The Journal of Remus Lupin

45

So, todays classes were normal. I took down notes, James and Sirius hexed some Slytherins, and Peter fell asleep during transfiguration.

Normal is an understatement though....

Professor Slughorn has been looking at me weirdly. It was as if he was scared of me. Professor Flitwick didn't call on me during class. And worst of all, our new DADA professor (professor Simons) hates me.

He is one of those teachers that can make all students keep quiet without even telling them to. He says he will not tolerate incompetence during his class. He says he will teach us based on his standards and that we will be learning about advanced spells, curses, and dark creatures. We will start with fire crabs, imps, gargoyles, grindylows and.......and...werewolves. Why is he teaching us this now? I thought I'd have to deal with it during third year! Well, he might as well have foretold the countdown to my doom.

Other than that, everything is fine. Perfectly fine! You know, other than the fact that we will be studying how to "identify a werewolf" in a few weeks or months. Fine....just fine.