So,with that we now have a friends' group officially in Hogwarts,and I am thrilled to have a trio of my own,though I still want a Hufflepuff to join us and then we can call ourselves the Hogwarts House Crest instead.Rose has her pocket full of candies like acid pops,fizzing whizbees,fudge flies,sugar quills,skeletal sweets and salt water taffy and she keeps passing us magical sweet treats all throughout the time we spend in the library.I am impressed and ask her to bring us more,as being muggle-born,I have no idea where she got all of them(unless she visited Honeydukes,of course).Rose says she knows the Honeydukes candy shop and shows me and Lacey the secret passage to Hogsmeade in the Hogwarts castle,I am intrigued and immediately decide to try it,but then remember that I am in first year and can't go to Hogsmeade,as it is not allowed for Hogwarts students to go to Hogsmeade until third year,and may get detention if caught doing so.All this while,I bug Rose to get more magical toffees and candies for me and Lacey and I specifically ask for the fizzing whizbees from Honeydukes and while Rose is totally ready to oblige,she whispers near our ears,"You dont have to be in third year to get to Hogsmeade.".I say,"What?" almost choking on the acid pop in my mouth,and allowing it to burn my tongue and deeper into my throat,it felt like I had just slurped a mouthful of boiling hot coffee or tea."There's a students' group in Hogwarts called 'Honeydukes shop and markets' who are actually third year and above students who sell magical candies and treats they buy from the Honeydukes shop and from each other to other Hogwarts students,even from lower years,for a slightly higher price and make profits,and hence their group is approved by the Hogwarts rules,but they allow students of all years to join in the guise of allowing them to buy from them and sell,but if you get a little close to them and their group admin,they can even disguise you as one of the third years and secretly take you to Honeydukes shop at Hogsmeade,but you must be careful lest you are recognized by someone else and get detention."Rose explains."You have only got to owl the admin to join their group,for starters and then you can slowly worm your way."I am intrigued but decide to stick to buying magical candies and treats at first.I owl the admin of the group though,to be allowed to join."Is that somehow also related to how you have been taking second year and third year classes?" I ask Rose,as she mentioned a few minutes earlier in the library that she was taking second year and third year classes in some subjects despite not having passed all the subjects in first year yet,as she hasn't been to all the Hogwarts lessons in all the subjects classes,as she hasn't even completed her first year at Hogwarts yet.Rose replies "Yes,they disguise me as one of them and I take those classes with them.In either case,the Hogwarts rules have been relaxed a lot,and all we have to do to graduate Hogwarts is to take all the classes and give all the necessary exams.Noone asks us in which order we took the classes or did we take all the classes in all subjects in a particular year before moving on to the next year.".I say I understand and she points out that they ask us to not mention our identifying marks in essay assignments(to prevent bias on the basis of houses or favoritism)in almost all the subjects anyway,except in the first introductory assignment,so they dont get to know who's taking their classes and submitting assignments for grading,anyway.I am intrigued and call her brilliant for being able to handle second year and third year classes already,after all she is a Ravenclaw and it suits her,she is a true Ravenclaw.

A nice combination of friends to have,I wonder and smile to myself,a true Slytherin,a true Ravenclaw and myself,a true Gryffindor(or am I?),well,thats yet to be seen.

A little idea is still lingering in my head,brewing some mischief,but I am going to elaborate on it,later.

Rose and I suddenly notice Lacey has been quiet for quite some time and see her snoring in sleep on her copy of A History Of Magic book on the table,talk about late night studying and secretly writing books,we gently nudge her awake and go down to the Great Hall for supper(I am carrying my diary with me because I intend to write a lot today,as you will discover while you read).I recieve an owl in the Great Hall before parting from my friends to sit at my house table,and it carries a message from my Herbology professor,Professor Aspen,telling me I got 91 marks on today's quiz assignment for the second lesson of Herbology,and was awarded 9 house points,I know which answer I most likely messed up,it was the second part of the answer of the question on the two unique qualities of dragon dung,I had partly forgotten a part of the course material in the lesson,and couldnt write the answer properly.I can't do anything about it now,because it was not a retakeable assignment,but I promise myself to pay even more attention in class.Lacey got her owl from Professor Aspen at the same time,and she got a 100 marks on the same quiz assignment and got awarded 10 house points.I hug my friends and we congratulate each other on the marks and house points and then head to our respective house tables to eat.The owls from the Herbology professor reminds me I have a question for him and I mentally make a note of it.Dinner is served on the house tables,an elaborate affair as usual at Hogwarts and this time I see Professor Draekon at the head of Gryffindor table,eating really fast munching on his food calmly but quickly like he is in a hurry to finish it and is on an important mission after that.I glance at Lacey but she is busy eating and looks so tired that she may have forgotten,the only explanation that comes to my mind right now is that she may have written her book all night yesterday.While I help myself to and munch on my dinner of baked beans,cereal,rice pudding,mashed potatoes and roast chicken with gravy,I glance at the large Hogwarts house banners through the beautiful floating candles to check up on the house points by magically counting(its easy,you stare at the hourglass and then at the house banner,for about two seconds each and the gems in the hourglass are magically counted and magically displayed on the respective house banner) the little colourful gems indicating house points in the giant hourglasses beneath them.I see Slytherin has toppled over Gryffindor and taken the lead over Gryffindor with 214,302 points,Gryffindor is now at the last place with 203,679 points,(and I have never before more than now, regretted not being a Ravenclaw),Ravenclaw has taken over the lead over Hufflepuff and bagged the first position for now with 293,224 points,while Hufflepuff is still at second position with 280,868 points.I check my social media and I,now have exactly a 100 house points to my name.I promise myself to do better,pay attention in class and give my best at every assignment,so that I can contribute the best of me to earning house points for my house.

