The Diary of a Witch, Volume II

THE DIARY OF A WITCH: VOLUME II

CHAPTER 7: MARCH

Monday, March 1, Great Hall, Lunch,

            God, this is embarrassing.

            About four days ago I lost my journal. I’m not even sure how I did it. All I know is that I somehow left it in POTIONS CLASS. It must of fallen out of my shoulder bag, or I left it there earlier when I was doodling a cartoon on it while waiting for class to end after finishing my potion.

            Whatever happened, I went to write in it on Friday and it wasn’t in my bag. I spent the whole day looking for it and most of the weekend questioning people if they’d seen a journal with a marble cover and stickers all over it. No one did. I even put up a notice on the bulletin board at Luna Lovegood’s suggestion because she says her things disappear all the time and she does that when it happens and they usually turn up.

            Then I sat down just now for lunch and SNAPE walks up to me and hands me my journal in front of everyone and tells me to keep better track of my things from now on. Thank God there are protection charms on this thing so I know he couldn’t of read any of the cartoons I did about Potions. None of them complimented the subject.

Tuesday, March 2, DADA,

            More reading from his books.

            Why do I bother coming to this class?

Friday, March 5, Great Hall, Dinner,

            You know what I miss?

            Pizza.

            England has pizza, but it’s not really like the pizza you can find at the States. Plus, they don’t serve it often at Hogwarts. In fact, they don’t serve it at all, despite me showing the house-elves my Mom’s recipe for pizza. She made some awesome pizza.

            Right now I have this huge craving for a greasy pepperoni and mushroom pizza with lots of cheese. But my chances of getting it are very slim. Unless I talk the house-elves into letting me into the kitchen, which I’m sure they would let me do, but considering my cooking skills...it’s probably just better for me to deal with this craving.

            I’m really miss the United States. Sure, it’s loud, obnoxious, and totally commercialized. But you would have no problem finding a nice greasy slice of pizza. Plus, I wouldn’t get weird looks for changing the colors of my bangs like I did last night. This month’s color is magenta, why do people in this school have such problems with expressing yourself? My requests for doing away with uniforms? Totally denied. Along with my request for letting the girls have the option of wearing pants if they wished.

Saturday, March 6, Dorm Room,

            I just saw the first robin of spring today! That means Spring is on it’s way. YES!

            Firenze is still going over water animals with me. I didn’t have to go into the lake this time though because I told him if he thought I was going in there again he had another thing coming. So we just went over the anatomy of whales, their mating habits, what they eat, yadda yadda. Whales are pretty interesting. I’d love to meet one but the chances of that happening are slim as I live no where near a beach.

            I did see a whale once, back when I lived in California. One had washed up on the beach near where I lived when I was like six. I don’t really remember much about it except feeling sorry for the whale because he was covered in oil.

Sunday, March 7, Great Hall, Breakfast,

THINGS TO DO:

1) Potions essay, read potion recipe #115 in book

2) Charms essay, read ch. 11 part b in The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2

3) Transfiguration essay, ten feet

4) Drawing of Mungleroot with labels for Herbology

5) Read book of plant magic for Firenze

6) Help Neville and Professor Sprout repot Mandrakes

7) Clean Gandalfs cage

8) Write letters home

9) Finish sketches of lake and Whomping Willow, ask Dean Thomas about that spell he found to make art move.

Tuesday, March 9, DADA Notes,

ESTIMATES FOR HOW MANY ROBES LOCKHART OWNS:

Me: 50 robes

Mandy Brocklehurst: 40 robes

Padma Patil: 60 robes

Anthony Goldstien: 65 robes

Terry Boot: 45 robes

Seamus Finnigan: 95 robes

Dean Thomas: 85 robes

Neville Longbottom: 90 robes

Ron Weasley: 80 robes

Harry Potter: 70 robes

Hermione Granger: This is completely pointless

Lisa Turpin: I agree with Granger

            Well, excuse me for trying to ease the boredom.

Friday, March 12, Great Hall, Breakfast,

            Ugh.

            I totally overslept and had to run to breakfast.

            Of course I just had to run into Filch who immediately gave me detention. God, he is such a grouch. He’s gotten worse since Mrs. Norris got petrified. I can’t wait until she’s back, then he can go back to being semi-human.

Saturday, March 13, Dorm Room,

            Okay, so if my plant magic is supposed to help me with making potions why do I suck at it so much? You would think it would give me an edge or something but Firenze says it doesn’t help with skill or anything. All it does is allow me to make potions that not even regular potion masters like Professor Snape can make. That bites.

Monday, March 15, Charms,

            There was a notice up on the bulletin board in the Ravenclaw common room this morning to all the second years. We have to chose our new elective courses for next year by the end of Easter holiday. The staff will be giving out mor info on the electives this Friday and we can choose three or four depending on how much we feel we can do.

