She turned me into a newt!

It's only five more days until my birthday!

I can't believe I'm going to be fifteen. I feel like I should be feeling old or something.

I MADE THE QUIDDITCH TEAM!!!

Oh my God.

Quidditch tryouts are tomorrow! I mean, I knew they were coming up but I saw people going out for Gryffindor's today and then it reminded me that tomorrow is my tryout and I really want to do well and I really think I want to play Quidditch but what if I make a fool of myself in front of everything and fall off my broom because there's more to Quidditch than being able to throw and catch a ball?

Maybe this wasn't a good idea, after all.

Wow.

Just...wow.

I really didn't see that one coming.

One week and we'll be back in school! Can you believe it?

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I know what happened to Mr Fortescue.

Okay. no I don't, but we went down to Diagon Alley today to buy my supplies (I'm going to be a fourth year! Can you believe it?!) and I ran into Nora O'Malley. Apparently it was a popular shopping day. And her theory is that Mr Fortescue was abducted by aliens from Pluto whose life force is ice cream except they've all run out and they heard his was the best and he's the only one who can save their race from extinction.

Well...now I know Nora doesn't listen in Astronomy at all since there are no aliens on Pluto.

You know, despite her, I'm really looking forward to going back to school.

Has anyone been watching this year's Olympics? Yes, Stacey. They all have. That's what a bunch of wizards do with their time, you know. Don't be daft Or...maybe not. But if you have, we've really not been doing so well this year. As much as I like watching the sport, it's kind of depressing to watch the telly and hear we've hardly won any medals thus far.

Still, it's a way to pass the time.

You know, whenever I watch sporting events - especially football for some odd reason, it makes me think to Quidditch again. Which...I've never really played, but I might like to. Maybe I'll try out for the House team next year. What's the worst that could happen?

It's kind of depressing how cold and foggy it's been this summer. I haven't burnt yet, and while I can't complain about that, it really has been much too dreary to justify a day trip to the beach. Or a picnic. Or...anything, really.

So, since outside really isn't fun right now...tell me something interesting and I'll do the same for you!

So! I was listening to the radio today and I heard this brand new song that was released today and I don't know all the words except the chorus but it is sooooo amazing and I can't stop singing it and Sam keeps telling me to shut up but I like it too much too!

♪ If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever friendship never ends,
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give,
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is. ♪

I have to go buy this single! It's so catchy!

I just found my journal a couple days ago. I guess I packed it way down in the bottom of my trunk. But it's good that I found it because I was kind of afraid Nora would filch it or something, just because she'd do that sort of thing.

I really don't understand what's going on and I know I don't like how foggy it is. Well, part of me doesn't mind because I'm not getting sunburned, but I like the sun better anyway.

How is everyone's summer?

Um, wow.

I know Professor Umbridge hasn't always been the nicest person to people, and I don't think I learnt near as much in DADA this year as I did from Professor Lupin and Professor Moody, but...I don't know.

Didn't that seem kind of mean? Or am I the only one that thought so?

Oh, my brother sent me a thank you owl for the birthday present I sent him, because his birthday was just a couple days ago. It's really kind of weird, because my brother and my two cousins, Jodi and Scott were all born on the 6th except in different month. I'm the only one from our generation that was born on the seventh. And I'm also the only one who's a witch. And that probably doesn't mean anything, but it still looks weird when you look at it like that.

It's kind of amazing how much people are freaking out over exams. I mean, I guess I probably will when I'm taking them too, and I'm really glad I'm not taking them this year. My own exams are hard enough!

I think I'm going to go talk Alice into playing Scrabble with me.

I still think something is fishy about that Quidditch game and I don't care if anyone gets mad at me for saying that! You know, ever since I started here at Hogwarts Gryffindor always won everything. And I don't get it. Why are they better than anyone else? When Professor Dumbledore was here it seemed like he liked the Gryffindors best. And now that he's gone, they're still winning everything and that's really not fair to everyone else. I mean, I know it would have been very hard for us to get the Quidditch Cup, but I was kind of really hoping Hufflepuff would get it if we couldn't.

I think I'm going to try to earn lots of points before the term ends so we can win the House Cup!

My roommate is insane! It's one thing to join everyone else in a school-wide rebellion, but if you put your full name on your trouble-making you're going to get caught! Just watch, she'll be the one that lets filch finally break in that stupid whip he's been carrying around since the Weasley twins leave, and with our luck, our whole room will get blamed because we can't keep Nora under control or some rot.

I hate this stupid rebellion and the madness and everything and I want to go home!

It's May Day! And May. Isn't it kind of funny how fast this year has been going by? Maybe it's just because so much has happened this year.

This week, especially has been rather crazy. I got hit with a hex on Wednesday from some people trying to defy Professor Umbridge or whatever this is all about and I had to spend the night in the hospital wing. I'm not sure I like how wild everyone's become if innocent people are going to get hurt in the process.

I was looking at those career pamphlets left out in our Common Room for the fifth and Seventh years and wow, I didn't know there were so many different types of jobs here in the wizarding world! Well, I guess there would be, but still, it's amazing to see things like "Security Troll Trainer" on a career pamphlet. The one about the Runes translator looks interesting, though! I'm definitely going to keep doing my best in the class and see if I still like it a few years from now.

HAPPY EASTER, EVERYBODY!

Can I just say how much I love Cadbury chocolates?

Okay, so...I'm really, really confused. Does anyone know where Headmaster Dumbledore went? And why is Professor Umbridge the Headmistress now. Is she still going to teach Defence, then?

I feel like I must have missed something.

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Okay, so I've been thinking about those survey things, and people have been kind of quiet since them, so I'm wondering if they might have really made people upset or worried that people are thinking bad things about them. So I decided I would do my own survey, but I would do it a little bit different.

1) Your closest friends are soooo lucky because you're one of the sweetest people I know.
2) You have beautiful eyes!
3) I think you're a really nice person and very sensible, too.
4) You are amazing out there on the Quidditch Pitch!
5) Well, I think it's good that you're loyal to your beliefs.
6) I think you're a really strong person and I really admire you.
7) You always look like you're having so much fun.
8) I think people are meaner to you than they should be because you really care about people and always mean best.
9) I think you're nicer than you like to pretend to be.
10) You're so nice and sweet and really creative!

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Why are there plants in the Great Hall? Did I miss something?

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Did anyone hear about what happened in Dunblane yesterday? If you didn't, my family wrote me about it and some unemployed shopkeeper shot a bunch of people - children in a primary school.

I don't get it. It's a bad thing to hurt anyone, but I don't get why anyone would want to hurt children. They've never done anything to anybody and if you're unhappy with your own life, I don't think you should take it out on other people. It's just...horrible!

I think the world would be a much nicer place if we were all nicer to each other. So let's do that! Unity and friendship are good things.

In other news, centaur divination is even more impossible than Professor Trelawney's divination. What's going to happen if I end up failing the class? I've never failed a class before, but even when people help I really, really don't get it!

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