I haven't woken up screaming since that one time in my first week at Hogwarts but I have had nightmares ever since then. After I wake up from having my 'finding Harry' nightmares I go to lessons where I usually fall asleep. I haven't been able to sleep very well at night so I sleep in class. Snape has already given me three detentions for sleeping in Potions and a month hasn't gone by.

"Three detentions in three weeks," Snape sneered at me as I clean out old cauldrons full of who knows what. "You are becoming a lot like your brothers."

I ignore him and just keep scrubbing potion off of the cauldron I'm working on. By the time I get out of detention it's already ten and I still have to do homework. I'm not going to get to sleep until midnight, I'm going to have trouble sleeping, fall asleep in class and then get detention again. It's a vicious cycle.

I don't really have any friends either, I thought I had friends in my roommates but they have been ignoring me ever since they were woken up by my screaming. The only person who I might consider to be my friend is Colin Creevey but even he is cooler than me. Colin Creevey is cooler than me and he carries around a muggle camera and takes pictures of everything.

I'm looking forward to flying lessons tomorrow, something fun, to look forward to. This is my life, after I finish sleeping in my classes and being made fun of by my class mates I go up to my room to look for the bright side and write to Tom. Tom is my only real friend.

Dear Tom, Harper and the rest of those stupid Slytherin boys made fun of taped up books and asked if I stole my Lockhart books.

Why would they think that

Simply because my books are all second hand and the Lockhart books are new because there the ones Harry gave me. I guess I don't mind cause Harry did give them to me.

If I'm not writing to Tom about the Slytherin boys being mean I'm writing to him about the Slytherin girls making fun of me for my tattered robes.

Dear Tom I don't know what's wrong with me I have been falling asleep in class.

Why

I can't sleep at night due to my nightmares and when I wake up from them I'm covered in rooster feathers and I don't know why.

Perhaps someone is planning a joke on you

That would make sense since nobody at Hogwarts likes me.

Don't say that

Alright, my brothers like me.

Don't worry Ginny you will make friends and don't you have flying lessons to look forward to.

Yeah, I really like flying. Ever since I was little I have been taking out my brothers brooms in turn.

Why

They won't let me fly with them.

I always cheer up after writing to Tom.

The next day I head down to the Quidditch Pitch by myself and stand by myself until are teacher arrives.

"Good afternoon first years, I'm Madame Hooch and I will be your flying instructor." She was a thin woman with graying hair.

"I want you to stand by a broom, stick your hand over to it and say up."

I did just that, I stood by a broom at the end of a row and said up. The broom immediately flew up into my hand, it was one of the few ones that did. Colin Creevey's broom didn't even move and Luna Lovegood didn't even try to get her broom off of the ground.

Once that was done we were instructed to mount our brooms and Madame hooch went around correcting are grips. I was happy when she told me my grip was perfect.

"Alright, now when I blow my whistle I want you all to rise in the air, take a lap around the pitch and land back down," Madame Hooch said.

She blew her whistle and I kicked off of the ground and started flying. Soon I was ahead of everybody, racing around the pitch. I shouldn't say racing because the broom's fastest speed seems to be a snail but I'm doing better than everybody else. I guess the broom senses that I want to go so it's trying to go as fast as it can. I finished my lap while half of the class were still trying to turn there brooms in the right direction.

When flying lessons were over I ran up to my dorm room to write to Tom.

Dear Tom, Today was my first flying lesson and I was the best in the class.

Congratulations Ginny

I think when I get older I will join the Gryffindor Quidditch team

What position would you want to play?

Seeker but Harry is seeker and I want to be on the team when he is still on the team so I think I will try out for chaser.

Harry's a seeker

Yeah last year was when he joined

Wasn't Harry a first year last year?

Yeah, he is the youngest seeker in a generation. Isn't that amazing.

He must be a good flyer.

He is, I watched him when he played two sided Quidditch at the Burrow, I can't wait to watch him in a Quidditch match.

It's October already, the weather is getting colder but thank goodness I'm by the common fire doing homework. I'm finishing up a essay for Professor McGonagall when Percy sits down by me.

"Hi Ginny," Percy said.

"Hi Perce."

"You have been looking pale lately."

"Thank you, you look good too."

"I only said it because I think your catching a cold and I want you to go to Madame Pompfrey for a pepper up potion."

"No, I'm fine Percy,"

"You don't look fine,"

"I'm just pale because I haven't been outside in a while, due to all this homework."

"I saw you walking around the grounds just yesterday."

Great he caught me in a lie, I better agree to this or he could go on for hours, "Fine, I will take the potion if you will leave me alone."

Percy debated on this before saying, "Alright, you have a deal. You take the potion tomorrow and I won't bother on the subject anymore."

I glanced at him suspiciously, "Shake on it," I finally say.

Sighing Percy stuck out his hand and he left me to my homework.

Percy is really trying to replace mum with all his mollycoddling that he has been doing to me. Not a second goes by without him asking why I have been getting detention or why I have been sleeping in class or why I haven't been able to sleep. I appreciate Percy worrying about me but enough is enough.

The next day I was walking down the corridor while people called, "Hey Firehead."

I took the pepper up potion and now steam is coming out of my ears, making my head look like it's on fire. I hate Percy.

The month of October want by slowly for me, with all of the homework I have to do. I have to map out the moon and planet movements for Astronomy, Practice the levitation spell for Charms, read up on Professor Lockhart for DADA, read up Dittany for Herbology, try to remember who invented the self stirring cauldron for History of Magic and so on.

I can't wait for the end of the month, Halloween being the next thing that I'm looking forward to.