Chapter 2
1991
September 1
Dear Diary,
Merlin's beard this is weird, I'm afraid I fell a bit out of practise over the summer of writing down everything. Just waved Mum and Dad goodbye and found an empty compartment which I have a feeling won't be all that empty for long. I just saw the Weasley family stumbling onto the platform, they're easy to spot, all that ginger hair. It's, what's the word Mum used, endearing? No that's not right. Ah who careeess
Sorry for that last bit, Fred tackled me which made me slip up. Aah, now Lee is bugging me, these boys never let me just write.
This year Kathy is not writing in her boring dairy but actually spending some time with her friends.
Sarah
Agreed, this year she's gonna be fun!
George
Yep, they stole you. Good thing I started in a different book than last year, I think that's a good tradition. Anyway, the feast was delicious as usual. I had a nice chat with nearly headless Nick about the history of the first years arriving in boats. Since all the other students are picked up by carriages. I shared the carriage with Sarah, Lee and the twins. Lee was talking about Angelina all the time, the twins about how they were going to try out for the quidditch team and Sarah tried to drop some not so subtle hints about the boy she likes. Right now it's John, he smiled at her when she arrived on the platform this morning and now she's planning their wedding. Next week she'll have her eye on someone else.
September 14
Dear Diary,
They did it, Fred and George made the team! I am so happy for them. Though they said the new seeker is rubbish, it's hard to live up to the legacy of Charlie, poor thing. I think Percy is proud of them, he would never say it in front of them, but still. That horrible Flint boy made Slytherin team as well, telling everyone how he's going to beat Gryffindor and saying horrible stuff about Fred and George. The boys just respond with far more wittier comments, but I'm not that quick. Flint noticed and said some really nasty things about my flying skills, the boys got mad and send some curses at Flint for me. It's nice to know that the boys will always look out for me.
Oh and Angelina made chaser.
November 16
Dear Diary,
Quidditch day, the boys are really excited, Lee is doing the commentary so that should be interesting. As a special surprise me and Sarah made banners to support the twins, they haven't seen them yet. We worked really hard on them, the pictures even move. Me and Sarah are sitting alone for breakfast today though, the boys already had theirs and are on the field right now. We'll be going soon too.
We won, but barely. The Slytherin chasers couldn't get anything past Oliver and Fred and George, but their seeker caught the snitch. Luckily we had such a lead that it didn't matter but Oliver is pretty angry right now. The team liked our banners though, Fred and George even made a little victory lap around it. They did really well today, they have fantastic aim and even though they're not build that strong they were still able to get some force behind their blows. Apart from our seeker we have a really good team, Angelina, Katie and Alicia are working really well together.
Lee did really good as well, his comments were really funny and on point too, the Slytherins disagree but that may have something to do with some of his comments about their house. The rest of the school seemed to agree with Lee though.
October 13
Dear Diary,
Mom and Dad are making Christmas plans already, they told me in their letters. It's getting cold here as well, especially the corridors. I told Sarah who agreed with me, the twins overheard us and suddenly we were being hugged from behind. They meant it as a joke but it was actually really nice and warm.
December 5
Dear Diary,
The twins are suddenly not as happy to be on the quidditch team as before. It's crazy cold out and Oliver(team captain) makes them practise for at least two hours every week. What they don't realise is that Oliver spends even more time out there in the captain's office strategizing than they do.
Or at least I think so because they always seem to arrive so much earlier from practise than Oliver does.
Lee tried to kidnap my diary again, got it back from Percy though. Sometimes I feel like writing really strange things and leave it somewhere either Fred, George or Lee will find it an look for their reaction.
January 15
Dear Diary,
We're back at school, it's fun to see everyone again, not that excited about classes though. I'm quite good at charms, defence against the dark arts and transfiguration, But potions is going really bad. It's because we have it with the Slytherins I think. Flint is always saying awful things about me or my parents whenever he can, and the boys can't always help me because of Snape. Well they would if Sarah and I didn't hold them back, I don't want anyone to get into trouble just because of me, especially my friends.
February 18
Dear Diary,
Quidditch again today, the boys don't really seem hopeful and Oliver practically close to tears. The team overall is doing all right, it's just their seeker is dreadful. I tried comforting Oliver, but it didn't go too well.
They lost, Oliver was knocked out by a bludger early on. After that the others tried but with the horrible seeker and no keeper it was a lost game. Fred and George are taking it hard, Oliver is still in the hospital wing. It was really scary when he fell down, Sarah and me were screaming. Those horrible Slytherins were actually laughing, I just hope that if our team doesn't win the cup, we would at least beat Slytherin.
March 20
Dear Diary,
Today was a big day. I finally stood up for myself against a bunch of Slytherins. That horrible girl Natalie Therise tried to steal my diary to share it with her friends. But I caught her in time and snatched it out of the air, I know it was Natalie doing the spell because she had her wand up and looked like she was going to growl. She said something about it being time to share my secrets with the rest, so I thanked her for taking an interest in my life and then asked her if she wanted to set the example. Saying that her secrets would be far juicier and more interesting. Therise said something her not having secrets, So I told he entire class about her disgusting crush on Flint, bluergh, she didn't like that. It was beautiful, Fred and George even admitted that they were proud of me.
It felt really good to do something against that awful girl.
April 14
Dear Diary,
Today the boys came home from what looked like a dreadful quidditich practise. I've never seen them this quiet. They really do train hard, you can tell by the other boys that Fred and George exercise more. Not that I notice how they look, well not in 'that' way, just an observation. I think Isabella's comments are starting to affect me, she keeps saying that no girl would hang out with boys this much if she didn't like them.
May 28
Dear Diary,
Today is the last quidditch game of the year. I've never seen Oliver this tense, Fred and George seem a bit nervous too. Sarah, Isabella and me have made banners again, let's hope it helps.
They lost again, but not by that much. Thanks to Oliver, Katie, Alicia and Angelina the score evened out because of all the goals. Fred made a spectacular move as well, a bludger straight at Hufflepuff's seeker. We ended up in third place after all, beating Slytherin! The team can't see that bright side though, just give them a few weeks.
June 29
Dear Diary,
Tomorrow we're going home again. I hope to meet my friends over the summer, we tried making plans but our parents are slow to react. I'm not going to miss the feeling of being on my toes all the time, downside of being friends with Fred and George. I should really finish packing now, I still got loads more to do.