Intro
They're not spies but they've got secret identities!
As Hermione and Ginny are stuck in Grimmauld place, they uncover a secret room and with it the secrets of long forgotten friends and lovers.
Ashlea: This is our first official co-authored story, so if you give us flames I give you hell!
Liby: Calm yourself Ashlea, be nice to the good readers.
Ashlea: Well I am the Queen of Chaos and I don't know these people!
Liby: Ashlea!
Ashlea: Ice-cream smells chocolaty…
Liby: rolls eyes
Ashlea: No, all it needs is pepper, peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, and I'm not crazy, I'm just a little insane… sort of…
Liby: Anyway we hope you enjoy the story.
Ashlea: I only got a little off course!
Research Ski-search, Who's Up For Exploring?
Hermione Granger paced the living room floor of 12 Grimmauld place. A lot was going on at that time, Voldemort was on the loose, Dumbledore was dead, Harry was out looking for Horcruxes and it was still unknown if Hogwarts would even be running this year. Harry, Ron and Hermione had been using Sirius's old house as headquarters again. Not much of the Order met there anymore, it was still unknown what was going to happen. Hermione was bored; she wanted to be out there with the boys searching for Horcruxes. But she was made to stay behind because they wanted her to do some research. Well the research had been long done and the boys still hadn't returned.
Hermione sighed and decided to sit down, a few seconds later she heard the door open. She turned her head to see Ginny Weasley standing behind her.
"Hi Hermione, boys come back yet?" she asked as she hung her coat on the hook. Hermione shook her head grimly.
"They're still out," she said "you're the first person I've seen in a week." Ginny sat down next to Hermione.
"That must suck." she said, Hermione smiled, it was nice to finally have someone to talk to. After a few hours of talking and playing exploding snap, Ginny left the room to use the bathroom. As she came out, she noticed a door at the far end of the corridor that she couldn't remember seeing before. She quietly crept past the picture of Sirius's mother and went back to the living room.
"Hey, Hermione, you up for a little exploring?" she asked as she plonked herself down on the couch. Hermione merely looked at her.
"We spent almost all our holidays here for the last two years, I don't think there's anything left to explore." she said in a bored voice. Ginny gave her a look,
"No really, I found a door at the end of the hall near the bathrooms that I've never been in before." she pressed on, Hermione still looked uninterested.
"It's probably just a spare room" she said dully. Ginny was so bored that she just had to do something.
"Come on Hermione, we have NOTHING else to do and curiosity is getting the better of me!" she whined. Hermione looked at her with her eyebrows raised,
"I thought you've been trying to prove that you're an adult and should be treated like one." Ginny blushed,
"Fine, I'll go up by myself" she said sulkily.
"Fine by me" Hermione said as she pulled out 'Hogwarts; a History'.
Ginny made her way upstairs and towards the mysterious new door. The handle was rusted and covered with dust; it was obvious that it hadn't been used in a long time. She tried to turn the handle, but, of course, the door was locked. Ginny frowned, still being an under-age wizard she wasn't allowed to use magic. She thought for a moment before the answer came to her. She was Fred and George's sister, they had taught her how to pick locks. She pulled a hairpin out of her hair and picked at the lock until she heard a click. Grinning to herself she opened the door.
It was totally dark inside, Ginny pulled out a box of matches from her pocket and lit one. By this light she was able to find the rooms light switch and gave it a flick. Once the room was lit Ginny was able to get a good look around. It was a nice bedroom with twin beds; one had a light purple blanket and the other a light turquoise. There was a fireplace at the end of the room and above it hung a portrait of two identical, beautiful women. They had long black hair, very fair skin, straight, delicate noses set between deep blue eyes, and (although this was only Ginny's impression, not knowing these people) while one sister appeared peaceful and calm, her mirror-image seemed wild and rebellious. Ginny stared at the portrait; she couldn't recall having ever seen these women before. She looked around the room and saw that is was full of boxes. Ginny went to the nearest box and tore it open; inside she found a stack of books. The top one was a dark blue book. Ginny realised it was a diary and dropped it instantly; her previous experiences with unknown diaries had been unpleasant. She stared at the blue book on the floor for what seemed like ages before she gathered up her courage to pick it up. She flipped it around and saw that it was the diary of Remus Lupin.
She relaxed at this observation, but then began to wonder what Remus's diary was doing in an abandoned room in Sirius' old house. She looked around the room again, there were tons of pictures of these two girls whom Ginny guessed were twins. Some of the pictures were of Sirius and the wilder looking twin; some were of both girls along with Sirius and Remus. She turned her attention towards the diary. Slowly and carefully she opened the diary. It was normal handwriting, Remus's handwriting, after being totally sure that there was nothing dodgy about the diary she began to read.
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Liby: Lovely…
Ashlea: Glad you think so- shall I do it again then?
Liby: No thankyou! That's enough from you, Ashlea! Goodbye and goodnight dear readers, hope you enjoyed the beginning!
Ashlea: Wait! I have something important to say!
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Ashlea: Just you reconsider playing that message for him! No, I don't think he likes you at all! No, I don't like you either!