The Diary of a Witch, Volume I

Chapter 6: February

Saturday, February 1, Lunch,

 JUBILEE’S LIST OF REASONS WHY FEBRUARY SUCKS:

1) It’s cold and gray and cold. There’s rarely any snow so you don’t have that to make it worth your while.

2) There’s rain, rain, and more rain. Day after day. It’s like England is cast in a shadow until March 1.

 -Technically, Jubilee, we’re in Scotland, not England.

-Owen, it doesn’t matter WHERE we are. The weather is the same. Now do you mind? I’m trying to make a point.

 -Sorry.

3) There are no interesting holidays at all. I’m sorry but Valentines Day is NOT a holiday. It’s an excuse for the card, candy, and flower companies to make a fortune off innocent couples in love.

4) It’s too warm to skate on any lakes because they’re all unfrozen by now. It’s too cold to do anything like play soccer. Not that I play soccer, I just know this because the soccer players at my old school kept complaining about it.

 -What’s soccer?

 -You’re kidding, right Mandy?

 -No. What is it?

 -It’s a muggle sport. Though in England they call it football.

 -How come?

-I don’t know. It’s one of those cultural things. Can I get back to my reasons please?

 -Oh, sure.

5) NOTHING ever happens in February. You ever hear of a event happening this month? No. Why? Because everyone’s inside avoiding the depressing weather outside.

Tuesday, February 4, Notes in DADA class,

-Hey, Mandy.

 -Jubilee, what are you doing?

-Passing notes. I’m bored.

 -We’re going to get caught.

-No, we aren’t it’s Quirrel for crying out loud.

-True. Did you catch that last part he said? I couldn’t understand him through all the stuttering.

-It’ll be in the Vampire chapter. Why are you bothering to take notes anyway? He just lectures from the book like Binns. The only difference is that he stutters.

 -Not to mention, he’s not dead.

-I don’t know. He could be a zombie or something. There was this weird smell coming from his turban when I tried to talk to him about my essay last week.

 -He’s not a zombie. What you smelled was probably garlic.

-HUH? How do you know that?

-Please. It’s old news. The Weasley twins told me he keeps garlic under his turban to ward off this vampire he fought and is afraid will come after him for revenge.

-Oh, please.

 -What?

-QUIRREL??? Fighting a vampire?

 -Jubilee, he IS our DADA teacher. Dumbledore had to have hired him for a reason.

-Sure he had a reason. He needed a DADA teacher badly. It’s not exactly the most sought after position what with people saying the job is cursed and all. Can you really see Quirrel fighting a vampire and winning?:

 -Good point. Oh, damn. I missed the next part of the lecture and now I’m totally lost.

-Relax, he’ll be starting to talk about different types of staking methods for Vampires.

 -Okay, HOW did you know that?

-I told you: he lectures from the book.

Friday, February, Lunch,

 Well, the Gryffindor v.s. Hufflepuff game is on February 22. I think I’m going to stay neutral for this game. While I do sort of want Hufflepuff to win because I have friends in the house I honestly think that Gryffindor is a better team because they practice more and just plain want the cup more. Never underestimate the power of will I always say. According to Fred and George Oliver Wood has been running the team ragged.

 Really, the game will depend on who catches the Snitch first in my opinion. While Hufflepuff’s seeker, Cedric Diggory ( a second year), is good I don’t think he’s as good as Potter.

Monday, February 10, Charms,

 Am I the only girl around here who hates Valentines Day? Well, hate is maybe a bit strong, but I do think it’s a useless holiday. Love is a great thing and all but do you really need a day to celebrate it? I’m of the theory that you should celebrate the idea of love everyday. Not with candy, cards, and chocolate (though that is nice), but with actions and words. Corny, I know but the whole aspect of Valentines Day is a bit corny when you think about it.

Plus, what if you don’t have a significant other and are single? Or you don’t have any friends that will give you candy or cards. Then the holiday can get pretty lonely. The idea of the holiday is nice and all but I think it got ruined by commercialism

Mandy doesn’t seem to see it that way though because this morning at breakfast she was chatting away about the cards she was giving. Then she said in a teasing voice, “so are you getting Owen anything?”

 I just kind of looked at her and said, “why would I get Owen anything for Valentines Day. It’s not like he’s my boyfriend.”

