7th of October
Zoya,
Quidditch is so much fun, I didn't make the team this year, but I'll keep practicing and try again next year! I went to my first game though, that was super awesome. It was Ravenclaw versus Gryffindor, so my team wasn't playing. It was fun to go and watch anyway. The Quidditch pitch is huge, the whole school fits in the stands. In the end, the Ravenclaw seeker caught the snitch, she was smaller and faster than the Gryffindor seeker. It was pretty cool. I sat with my friends and cheered. It was a good time.
He usually just goes by Albus, he says Al makes him think of some old fat dude with pit stains and B.O. I've started calling him Allie-pooh. He didn't like it at first. It made him so mad he turned red, but he has come to expect it now. He punches Scorpius for teasing him about it though. I think he's just jealous that I don't have a nickname for him yet.
They don't usually dress up here. I don't think I'll be able to get a costume. Maybe if I could get my hands on material I could make three musketeers costumes for Allie-pooh, Scorpius, and I… I wouldn't be able to trick or treat, but we have a HUGE feast, I guess, the upperclassmen say it's even bigger than the first day feast! Plus they have live bats in the Great Hall! So awesome. I think you should be a pirate. Pirates are the coolest. Who are you gonna go trick or treating with?
So the battle, I guess there was this really bad wizard, he called himself Voldemort, but that wasn't his real name. He killed a bunch of people, splitting his soul and encasing each piece in an item and hiding them to make himself immortal. He was temporarily beaten by protection surrounding Albus's dad. He came back when his dad was at Hogwarts. Albus's dad, Harry, had to search for all the pieces and destroy them so he could kill Voldemort. Voldemort and his lackeys attacked Hogwarts, but they beat him in the end! Huzzah! Who knows what this school would be like, what the world would be like, if they hadn't been able to defeat Voldemort?
As for my classes, I'm taking transfiguration, charms, potions, history of magic, defense against the dark arts, astronomy, and herbology. Transfiguration is changing things into other things, basically. Like the other day we were trying to turn rats into goblets. I mastered that right away. The headmistress teaches that class, she always has. She refused to stop even when she accepted the role of headmistress. Charms is like levitation, summoning, and banishing spells. Stuff like that. Spells that act on an object, but don't really change them. That class is taught by Professor Flitwick. He's short (yes, shorter than me!) History of magic is taught by Professor Binns, I told you about him already. I guess he fell asleep in the staff room, died, then came back as a ghost and kept on teaching. He's soooooooo boring, though. Sometimes Albus falls asleep… so cute… Anyway, distracted. Herbology is all about tending to magic plants and their properties. Professor Longbottom teaches that class. He's a friend of Albus's dad I guess, which is really cool. Potions is taught by Professor Greengrass, she is Scorpius's aunt. Defense against the dark arts is taught by Blaze Zabini, an old friend of Scorpius's dad. Astronomy is ehh… a blow off class. I don't really think anyone ever knows what's happening in that class, and even if they do they don't really care. As first years we are also required to take flying lessons. Those are run by Madam Hooch.
~Morgan