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Listen, Blaise and I got to chatting after this afternoon's revision session and I thought you might like to start revising Defence as well. Since it relates closely to Noble Arts, you know?

Anyway. We're going to start meeting on Wednesdays instead of History Club and if you want to come, you'd be welcome. We might even invite one or two other people--select people, I mean, not just anyone--to use one of the empty classrooms up on the 4^th floor when it's useful to practise.

Finch-Fletchley, if you come, could you bring that book you mentioned this afternoon? The one about spells that activate over long distances.

Also, Finch-Fletchley, has Macmillan gone completely mental? All through Charms he was positively staring at Jones. He cannot be serious. Tell me he was watching her because he was wondering what she's doing back here this year and not for the reason it looked like.

Seamus, I've got the magazine you wanted to read. I'll give it to you at lunch, all right?

are certainly informative. I think one thing that's so interesting is how the Houses are made up, purebloods compared to others.

I think it might be interesting to have a meal where we keep Order of Precedence in the mixed Houses, but I have a feeling you'd see loads of groupings. It would be instructive, though.

Daphs, the revue is really coming along. I can't believe we got through all of Act I with only a few stops! It's so nift to see who's really there, who still needs time, and who thinks they've got it but really still needs time. I think we might be close to the point where we might invite a few of the younger years in to a rehearsal, so people can start to get the feel of an audience.

I'm also probably the only one, but I'm starting to look forward to O.W.L. exams. If for no other reason than to have them over and done! But I do feel like there's light at the end of the tunnel, anyway.

Where are you revising today? Because if I have to sit and listen to Davies go on any longer about how terrible Diggory was to Chang I may just vom.

He brought her round the Corner again this afternoon. And she's still telling anyone who'll listen that Diggory dumped her by journal and he's only thinking about his career and she's 'holding him back' according to what he told her and UGH.

I liked Chang much better when she wasn't such a watering pot. And Davies has been playing the supportive 'friend'--as if he's interested in her as a 'friend'! I hope she knows he's going to dump her too, as soon as something else catches his eye.

Anyway. I just can't go back to the Corner after Prefects' meeting. Where do you reckon we can meet instead?

Are you in the hospital wing, Miss? Because we're trying to get Corner to come up to you. Only he keeps going the wrong way and bumping into the walls.

I think we're going to have to carry him.

Oh, good. Cox just came round. He can help.

I thought History Club went really well, don't you? I'm glad we decided to focus on more recent stuff this year, I think it's well relevant compared to, say, wars from three hundred years ago or something.

I wish we were going to Hogsmeade this weekend instead of next! You've got your forms from Mr Rosier, right? Only Midgen hasn't got hers yet and she's been moaning about it for days. This morning she got an owl and she was positively beaming, but then it turned out it was just a letter from her foster parents telling her they'd had a note from Professor Acton. She'd written them because Midgen's marks are well lower than last year's! Her face got all red and I've never seen anyone go from smile to scowl quite so fast! At least they didn't send her a Howler, for her sake, but it would have been well classic if they had done!

Are you up for revising tonight or are you going to sit with Hooper again? Isn't it funny his taking an interest in helping you with Arithmancy like that? Well, it's making an improvement, whatever he's done. Only if you're going to revise with him I'll tell Thomas that it's a Ravenclaw Corner night. So let me know?

did rather well. Karoline's script is already well strong but she's taking all the suggestions people had and putting them into the third draft. Or maybe it's the fourth. Anyway, it's going to be brilliant.

And I think everyone's going to really enjoy a chance to have some fun, particularly after all the trouble last week! Honestly, you'd think Derwent and Yaxley were trying out for 'The Witches of Wormwood' or something, the way they were carrying on. And Sandoval has been beyond insufferable! It's just as well he told Dames he'd not be coming to Ravenclaw Corner anymore, because it's been the only place where no one's come looking to throttle him all weekend. Only I think Dames would let him come back if he'd start talking sense, which sort of worries me, because honestly I think his behaviour has been deplorable. Not just getting Derwent and Yaxley and even Chambers all ill like that, but the way he treated them afterward, as if it was their fault for snogging him and not his at all!

I mean, by comparison, really anything our year's done has been trivial. Well - I can think of one or two people who've done terrible things and deserve what they've got.

But anyway, I think we've got the Corner all straightened out now, especially after Dames and I talked to Madam Pince (and thanks for that advice, Lana!).

I can't believe it's already more than a week into October! Oh, and Finnigan, we'll be revising with the others tonight - at least for a little while. It gets too crowded in that classroom, though, so we might just take a smaller group nearby for a little more room. (Honestly, we might just as well tell everyone to go to the Great Hall when it's that many people!)