 “Oh Jubilee. You’re hopeless,” she said exasperately and then left for class.

 What? Why am I hopeless?

 Sometimes I feel like Mandy and I speak a totally different language.

Friday, February 14, Lunch,

 Apparently, I’m the only girl besides Granger who hasn’t turned into a giggling idiot. I have acknowledged it’s Valentines Day by wearing red heart earrings and a pink, red, and white beaded choker. I even put pink streaks in with my purple bangs for the occasion. After much badgering by Mandy and Hannah I made Valentines for everyone with marble covers in pink, purple, and red colors. I found this charm that makes them marble swirl around.

 But that’s as far as I went.

 Mandy gave everyone cards and candy hearts. The candy hearts are magic ones so the sayings change every few seconds. Hannah gave cards and chocolate hearts. You could tell the boys totally forgot about the holiday. When Padma gave Terry Boot his card and heart lollipop he just kind of took it with a confused look. Padma was disappointed because she has a crush on him. At least that’s what Mandy told me.

 Everywhere you look there seem to be people paired up boy and girl. It’s like Noah’s Ark with humans and minus the big boat and angry god. I’m not looking forward to being a teenager either because they seem to be a bunch of hormonal nuts. I’ve come across three making out couples already.

 I hope I don’t act like that when I turn thirteen.

Monday, February 17, Dorm Room,

 Remember how I said Gryffindor was going to win?

 I take it back.

 SNAPE is going to be refereeing the game on Saturday.

 Yes. As in PROFESSOR SNAPE, Mr. Greasy potions master himself.

 I just ran into Fred and George and they told me that Wood said he’s refereeing. How’d he manage to weasel his way that gig? What’s he doing refereeing anyway? Does he even know anything about Quidditch?

Potter might want to break his leg or something before the game because if Snape is refereeing, he’s pretty much doomed.

Saturday, February 22, Common Room,

 I don’t believe it.

 Gyffindor won. Despite the Snape factor.

 The game only lasted FIVE MINUTES. I’m serious.

 I think part of the reason Snape couldn’t try anything was that Dumbledore was there. Having a guy as powerful as Lord Voldemort can put a damper on things. You could tell by the angry look on his face he wasn’t happy about this.

 Not that he didn’t try to do something, like ten seconds into the game he gave a penalty to Hufflepuff because George had hit a Bludger in his direction (he swore to me afterwards it was by accident, I don’t know though). Another minute later he gave another penalty to Hufflepuff for some off the wall reason that made no sense whatsoever.

But it was no use because four minutes later Potter caught the Snitch (narrowly missing Snape, might I add).

 That wasn’t the best part however. The best part happened in the stands: Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom beat up Malfoy and his cronies. Well, they beat up Malfoy anyway. I’m glad Neville was able to get Malfoy back for some of the mean stuff he’s said about him. The fact that Malfoy picks on Neville who is one of the sweetest boys around just proves that he’s scum.

So the next game will be Ravenclaw v.s. Hufflepuff to determine who will be playing Gryffindor in the Quidditch final.

GO RAVENCLAW!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, February 24, Hallway Bench,

 That was weird.

 Ron Weasley just told off a kid for doing a Quirrel impression (not a bad one either, if I do say so myself). I knew he had a temper but I didn’t know he liked Quirrel that much.

 Weird.

Tuesday, February 25, Dinner,

 You know, I could be wrong, but I think Snape is following Quirrel around. Every time I’ve seen Quirrel I’ve seen Snape. Except for DADA classes. But for all I know he could know how to be invisible. God, there’s a scary thought: a invisible Snape. Well, this does prove something: they’re not working together to get the whatever in the third floor corridor. So now the question is are both of them after it, or is one trying to stop the other?

Friday, February 28, Potions,

 Another boring potions class of listening to Sna-

 -Jubilee, I need help!

 -Hannah! Are you nuts? If Snape catches us passing notes we’re dead.

 -He won’t catch us, he’s on the other side of the room.

-SO!!!??? The guy has sonic ears like Superman. HE WILL CATCH US. And what do you need help with?

 -The latest Charm we’re going over. I can’t get it work. And who’s Superman?

-Superman is a muggle comic book character and I’ll help you AFTER CLASS when I’m not risking my neck-uh oh.