Hermione Jane Granger

You all might not have realised that what was being served at the head table was unicorn!!!

Harry and Malfoy figured it out last night and I couldn't help hearing the ewwwws. Only, I think they oughn't have been ewws, they ought've been crying for the poor creature. It was so beautiful! It only wanted to say hello to Patil, and then it got taken away, and then - well anyway. I bet Harry's really happy that he didn't eat any now even though they sort of made fun of him, it's better to be made fun of than to eat unicorn, isn't it? Did everybody have to eat it or just the Death Eaters? I didn't see of course because I didn't come up when Harry did. 

I suppose it might not be obvious but Professor McGonagall, Professor Macnair was trying to set the unicorn free when we found him. I don't know why. I had hoped that Harry would help him only then Macnair wanted to blame it getting away on me, and I don't know what would have happened if that had happened because I am always in so much trouble already, and I might have gotten sent back to the camps or worse! So Harry said he couldn't do that and then everybody showed up to find out what Harry was doing. 

So I don't know what is happening to Macnair except that Harry's convinced he isn't trustworthy, he said something that made me think he'd heard you say that, Professor McGonagall, and he trusts you completeley, he thinks you're as loyal as can be, which I suppose you are in a way, so fine. And I don't know if Macnair really can be all that bad if he wanted to set the unicorn free, even if he did want to pin it on me, because it's not as if anybody thinks that Mudbloods are real people, so it's like saying "my krup ate my homework" isn't it?

Terry is all right. He had a bad cut on his face that had bled a lot and really scared him, and broken ribs, and a badly broken arm. I could see the bone poking out. And he had some bleeding inside, but Madam Pomfrey thinks that she found all the places where it was really a problem.

But before Terry would go to the hospital wing he insisted I unwrap a rag in the corner of his cupboard. He'd made me a little wooden whistle, and a wooden tag with runes burned on it for me to put on Cat's collar. We decided on a name for Cat with Mr Lupin's help, only I think I shouldn't tell anyone what it is until Terry can say. But Terry made it and it says Cat's name in runes and I cried when he told me that it was for my birthday, even though I was already crying because I never saw anyone heal a bone that was sticking out of an arm like that.

On the way over Neville said 'I don't care what your friend did, nobody deserves being hurt like this,' which I think is the nicest thing a wizard my age has ever said to me. He's much stronger than he looks, too. We carried Terry pretty well, even though Neville couldn't get Wingardium Leviosa to work all the way. Terry just got a little lighter.

Anyway Madam Pomfrey said I did well to bring Terry in, and she was angry with Professor Carrow too, but she said that I had better not write about it for everyone to see. So I'm not.

Mr Lupin gave me a present today, too, which was a letter from my parents. Terry had sent him a note earlier this week to tell him that it was my birthday yesterday, even though he wasn't talking to me, which might make me cry again because well anyway. Being a werewolf Mr Lupin's allowed to do more than most wizards who aren't really important, so he found them for me and had them write me. Their letters just weren't making it through to me. I suppose that they aren't allowed to use owls, so they had to give their letters to guards, and the guards at the camps they've been at weren't very nice. They were very happy to hear that I'm being taken care of and not fed too poorly because there has been an outbreak of scurvy in the Stow-on-the-Wold camp. I'm to write to them and he'll carry the letter back when he can. I know that I ought not to trust him too far, and I won't say anything, but it's nice to know that someone is looking out for them even a little.

Terry's not going to be awake until morning and Madam Pomfrey said she'd come in before dawn so I can visit him before I have to go serve breakfast at the head table. So I ought to go to sleep now.