Well, I went to that revising session last night. It was mostly firsties and a few second-years who either desperately needed help or simply didn't know Perks or Parkinson very well.

But it wasn't too bad. D'you think they realise that only one of them can be made prefect?

But that's why I'm writing to you two. It is the sort of thing that could get taken into consideration next year when they look for people to make prefect. I mean, not that I think you'll have any trouble, Malfoy, if you wanted to be made one. But if these revision groups become popular then it might look odd if you're not part of them. And Finnigan, I think it'd be good if you came. I mean, right now it's probably between you and Thomas, I mean if they had to decide today, and unfortunately Thomas mostly gets slightly better marks. And I certainly don't want the two of them to think they'll have a load of younger students who worship them because they're so kind as to help them out!

It's like with Ravenclaw Corner, right? We should make it a privilege to spend time with older students. So, I was thinking, maybe we go to their sessions for a while and figure out who the best ones are, and then in a few weeks we tell those students that we're interested in keeping them on but in a different, more exclusive, group. Then we still get credit for helping the younger students, they're super-grateful because they got singled out, and if Parkinson and Perks want to keep on with the others, well, maybe we keep going but mainly to figure out which ones to pull away?

What do you think?

for the year. It's really hard to think that exams are next week, and then we'll be done. And in third year next year. I'm still trying to catch up on the week we missed because of Sanji.

And I'm thinking about Sanji a little more today. Parkinson came to the table this morning to ask if we could talk somewhere, before lessons. And she wanted Parvati, too, so that we'd be together.

I guess I'm really not sure what to think about what she said. I don't think she'd have any reason to lie - I mean, it's clear she was telling us the truth, she was way too upset for it to be anything else, and plus everyone knows Mr Malfoy met with her again yesterday, so I guess he told her so she'd know, and she wanted to tell us. Which was very decent of her, really, even though it was a terrible thing to have to say.

But Parkinson, we know it's not your fault. I don't think you'd ever have told him to do something like that, it's too awful. I guess...if there's anything I will say, and please don't take this the wrong way, but it always did seem as if he was a little...wrong. In the head, I mean. Not just because it seemed like he'd rather tell jokes that were old and stupid when we weren't even firsties. But all those weird things he wrote, and all the time he spent being, well, you know, sort of creepy. And the fact that he even talked to his brother. I mean, I know you considered him a friend, and all, but...well, maybe it will make you think twice about making other friends like him, is all.

And I don't mean that to sound cruel. It's sad, really, that he was so sick, and that hurting himself was the only way he could keep from doing those horrid things. And I know you're sad that he's gone. But I'm not. And I hope that doesn't mean we're going to start quarrelling again, but I think you can understand why. I just wish...I wish that if they'd known about it, they could have stopped him before. It seems like someone should have been able to stop him.

So, yeah, it's a lot to think about. And I'm really not sure how I feel about it all right now. I think I can't really worry about it until exams are over - which really is rather unfortunate, because it's going to be hard to concentrate on revising with something like this hanging over our heads.

Mum, Dad, I'm sending you an owl, so this'll make a little more sense when you get it. At least, Pansy didn't say it was a secret, and she even said that Mr Malfoy told her so that she'd know before everyone else did, so I figure it's going to be public soon enough. But someone ought to tell you both, too, and not in the papers.

Anyway. I guess I'll go revise after lunch. Maybe outside for a while, since it's nice out. Morag, Su Li, Belinda and Linus are coming, too. Anyone else want to come along? Finnigan? Malfoy? Marvolo? We'll probably be out by the big rock most of the afternoon, it's nice and shady there.

Although we're still having to use that horrid shampoo, but only as a precaution now. At least it's the weekend, and Sandoval said at breakfast this morning that as we've been generally spared the invasion of insects ever since putting up the runes, she's reopening Ravenclaw Corner today.

And Morag, honestly, it's nothing personal. If you had the chance to revise with Troy and Sandoval and Johns and the others, you'd take it too, you know you would. And if you'd make a little more of an effort, you might be invited next year, and then you'd see for yourself it's really so much more fun than revising with - well, well people who aren't as much help to you as you are to them.

Anyway, I still spend loads of time with you and Dunstan and Moon, and anyway it'll be summer soon and we'll get together plenty at the holidays. And Parvati and my birthday is coming up, too! We've asked Mum and Dad if the quarantine is lifted, if they'd send up a real traditional meal and we'll invite all our friends. That'll be nift. And it looks like the quarantine will be lifted soon enough, so I think it's not even a waste of time to think about it.

