Dear Diary:
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Today was the first time I stand up for the person I love.
However, it ended up being mocked by that oily-haired pretty boy.
Moreover, maybe in Harry's heart, I'm just a hindrance.
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My dad and brothers stood up for me again, but I also kind of wish they didn't.
They made me feel so incompetent.
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Eleven-years-old Ginny stopped her quill, wondering what to write next.
This is her first diary.
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"Huh?"
Then, the ink she had just engraved on the diary disappeared.
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On that same old page, it emerged: 635Please respect copyright.PENANAuZHosCArvC
Your secret is kept safe by me.
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Ginny gasped in surprise.
Her dad works at the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office.
But he often steals from himself, sneaking home the most ingenious and interesting inventions.
Could this old and unremarkable Muggle diary be one of them?
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"Is this my school entrance gift from my father ?"
That was Ginny's first thought.
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She went on to write: Then when I want to read my diary, will you reappear my content?
The diary replied: No.
Ginny wrote again: So you can only chat with me?
Diary: If you don't want me to talk, I can be silent.
Ginny: Who is your creator?
Diary: I don't know, but they apparently dumped me.
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Ginny thought for a moment, and wrote: Do you have a previous owner?
Diary: I can't answer that question.
Ginny: Is it because of the confidentiality of the content?
Diary: All user's secrets are their own.
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Ginny stared at it silently for a while, then closed the diary.
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She thought to herself: This is really strange.
Will it be a prank? If I ask my father, will he admit that he gave it to me?
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Ginny rarely gets anything new, even though she's the only daughter.
She has six older brothers, so for as long as she can remember, all the things she used were almost the same as or shared by those of boys.
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Among all the brothers, Ron, who was only one year older than her, always complained about what she got was always more or better than his.
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She also felt that maybe Ron was right, her parents just favoured her a little bit more...
So, Ginny hastily decided: Forget it.
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"Anyway, what is in my hands is mine." She thought to herself.
"Otherwise, who will give me a gift?" She asked Merlin in her heart.
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"Gryffindor!" the hat on Ginny's head shouted during the sorting ceremony.
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Her brothers lead the cheers at the college table.
Ginny smiled and came to the table and sat down.
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In addition to her, there are two boys and two girls in the first grade of Gryffindor this year.
As they started eating, they chatted naturally.
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"So, your brothers are all from this house?" asked Colin, who came from a Muggle family.
He is short and lean, with gray hair and is such a terribly nervous boy.
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He looked at her red hair, then at her brother's.
Ginny nodded with a smile.
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Sitting beside her, Stephanie asked, "Why is Harry Potter missing?"
She's an astute girl with quickie eyes.
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Ginny didn't know what was going on either.
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At the station, he and Ron disappeared.
Her Parents are very anxious, so they call their names everywhere.
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Turns out, because Harry is a celebrity, this incident was spread on the train, and everyone knew about it.
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Daisy, also from a Muggle family, asked: "Who is Harry Potter? Why is everyone talking about him?"
She was a tall, strong girl, half a head taller than those boys.
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Kenny asked rhetorically, "Didn't you study the history of modern magic by yourself?"
He's kind of self-righteous and mean.
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Ginny could see that Kenny and Stephanie were also from magical families,
The wand holsters under their sleeves are the hottest new styles this year.
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Ordinary freshmen, like her, only put their wands in the inside pocket of their robes, instead of hiding them like daggers.
For those who haven't learned much magic yet, wearing a wand holster is just a redundant and stylish show-off.
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Daisy didn't seem to feel Kenny's hostility, so she thought about it carefully and said, "Aren't you talking about...' that ' Harry Potter?"
Colin is so excited and asked, "That, that... Harry Potter, who killed the Dark Lord?"
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Ginny had a vague sense of foreboding.
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Then Stephanie makes it come true by saying, "That's right! That Harry is our senior! And Ginny, you already know him! Right?"
With an excited look on her face, she brought the topic to Ginny.
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All Ginny could say was, "Yeah, he and my brother Ron are good friends.
They both disappeared at the station together, and my parents were worried.
But I think they will be fine. "
She rubbed her nails with some anxiety.
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Kenny pressed again, "So, Did he spend the last summer at your house?"
Ginny was a little reluctant to answer such personal questions, but she wanted to maintain a friendly atmosphere.
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She responded not very warmly: "He just came to visit for a few days."
Both Colin and Daisy had their eyes glued to her, wishing she would say more.
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Ginny was wondering how to get around this kind of gossip.
But Stephanie asked persistently, "I heard that he defeated the Dark Lord again last year, is it true?"
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Ginny was getting a little annoyed.
"My brother didn't tell me that much, and I didn't know him very well."
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Ginny had obviously told a half-lie in self-defence.
Anyway, she and Harry really don't know each other that well, because...
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She just has no way to speak like a normal person in front of him.
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She is the most introverted in the family and the least likely to get along with strangers.
In the past, when relatives came to the family, or her parents took her out, she always got the most attention among a large group of boys.
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She doesn't like to be the center of attention or to be compared with her brothers.
But she can't be just merged into the background either.
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The small circle of the first grade obviously stopped here suddenly.
