July 31, The Burrow

Today is Harry's 16th birthday. So far, he's been keeping well in contact with our family, I'm glad to see that Tonks, Mad Eye Moody, and my parents got through to the Dursley's. I was afraid they would do harm to Harry after leaving last year. Ron got Harry Quidditch through the Ages: Special Edition, and Mum and I baked him some pies and some cookies. Fred and George made him some fake wands and other old gags that we keep finding around the house. I'm glad to see that everyone is getting Harry something to make him feel better. I don't really think that Harry's doing all that well since he left with the Dursley's last month. You see, last month, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna and I all traveled to the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic to try and save Sirius from danger that Harry thought he was in. It turned out that He-who-must-not-be-named was behind it all and was tricking Harry into coming. The rest is unknown to me. Harry just seemed to have told Ron and Hermione, as usual. I just wish Harry wouldn't look at me as if I was Ron Weasley's little sister but just as a friend for once! Well, I have to go, Mum's calling me, I'm guessing our Hogwarts letters have arrived. I hope I made prefect!

Once Ginny Weasley finished writing in her new diary, she put down her quill and went downstairs to see what her mother had called her down for. Ginny Weasley was tall, thin 15-year-old girl. She had long ruby red hair, with diminishing freckles that were once very noticeable. As she walked down the staircase, she would skip a few steps, trying to get downstairs as fast as she could. While she trotted down the many steps, she heard a distant rumble that seemed to be coming from upstairs. She ignored it, and went down the steps just as she had been doing before. Soon the distant rumble became a loud annoying noise and no sooner did her older brother, Ron Weasley, come bounding down that stairs, as if something was chasing him from behind. Knocking Ginny to the side, he yelled behind him an apology.

"Hey!" yelled Ginny after her older brother, Ron. Ron hadn't changed much since the last month, he was still the tall, lanky, red headed boy but now he seemed to have grown into himself and was turning into a good-looking guy. "Why are you going down so quickly!"

"Sorry Ginny!" said Ron as he went faster down the staircase "I'll explain later!" as Ginny eyed Ron; at least until he ran out of sight, she went back to walking down the stairs. With ears perked up, ready for anymore stampedes from her two other older brothers, Fred and George, she finally reached the ground floor and instantly went looking for her mother.

"Mum" said Ginny to her mother as soon as she found her "You called me?"

"Oh yes, Ginny!" said Mrs. Weasley abandoning the potatoes she had been trying to peel, the muggle way, since her wand was busy with other things. "Look what just came" as she handed Ginny the official Hogwarts letter; Ginny looked up with frightful eyes. "Go ahead! Open it!" said Mrs. Weasley trying to get her only daughter to open the envelope.

"Do you think I made Prefect?" asked Ginny, while eyeing the Hogwarts crest, which was sealing the letter.

"Of course I do!" said Mrs. Weasley eyeing her daughter, rather than the letter.

"And you wouldn't get mad if I didn't make prefect?" asked Ginny, worriedly

"Of course not!" said Mrs. Weasley "I would still love you just as much as I do now, you making Prefect, or not making Prefect won't change a thing! I'd still love as much as I do now," said Mrs. Weasley

"OK, here goes nothing," said Ginny as she carefully broke the Hogwarts seal, wondering what may hold for her 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.