That Stupid Little Red-Headed Twit

Dear Diary,

Alright, I would have written about this sooner, but I just haven’t had the time. Hagrid’s got a DRAGON. A real, fire-breathing dragon named Norbert. Hasn’t Hagrid got any sense? They’re ILLEGAL, and he lives in a wooden house! I mean, I know he’s wanted one, but really!

So we’ve all been down to visit him a lot, helping him feed Norbert and such. The other day, Ron got bit by it, and its fangs must have been poisoned or something, because Ron’s in the Hospital Wing now. Madame Pomfrey is kind of suspicious, but she hasn’t really asked more than once.

Malfoy’s the real problem. He saw Norbert hatch through a crack in Hagrid’s curtains, and now he’s been threatening to go to a teacher. He’s kept quite for now, but I don’t know how long that will last. You see, we contacted Ron’s older brother Charlie who works with dragons in Romania, and he’s sending some friends to take away Norbert tonight. But the problem is, Malfoy took one of Ron’s books, and it had the letter in it! So now Malfoy knows everything! Ugh, he’s so pesky!

And I’m really worried about being caught. Because I know he’ll go to at least Snape, maybe McGonagall. It’s really luck Harry’s got an Invisibility Cloak and Malfoy doesn’t know about it, otherwise I think we’d definitely get caught. With a little luck though, Norbert will be gone by the end of the night and Harry and I won’t get caught.

6 more weeks until exams! I’m slowly starting to calm down about them, now that I’ve got other things to worry about. I’m just hoping most the stress will go away by exam time so I can focus.

Love,
Hermione