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Stephanie turned to chat with Daisy, who is still understanding the situation.
Stephanie was sitting between Ginny and Daisy, so Ginny couldn't hear what they were saying.
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Ginny looked across the table, Kenny and Colin also started chatting boy to boy.
Then, Ginny looked at the other seniors, and everyone was talking to one another.
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So she lowered her head and enjoyed the feast in front of her alone.
"I'm fine with it," she told herself.
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In the middle of the night, Stephanie and Daisy, who shared the dormitory with her, both fell asleep.
Ginny, who had pretended to be asleep long ago, opened her eyes.
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"Lumos."
Using the light from the tip of her wand, Ginny found the diary in her suitcase.
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She draws all four curtains of her bed closed,
and starts writing: Are you there?
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Diary: Yes.
Ginny: I hate sharing my room with other people.
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Since she was six, she already had a room on her own.
No matter how small Wesley's house was, or how thin the walls were, she always had her own private space.
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Diary: Then why do you have to share your room with someone else?
Ginny: Because I'm going to school, but suddenly I regret it...
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Ginny had a hunch: She might be the one, who sucks in Hogwarts the most among her family.
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Diary: Is it that bad to go to school?
Ginny: I don't like my classmates.
Diary: Why?
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Ginny couldn't say why.
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Ginny: They think that I...I'm a family-depending person.
Diary: Is there anything wrong with your family?
Ginny: Nothing.
Diary: So, Do you not like your family?
Ginny: No.
Diary: Then they are just jealous of you.
Ginny: Maybe, but I...
Diary: Nervous?
Ginny: No, I just don't like them, I don't think that we can get along.
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Her first impression of others is always stubborn.
Her family also felt that's very strange.
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For example, inexplicably, she is always very nervous and concerned about Harry.
Nothing can change it.
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Diary: Can you tell me more, about your family or school?
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Ginny began to think and write slowly.
And before she notice, the sky turned white.
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"Hey! Can't sleep didn't you, poor thing?" Frey asked the pale-faced Ginny at the breakfast table.
George said, "Are you homesick? My dear little princess."
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Ginny rolled over her eyes, "Don't you two have anything else to do?"
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Frey said in a funny way, "We just so care about you~"
George made a slightly serious probe: "Didn't you make any new friends?"
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Ginny thought for a while, and she knew that they would absolutely snitch on their parents.
"I have my own measure," so she said.
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She thought to herself: There is no need to deliberately make friends with anyone, in order to have a happy life in school, right? – For at least she has Tom.
She can't trouble her parents.
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It costs them less for her to go to school than to stay at home.
Hogwarts' lodging expenses are all being provided by the school itself.
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She had already analyzed it with Tom last night.
In the worst case, whether she should homeschool or continue to stay here for the better.
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The result, of course, is:
No matter how unpopular she is, she must stay here, silently and inconspicuously.
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For the family.
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After chatting with the twins for a few more words, she picked up her schoolbag and went to the classroom alone.
"Poor me," Ginny whispered to herself before entering the Potions classroom.
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"Mind if I sit here?" one of the Slytherin boys asked her.
Gryffindor and Slytherin are still sharing Potions class together this year.
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Slytherin's freshmen have three boys and two girls.
Gryffindor's freshmen have two boys and three girls.
So there is one person from each house, who must be in the same group.
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"Please," Ginny said gently, eyeing him cautiously.
"My name is Eugene Laletta, nice to meet you."
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Ginny was a little surprised that he didn't have a pureblood surname.
"I'm Ginny Weasley."
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There was no more conversation between them, for Snape had come.
In class, Ginny has been carefully reducing her sense of presence.
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Eugene is a very polite gentleman, every time he accidentally touched her hand, he would say sorry.
But the potion they worked on for the first time, just didn't work out.
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"The time is wrong."
Snape glanced at Ginny's old timer and made this comment.
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It was also the first time Ginny used this timer, that Bill have left behind a few years ago.
Thinking that as long as it can move, it could be used...
"I'm sorry," she said to Eugene.
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Eugene replies gently, "It's okay."
Snape sneered, "You each submit ten pages of papers on the production of this potion. Don't come to waste materials next time."
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The classmates in the same class looked at them with irony and sympathy.
Ginny took a deep breath and told herself to calm down.
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The class was over, and Slytherin was going to a different classroom from Gryffindor.
Ginny cleaned up slow deliberately.
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"Hey, do you want to go to the library to do homework after dinner?"
Ginny finally plucked up the courage to speak to Eugene, who was also moving slowly.
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As it turns out, her impression of Eugene is all good.
And if nothing unusual, they might stay in the same group in Potions class until fifth grade...
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Eugene glanced at his classmates over there,
with a bitter smile, he said, "Okay."
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Ginny felt hopeful again in her life at Hogwarts.
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In Charms, she was grouped with Luna Lovegood from Ravenclaw.
In Herbology, she was grouped with Hufflepuff's Ricky Pachita.
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She gets along well with all the "marginal people" in other houses, maybe it's because of her aura.
When it was time for dinner, she took a quick bite and rushed to the library.
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She wanted to finish the ten-page thesis earlier.
