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Because Padma some people kept whinging about who they were partnered with, Professor Slughorn switched around our partners in Potions. I'd been working with Longbottom and now I'm with Lavender Brown. I suppose it can't be helped that Slytherins will have to work with Gryffindors. Professor Slughorn wants the better students to help the weaker students and of the top ten students on the last potions exam five were Slytherins and none were Gryffindors.

Longbottom isn't very clever but at least he tries hard.

Today our potion boiled over because Lavender was chatting with Parvati and not paying attention to it while I was chopping up the nettle stems. I was chopping the nettle stems because she wouldn't do it. I don't know how she ever managed to beat out five people on the fall potions exam. Well I suppose she beat them out because she's cleverer than any of them, but even Milli kept her potion from boiling over today, I looked.

On Tuesday night Pansy and I went up to the roof to see if we could see Mr Lupin anything. Blaise Zabini has a really excellent pair of omnioculars, and Pansy talked him into lending them to her, so we could see really well, but we didn't see anything all that interesting. We spotted some crows in a tree at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and some squirrels and a fox but that was all. I suppose what we saw was actually pretty interesting even if it's not what we were watching for.