGE
(As observed by Jubilee Johanson, Owen Hollins, and animal spies)
Monday through Friday:
-Breakfast at seven-thirty A.M in the Great Hall.
-Classes-observed Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, and beginning year DADA
-Lunch at twelve-thirty P.M in the Great Hall.
-Classes-DADA classes, older students.
-Dinner at seven o'clock P.M in the Great Hall.
-She spends a lot of her free time holed up in her office or patrolling the halls looking for students to punish.
Saturday:
-Breakfast at seven-thirty A.M in the Great Hall
-Mornings are spent either in office with door closed or patrolling hallways and grounds.
-Lunch at twelve in Great Hall
-Afternoons are spent same way mostly. Though occasionally takes time to harass teachers as well as students.
-Dinner at six-thirty P.M in the Great Hall.
-Patrols hallways always.
Sunday:
-Pretty much the same as Saturday.
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM OBSERVATIONS:
-She clearly has no life.
-OTHER then that, Jubilee.
-Okay, fine. She likes routine. Notice that she rarely varies from her everyday patters. She likes order; in other words, she's a control freak.
-How about something we didn't know about her?
-Oh...well...um...she puts way too much sugar in her tea?
-Something about her daily routine I mean.
-Right...Well, her office is easy to get into. If we go while she's busy being a tyrant, I bet I could put one of my charmed stones in her office, easy.
-Right. We just need to figure out how to get into her office without her noticing.
-Not to mention without getting caught.
-Yes, getting caught would be bad.
-This is going to take some planning...
Later Sunday, February 8, Dorm Room,
Owen and I figured that it would be best if I went into her office in animal form. However, we need to find a way to get her out of the office long enough for me to shape-shift, get in there and then get out. Owen offered to provide a distraction but I don't want him getting into trouble for something that was my idea. Besides Owen (as adorable as he is) is not the best at causing mischief and not getting caught. Normally it wouldn't matter, but the way Umbridge is going lately, I just bet he'd get expelled if he got in trouble with her. I'm going to need someone who's done pranks before and have more or less gotten away. Someone sneaky and not afraid to piss Umbridge off.
I'm going to need the Weasley twins.
Monday, February 9, Great Hall, Lunch,
There's going to be a D.A meeting tomorrow so I'm going to talk to Fred and George afterwards about help. Owen isn't so sure that involving them is a good idea but then he's always been a little wary of the twins which I guess I can't blame him for. But I trust them on something like this. I'm certainly not going to give them complete details (i.e. my powers, Dumbledore's lessons, etc) I'm just going to tell them I'm planning something and need Umbridge out of the way for awhile to do it. If it causes mayhem and pisses her off, I'm sure they'll do it; no questions asked.
Tuesday, February 10, Great Hall, Dorm Room, After D.A,
Fred and George are all for giving a distraction. I pulled them aside after the meeting and asked them if they'd be willing to cause a little mayhem Sunday morning and they looked at each other and looked at me and Fred (at least I think it was Fred) said, "Jubilee, who do you think you're talking too?" Then George said, "Do you want a little distraction, or a big distraction?"
I grinned back at them. "Just something that will keep her from her office for say...twenty minutes?"
"Ah, so medium distraction then," Fred said. "Planting something in her office, are we?"
"Maybe," I said vaguely.
They shrugged. We're going to meet up after breakfast Sunday so they can tell me the exact time their going to set off the distraction.
Friday, February 13, Dorm Room, After Dinner,
Despite it being Friday the Thirteenth there haven't been any major disasters. Unless you count the fact that I have three essays due next week. Tomorrow however is Valentines Day and a Hogsmeade visit to boot. Once more I will have to endure kissing couples and realize that I have yet to get up the guts to tell Owen that I like him as more then a friend and most likely never will. No wonder I wasn't sorted into Gryffindor.
Tomorrow's going to stink.
Saturday, February 14, Valentines Day, Hogsmeade, Three Broomsticks,
Either I'm hallucinating or Hermione is having Butterbeer with RITA SKEETER. Who, by the way, looks horrible. Yes, I am talking about THAT Rita Skeeter. The annoying one who wrote all those articles and who Hermione (with a little help from Ginny and I...okay not much help, but we were there) got sacked. What on earth could those two possibly have to talk about over Butterbeer? I would change my ears so I could use an animals sharp hearing and listen in but Mandy and Padma are here and I'm thinking they'll wonder why my ear is shrinking.
Holy...is that Luna Lovegood sitting down with them? It IS! What the heck is Hermione up too? Damn it, this is going to drive me crazy.
Sunday, February 15, After OBUD Phase 2 (Phase 1 was the info gathering and planning),
Phase 2 started at precisely eight-thirty in the morning when Fred and George told me they were planning on starting their distraction at nine A.M in the morning on the dot. I asked them what they were planning on doing and they said it was better if I didn't know in case they or I got caught. I guess it makes sense: if I don't know their plan and vice versa and one of us happen to get caught we can honestly say we have no idea about each other's plan.
