Ron Weasley

You'll never believe. An owl came last night and brought me a new broom.

Well, not a new broom, but a good one.

It's a Cleansweep 7.

Finnicky looked dead sick when he saw it, too. We were all sat about in the common room when it came.

I wonder if Mr Rosier's the one that sent it.

Good show. It was loads of fun last night.

That's a nift set of Snap cards, yeah?

My robes kind of reek of that cigar, though, today. I thought it'd've faded overnight, but they're still pretty musty now.

Those Irish Chasers are awesome!!!

Good show, red team. We were hexin wiz out there!

And I've gotta say. I've never seen robes like that before! Maybe Ms Peel could teach defence if Professor Raz doesn't come back. Y'know what I mean?

Er, not that I don't want him to come back. But if he doesn't. Since he hasn't said.

Hey, Fish-eye.

That's the most sorcerously awesome thing I've ever got for a birthday!! I hear the Cannons' exhibition days are wiznift to the moon. There's the exhibition match, of course, but then there are all sorts of competitions for the fans, and the Cannons all stand out on the pitch and sign autographs on anything you bring--well, anything you can write on, anywiz. I heard one time, someone brought their cat and wanted Morrison to sign that, but Morrison wouldn't do it because the spell they wanted him to use would've been permanent and he didn't want to hurt the cat.

Two tickets! You're the best, Pans. I can't wait for June!!!

I got a letter this morning at breakfast from my brother Charlie, but I didn't want to read it then in front so I only just pulled it out and had a look and it wa d'you know what he says?

He's coming to Hogwarts next weekend for the YPL meeting!!

I guess Professor Sinistra invited some people who work with dangerous creatures, so Charlie's coming to talk about being a dragon handler!

How dead awesome is that?!!


Anybody know if there's a sign-up list yet?

Blackpool was sorcerous, mate! Thank your gran for letting you invite us!

I really liked the diving with dolphins pool--it was amazing when they cast the Bubblehead charm on everybody! I've never seen Fred and George look so funny! (Too bad Percy was off with his girlfriend--his head's big like that all the time, so he'd have been a natural.)

Anyway, I liked the games and the promenade, too, and all the buskers. I mean, some of the stuff was too wizard for Weymouth.

Too bad about Evelyn's friend and that fortune-telling stall, though. She looked white as a sheet after that! Almost as pale as Perks after that last rollercoaster ride, except hers was a kind of green-colour, wasn't it?

The twins said they're going to try making some enchanted hats like those jester ones we saw--and I bet they totally do it. And those single-seater flying carpets? They could probably make some of those, too. I bet they could move to Blackpool and make a million galleons!

Anyway, the games were wicked, too. I thought Wood was for sure going to win that ginormous stuffed dragon in the Catch the Quaffle stall. If he'd just had a bit more time, he'd have done it, too. Of course, the erumpent he did win was big enough. I thought Ginny's eyes would pop out of her head when she saw it! I wonder if they got that back through the Floo with them!!

So, yeah, it was an awesome day. My Mum says I should save something to say in my thank you note to your gran, but tell her thanks now, too, yeah? A dead wicked day!!

Enough already! I can't answer everybody's questions one at a time! So you want to know what happened last night? Good thing about study hall is I can tell you all about it now!


First of all, Draco Malfoy is the biggest coward on the planet!

Didn't know you could run that fast, Malfoy! And I hate to break it to you: you scream like a girl! Only louder.

I'll admit, it was dead serious out there. I cant believe they made us go in there. I mean, it's clear why that forest is forbidden, innit? It was just totally BLACK in the parts where the trees are really thick and the trees were seriously huge! (Sally Anne, you'd have loved some of it, but you want to go during the day so you can see it all and not just feel like you're some creature's midnight snack. Im telling you, every step we took, something out there growled or hooted or screeched.)

So we were snipping branches, making a path, and pulling stuff out of this clearing, and Mr Lupin went off and left us with Professor Macnair, and then we started hearing noises, which Macnair said were just Lupin setting bait or something, but all of a sudden there's this huge crash and this thing, this totally sorcerous BLACK thing with enormous teeth comes snarling and tearing out of the trees right at us! I was just stood there frozen, but Malfoy lets this bloody great scream and runs off -- and so of course the thing tears off after him.

After that it was pretty confusing. Professor Macnair said I should stay there, and he ran off after Malfoy. I thought I should at least get out of the middle of that clearing, I mean I was just a meal waiting for something to come eat me, wasn't I? But I didn't know where to go and all of a sudden there were Centaurs. -- Pansy, have you ever seen one? They come in all colours, but there was this one really enormous black one that grabbed hold of me and wanted to know what I was about. They have bows and arrows and they're not very nice, but I was okay because pretty soon Mr Lupin found us and talked to the centaurs and they let go of me. And when we got back to the clearing, there were loads more centaurs all talking to Harry Marvolo, but I couldn't really understand what they'd been talking about. It was all stuff like 'Mars is bright tonight -- unusually bright' and something about the innocent being the first to die and a load of other stuff that didn't make sense. Then Professor Macnair dragged Malfoy back - he looked like he might faint when he saw the Centaurs -- and Macnair took hold of Marvolo and marched us all out of the forest together.

And that was pretty much it. I don't know if Marvolo's in trouble for following us out there. Now it's all over, I think it might have been the wickedest detention ever!