My full name is Zander Mathew Adair. I got my surname passed down to me 'cause of my dad's family... But I guess that parts kind of obvious. Anyways, my dad's name is Mathew so I got his name as my middle name. I don't know why my parents did that. Kind of weird, right? Like why would someone give their own name to their kid??? I never even thought about it before now, but I don't reckon my dad will be too happy if I try to question his motives.

My first name is kind of interesting though. But only interesting 'cause it's so weird. My brothers are named Aaron and Daniel. They got the normal names and somehow I got stuck with Zander because my parents thought it sounded cool. I bet you my brothers did something to trick my parents into naming me Zander and by the time they figured it out, it was too late. Very possible. OR it could just be that after two rounds of kids, my parents lost their touch and decided to wing it. That's also very possible.

Either way, I think my name is... alright. Definitely unique. A name people tend to remember, which could be good or bad. Good when you want people to remember you, but bad when you get into huge trouble at school. There's only one Zander around here, y'know? So if someone's talking about me... Everyone will know who exactly they're talking about. I've got tons of nicknames though? Some people just call me 'Z', but I don't like that because people also call Zahra Kettleburn 'Z' sometimes and we are VERY different people, Professor. I've also gotten Zandy a bunch... But that one's terrible. Then there's Sophie Brown, she calls me ZanderPander. I pretend like I hate it because really if anyone else were to call me that, it'd be horrid. But it's actually kind of okay when Sophie calls me that.

So anyways, my name is okay, I guess.

Defense Against the Dark Arts. It's never been one of my strongest subjects, but it also isn't one of my least favorites. I know it's super important and all... So I can't really disregard it. I don't really know what Defense Against the Dark Arts is to me in the whole range thing. It's kind of just there? Y'know? Well... It was kind of just there until this past summer. OWLs were a rollercoaster and... Unfortunately... I didn't pass the DADA one. And at first I was just thinking I'd drop the class and call it a day. But then I went and talked to Professor Dakest and well, I decided not to give up.

DADA is hard because you haven't just got to KNOW stuff. You've got to know how to DO stuff. Charms and Transfiguration are similar, but it's not as hard for me to visualize what I want to get with those ones. But DADA... The hardest part is knowing what I want my result to be. And that's what makes it impossible for me. You can't preform a spell right if you can't visualize it. I've learned that the hard way, Professor. But I'm just going to keep practicing as much as I can. 'Cause I know if I work hard enough, maybe I'll be able to pass the NEWT level exam???

I probably shouldn't have chosen this prompt because I really haven't got any set plans for the future. I know, I know... I'm a Sixth Year. I should have the rest of my life figured out because I'm almost done with school. Except, I don't know what I want from the future. How am I supposed to pick something when there are so many 'somethings'!? Not to mention, I'm not all that good at anything in particular. I'd like to think I'm good at somethings. Like I'm good with creatures and I'm good with Herbology.... And sometimes I'm okay with Charms and occasionally Astronomy, as well. But I'm only sort of good at these things. I'm not REALLY good at anything, y'know? There isn't just one thing that stands out more than the rest. It's pretty scary actually. 'Cause I have no idea where I'm headed.

I've got a vague sort of plan though. I know I want to get a job. Not sure what kind of job, but I'm definitely going to have one. And I've got to do something I like because I can't imagine how bored I'd be if I hated my job. That'd be horrible. And as much as I hate sitting in classes, I might try to go to university. Well, if my parents want to help me pay for it... Which is also why I need to get a job SOON. Maybe I can get one over the summer? That counts as a goal I think. I can get a job over to summer so that I can pay for chocolate frogs and maybe university.

Then I'd like to have a family, I think. I'm pretty good with kids and I think they're alright. It'd give me a chance to help the world, y'know? Like help my kids figure things out. Sometimes I feel like my parents didn't really help me all that much... And that's why I've got to help my kids. So that they don't end up as confused as I was. Plus, if they're wizards, that'd be even cooler. I could teach them how to fly and stuff!! Even though I'm kind of a horrible flyer.... Anyways, I guess that's my plan. Even though it's not really much of a plan at all...

Actually, I hate all chores. It's hard to choose just one that I hate more than the others. But I guess, if I had to choose... It'd be cleaning my room. You wouldn't think it just by one look at me, but I'm actually kind of messy. Okay, okay... Maybe you would think it just by one look at me. I try too look kind of put together. But my room is another story... The one at Hogwarts is a lot cleaner, but only 'cause I've got a lot less stuff. And I can just magic things into their place, y'know? But at home I'm not allowed to. Except, well, now that I'm of age... Maybe I can. But before I couldn't.