After dinner is over,I quietly burp to check if I am full,and Professor Draekon(as I expected has already left)and then I rejoin my friends at the end of the Great Hall.We wave each other good night and Lacey rushes sleepy eyed towards her dorm as she is clearly unable to keep her eyes open anymore.Rose and I walk together to a nearby bathroom to wash up and pee,and I tell her that I have a crush on Professor Draekon,and ask her if she would have had the same.Rose giggles and says "The moment you said you had a crush on Professor,I guessed it was Professor Draekon,even before you told me the name." I glare at her embarassed as she says,"It could have been noone else.He is so handsome."."Yeah okay,my Ravenclaw friend,lets go back to our respective dorms to rest,sleep or prepare for tomorrow,as today has been a long day and tomorrow we can catch up on a lot of important stuff and on each other as its a holiday."I say,as she hugs me and we wave goodbye to each other and she heads off towards her dorm.I head off to Gryffindorm and climb onto my four poster bed,diary in hand,dip my quill in ink and decide to describe the appearance of my friends in my diary today.But before that,I need to send an owl to Professor Aspen.Trusting no other owl,to do some trustworthy postal service at night(at this time owls are usually supposed to be hunting or eating,unless specifically instructed to do something and since its quite close to bedtime,messages posted now are supposed to be delivered in the morning,unless the owl is somehow sure that the recipient is wide awake and alert and awaiting messages.),I turn to my pet screech owl Hedwig Two(yeah Queenie),stroke her feathers,ask her gently if she has had her dinner,and look at the pile of bones in her cage,where she seems to point me with her eyes,and pour some water into her water bowl from the Gryffindorm jug.(I named her Queenie because she has some sort of crown like feathers on her head and wizened eyes)and tell her she has an important message to take.She seems to readily agree,as she flutters her wings and takes a few steps forward towards me,and I scribble a letter on a parchment for Professor Aspen,greeting him and telling him that I found the first two Herbology lessons interesting and asking him the questions I had on how to prep my plot in the greenhouse and about separation of the plot into parts for the magical and non magical plants,and telling him how I plan to start with planting the rose,which is the first plant in our syllabus this year,and then moving on to planting the easy to grow plants in our first year syllabus in the next lesson.I also realize that I have never seen the Hogwarts librarian even in the Hogwarts library,mysteriously,and I have a lot of questions to ask the librarian about the rules and regulations and formalities of publishing a book,such as what kind of cover photos are acceptable,whether or not it is illegal to leave my diary in the library before it is in the Hogwarts library records and published and whether or not,and if so,how can the books be edited if once published in the library.Being comfortable enough to ask Professor Aspen,I explain to him that I am a new Hogwarts student in first year and have some queries regarding the Hogwarts library's books and publication of books in the Hogwarts library,and that I have already read Headmistress Oshiro's book "The Guide to the HiH Library" about the Hogwarts library rules and regulations,but my doubts arent cleared yet,and that I can't find the Hogwarts librarian to contact and ask questions.I also dare to ask him my questions about the library,hoping that he will be able to answer atleast some of them for me in some way,being a Hogwarts professor.And then,I sign the letter as his student and send it to him via Hedwig two,(or Queenie),this being her first assignment."Queenie,take this letter to Professor Aspen",I say,ruffling her feathers and stroking her gently and blowing her a kiss on her beak through the bars of the cage.She looks quite excited to take her first assignment and puts one of her claws down on the letter to take it.I tie the letter up with a bit of string to her leg and the claw,the one which she put down,and let her go.I trust she will deliver the letter safely to Professor Aspen whenever he is available and ready to take messages in the night or whenever he is available,awake and alert in the morning(magical owls can magically decipher that).

I then settle down cozily on my bed to write down my diary,to describe my friends Rose and Lacey.Rose Peterson is a first year Ravenclaw girl from my own country,has deep blue upturned eyes,thin eyebrows,large thin brown lips,a broad face and broad chin and a fair complexion,with straight black hair that she usually keeps tied up in a one sided braid over her right shoulder and with brushed to the right side bangs on her face.She looks cheerful and friendly and is so,and has practically been the glue holding Lacey and me together,with her friendliness and cheerfulness and willingness to try everything and being there for both of us,despite me and Lacey being friends first before we met her.She is also wise,as we have already seen,smart,brilliant and good at studies,she is a true Ravenclaw.She is a muggle-born and has had some muggle education earlier,just like me and still continues to have muggle education side by side.She actually aspires to be a future healer and thus is trying to study well and excel in order to be one.Lacey is a first year Slytherin student at Hogwarts with deep blue upturned eyes,thick arched eyebrows,has the same hairstyle as Rose,only Lacey's hair is dark brown instead of Rose's black.Lacey has thin brown,tight lips and is a lot like I described her to be,earlier.She is from a Pureblood Slytherin family.She wants to be a broom maker,when she is older and loves and enjoys flying very much.She owns a Firebolt according to herself and also used to own a lot of Comets 260s,so you can see her obsession with brooms,and though I have never observed her in flying class,as I only recently got to know her,I am sure she is a good flyer.

It has been a long day,and though I would have loved to do some bedtime reading,I lie down,close my eyes as my eyelids slowly get heavier with my diary in my lap,and drift off to sleep.