Smile, say "cheese", then lie back and cry

Smile, say cheese and then lie back and cry.
By Ahmergin Resinia

"Dear diary,
my problems deepen, what's happening at Hogwarts? Where have the teachers gone? And what is wrong with the students?
They do not speak they do not smile, something's wrong and each day I have to plaster a smile to my face to make me look normal, and at the end of the day I lie back and all I can do is cry.
Its like I'm posing for a photo. What am I going to do, there's only one person I can turn to..."

Lucia lent back, sighed. This diary was scary, it was so deep and it sent shivers through her. She's found it lying on her bed a few days ago. At first she'd thought it was put there by mistake but later on, whilst reading it she'd, for some bizarre reason, thought it was there for a reason.
It was scary, well not scary, and somehow bizarre.
It sent her back to the 1960's, and was written by a witch called Prudence, who like Lucia attended Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. A school which once housed the famous Harry Potter.
Lucia Foster was a Ravenclaw, one of the four houses that the students were separated into.
The diary had described the strange going ons at Hogwarts, it was unbelievable. From what Lucia had read it seemed that the faculty and students of Hogwarts had been put into a trance or something.
It reminded Lucia of the "Body-snatchers".

"Hey, what you doing there?"

Lucia jumped slightly and slammed the diary shut.

"Nothing that concerns you,"

"Hey, calm down, I only asked what you were doing, you don't have to bite my head off!"

Lucia muttered a slight mumble of apology to her best friend Gwenyth and climbed out of the over-stuffed armchair she had settled in.

"Luce, you have a Herbioligy class in five minutes, so hurry up."

"Oh damn,"

Lucia got up, she quickly pushed the diary in her bag, straightened her robes and brushed her fingers through her strawberry-blonde hair.

"I forgot, and and..."

Lucia gasped then rummaged through her bag, her fingers grasped round her Homework and she sighed in relief.

"Thank god,"

Gwenyth watched her friend rush out of the common room, she smiled,

"Typical Luce,"

***
"Oh no!"

Lucia fumbled with the flower plot, the soil flowed freely from a crack at the bottom and the mandrake was getting ready to scream.
Lucia stuck her earmuffs on, and sighed as the mandrake opened its mouth and let its scream crack the surrounding flowerpots.

Oh great isn't my life just dandy!

She watched as Professor Sprout took the mandrake from Lucia's care, she scowled.

"Professor, I could have handled it!" Lucia defended herself that project determined 90% of her grade, and now she'd screwed it up, well.... her parents wouldn't get the report card they wanted.

"I seriously doubt that Miss Foster! 10 points from Ravenclaw from causing such a disruption!"

Lucia collapsed onto her stool and watched as the professor separated the forming crowds and attempted to calm the class.

"Crap!"

"Lucia, thanks for the so-called-disruption, it took her attention from my mandrake, who is going through that all important stage of puberty and who at this moment has tape stuck around its gob to shut it bloody up,"

"Its alright Cole, but wouldn't the tape thing suffocate it?" Lucia replied to the other student.

"Damn it!" Cole cried, flinging his arms in the air and running back to his poor plant.

"Stupid prat,"

***

"Dear diary,
I..."

Lucia stopped reading and turned to see Corrine Ellis, enter the Ravenclaw common room.

"Hiya!" she beamed, dumping her books on the study table.

"Hi," Lucia replied, trying to sound at least a tincy bit enthusiastic.

"Wow, you are depressed,"

"I'm not depressed just stressed, Professor Sprout gave me a D,"

Corrine sat down on the sofa next to Lucia.

"I heard, tough break. The whole "Mandrake thing" I mean,"

"Thanks,"

Suddenly there was a crash as the portrait swung open,

"Quick help me!"