So anyways, I hate cleaning my room because my room is tiny. Okay, it's actually kind of average sized, but on the small part of the average scale. Plus I collect a ton of stuff and I have everything in there, so it FEELS a lot smaller than it actually is. Plus, I don't know if this is any breaking news... But Hogwarts Robes take SO much space up. It's hardly even fair. Like Hogwarts wants me to have a messy room or something. But I solved my space problem by using the floor. So sometimes it's a bit hard to see the floor because it's covered in stuff, but I feel like I'm making them most out of the space I have so you give some, you lose some.

Except my dad doesn't feel the same way. He thinks a messy room means a messy mind or something. He says there's no way I can ever get anything done with my room being such a mess. So dad always yells at me to clean it and stuff. Of course I can definitely get stuff done with it looking like a mess, but personally I think he's the one who can't get stuff done knowing what my room looks like. So he's got to yell at me to clean it and I resent that. It takes FOREVER to clean my room. Especially because even after I clean it, it still doesn't feel clean. And that's why cleaning my room is my least favorite chore.

Well it’s not really a special talent yet because I’m still not very good. But I’m hoping that maybe one day I’ll get to that point, y’know? Kace, you know the Hufflepuff one, told me that skateboarding is a great way to get girls. And so I picked it up… Fourth year I think? With the intention of getting girls with it. Okay, so I’m not exactly proud, but what’s a guy supposed to do?! It’s not like I had any other options. And I think it’s sort of worked because I think the girl I live might even like me back for real this time.

But anyways, I was talking about the skateboarding wasn’t I? Right well, it’s a lot of fun. Sure I fall a lot. Or well, I used to fall a lot… But it kind of makes me feel free y’know? Like the way a lot of people feel about flying. I’m a horrible flyer so whenever I get on a broom I’m too busy looking down at the ground I’m about to fall onto rather than thinking about being free. But with skateboarding, I’m already on the ground so really there’s nothing else that could really go wrong. Which makes me feel free. And that’s why I like it.

Plus, I think the ladies really do dig it too. Kace is an expert on this front. I trust him with my life when it comes to the female population. He gets them better than anyone I know. Maybe that’s his special talent.

I DO have a pet actually. Her name is Azalea. Named after the flower, not after any weird pop icons or whatever because for some reason people keep bringing that up. But it’s after the flower, okay? I just like Herbology. That’s all. ANYWAYS.

Azalea is this cruppy well she’s almost two and a half years old now so maybe not a cruppy anymore that I bought over the summer going into my Fifth Year. She’s really cute, but gets me into tons of trouble all the time ‘cause she never wants to sit down. And giving her baths is the hardest thing in the world. She isn’t the biggest fan of water. She just likes shaking it off and spraying it all over me instead.

Anyways, I first got her and kept it a secret. I didn’t want to tell my parents because I knew they wouldn’t approve. ‘Cause I’ve wanted a puppy my whole life and they’ve never said yes! So I bought Azalea with all the money I saved up all on my own and then I hid her over the summer. It was great. And I got permission to bring her to Hogwarts. But then, this past summer I got really busy. I knew I couldn’t keep her a secret so I tried to find a sitter. And well anyways, Eden McGee came up to me about it, but she’s got tons of pets on her own… And there just wouldn’t be time, y’know?

But she helped me convince my parents to let me keep my crup! She’s basically a life saver. More like an Azalea saver.

I do have a favorite place, but I don’t really know if it’s my favorite place in the whole world. I just know that it’s my favorite place in all of Hogwarts. But I guess that’s good enough because right now my whole world really is Hogwarts, I guess. So anyways my favorite place is the treehouse. I know it’s a bit cliche, but I’ve got my reasons, okay?

It’s the one place I can always go to get away. It’s not like the castle corridors that are a constant reminder of the homework I haven’t done or of my Prefect responsibilities that I’m neglecting. It’s not like my noisy common room. It’s just different. I’m good at finding time to hide away up there when I there will be no one around. It’s got a great view too. Just overlooking the lake and the castle. I can see everything. It’s like being a part of it all, but yet being far away at the same time. I guess that doesn’t make any sense… Maybe I need sleep. But it’s just my favorite place of all time.

Sophie calls it my treehouse. I wish it was. I wish I could take it with me. It’s gonna be one thing I miss the most when I’ve got to graduate. But luckily I’ll have another year up in there before that happens. The treehouse is the best place in all of Hogwarts, but don’t tell anyone ‘cause I want it to stay mine, okay?

Lotus Wisteria deserves to get a lot of credit for this, Professor. She is definitely one of the most influential people in my life. I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say the most, but then again I don’t think I have a most. But if I did, Lottie would be up there. She gives the best advice and I think that’s one of the reasons why she’s so influential in my life. ‘Cause I actually take her advice so it must mean she influenced me some way or another.