Oh, and Mum, if Sanji keeps whinging about getting a puppy, tell him he'll just have to leave it home when he comes to school, anyway. It's too bad he's already thinking about his birthday - it's ages away. I guess it's unavoidable whenever we start planning for ours.

because DUELLING CLUB is tomorrow!

I can't wait. I don't even care if we have a quiz in Herbology or something tomorrow (and if you're reading this, Professor Sprout, please don't take that as a hint).

It doesn't even matter that Troy and Capper told me to go somewhere besides Ravenclaw Corner tonight, and that Morag wasn't around when Belinda and Linus and I went looking for her. We're back in the common room now, planning out all the spells we can think of. Moon says it's sort of like chess, but faster and you need to know ahead of time what can counter what.

It's going to to be so utterly nift. I wonder what Professor Lockhart will wear? I bet he looks especially dashing!

(Oh, and did anyone else read Fawcett's entry where she says she's looking for more charms to replace the ones she bought earlier? She's sure someone will get attacked before the end of the term - I mean, honestly, how ridiculous. I think it was just a horrid joke and whoever it was is too busy revising now to go to any more trouble.)

and its really gone to his head. The OWL students were really horrible this weekend. They stayed in the Common Room all night and kept sending us first-years to fetch them things. Finally Fawcett said she was done running there errants for them and from now on they could go to the library themselves. And Green said 'quite right' but no one else agreed with her and they all started arguing about it.

Then Bobolis came down with his new Prefect badge all polished up and told us off for starting fights, which we didnt and anyway it was Fawcett started anything. The rest of us hadnt done any thing at all. But he said we were disturbing the fifth-years trying to revise, when we were just doing our own homework. We do have homework, still.

Also, he hexed Fawcett with a really amazing silencing charm to 'make an example' of her. I mean, it would of been amazing if he hadnt been so shirty to the rest of us. It actually made her lips fuse together for a few minutes until his sister (she's a prefect, to) took the hex off for her.

It was rather a nifty charm, tho, so all the fifth-years wanted to revise even harder because it was a NEWT-level.

Tonight they kicked us out to celebrate getting over the beginning of OWLs and get ready for tomorrow. At this rate none of us will be ready for our own exams!

Mum sent a clipping from the Prophet - there's whole loads of things planned for Friday. I wish we could go!

Everyone here is talking about exams. Ours aren't for weeks, but the older kids are supposed to sit theirs sooner - I guess pretty soon. Goshal, Peakes, Bobolis and Chang have been making all the younger kids run back and forth to the library for them so they don't have to stop revising with the others in their years. Orion Sandoval even told us all that he'd pay three sickles to anyone who'll let him hex them for practice. But then Professor Vector found out and told him she'd take five points for everyone he hexed, so at least we dont have to worry about that.

Some of the fifth years even paid the third years to bring things back from Hogsmeade so they wouldnt have to break off revising. I don't think I'd want to skip a Hogsmeade day even if it ment I'd get O's on every OWL, but I guess if your worried about passing it would be worth it.

I'll just be happy if I can turn in the Transfiguration homework tomorrow, so many of the older kids have been interrupting!

The revising club is really getting to be quite the crowd. I told Belinda that she'd better get a move on if she wants to keep her place with us. For one thing, it doesn't look well for a Ravenclaw to be doing worse in most of her subjects than Hufflepuffs or Gryffindors. But for another there's only so much room at the table before it gets too hard to here everyone.

Jones, you really ought to do something about your hair if you're going to keep coming, too. Since we have to revise somewhere outside our common rooms. Lav, why don't you and Parvati bring a few ribbons tonight and we'll see what we can do to make her more presentable? You are coming tonight, right? We've got that essay Binns just set us and no reason to put it off.

Oh, and Jones, did you want to borrow that extra pair of gloves for Astronomy tomorrow night? I've got a pair Mum sent that have the fingers out, so I can still work the telescope, but you could borrow my other pair. If you want.

(Lav, did Professor Lockhart tell your class what he told ours? About how it was a shame we didn't do Christmas pantomimes? I bet he'd have been perfectly wonderful in them!)

Potions was loads of fun today. I got partnered with Hopkins so I made him cut up all the roots and crush the snake fangs and measure everything out. It was sort of like having a sue-chef. And I didn't have to get pricked by those nettles even once.

I quite like having two study periods on Friday. I'm nearly finished all my homework already, which leaves me free for revising.

Lavender, did you ask her?