Eight-Forty-Five A.M: Owen and I get into place around the corner down the hall from Umbridge's door. Owen is going to be a lookout for me while I'm in Umbridge's office.
Five Minutes after Nine A.M: We witness Filch run up to Umbridge's office and knock on her door. He tells her that there's a disturbance in the halls and she frowns severely and follows him with her wand.
Owen and I go up to the door and glance around. He went to end of the hallway in the direction they went in and I did an Unlocking Charm and went in. For a moment I was distracted by the horrible decor (god, all that pink and lace) and then I pulled myself together and looked for a good place to leave the stone I had spelled before. I decided that under the desk would be best. She had made the walls pink so the stone would have stood out. So I got under the desk and used a Stick Charm to wedge it in a corner and for good measure put a Camouflage Charm on it so it would blend in with the wood.
Mission accomplished in about five minutes (a lot less time then I thought) I got out of there and re-locked the door and joined Owen out in the hallway where we quickly exited.
Nine forty-five: Run into Fred and George outside the front entrance who are gleefully watching Umbridge and Filch run after several flying sparks outside. Other students are also enjoying the show. When we meet them they grin at me and ask, "Mission accomplished?" I nod and then gesture to the sparks, "What are those? They don't look like Filibuster Fireworks."
They grinned at each other and Fred said, "Those, my dear, are the early stage of our own brand of fireworks."
Owen looked at them, "You two are coming up with fireworks?"
"Yup. They're sure to be a smash too, soon as we jazz them up a bit to make them better," George said.
Something tells me Filibuster better watch out.
Thursday, February 19, Dorm Room, After D.A,
Whoa. Neville is on a roll lately. He managed to get another spell almost right away. Last week he managed to get the Shield Charm right before everyone except Hermione. He's been quickly improving ever since those Death Eaters escaped. You know, I think it has something to do with Bellatrix Lestrange. In one of the first articles it listed among her victims were two people with the last name of Longbottom and I think those were his parents. It would certainly explain his sudden attitude change.
Saturday, February 21, Ravenclaw Common Room, After Quidditch Match,
Okay, I'm glad I'm not in Gryffindor because that was downright humiliating. Twenty minutes of them losing to HUFFLEPUFF. I like Owen's house and everything and I have friends in the house but even they admit that their team sucks. Diggory was about the only good thing on the whole team and well...he's dead now so they have a replacement Seeker who's not as good. But Gryffindor lost by ten points, which frankly was a miracle because Weasley was horrible today. He missed FOURTEEN GOALS. The only reason they didn't get totally creamed was that Ginny caught the Snitch (she has been made Seeker in Potter's absence).
Next game is us versus Slytherin. GO RAVENCLAW!
Sunday, February 22, Great Hall, Breakfast,
WEEKLY TO DO LIST:
Monday:
Turn in Potions and History of Magic essays
Turn in rune practice sheet
Quidditch Practice
Tuesday:
Herbology project journal update due
DADA essay
Charms practical
Wednesday:
Divination project due
Latin translated essay due
Charms Club
Quidditch Practice
Thursday:
D.A.
Friday:
Charms Club Officers meeting
Quidditch Practice
Monday, February 23, Great Hall, Breakfast,
I just figured out what Hermione had been up too.
Harry Potter did an interview with the Quibbler (which was why Luna was there) that was written by Rita Skeeter. He tells about everything that happened the night Voldemort came back (and helpfully filled in the blanks for the stuff I missed since I didn't see all of it in my vision). Obviously it's gotten read, over at his table there are five owls from readers probably.
Uh-oh. Here comes Umbridge. Wonder what she's going to think of this????
Later Monday, February 23, History of Magic,
Umbridge hates it. She has just made educational decree number twenty-seven: possession of the Quibbler is an expulsion offense. I wonder what happens if you subscribe???
Later Monday, February 23, Divination,
I get the feeling that Trelawney approves of Potter's interview. She just said that Potter is not going to die early after all but live to a ripe old age, become Minister of Magic, and have twelve kids.
Hey, I'd vote for him if he ever decided to become Minister of Magic.
Tuesday, February 24, Great Hall, Dinner,
I've just talked to Luna who's in good spirits over this article. She told me that this issue actually had to be reprinted which apparently is the first time that's ever happened for them.
Friday, February 27, Dorm Room, After Quidditch Practice,
Boy am I exhausted. Since we have the match coming up Davies has decided that from now on we are to have practice five nights a week for two hours a night. How he managed to get that scheduled in I do not know but he did it. All of this soreness better be worth it.
END OF FEBRUARY...TO BE CONTINUED