02 November 2020

MJs Hogwarts Journal Chapter 17


Friday 11th October
I guess I’ve made it through another week of lessons. I didn’t feel like this week would ever end. There is so much homework. How do kids in this school survive? I barely see half of my class in the library at all. Josie, Jed and I are in the library several times a week. And on the weekends. How on Earth do people cope in Fifth and Seventh-Year that have loads of serious exams? They mustn’t ever leave the library. Oh, I really do hope that this stuff starts becoming easier to understand. I had no idea that magic is so heavily theory based. I expected it in Potions and I knew that there would be tonnes of essay writing in History of Magic, but to have to write two parchments on the importance of Jupiter’s moon’s cycles and how different kinetic and magic energies fuse together during a spell, well it just seems silly. I don’t understand why I need to know this stuff.
I’m really tired. It’s so late; it’s got to be coming up to midnight. It was Scarlett’s idea for the four of us to stay up late. I think she just wanted to know what we all thought of her – I think she’s a little insecure. She follows Pansy around a lot and I’m thinking she was concerned that people just thought of her as Pansy’s sidekick – which is so not true. It got me wondering whether people think of me as Jed’s sidekick some of the time, being as I’m always following him around. It makes me wish sometimes that I could be more like Josie. She doesn’t seem to care about what the others think, and she just goes around on her own, not needing anyone to help her find her classroom or show her the quickest and easiest way to get from one lesson to another.
Pansy made us play a game of ‘Truth or Dare’. It wasn’t very exciting though. I was expecting, coming from a bunch of witches, something along the lines of daring each other to try a dangerous spell, or sneak as close as we could to the boys’ rooms and attempt to use the Lumos spell to wake them up continuously or the Incendio spell to start a teeny, tiny fire in the corner of their room without getting caught. I couldn’t have been further from the truth. It seemed to be that Pansy’s idea of the game was to see whether anyone had a crush on any of the boys. She so obviously does on Blondie – it’s kind of scary. Scarlett seems to like Jed’s cousin Vince, but I mean, he’s way older than her – he’s in his fifth year. Thankfully Priscilla doesn’t seem to have gone gar-gar over the boys like the other two have, so I don’t feel as though they think I’m weird. We haven’t even been in this school two months yet and Pansy and Scarlett are already planning who they want as their boyfriends – it’s ridiculous. I can’t believe that Pansy even asked me, “So what’s the deal between you and Jed?” What sort of a question in that? Deal?
“We’re friends,” I told her. “Just friends.”
Gosh! It’s like I just said, we haven’t even been here two months. Who would want to go around jeopardising friendships that we’ve just made? We have to put up with each other for the next seven years. Who wants to think about that sort of thing already? Grrr, they are such girly-girls.

- Josie -

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