Saturday 11th January
This week hasn’t gone
too badly. I managed to just scrape a pass in Professor Binns’ History of Magic
– I got 82% in last term’s exam. It wasn’t bad though, at least I passed.
Defence Against the Dark Arts was a huge surprise. I got 95.5%. I think it was
because I was so worried about not passing (being as Professor Quirrell is kind
of a mess most of the time, to put it lightly) that I put so much effort into
studying, I surprised myself. I don’t see why I’ll ever need it – unless I
decide to hex someone for really getting on my nerves (I have a few people in
mind) and if they retaliate, then I’ll need to defend myself. Part of me
actually wants to try that out, just to see if I can do it.
Something
really did annoy me this week. Before Christmas Madam Hooch said that we
weren’t going to have a Flying class the first week back, but for some reason
she changed her mind. How dare she? I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t prepared. I barely
left the ground. Even Neville’s doing better than I am. It’s so not fair. I’m
fine with getting the broomstick to come up to me and I can mount it… it’s just
the second I leave the ground I panic. Then because I panic, I fall off.
*
Blondie was boasting
this morning about his detention. He was an idiot for getting the detention in
the first place. He’d overheard that Potter, Weasley and Granger were sneaking
out late at night and that they would be going to the Astronomy tower. Goodness
knows why and I really couldn’t care less. In a nutshell, the trio were due to
get detention anyway. Somehow it ended out being Potter, Granger and Neville
that got into trouble and not Weasley, but I really don’t care for the details.
All I know is that Blondie snuck out the other night to try and catch them in
the act, only to get caught by Professor McGonagall himself – like I said, he’s
an idiot.
Anyway,
they served their detention last night. Whatever the four of them did, it must
have been bad, because McGonagall gave them the scariest detention imaginable.
According to Malfoy, Filch led the four of them out of the castle to Hagrid’s
hut, where Hagrid made them walk around the Forbidden Forest. No wonder we’re
made to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts – it’s obviously in case you get
detention and end out in a forest that you’re not supposed to be in and have to
defend yourself.
Blondie
spent most of breakfast boasting about how he wasn’t scared, even when Hagrid
made them split up and he was left with Neville and Fang. I felt sorry for Fang
– made to walk through the Forbidden Forest after he got so scared the other
day… and with Neville and Malfoy too. Poor thing. I’ll make sure that I go and
visit him later. Sorry tangent – oh yeah, so Blondie tells us about the creepy
things that they heard and saw. “Even with the lantern you could barely see
where you were walking, it was that dark,” he told us. Even some Second and
Third-Years gathered around to hear his story. “Something shimmered on the
ground. I knew it could only be one thing. Unicorn’s blood. You shoulda seen
Potter’s face. He nearly fainted.”
“Unicorn’s
blood?” gasped one of the Third-Years. “You mean something out there’s killin’
‘em?” Blondie nodded.
“Yes
– and you know why, don’t you?” he asked. Clearly, he was just trying to show
off. I bet that he didn’t know before he was told last night. “Everyone knows
it’s the most monstrous thing to kill a unicorn…” Then he whispered, “Only one
who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would dare try.”
Okay,
I know that Blondie could be over dramatic sometimes, but that was scary. It
couldn’t be far off. There was definitely something sneaking around in the
forest that scared Fang. And a dead unicorn… something murderous is living in
there. I’m just glad that I’m safe inside the castle. I’m never getting detention.
Not if it means travelling out into the Forbidden Forest (that’s forbidden for
a reason) where you could get attacked by vicious beasts. No way. No thank you.
I’m staying put.
- Josie -
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