Harry Potter One Shots

(2) 1 Bitter, 2 Sweet

All rights belong to the author, KellyChambliss

2 December 1971

1. When I opened the book this morning there was a new note on the blank first page. It was in old fashion handwriting, I could hardly read it. It said - -

The owner of this magic book concealment must learn,

Since he must always be of it a Guardian most stern.

I don't know if I have all the words just right but it was something like that. Not like how we talk today anyway. Then it disappeared.

I thought about this, and I think it means that I should find a concealment spell for this book. It will be a charm or possibly a transfiguration. I will look for one.

25 December 1971

1. I have not been writing here because I have not found the right concealment spell yet. So I just keep the book in my trunk.

2. I am making an exception today because no one will see me writing. It is Christmas. I am staying at Hogwarts. It is free to ride the Hogwarts Express when school starts and ends but if you want to ride it for breaks, there is a charge. Mum sent an owl and said maybe next year.

3. I do not mind staying here.

4. About twenty students stayed. We had Christmas dinner in the great hall with three tables - - six or seven students and two teachers at each table. I was the only Slytherin student. I didn't really know any of the others. Lily went home.

For teachers, my table had Professor Slughorn and Professor Devlin.

5. The teachers did most of the talking and the rest of us just sat there. It was weird.

6. Professor Slughorn was very jolly, he was drinking a lot of mead and getting red in the face like Da does, only not yelling. He said to Professor Devlin - - I trust my Slytherin, young Mr Snape, is doing well in your class, Devlin old chap. He's a bright lad that one. A natural potioneer.

7. The food was prime. I had two slices of Christmas pudding with cream on after the fire went out.

8. I spent the rest of the day in the Slytherin common room. No one else is here. There were games and things in the great hall in the afternoon, but I did not go.

9. The supper just appeared by itself on the common room table. Ham sandwiches and chocolate cake.

10. I am a natural potioneer.

9 January 1972

1. I am making another exception with this book because it is my birthday, I am 12.

2. We had a cake in the Slytherin common room and everyone clapped. Even Lucius and the other seventh years ate a piece.

3. Mum sent an owl with a card and a book, Young Wizard's Handbook. I think she saw me look at it in Flourish and Blotts last summer. I hope it will have useful things in it. We will see.

4. No one else in the school knows it is my birthday. Slytherins keep those things to ourselves. It's no one else's business. Lily knows and she whispered happy birthday at breakfast, but she would not let the Thugs know.

5. Lily always said she would not like having a birthday so close to Christmas because all your presents are packed so close together and people aren't ready for a birthday party right after all the Christmas parties. But I don't care. I do not want parties.

6. I do not see Lily much any more.

13 January 1971

1. The Young Wizard's Handbook has a spell that I thought I could use to conceal this book. I tried it here in the dormitory but it did not really work. I wanted to make the cover look like it did when I first got it, like Magical Meals on a Budget, but I could only get it to shimmer and have a few letters on it.