8th September 1971
I spent the whole weekend in the library. I didn't have any homework so I just did some research so that I'd be ahead of everyone else. At first the girls came with me but after a while they all got bored. I don't know what to think. Maybe I was wrong about Potter. Maybe I judged him too quickly. But what about all those different pranks he's pulled? He can't be a nice person who just attacks people every chance he gets. That doesn't make sense. If he was as nice and gentlemanly as Alice thinks then he'd have never said those things. What if you provoked him, Lily? I guess I might have a little bit. No he really is an arrogant toe rag! I researched the unforgivable curses. That's what they are saying the Slytherins did to him. Bellatrix Black to be more exact. That's really dark magic. I mean everyone knows she's crazy but… magic like that… I don't get why she's not been expelled.
I think Alice likes Frank. She hasn't told me yet but I think she does. That's where she is, with Frank, in the grounds. The other girls never stop talking about the Gryffindor boys. I think they fancy them. That's why I'm avoiding them. I don't want to hear, "Potter is so… Black is just amazing… Potter is hot… Black this and Potter that. It's driving me mental.
Later…
Kate asked Potter out. Looks like he's going be even more annoying now that he's dating one of my friends. Argh. Sucks.