I am excited to see you soon! I have been counting the days until the Hogsmeade visit. I will remind Elliot to write more when I see him around. Or ask the friends he seems to have made about their adventures, if they're willing to tell his older sister.

Professor Crouch's first class was fascinating. Miss Best fainted right in the class! Coach Crouch had to take her to the hospital wing. Do you think Professor Pembroke would haunt us or curse us? And how would we even know? I hope the answer isn't Divination. I'm still having troubles with it, but I'll keep trying. And I'll try to be nice to Coach Crouch. I hadn't really thought that he wouldn't be used to that. Maybe that would be like asking me to teach a class on Alchemy.