Sunday 23rd March
I
really am beginning to lose the will to write in here. Josie always used to
inspire me. I would see her writing in her little book, and it would make me
want to write too. The problem is that I haven’t seen her in over two weeks.
Alright, so I’ve seen her – she’s there on the far side of the room in
Herbology and I see her come and go from the Great Hall, but that’s about it.
She avoids me every single time I try to go near her. I tried to catch up with
her after Herbology on Wednesday, but she ran off so fast. I tried keeping up
with her, but once we got back into the castle, I bumped immediately into
Professor Snape. “No running in the corridors, Miss Frost,” snarled Snape.
“That is how accidents happen.”
“Sorry,
Professor,” I mumbled as I lowered my head. By the time he had moved out of my
way, Josie was gone.
*
Jed
had another detention. In fact, he, Crabbe, Goyle and Blondie all ended out in
detention. Jed and Crabbe were discussing if hexes worked on ghosts – I think
they were trying to figure out if they could hex Professor Binns in our next
History of Magic lesson, when Goyle and Malfoy jumped up from behind them and
used the
Stingktum Alosca hex. Jed and Crabbe screamed, before spinning around and
disarming them with Everte Statum. We were sat outside at the time, so they
appeared to have gotten away with it. That is until Professor McGonagall walked
past just as Jed used the Petrificus Totalus spell on Blondie – luckily for the
both of them, it didn’t work thanks to Jed’s pronunciation, or lack of.
“Edwards!
Malfoy!” Professor McGonagall barked. Any expressions on the boys’ faces
dropped as they turned towards her. “You too Mister Crabbe… Goyle.” The four
boys stood there facing her. “You know better than to mess around with Dark
Arts magic,” she scolded them. “Even if using it in self-defence,” she added
quickly, seeing that Jed was about to retaliate. “Detention. All of you.”
“What?”
groaned Goyle.
“Not
fair,” Crabbe moaned.
“Enough!”
she ordered. “Outside my office tonight, eight o’clock sharp.”
“But
that’s past curfew,” Blondie pointed out.
“You’ll
have more than a late curfew to worry about, Mister Malfoy, if you plan on breaking
anymore school rules. Now off to class – the lot of you,” she projected the
last part in mine, Priscilla, Pansy and Scarlett’s direction; we had been
watching from the side lines.
The
boys’ detentions was a wander around the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid and Fang,
Jed told me later. Nothing unusual happened though. Hagrid pointed out to them
several different species of tree, told them a great deal about spiders and
they caught a glimpse of a centaur in the distance – when it saw them though,
it ran away. Apparently, there hadn’t been any unicorn killings for a while.
Although Hagrid was please, he was also concerned that this was just a lull in
the shadowy figures plan, before he pounced back, twice as badly.
- Josie -
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