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(A/N) Okay I promised it would be here and it is. The one chapter when you see what is inside... Regulus Blacks journal. You still won't get a good picture of everything, but your not supposed to. It supposed to be confusing after all this is a mystery type story. Well go ahead and read now. I won't waste anymore of your time. DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW AFTERWARDS!!

~Love from Lizzie

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(Disclaimer) Well you never know I may have inheireted it right? I mean you never know!!!

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Chapter 5: The Journal Entries

Ginny and Mrs. Weasley both walked into the den which was now packed with people. Mr. Weasley, Fred, and George had come back along with two other men Ginny didn't know. Ron, Harry, and Hermione were talking to the first one who had sandy colored hair and a little patch of hair on the tip of his chin. He was very young and his blue eyes seemed oddly familiar.

The other man was about her father's age. He had very short blonde hair and a large bald spot on the back of his head. Mrs. Weasley seemed to recognize the second man because as soon as she caught sight of him a large smile spread across her face.

"Thomas is that really you?" she said racing over to him and locking him in a huge friendly hug as though they were old friend leaving Ginny to stand awkwardly alone.

Instead of joining Ron, Hermione, and Harry she walked over and sat down on the old brown couch looking about herself curiously. The sandy haired man kept glancing over at her over Ron's left shoulder and it was beginning to make her feel very uncomfortable. A sly smile crossed his lips and he made his way over to her after excusing himself from the group.

"Ginny is that you?" he asked shaking his head unbelievingly. Ginny would recognize that voice anywhere.

"Seamus?" she asked looking at him skeptically. He nodded his head and she jumped up and strangled him into a huge hug. "Wow! You look so different! I had no idea who you were at first!" she said in awe at the change the couple of weeks had done to him.

"Me too! I had to keep looking over her just to be sure I was actually seeing you right!" he laughed.

After his fifth year and her fourth, while Ginny was still dating Dean, she and Seamus had grown close together. The reason she and Dean broke up to begin with had been because he was getting jealous over her behavior towards him. After that, she and Seamus felt to awkward to even speak to each other again.

"So are you staying for dinner?" she ask nervously trying to get her thoughts off that time.

"Nah! I have to go with your parents, my Uncle Thomas, your brothers, Harry, and Hermione for a training assembly for the Order. I'll see you at Bill's wedding though. I heard that it came up on short notice. I bet your mum totally flipped out, huh?"

"Yeah! Well I guess I'll see you later then." she laughed as he made his way back over to his uncle and Ginny's mum and dad. Hermione noticed Ginny sitting back down on the couch and decided to join her. After all, it was starting to get annoying having to listen to Ron, bragging about his Quidditch position for an hour and a half.

"Hey." Hermione smiled friendly and sat down beside her red-haired friend.

"Hey." Ginny smiled in return.

"So I saw you talking with Seamus earlier. He's changed hasn't he?" Hermione winked meaningfully.

Ginny smiled and looked flustered.

"Yeah. He, er, does seem different doesn't he?" Ginny grinned biting her bottom lip to keep he smile to a minimum.

"Yeah, just the fact that he turned into a MAJOR hottie! Come off it, Gin! I know you had to have noticed that!"

"Well, I guess I had noticed it a little bit." Ginny said finally letting go of the large smile she had been holding back. Hermione nudged her shoulder then her face turned confused and Ginny stared at her bewilderedly trying to see what she was so curious about.

"What?" Ginny asked finally getting skeptical about Hermione's strange looks.

"Ginny, what's that?" she asked pointing to Ginny's right hand. Ginny looked down and saw Black's journal still in her clutches. She gave a startled cry and dropped it to the floor turning deathly pale. Hermione bent down to retrieve it and Ginny jerked it quickly from her grip.

"I-I-It's nothing! Just a book that I picked off my bookshelf upstairs, that's all." Ginny stammered trying to hide the journal from view. Hermione looked at her totally unconvinced by Ginny' peculiar behavior. The striking of an idea flashed in her eyes.

"Oh really! What's it called? I wonder if I have read it before." Hermione said sneakily trying to grab the book from her grip once more.

