Chapter 148

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5/3/93

Dear Spencer

You're right, I don't think I've met a single adult associated with Hogwarts who has even a lick of common sense in a crisis or the ability to think rationally, most of them don't seem to think for themselves at all when you most need them to. Though I've heard Flitwick, McGonagall and Snape are all considered brilliant in their fields of study, even the teachers at Scoil Draiocht thought so. I've never met anyone who claims to be as intelligent as everyone says Hermione is who doesn't have at least some deductive reasoning and judgement instead of believing everything they read and being able to recite it back like a bloody tape recorder. Mind you all the people who say how intelligent she is are from Hogwarts, there's no proof other than Hermione's word that her muggle teachers or people with common sense in her hometown thought she was intelligent other than having a really good memory. It is really odd that she can believe two completely opposite points of view at the same time without questioning either. I can believe it of Ron he probably doesn't really remember the details of the stories in the paper a week or two ago unless they were about quidditch, but Hermione would remember. Mind you I've never met anyone other than her parents who knew her in the nonmagical world so the people who tell me how clever she is might just mean how good she is at reading and retaining information since deductive reasoning seems to be a totally unheard of concept at Hogwarts. I would say it was unheard of in the magical world in total from what I've seen of 'The Daily Prophet' the most popular newspaper in Britain, if I hadn't gone to Scoil Draiocht last summer but the professors there had logic and reasoning and they seemed to be successfully teaching it to their students. I don't think that I saw any of them reading 'The Daily Prophet' either, Ireland has its own magical newspaper. I didn't bother to read it but I think I'll at least look at it if I go to Ireland this summer, not that I'm likely to be able to judge whether the stories are really true or not.

Perhaps there are 'trust me' or 'believe me' spells embedded into the paper used to make the newspaper or the ink is a potion or something because the Daily Prophet could print that the moon is made of blue cheese and just about every witch and wizard in Britain would accept it as a fact without stopping to think that cheese is man made from milk and milk comes from cows so how would a massive chunk of cheese got up into the sky let alone into out of space where there are no cows, no farmers to milk them, no cheesemakers (the fact that there's no air in space to keep the cow and farmer alive is probably not something anyone raised entirely in the magical world has ever heard). Not that most of the purebloods and wizard raised have any concept of outer space, most of them believe that you can fly high enough on a broom to touch the moon when it's visible. But that's the only reason I can see why everyone seems to believe the prophet unless they're writing about them or their families. Then they tell everyone it's false but I don't think many people will believe them even if they should know the person is telling the truth and the newspaper is lying.

But that doesn't explain why everyone believes that I'm evil, the newspaper has never said that I am, in fact I don't think that it's reported on the petrified students or the rumour that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened at all which is odd. I would have thought attacks on students would be front page news. Especially as this is supposedly the best school of witchcraft and wizardry in the world. Even if all the victims so far have been muggleborns, (and the fact they don't think muggleborn's being attacked is newsworthy just because they're not related to anyone else who might read the paper unless they have older siblings is just totally repulsive) isn't there a threat to all of us?

The nastiest thing I've ever done is cast the pranks on professor idiot and even then it's somebody else or a whole group of other people that are taking it further than I ever would and escalated it from slightly mean to outright bullying, and at least half the school thinks that's funny. I've never hurt a single other student, not even by accident. I've never even been really mean or verbally vicious and I saved the whole school from a Voldemort possessed professor last year. So why were they so quick to judge me? They're the ones cursing me in the hallways. I've never cursed anyone, even in retaliation, let alone gone around cursing people in the back. Nobody does anything to try to stop it and I'm sure that the professors have all heard about it. I'm getting cursed at so often that it doesn't seem possible that none of them would've seen it happen. If someone cursed Malfoy like that Snape would be all up in arms demanding that they serve a week's detention, more if it were me or Ron. I cast a shield charm on my robes that rebounded the spell back to the castor and several of them ended up in the hospital wing so Madam Pomfrey knows something is going on and she hasn't said anything either, I keep waiting to get in trouble for hurting them with their own spells, but at least that hasn't happened yet either. Doesn't that make all of them the dark wizards? Why do they think that it's okay to attack me like that? I wish I could just walk out of the castle and never come back.

On a less depressing topic, the only teacher who received a singing valentine from the dwarves was professor idiot, he got several but I'm pretty sure he sent at least some of them to himself. I think that the singing dwarves Valentines cost too much for the twins to send too many of them, I agree that if they were free then they'd have sent everyone one, though they seem to prefer pranks they've made themselves.

Elective course selections for next year are due soon. I know already which one's I would want to do, Runes and Arithmancy both seem interesting and I want to do Care of magical Creatures as well. If I'm not allowed to do all three then I'll probably try to do Arithmancy at Scoil Draiocht over the summer. How many I can do is supposed to be based on grades so I should be allowed to do them all. I have a feeling that Ron and Hermione are going to be pissed off with me about my subject courses. Ron because he will choose the easiest two and expect me to do the same so he can sit with me in class, and Hermione because she won't like that I don't plan on asking her advice which courses I should choose and that I've chosen the more academic subjects and Arithmancy is a large part math which I'm really good at and I'm honestly over faking bad marks to make other people feel better about themselves, and being good at math shouldn't get me that much attention. Hopefully it really doesn't matter what electives I choose because I won't be here to take any of them but it's good to know what I want to study if I get into another magical school and I'm still not going to back down on choosing the subjects that I want to do in case I don't manage to get away.

I wonder who thought that having superheroes where their underwear on the outside of their outfits was a good idea. At least Superman's underpants weren't bright red like Batman's. Talk about embarrassing. Still I suppose you couldn't wear underwear underneath spandex either without it showing through.

Your friend always

Trying to be as safe as I can

Harry.

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