A new chapter begins

Dear Diary

Dear diary,

Today was a really weird and exciting day. First of all, it was the first day of my school life at Hogwarts. My mum was so nervous about the fact that her little Ronald was going to go to the best school in the world that she said that I will meet the love of my life. I know that this will never happen. During the whole train journey, I met just one girl, Hermione Granger. She is a really beautiful girl but also kind of arrogant. Hermione is as beautiful as all the princesses in this world together. When you look at her you think that she is the sun, the focus of the entire world. If she wouldn't be that arrogant, I would like to be her boyfriend. But she thinks, she is the best wizard in the world and I think this girl just wanted to impress Harry Potter. Yes, the real Harry Potter. I, Ronald Wealey, sat next to Harry Potter. When I was a child, mum told me his story thousands of times and now I am friends with him. It's like a dream. Everything is so different here than it is at home.

After a drive of six hours, a really huge man, named Hagrid lead us to boats with which we sailed over a mysterious and dangerous lake. The lake was as dark as the sky without stars. I was afraid that a monster would jump out of the water and eat every single one of us. I hoped it ate Hermione first.

I think that you can't really picture Hagrid, so I want to help you a little bit with that. First of all, is he as huge as the big trees in front of our house and then he has got a beard which is so curly that it would be the perfect place for birds to sleep in. His clothes could be over a hundred years old and it looks like it was made out of dead animals

When we arrived at the castle, which is bigger than everything that I have ever seen in my life, another woman guided us to a giant hall where we got sorted into our Houses. I was scared, that I will come in Slytherin and so the first one of our family who didn't get into Gryffindor. When it was my turn, Professor McGonagall positioned an old, brown hat on my head, which spoke to me in my thoughts. It was so unreal. These few seconds were the worst in my entire life. He shouted "Gryffindor" and then I realized that my dream became true. I pictured me and my friends sitting in a class, talking about our adventures.

We are the brave house and of course the best. I think that we will win the House Cup, because we have got Harry Potter and I think that he has got a lot of talent. I am so jealous. I believe that every girl wants to be his girlfriend. He is the boy who lives. Everybody knows his name and I wonder if 100 people know my name. I wonder if his life is as good as I imagine. Maybe he lives in a castle, with hundreds of servants. That would be so awesome.

Do you know what I would like to be? I want to be the youngest Quidditch Player of Hogwarts. It is so much fun to play with Ginny and my older brothers. How cool would it be to be in a team with them and fight against the other Houses? You have to know that they are beaters and I think even one of the bests.

I know that all of this sounds like a perfect start into a new chapter of my life but I am also scared about it. I am afraid of the fact that I am friends with Harry Potter. Actually I am happy about that but I am concerned that I am his shade. That he just wants to be my friend so that I can be his servant. It could be like in a fairy tale where I would be Cinderella and Harry would be one of the evil sisters. But that is not the only thing why I don't fly on cloud nine. Furthermore I fear about Professor McGonagall, because she is so old and her look is as scary as the stories about You-know-who. Professor Snape is also a teacher with who I don't want to be friends with because he really looks like a snake. His skin has kind of a green colour and his eyes are black, like a deep hole with nothing in it.

I think this is all I wanted to tell you today. I will always remember this day. I felt like Santa Clause who collects the presents, just that I collected experiences. Today, I was part of something special and I will be part of this community for the next seven years.

I don't know when will I find the time to write into you again but I hope it will be soon so that I can tell you everything about our adventures.

Your best friend

Ronald Weasley

One of 8 Weasley's