"NO! I mean, no, you haven't. It hasn't been published since it's last copyright in 1405. It would probably bore you anyway. It's just a stupid book about how to successfully remove garden gnomes."

Ginny shrugged keeping the book a safe distance from Hermione's reach.

"Oh really? Well I always wanted to know a little about garden gnomes anyway. Do you think I could borrow it later?" Hermione asked as a sly smile played across her lips.

"Er, no. No, because it-it-it's not mine. I, er... I borrowed it from the Library!"

"But you just said you found it on your-"

"Hermione!" Ron called suddenly cutting Hermione short on the rest of her sentence. He walked over and lifted her to her feet. "Come on, love. You need to get a place in line for the fireplace. They aren't letting us Apparate, and there's a limit to the Floo Powder. In other words, Dad forgot to get some last time he went to Diagon Alley and Mum's knocking him aside the head right now."

"But I...we-"

"You better go!" Ginny said waving her off frantically. In her mind she was reminding herself over and over again to repay Ron for his unknown good deed to her.

"Well, fine! If you say so, Gin." Hermione sighed grudgingly and let Ron drag her off to the fireplace to join the others.

Mrs., Weasley turned to Ginny and called out to her, "We'll be back soon, Gin!" before pushing Mr. Weasley into the fireplace ahead of herself.

Hopefully not too soon. Ginny thought to herself then took off in a wild sprint to her room.

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As she walked into her room upstairs, Ginny made sure she locked the door tightly and then threw the journal in her hands onto her bed then began pacing the room back and forth. What was going on? How could the journal have been in her hands when she couldn't even remember taking it out of the room? She ran her hands through her fiery red hair telling herself to calm down over and over again.

It was just a coincidence. You just didn't realize you had it in your hands but you really did. You just picked it up without realizing it. That's all. She stopped pacing and stared down at the mysterious leather book. She wanted so badly to read it, but her experience with mysterious journals kept arguing back at the strong temptation.

Ginny come on! You remember what happened last time you felt this way about a book! Remember where that got you?

Yes, of course I remember! I'm not completely stupid! But come on, not all journals are evil. Just because I had bad luck with the last one doesn't mean this one's going to be the same.

Didn't you feel that strange feeling this morning? It was like you couldn't control yourself or what you were doing? I think that's a possible sign of possession, don't you think!

Yeah, well, I think it's just probably a sign of curiosity. Besides it will only be a peek. If anything bad happens, I'll just burn it or something.

Fine! Fine, don't listen to me! Do what you want! But just remember not to come crying to me when you can't control your body any longer! I tried to warn you, but would you listen? Noooo...

Oh shut your trap! Wait a second... I'm arguing with myself. Okay I have officially gone out of my mind!

Ginny bit her lip and flipped through the pages. All of these pages were filled with all of Sirius' brothers feelings, thoughts, emotions, and maybe a few things that happened at some of his meetings with Voldemort. She flipped through the pages again and found the page she was on when her mum had interrupted her and began to read were she had left off.

October 22

He has found it! My Lord has finally found the way to control all of the Wizarding world. He has found the way to kill off all of the Muggles and Mudbloods infesting this world that is rightfully ours. The one called Lastrange has revealed a prophecy that shall not let anything stand in our way to power. After Crouch had told us about the child's prophecy, we were all afraid that we may never get power and the child would win over us. But then My Lord told us of the plan. He would kill the child and if anything went wrong Lastrange's prophecy would take place. My Lord told me not to mention anything about the prophecy's content in this journal just yet. I'm not quite sure why, but he said that he'd let me know when the time came. Until then I will be sure not to write a word.

Ginny picked up her head and thought to herself for a minute about what he was talking about. What prophecy? The child he was talking about, was that Harry? She tossed these questions about in her mind before turning to the next page.

