Thank Lakshmi!

[alt_padma]

And thank Madam Pomfrey, too!

What a relief! I had such trouble falling asleep last night because I kept imagining my hair growing back and wondering whether it'd be painful, or feel like a million centipedes crawling over my head (which was really dreadful, once I'd thought of it - UGH!) or whether it'd just all come back in a rush... and then I fell asleep finally and this morning - IT WAS ALL BACK!

It's so nice to be able to look in a mirror again without cringing.

Anyway. It's already all over school about Ollivander. I just can't understand why a boy would go after a mudblood, and one as ugly as Granger, at that! (No offence, Marvolo, but your mudblood really oughtn't be a threat to anyone that way, she's just not much to look at.)

But I guess boys are like that sometimes. At least that's what Mum says. And Dames, she had a lot to say on the subject, but then she went out with Ollivander for a bit, I guess, over the summer.


Well, anyway, I'm back to normal, hooray. And off to lessons!

Comments

[alt_lavender]

You're all right again? Hurrah, that's wizard! Parvati and I can't wait to see you and admire it.

[alt_padma]

Yes, but now Malfoy's mudblood is dead and classes are cancelled today - and I'm not sure it's safe to even leave the dormitories!

Malfoy thinks Ollivander did it, but he's been petrified too! Do you think they're going to send us all home? How can they with the quarantine on?

[alt_lavender]

I think I must have been the last person to find out--I was almost to Charms when Professor Acton came out and told all of us in the corridor to go back to the Tower, and she actually walked back with us!

I wanted to ask her what it was all about but she looked so stern and Professor Acton hardly ever looks stern!

It's giving me the Shudders to think that a killer was roaming the school while we were on our way to lessons.

[alt_padma]

Well, we don't know for sure that the monster killed Dennis.

I mean, one thing that could have happened is Dennis's magic came out so strong that it killed him.

Or Dennis could have used his magic some other way, and Ollivander killed him. I mean really, someone who's capable of doing...what he did...is capable of nearly anything, right?

Or maybe the monster killed him.

Or maybe the monster gave Dennis a heart attack.

It could make a big difference.

[alt_lavender]

But then how did Ollivander get petrified?

Any way you look at it, it is scary and horrid!

And you're right, I don't think they can send us home because of the sickness. So we're trapped here with something dangerous!

[alt_sally_anne]

Maybe someone petrified Ollivander and Dennis saw him, and so that person killed Dennis so Dennis couldn't say what he saw.

[alt_padma]

Right, it could have been anything..