Harry Potter: The Blogger of Hogwarts

Well, it's official now. Professor O'Neill is evil. I knew somebody had to be evil. There's always an evil teacher in these things. Sometimes, they're all evil like in Groosham Grange, but at least one teacher always has to be evil when magic schools are involved. That's the way of things. At first, I thought it might be Professor Sinistra, because, you know, her name is basically sinister. And she has a habit of appearing at the most disconcerting times possible. But apparently she was named that because her family line unerringly produced left-handed people. Then I thought it might be Professor Quirrell, because it's always the ones you least suspect, but he's way too obvious. No, I'm sure Professor Quirrell is as trustworthy as he is useless.

It's definitely O'Neill now, and I know this for a fact. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Now O'Neill has a tendency to get distracted and meander off into talking about different things, which I obviously sympathize with, and I don't mind it at all because I just love learning new stuff about the magical world. And under most circumstances, I could attribute his actions to absentmindedness. Not now. Not with this.

It was a pretty typical lesson, by which I mean we were brewing an Herbicide Potion, which, as the name suggested, killed plants. Which, given the various toxic and carnivorous species we were studying in Herbology class (sometimes both at once), sounded quite useful. It should have been mostly harmless to students. Unless, of course, someone put in seven lionfish spines instead of the allotted four, in which case it would explode and spew its toxic contents on Greg Goyle.

Now, let's be clear, I'm not a fan of Goyle. He follows Malfoy around like a puppy dog and generally aids and abets him in his bullying. I wouldn't mind punching him in the face. Hypothetically. But I am not a fan of potions eating through people's skin, no matter who it is. Maybe I'd be fine with it happening to Voldemort, but I'm sure as hell not happy about it happening to Goyle. I wouldn't even like it happening to Malfoy.

O'Neill? He didn't seem to give a crap. He told a student to go get Madam Pomfrey. Goyle couldn't be moved, he was in too much agony. And then he started treating it the Muggle way, filling up a cauldron with water from the sink and dumping it on Goyle. He didn't cast a healing spell on Goyle. He didn't even use magic to fill up the cauldron. He did absolutely nothing else. And even someone of the intellectual ability of…er, I would normally say Goyle but that'd be insensitive, so I'm gonna say Crabbe would know why.

It's because he hates Slytherins. And I can't help but wonder what else he's willing to do if he's going to half-ass treating a Slytherin with burns.

Needless to say, I've already filed a complaint to the Board of Governors. I know my rights. But people are telling me that it's not likely to do any good. It wasn't until a petition was filed with a third of the magical population of Britain signing – not a third of Hogwarts students, a third of Magical Britons – that they did anything about Snape. Even my celebrity status won't do much, especially since O'Neill could probably wiggle his way out of it.

But I've got my eye on that guy. And I'm not the only one. Ron finds him to be very suspicious because even though O'Neill claims to be from a pureblooded Irish family, none of the Weasleys have ever heard of the O'Neill family. And they were originally from Ireland themselves (hence the red hair), so they know the old families of Ireland. Who is he? And what does he want? Is he some crazed anti-Slytherin zealot? Is he just some sort of sadistic maniac who likes to see children suffer in general? INQUIRING MINDS (by which I mean me) WANT TO KNOW.

Onto other things. Malfoy has been absolutely insufferable recently. Seeing the wonder of modern Muggle skyscrapers firsthand clearly wasn't enough to knock some humility into the boy. He sees me as a rival for leadership of Slytherin house, apparently, which is very silly, because I have no interest in leading anything and if he wants whatever meaningless titles come with ruling the house, he's welcome to them. Now it's true that most of the first years respect me, but I'd argue it was just because I'm not a git like Malfoy.

It's almost become an obsession with Malfoy, trying to convince me, and I suppose the people around me, of the superiority of mages. The problem is…they're not superior. You just…can't classify people like that. Are there areas that mages do better? Sure! Mages came up with an anti-COVID potion in ten days flat, which I am steamed about. But they still get polio today because they've not yet come up with anything better than the Muggle vaccine. Comparing Muggles and mages is like comparing apples and oranges. If you were an orange, of course you'd like your fellow oranges better. But they're both food in the end and so will we be for the worms. Okay, wow, that got a little dark there. Let's focus on lighter things.

Like Hermione's good news! Well, maybe good. I'm not so sure she thinks it's good, but it could be! Bad Harry, you're getting distracted again. Focus.

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