I can't decide if I want to go back to Malfoy Manor or stay here.

I've really no desire to go to the manor but for Aunt Narcissa, who has to be terribly lonely, with only my excuse for a mother as company.

And probably Bellatrix Lestrange, too. She's another reason I've no desire to go back. I do hate her.

Christmas dinner, however, is not something I can easily worm myself out of.

Sometimes, I think it'd be better to be a Blood Traitor.

I never knew my father. He died before I was born, and my mother's ludicrously uptight and never mentions him. (I have said that I consider Narcissa Malfoy more of a mother than my own, and that's true).

Skye Black, my cousin through my mother, knows who my father was.

Recently, she's told me the following:
-He used to sneak into Muggle London
-He took Muggle Studies (as I do)

I know that he was a Death Eater, and... it just doesn't seem to mesh together. Skye could be lying, I've no way of knowing for sure, but I highly doubt that she is.

She almost always speaks her mind. I wish I could do that.

It's not just the upholding a "pretty Pure-blood" image, either. I know I'd never have the courage.

I tried out for the Quidditch team mainly because, yes, I'm good, hell, I'm brilliant at it, but Josh nearly forced me into it.

I'm just glad they've stopped their act of using Dark Magic on new recruits. I heard that they stopped that after Snape became Head of Slytherin, they all said, and I've noticed it's probably true, that Slughorn was painfully oblivious as Head of House.

I've got a lot on my mind lately, and I'm beginning to wish that I was anything but a Slytherin. I know for a fact that I'm the only Slytherin friend Josh has, which, to put it bluntly, freaks me out a little. I know that most Slytherins aren't good people, but...

Until this year, I was very proud to be a Slytherin. I don't like this new uncertainty that seems to be taking over.

 Suellen O'Hara.

Possibly the worst of the O'Hara sisters.

Also? Josh was cast as Frank Kennedy. Who's Suellen's "beau" throughout the first half of the novel.

aka, according to Burbage, we have to act in love.

>.<

Well, he is.

He's going on and on and on about Gone With the Wind and who we should be cast as.

Keyword: we.

I mean, he's seriously ranting on about it.

It's incredibly annoying.

I suppose I have to tell a bit about myself, don't I?

My name is Regina Montague, I'm a seventh-year Slytherin at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

One of my best friends is Josh McAllister, and I have no idea why, he's insane.

(Now he's yelling at me and telling me that he's not. Yeah, right)

I've just made Seeker on the Slytherin House Quidditch team, which if you knew me, would seem very unlike me.

But I've always loved Quidditch. That doesn't mean that I can't act super-feminine and play it.

I manage.