I wonder if Slytherin will win on Saturday. I don't care for Quidditch particularly, but it's always nice when one's house does well. We've had a good run this year so far. Maybe we'll win the House Cup.

I can't wait to see my daddy! He's coming to the station to pick me up.

Happy Halloween!

The Halloween Hogsmeade weekend is always the best one. The village is so enchanting with decorations up - even more so than at Christmas. I like being scared, a little. Sometimes I get too scared and I need someone to hold my hand, but luckily there is usually some kind man willing to oblige.

Private
I just wish Avery would leave me alone. It's almost every Hogsmeade weekend, and it puts a damper on the whole thing. I don't like it. He doesn't taste right. Not like my daddy. And he isn't kind like my daddy. He threatens me. He's hateful.

I haven't been myself the last few days. It was my first funeral - they didn't think it was appropriate to take me to my mother's, because I was only three. I thought it was supposed to give you closure, the funeral, but I don't feel any. I almost feel less. I can't get over Regulus being murdered, and no-one knows who did it, and everyone was so sad, and it just... it feels wrong. He was too young. I'm going to miss him. I don't make friends easily and he was always special. Funny how so many people are upset, and yet I feel so alone.

I can't wait to go home.

My daddy is the best daddy in the world. I miss him when I am at Hogwarts. I sent him a card, but it is not the same. I want to bring him breakfast in bed and show him I am learning how to be a good wife.

Professor Slughorn seems very jumpy. I came up behind him when I went to speak to him today about the Potions homework, and he nearly leaped out of his skin. I think maybe he should make better use of calming potions. He shouldn't need a holiday yet, we only just got back.

I can't believe they've changed the name of Madam Malkin's to Bitches' britches. Who's going to go there now?!

The flowers are beautiful but it gets lonely in the fields.

Everything is so busy here, so frantic. You would think it would be quieter with all this revision going on, but the 5th and 7th years are so tense.

Private
Is it true what they say? That no man will come near a woman unless she invites him to? Daddy would be so disappointed in me. I have been raised better than to go off alone with a man. They can't help it. I can. I must. But what else can I-

I don't know how to talk to them anymore. The men. How do you talk to them without inviting them?

Hexed to female eyes only

It's a little early, but if I need to buy anything new I should think about ordering now. What should I wear on a first date, going to Madam Puddifoot's?

I don't like April. The weather is too changeable. I'll leave the castle in beaming sun and return in pouring rain.

Almost May.

I had the strangest dream last night. I had wings but I wasn't a bird. And I was naked. And there was another naked girl with wings too. And we-

I come of age today. I feel a pressing need to apparate or perform magic outside of Hogwarts, just because I can. Except, well I can't right now, because I'm at Hogwarts. I may have to settle for a 'proper' drink in Hogsmeade on Saturday. I don't really know anything about alcohol, though. What's nice?

Thank you for my beautiful flowers! I don't know if it's more flattering to imagine they all came from one person of from several. I am choosing to believe at least one bouquet was not from my Daddy, anyway.

It's beautiful out there. I can't stop looking at it, so fresh and white and pure. I want to make the most of it. Soon I'll have to go to class, and that will be the end. It will get all messed up with footprints by the time the first lesson is done.

I hurt my toe.

I thought I would get some new perfume for Christmas, but I did not, so I will have to buy some. I think I am bored of musk, though. What other scents do you think are alluring nice? Bonus points if you have ideas for something that might suit me.

The fairy on the Christmas tree looks awfully uncomfortable.