Wow. This year has flown past. I can't believe I haven't had time to do a single blog post ALL year?!
There has been so much that has happened!!
So, this year we got to choose additional subjects, so I, of course, couldn't decide because there were so many interesting sounding ones. I went to Professor McGonagall for advice, as I figured she must have helped a number of students out with this. She was a great help and told me that actually if I wanted, I could take all of the classes I wanted...even if they overlapped in time. I didn't understand until she told me about time turners, and that I could go back in time to go to additional classes! That was honestly the coolest thing, so I took her up on that. Anyways, so we (Harry, Ron and I) all decided to take Care of Magical Creatures, which happened to be taught by Hagrid. We knew that we were in for a rough term when he decided to bring out dangerous animals...And unfortunately, Malfoy was in that class, and we all know that nothing with Malfoy seems to go well. He decided to antagonize this creature (a Hippogriff named Buckbeak) and ended up getting hurt, and then, of course, the whole speech about how his father would hear about it, blah blah blah.
So off goes Malfoy, talks to his father, and then Buckbeak is set for execution! Execution!! Because stupid Malfoy can't follow instructions! And without a trial too! So. The three of us determined that we would find a way to save Buckbeak, as Hagrid would be horrified if anything were to happen to him. I did a TON of research, as Ron and I had had a row, so we weren't speaking to each other. I found out a bunch of stuff, but somehow Hagrid just isn't so great at defending himself, so alas he was condemned. Hagrid asked for an appeal, and they brought the executioner to the appeal!!
Oh! Also, Ron was so excited because for once he was getting about as much attention as Harry. You see, Sirius Black had somehow broken into the castle, and apparently, Ron woke up and Sirius was holding a knife, looking down on him. This story, of course, spread like wildfire, and Ron was suddenly the superstar of the school. Quite annoying if you ask me
Anyways, back to the main point, as we were leaving Hagrid's house, we saw some figures disappearing into the wood. A big black dog to be exact, and of course, with Harry and Ron taking Divination, they think its that stupid grim, so of course we had to go and follow it.
We did, and the dog crawled under the Whomping Willow, pushed a button or something, and hen disappeared! The tree froze when the dog pushed the button. We headed over near there and then all of a sudden, that dog was back and he was dragging Ron into the tree!! Ron tried to hang on and everything, but his leg got caught on a tree branch, and just went "snap" and ugh it was terrible.
Honestly, the rest of what happened is such a blur now for me. Harry and I raced after Ron, and then we were in the Shrieking Shack, and then Professor Lupin was there, and then they got Ron's rat to turn into a person? And apparently, this person, Peter, had been living with Ron for ages and that's a little creepy I think. And then all of a sudden Professor Snape was there, and then I know that Harry and I both tried to stun him? Or something like that. As we were hurrying out of there, with Sirius and Lupin and Peter was tied up, and Professor Snape was...uh, I actually don't know where he was, then Peter escaped, and he went running away, and then all of a sudden there were Dementors everywhere, and I thought we were all going to die, and then suddenly this pretty Patronus in the shape of a stag came galloping out of nowhere and saved us all.
The only problem with that, of course, was that Sirius, who we now knew to be a good guy, was caught... And Harry had just found out that Sirius was his Godfather, so needless to say, he was a lot distraught.
As we all lay in the hospital wing, Dumbledore entered, and said something like "wouldn't it be great if we could turn time back again?" And that's when I remembered!! I had the Time-Turner!! This could fix everything!! So, Dumbledore told me that three turns should do it, and off Harry and I went. It was kind of confusing to explain the concept to Harry, but anyways, we managed, and we rescued Buckbeak, and as we were then leaving the cottage, Harry realized that it was his future self who had created the Patronus!
So, everything was alright in the end, Sirius escaped on Buckbeak, Harry cast his first full Patronus, it was a whirlwind of a day/night, but apparently, that seems to be the norm here at Hogwarts!!
