05 October 2020

MJs Hogwarts Journal Chapter 13


Thursday 26th September
Luckily Jed and Josie have been acting like nothing happened since their little episode last Saturday. It did make me realise though how much they bicker. It’s a good job that we aren’t in many lessons together; otherwise I get scared sometimes that they might start arguing again.
Take yesterday for example. After rushing from Potions to Herbology (Snape kept us talking too long in Potions), Jed and I found our spot next to Josie. “Good,” I said as I dropped myself down alongside her. “You’re already here.” I sometimes hate it if Jed and I get to Herbology before Josie, because I’m scared that Josie won’t choose to sit with us, worried that she’ll be intruding.
“Course she’s here,” Jed commented, as he threw his backpack on the floor. “José’d never miss a class – would you Miss Goody-Goody?” I know that Jed only meant it as a joke, but a remark like that after their yelling match in the library made my heart leap up into my throat. Wide eyed, I forced myself to swallow as I stared at Josie awaiting her reaction. Sticking her tongue out at him, she shimmied herself around towards me, trying to keep her back to Jed. Okay, so it wasn’t serious, but it could have been.

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I’m really looking forward to Astronomy class later tonight. I’ve been keeping an eye on the sky every single night. It’s so beautiful and therapeutic. My star chart is definitely the one piece of work that I’m most pleased with so far. It almost looks like a work of art.
Every night I’ve been plotting the positions of the stars on a piece of paper. Keeping to one piece of paper per week, I mark the positions of the stars in different colours each day. Monday is blue, Tuesday is green, Wednesday is red, Thursday is orange, Friday is brown, Saturday is purple, and Sunday is black. By the end of the week I end out with a cool looking blur of colour. It looks a little three dimensional, because of the layering of the colours. It gives the chart a sort of shadowy appearance. I realised afterwards that I probably should have used a colour coordination pattern – I know that Josie has with hers, she’s shown me. Hers looks like a rainbow, having used the colours in colour order. On my first week I just alternated the colours willy-nilly, so now I’m stuck with this uncoordinated, illogical blob of colours. I don’t mind it though. It does look kind of pretty. I’ll draw a mini scale version of it on one of these really cool Hogwarts napkins and stick it below.




- Josie -

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