Hopefully one day I can give a lost kid the same kind of advice too. Except I couldn’t ever be nearly as good at it as Lottie is. So maybe I should just leave it to the professionals. No one really needs advice from me anyways. I’d just make a mess of things. But Lottie always knows the right things to say. Even if there isn’t a right thing to say, she always knows what it is. I think she’s got magic beyond a regular witch.

This is the hardest question in the history of questions so I don’t even know why I’m picking it. Most Professors at this school are pretty evil. I’d tell you which ones, but I’m thinking that could be used against me in the future. And then the none evil once are split into even more categories. Like the intimidating ones. There are loads of those. And I don’t think I could choose those as my favorites because they’re not very approachable, y’know?

Which leaves me with you, Professor Flamsteed, Professor Moxley, and Professor Tanner. You guys are all pretty cool so I kind of just want to leave the list like this. You because you’re classes are always fun except for these new theoretical ones because no offense, but the acting is more fun for us. Then Professor Flamsteed is always teaching me something or another. I’m pretty sure he hates my guts right now, but if he didn’t…. And Moxley is really fun and I’m also working on becoming her favorite student so she had to be on this list. Then there’s Tanner because she’s just really drama free, y’know? I’ve never been to her office, but I’d imagine it’s really chill and that she has a cat or something. She seems like the type.

No I haven’t met anyone famous, but I do know Adi Rehman and he got voted Most Likely to Become Minster for Magic in the yearbook superlatives, so I reckon he’s got to count. Minister for Magic or not, that kid is definitely going to make it big time for something. And then there’s always Toby Fuller-Thompson. He’s definitely making it big for some professional Quidditch team or something, probably. So I know him too.

Oh! And I bet that Ruby Banner girl is gonna be famous for fashion or something. She’s pretty much already a Hogwarts celebrity. And I have met her before. She gave me a card on Valentines Day once. Then there’s always Kevin Hirase, bet he’ll be famous for getting sent to Azkaban so many times and breaking some kind of record. He’s one of my best friends. I definitely know him.

Maybe this was a bad question to choose. I haven’t got a real proper answer now that I think of it. But it’s weird thinking that some of the people you know now might become famous in the future. Super weird. What would I become famous for? Yeah no, I don’t see that one happening.

The scariest thing that has ever happened to me actually happened last term. And it ought to be. I thought I was going to die. It’s lucky that I’m even sitting here today doing this homework assignment, honestly. Not that I think homework is lucky. But I could’ve been dead, you know like I already said before. It was that scary.

Last term when I was trying to get Aegis to come out of the forbidden forrest… I went in to get him myself, which was a terrible idea. And I definitely suffered the consequences and stuff, but the scary bits… Those were terrible. Before I knew it, we were surrounded by giant man eating spiders. And then Gregoire showed up out of no where. I thought we were all going to die. And when Gregoire got taken, I didn’t know what to do.

I went into panic mode basically. It was horrible. I watched a kid die. It was the scariest moment of my life. Gregoire died and I watched it all happen. It could’ve been me.

The best thing that ever happened to me is probably when Sophie Brown agreed to be my girlfriend. Wait, no one else is going to read this right? Because I might want to change my answer. By ‘no one else’ I mean not Sophie Brown at least, right? Because if she sees my answer to this she will never let me live it down. I’ll be humiliated for the rest of my days, Professor. If this leaves your hands, my life is in danger.

Anyways, this moment was absolutely monumental because I may or may not have had the biggest crush on her for a while now. But I didn’t want to destroy anything else she had going because y’know, her happiness is priority and all… And it would’ve been awfully foul of me to put that at risk. But yeah, anyways. When she said yes it was like a dream come true and I sort of strutted around the corridors dancing like a mad man… But I regret nothing. Well maybe except for not learning how to dance properly. It might've looked a little less ridiculous if I knew what I was doing... Except I guess the celebration dancing just sort of happens no matter what without any real control. So on second thought, actually wait. What was I even talking about anymore, Professor? Oh yeah.

We’re sure nobody else is reading this right? Especially not Sophie Brown?

TMy family does this thing where we get with all my extended family for New Years. It’s alright I guess, but there are tons of other holidays we could get together for instead. I don’t see why New Years has to be spent all together. ‘Cause have you ever heard of a New Years kiss, Professor? Well I can’t have one of those if my grandparents are in the room next door. That’d be humiliating. Plus I can’t very well invite one of my Hogwarts friends over to a muggle party. That’d be double humiliating.

Anyways, as us kids got older, my brothers stopped going to the celebrations… So the tradition only mildly lives on. But like I said, it’s sort of a lame tradition. Half the time my grandparents can’t even stay up long enough to do the midnight countdown. So this year I skipped out on it and invited Sophie Brown over to my house instead. We got to watch fireworks from my window and it was really great and I got that kiss I was talking about. Except I sort of threw away traditions…. But it’s never too late to make new ones though, right? Because I want to do this every year.