I’ve been working on cracking the mystery of the egg from the first task, but it still screeches every time I open it. Hermione won’t stop pestering me about it, but I know I’ll solve it in my own time unless she beats me with some solution she finds in the library. To celebrate the tournament, the castle threw a big party on Yule. Ron and I waited until the last minute to find dates, and all of the girls were already spoken for. I asked Cho Chang, the Ravenclaw seeker in the year above me, but she was already going with Diggory which... no surprise at my rotten luck... Ron fancied asking Hermione because "she was a girl" and he didn’t think anyone would have asked her. But she surprised us all by attending the dance with...