{Surviving the Storm}

[alysonmelissa]

Dear Diary,

Yeah. That's right. It's the worst ever. I'm living in possibly the worst nightmare that any innocent Muggle could ever witness. Except, now . . . I'm not a Muggle. I used to be. It used to be that I didn't even know what 'Muggle' meant. I wish sometimes that I still didn't.

Now, I'm a witch, along with my two sisters. It's so frightening, because before I came to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, my family and I were attacked by some witches and wizards. They used a strange spell on me. An awful one. It was terrifying. I've never felt so much pain in my life. The pain was so enormous, I began wishing that they would kill me and get it over with. But they didn't. They erased almost all of my sister's memory, and knocked out my brother. My dad was killed.

So, now I'm at Hogwarts. I'm not talking to Maria at all, because she's a witch now. And I probably shouldn't be talking to Alex, either, but she's all I have now, other than mom and the boys.

Signed,

Aly

[alysonmelissa]

Dear Diary,

I was walking through Hogwarts today. I've been pretty lonely without Maria, and I decided to take a walk to get my mind off of things. It was the middle of the night, and I was on the second or third floor. I stepped into a room, and to my surprise, I found Maria in it. She was standing in front of a rather large mirror.

I almost left, but she seemed so transfixed by it that I had to ask what was going on. My voice was hoarse from where I hadn't been talking in a while. She talked to me a lot, and started going on about this 'Nico'. I hadn't heard of him before, but then I asked her about the mirror. She'd seemed a little confused that all I could see was me and her, but when she jumped away from it, I saw something amazing.

The image had changed to my friends and I. We were in a field, and my dad was in the background. He was calling for us, I think. I broke down, and Maria led me back out. I'm still crying right now. I snuck back into the dorm without anyone waking up, though.

Signed,

Aly