I do rather have to admit that I shouldn't have minded being hurt just a tiny bit, to have a scar I could show off as a souvenir, but on the whole, I think being not hurt is much preferrable to being hurt at all, and certainly not when so many people were quite seriously wounded.

But this Sirius Black chap - everyone's saying he's quite the devil of a fellow, what? Mind you, we haven't seen pictures recently but I do recall when they were looking for him all over Europe, and he seemed the sort that would harm a hundred just to get at one.

Our term doesn't start until the 6th. So I've nothing but my schoolbooks - and pen friends - to keep me occupied for a little while longer.