About two weeks into the school term, Ginny was still at the stage of making friends with the diary, using it purely to chat.
Although her brothers were all in Gryffindor, they were nothing but troublesome boys who fooled around all day. They simply did not understand how lost she felt as a new student, and she had run into some problems with her coursework as well.
Professor Binns's History of Magic classes were simply too sleep-inducing. The ghost's tone never seemed to change when he lectured. At most, the students could hold out for five minutes before they all slumped over their desks and began snoring.
Ginny wanted to fit into life at Hogwarts sooner. During this difficult period after starting school, she had gone to Ron, hoping to play with him.
But Ron had been busy playing Wizard's Chess with Harry at the time. He said that if word got out that he played with girls, how would he ever face anyone again? A real man like him, a proper bloke, would absolutely never hang around with girls.
Harry had wanted to play with Ginny, but after hearing Ron, he began worrying that playing with girls was not manly enough. He lowered his head and pretended not to hear.
Over the summer, his Godfather Sirius had been cleared of all charges. It turned out Ron's rat had been transformed from a villain, and that villain was the one who had betrayed Harry's parents.
He had heard that Hermione had noticed something strange about the rat and reported it to the professors, thereby exposing a major conspiracy.
Harry did not know exactly what the conspiracy had been. He only knew that he had finally experienced the warmth of family. Sirius treated him very well and had even taken him