            To bad DADA is still going to be required or I would be dropping it. I haven’t learned a damn thing this year except that Lockhart is an idiot and if he actually did any of those things he said he did in his books I’ll eat my shoes. But I have to put up with that, along with History of Magic and Potions up until my fifth year, where I can choose to drop the courses unless I need them for my N.E.W.T. classes which start in sixth year.

 

Wednesday, March 17, ST. PATRICKS DAY, Great Hall, Lunch,

            I just spoke with Professor Sprout and she says that the Mandrakes threw a loud bash last night and have been visiting each other in their pots so they’re almost to adult hood! She figures they’ll be full grown and ready for the Restorative Draught by late May sometime.

            Luckily for us Lockhart has been restrained from doing any St. Patricks Day celebration so there are no Leprechauns floating around or shamrocks falling from the ceiling, thank god. I have on four leaf clover earrings and green clips in my hair so I’m set. The only thing that shows it’s St. Patricks day is all the green accessories people have found to put with their uniform and the shamrock shaped cookies the house-elves made for dessert.

Friday, March 19, Common Room,

AVAILABLE ELECTIVES FOR THIRD YEARS:

Ancient Runes

Arithmacy

Care of Magical Creatures

Divination

Latin

Muggle Studies

            I’ve decided to take Ancient Runes, Divination, and Latin for my electives.

            Muggle Studies would be pointless to take because I’m Muggleborn. Arithmacy involves math and we all know how I feel about math. I would take Care of Magical Creatures but I would feel like I was cheating with my Wild Magic because the Weasley twins told me a lot of animals are brought in for show.

            Ancient Runes sounds interesting, it would be cool to know Latin since I use it for spells and charms and whatnot, and Divination would be cool to learn. I seem to be the only one who has no problem with this. Mandy is going over all the pamplet info we were given on the subjects and making up a pro and con list for each one. I told her they were just electives and she just shook her head at me in despair.

            Whatever.

Saturday, March 20, Dorm Room,

            Firenze said Ancient Runes would be a good class for me to take because apparently I can use runes with my Wild Magic! Cool! Too bad I can’t tell Mandy this. Then she would see I’m not just going eeny meeny miny moe with my electives like she implied this morning.

Sunday, March 21, Great Hall, Breakfast,

THINGS TO DO:

1) Finish Herbology essay

2) Finish reading The Diary of Anne Frank

3) Finish all homework

4) Oder tube of white paint

5) Clean Gandalfs cage

6) Check Mandrakes for Professor Sprout

7) Present for Max’s birthday! March 30^th

Wednesday, March 24, Charms,

            What do you get a guy who is one year older then you, who is your friend and fellow Chaser, and a guy whom you’re pretty sure you have a crush on? Or in British speak, fancy. I never have this problem buying stuff for Owen, Terry, and Anthony. Of course I don’t have crushes and any of them, so that might be it.

            I tell you, this buying present thing for the guy you like is the pits.

Friday, March 26, Common Room,

PRESENT IDEAS FOR MAX:

The Chasers Bible (he mentioned he didn’t have it)

Candy

Magic jokes?

Subscription to Quidditch Weekley?

Argh! This is so hard!

Saturday, March 27, Kitchens,

HOW TO GROW A PLANT FROM IT’S SEED IN LESS THEN ONE MINUTE USING WILD MAGIC:

STEP 1: get a seed of some kind and put on the ground. Put water on it, using water charm

STEP 2:place hand over seed and focus all your magic energy on it. Picturing your magic pushing into the seed helps.

STEP 3: push plant magic into seed for real. DO NOT USE ANIMAL MAGIC! WILL CAUSE HEADACHE AND MUTANT SEED! Amount of pressure of your magic will decide how fast it will grow.

STEP 4: remove hand when you feel roots forming and continue to push in magic until it’s grown to the stage you want it in.

            Sounds simple, right? NOT.

            Number of tries with ivy seed: 20.

            Number of sucesses: 1 or ½ since I only managed to get a leaf and that was at the very end of the lesson. I did however get a major headache.

Monday, March 29, Great Hall, Lunch,

ELECTIVES MY FRIENDS ARE TAKING:

Owen: Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes

Hannah: Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies

Mandy: Arithmacy, Ancient Runes, Latin, Muggle Studies

Padma: Arithmacy, Ancient Runes, Latin, Muggle Studies

Terry: Arithmacy, Ancient Runes, Care of Magical Creatures, Latin

Anthony: Arithmacy, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies

Tuesday, March 30, Break, After DADA,

            So I finally just bought Max the Chasers Bible and a box of Chocolate Frog. Then I made him a card that had brooms and Quaffles flying around on it. He seemed to like his gift okay so I guess I did good.

            I also just got the shock of my life. I think Ernie MacMillan may have just admitted he might have been wrong about Harry Potter being the Heir of Slytherin. Somebody call the Daily Prophet.

            Yes, I refrained from saying I told you so. Barely.