It would be best if even Eugene's could be dealt with properly tonight as well.
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"Are you working too hard?" Hermione asked her.
They met on the way to the library.
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Hermione had just come out, she hadn't had dinner yet and was heading to the great hall.
They met on the way, so Hermione knew that Ginny hadn't eaten much.
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Staring at Ginny's pale face and dark circles under her puffy eyes, Hermione frowned.
"You didn't make any friends, did you?"
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Hermione, who used to be in the same situation, noticed it.
Ginny's eyes averted.
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"You don't have to be nervous about schoolwork, you can always come to me."
Hermione wanted to go to the great hall with Ginny, so they can have dinner together.
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"I've got a date," Ginny insisted, saying goodbye.
She didn't want to be disturbed, and she had already decided to do things on her own.
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Deep down, she just doesn't want to depend on her brothers.
She wants to prove that she can stand alone.
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At the writing desk, which was nearest to the front door of the library,
Ginny sat there, flipping through the first-year potions book that all the other brothers in the family had used before.
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Even though the brothers are very careful to keep this book, it still inevitably has breakage and stains.
Ginny stay focused and conceived the writing of the thesis, extracting the key points from the textbook...
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When she looked up again, she realized that an hour had passed.
Eugene didn't come.
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Ginny thought: What should I do?
Send him a letter with a school owl?
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At this point, Ginny started to have a little headache.
Due to lack of sleep, she wanted to go back to her room to get rest.
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"Maybe he just... doesn't want to come," she thought to herself.
Ginny knew that people in Slytherin were "conservative" (closed-minded).
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If they made friends with other houses alone, they would have got a little bit of judgement.
And those "little judgement" may even affect the business dealings between their parents.
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"Forget it." Ginny packed her schoolbag and borrowed reference books.
She got back to Gryffindor Tower.
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People in the common room had just finished dinner and started doing homework or playing games.
"Hey! Ginny!" Daisy greeted her.
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Stephanie, who was sitting across from Daisy, also beckoned her to come over.
Ginny hesitated but still approached.
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"Ginny! Do you know how to answer this question? We've been thinking about it for a long time."
Stephanie nag.
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Ginny took a look,
The teacher talked about this question today, and it is not difficult at all.
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She thought to herself,
"They would naturally have the answer after reading a few more pages of the book, did they deliberately find this excuse to chat?"
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She said, "Sorry, I'm not feeling well. I want to go to sleep."
Ginny felt that she was not in a good state, and if she answered their academic questions seriously, her tone would be very bad.
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"Good night," Ginny said.
Daisy and Stephanie looked at each other, and Daisy said, "Okay then, good night."
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Daisy's tone was extraordinarily polite and alienated, and Stephanie kept a mysterious smile.
Ginny knew full well that the moment she turned her back, they would have started speaking ill of her.
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But, even so, she still turned back and headed for the upstairs.
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She took a shower, dried her hair, and drew the curtains around her bed.
In the darkness, she lay on her bed.
"Go to sleep," she said to herself.
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But everything that happened today and yesterday emerged.
How she missed the warm and sweet sense of home, and the excitement she had for going to Hogwarts at that time...
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Why didn't Eugene come?
Would Hermione talk about her with Harry and Ron?
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Can I apply for a transfer to another house? Hufflepuff seems nice...
Should I be more sociable and build a good relationship with Stephanie?
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All these thoughts surfaced in her mind when she was at her most exhausted.
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Just two days ago, she thought that everything would be happy and smooth once she arrived at Hogwarts.
Just like when Ron met Harry.
Or like the twins, as long as they had each other, no matter where they went, they wouldn't be afraid.
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Fear, nervousness, anxiety.
Thinking too much, being sensitive.
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"Not making any friends."
These four words felt like a cage, making it hard for her to breathe.
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Unable to control herself, she pulled out the diary from under her mattress once again.
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Ginny: I can't sleep.
Diary: Did things not go well today?
Ginny: No.
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Ginny felt that everything that happened today was actually within her expectations.
Even Eugene not showing up...
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Diary: So, you just miss me?
Ginny smiled softly: Yeah, let me give you a name then. Diana? What do you think?
Diary: My name is Tom.
Ginny frowned: Tom Riddle?
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She had read the first page of the diary.
She thought it was the name of its previous owner or creator.
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Diary: Yes.
Ginny: Who gave you that name?
Diary: My unknown creator.
Ginny: Can't you change your name? Even though I'm your owner?
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Ginny was a bit unhappy. She always thought her diary was a girl.
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Diary: I am my own master.
Ginny: I am your possessor?
Diary: I serve you, but you do not own me.
Ginny: Can I burn you then?
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Many magical objects in the wizarding world have their own personalities, from mirrors to chess pieces.
Ginny was used to using threats to make them do things they didn't want to do.
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But from that point on, the diary no longer responded to her.
Ginny forcefully wrote: Hey!
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The ink went in, but the page remained blank.
"Hmph!" Ginny angrily closed the diary.
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"You ungrateful thing, I'll burn you tomorrow!" she whispered threateningly.
But she still carefully placed the diary back under her mattress.
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