Dear Atrocious Diary,
At the rate that I am working, the potion I am creating will be finished in two more days. I can barely wait until I know who is behind this. Who insulted me so? And who is in "love" with me?
In my NEWTS potion class today I had my students brew Veritaserum, as I noticed that my stores are almost completely exhausted of the essential potion. It will be of most importance once I determine who sent me that dreadful letter. However, only one student managed to brew it correctly. You would think that after nearly seven years of potions training these dunderheads would be able to concoct this relatively simplistic potion. Only Granger was able to do it, most likely because she's already memorized the steps from reading her textbook one too many times.
For lack of anything else to write, I will say that it snowed for the first time this year today. As usual it led the students to believe that they had nothing better to do than throw mounds of snow at each other. Most of the time they miss. Rarely do they remember that they have the powers of magic at their fingertips. It's almost as if they regress about five years, to before they even had use of a wand. What incompetent fools.
There is not much else for me to do but wait for this potion to simmer. In two days I will add the last ingredient, the letter itself. Then I will drink of it and, if I brewed it correctly, will instantly know who wrote the letter. There will be little time between when I find out, and when they start losing House Points.
Severus Snape