At breakfast the next morning I came down to the great hall and I saw none other than Harry and Ron sitting with Hermione! the moment I saw them I ran to them and smacked them round the back of their heads: The pair of Idiots! "Ow!" they both exclaimed

"What was that for?" asked Harry

"Where were you last night?" I almost shouted, "Me and Hermione were worried sick! You could have been injured or dead! if you think for one minute I am going to believe any stupid excuse you have, Well!" I was cut off from my little rant when suddenly Harry yanked me down by my arm so I was sitting in-between him and Ron and he began to tell me about how he missed the train and used Ron's dad's car to 'drive' back here "Oh" I said and then remembered how he didn't answer any of my letter "then" I began "why didn't you answer any of our letters?" I questioned

"Dobby took them" I told me and my face twisted in confused

"What's Dobby?" I asked him, my anger steaming away slightly Harry explained to me that Dobby was a house elf, who stole his letters in hope that he wouldn't want to come back to Hogwarts if we had forgotten him. "Oh" I said again, my favourite word of the day! "well then" I cleared my throat "I will accept this explanation as an apology and you are quite forgiven" I couldn't seem to hid my smile "You are just a magnet for trouble aren't you?" I pinched his cheek like a baby but he quickly swatted it away laughingly.

"Come on!" Hermione said "We need to get to Herbology"

When everyone had arrived our lesson began "Good morning everyone!" shouted Professor Sprout

"Good morning professor Sprout" the class repeated. "Now today we are going to re-pot Mandrakes" she paused "Who can tell me the properties of the mandrake?... ah yes Miss Granger" she smiled

"Mandrake or Mandragora is most commonly used to turn those who have been petrified back to their original state. It's also quite dangerous the mandrake cry is fatal to anyone who hears it" Hermione Recited as though she memorized it from a book, but then again it is Hermione isn't it! that girl could memorize the whole English dictionary if she put her mind to it!

"Excellent! Ten points to Gryffindor!" exclaimed Professor Sprout myself, Hermione, and the boys all shared grins. "Now these one are only seedling so their cries can't kill you yet! But they could knock you out for several hours so that's why I have given all of you, some earmuff's each! Now quickly put them on!" she shouted as she put her earmuff's on. I quickly put them on over my ears because you know, like any normal person I don't really fancy being knocked out for seven hours, as the Professor was doing the demonstration next to me I felt Neville fall to the floor when I looked round I saw that he had fainted and I gasped

"Longbottom's been neglecting his earmuffs again" sighed professor Sprout

"Erm no professor he's just fainted" I said cautiously

"Yes well" she sighed "just leave him there" she said finally and the lesson carried on but believe me when I tell you that if I said I had a headache afterwards, it would have been the understate meant of the century!

At lunch everyone tucked into various sandwiches and drank their water, everything was running quite smoothly for once. Well actually I couldn't help but laugh at Ron as he taped round his now broken wand "say it" said Ron wrapping caller tape round his wand "I'm doomed!"

"You're doomed" said harry simply I was about to added something when dean said

"Ron isn't that your owl?" and sure enough it was Errol flying with a red envelop in his mouth. I smiled but when it landed it smashed into the water jug causing me, harry, Hermione, Ron and many other people around us to get sprayed with water

"seriously Ron" I sighed "come on!" I looked at my lunch which was a ham sandwich but now looked like a rather sloppy, and watery piece of… well that just it, I didn't know what it looked like!

When Ron took the envelope from the bird's mouth it flew off happily as if nothing had happened "oh no!" squeaked Ron and Seamus started laughing,

"Look everyone! Weasley's got himself a howler!"

"Howler?" Hermione asked looking to me or Harry for an answer

"You'll see" I answered. Suddenly the letter dropped from Ron's hands and opened itself, the two openings of the letter formed into a mouth

"RONALD WEASLEY!" it screamed at Ron "HOW DARE YOU STEEL THAT CAR!, I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED!. YOUR FATHER IS NOW FACING AN INQUIRERY AT WORK AND IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE, WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT HOME!." Then the voice went quieter and softer "and Ginny dear congratulations on making Gryffindor your father and I are so proud!" when it finished it blew a raspberry and then shredded itself up

"and that Hermione is a Howler" I gulped.

In our new DADA class I sat next to Hermione and we all waited for our class to begin. Then, the charming heartthrob himself walked down the stairs; Gildaroy Lockhart "let me introduce you to your new defense against the dark arts teacher, me!" I giggled along with many other girls in the class "Gildaroy Lockhart order of Merlin and" he announced as he walked down the stairs "three times winner of witch weekly's most charming smile award but!" he paused "I didn't get rid of the ban and banshee by smiling at them" then he did this completely dazzling smile making myself and Hermione sigh. Harry and Ron turned round at gave us a look that said 'really? Him!' I just scowled back

"Now" continued Lockhart "It's my job to prevent you from harm, you may find yourself facing your worst fears in this very room, but know that, so long as I'm hear no harm shall come to you so try not to scream it might" he said then pulled a sheet of a cage "provoke them!" and the cage revealed Cornish pixies. I had read about them in a book so while Seamus laughed I knew that they had a reputation for being very mischievous,

"Laugh if you will Mr Finnegan but Pixie's can be devilishly tricksey little blighters, let's see how you like them now!" he exclaimed and opened the cage door. Within an instant everyone was up screaming as the pixies buzzed around the room causing all sorts of chaos, smashing pictures, knocking over potions! Within a matter of minutes it was only me and the others in the room "I'll just leave you four to put them back in there cage then!". I got annoyed when the pixies started to tug at my hair, I didn't like being a rag doll!

"get off me!" I exclaimed trying to whack them away

"Georgia stop hold still!" said harry, I did as he said and he whacked them off

"thanks!" I shouted through all the noise.

We all took 'shelter'- if you want to call it that- under a desk "what do we do now!" screamed Ron but Hermione was on it in a flash and she stood up and screamed

"IMOBULAS!" and soon the pixies seemed as if they were floating in the air. I jumped as I saw Neville hanging on something on the ceiling

"why is it always me?" he asked I smiled at him sympathetically and got him down slowly but safely. Was Lockhart going to get into trouble for this? as much as I loved him I really hoped he was, just wait till my mum hears about this!