October 23

We officially heard the first prophecy this night. It was that there is a boy who was born last July to parents who had thrice defied My Lord. We now have reason to believe that the parents of the child are the Potters. My low-life brother's friend and his Mudblood wife are the ones who produced this horrid child, the only one who would be able to stop My Lord. Never will we let this child live. For if he does live, our plan of total power will fail. But it shouldn't be to difficult to kill the boy now that we have two ways of doing so. If we do fail at murdering the boy that is where Lastrange's prophecy comes in. She had told us something that will surely let our rule be complete. It will not let us down whatsoever, even if we fail at killing the boy. I still have not the authority to tell you about the second prophecy's content , but My Lord says that the time is soon. For some reason, this last prophecy makes me believe that we may fail at killing the boy. I know I mustn't but, I'm beginning to doubt Wormtail's information on the Potter's whereabouts.

Ginny looked up once more. This journal had been written only a couple of days before Harry's parents deaths. They knew that Harry would be a threat even before Harry knew how to talk. It made her shiver at the thought of Regulus Black hearing about the prophecy, maybe laughing shrilly at the news of Harry's soon to be attempted murder. But wait a second. They failed! But Black had said something about a backup plan! What backup plan? Did they start it already? Was it already fulfilled or was it yet to come? If it hadn't happened yet she'd be able to stop it before it started! She bowed her head back over the book and continued to read on.

October 29

We'll be meeting once more tonight and then we will kill the boy tomorrow night. I'm feeling doubtful of My Lord's plan. He wants me to accompany him to the place where the boy and his parents reside, but I feel afraid that we may not accomplish it and if I do decide to go I may never return. I think we may fail. Something about that second prophecy makes me feel skeptical about the first one. Was there something we may have missed? I guess we will only have to wait and see.

Was that what the Death Eaters were after in the Ministry of Magic? Were they looking for the prophecy record of what they had heard from Crouch? They were trying to find out what they had missed and what they had done wrong! Black was right! Ginny turned the page and found an entry that looked as if it had been scribbled down in a couple of seconds as though Black was rushing it.

October 30

I will do My Lord's will even if he does not trust me anymore. I have told him of my speculations towards the plan and he got very angry towards me. Right now I have told my parents to go into town, and I hid myself in the cellar where it will take the other Death Eaters longer to get to me. I understand and accept my fate of punishment, but I must do my will before I die. The prophecy spoken to us by Lestrange was that a Heroine would come to save us. She will come and defeat the only other person who could demolish the Dark Lord. She is called the Heroine of Darkness and when the time is right, she will be woken and will lead us to defeat the boy and all of the unworthy Mudbloods and Muggles. That is why I must write this. To awaken the Heroine!

Oh might Heroine of Darkness, beseech your rightful place on the thrown of evil. You are our only hope at grasping the power we deserve. Awaken and find the power that so belongs to you! Diminish the boy who stands in our way to victory for it is you and you alone who can stop him. Without you we shall fail. Awake Heroine of Darkness and guide us to our victory!

I can hear them coming for me now. It won't be long...

Ginny turned the page, but found it blank. She shakily closed the book and rubbed her hands over her eyes. What was she supposed to do? She knew she had to tell someone, but who? Who could she trust? Anyone could be the Heroine so she couldn't just tell anyone.

She picked the journal up off the bed and place it back into the circular cabinet and shut the door. She gave one tug on the bookcase then stopped dead in her tracks. The snake and the journal! The Heroine was probably looking for them. They probably held some sort of magical powers and she'd probably need them. Ginny opened up the cabinet once more and took out the silver serpent emblem and the journal placing them neatly in her pocket. She may not be able to tell anyone about the Heroine just yet, but if this is what she was looking for she'd have only one was to get to it. Through her.

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(A/N) Okay now tell me what you think? Was it bad? Was it good? Neither? Are there such things as a pink monkey? Okay maybe you don't have to answer that but the other two you do. So go ahead and review. And remember to make it nice an detailed just for me.

(Summary of Chapter 6) It's time for the Wedding!!! Yay!! In this chapter we learn a little more about the background love life of Ginny and Seamus. It's gross right? Yeah I thought so too! But I had to put it. You'll see my reasoning soon enough.

(Thankies)

~VoicezWithin- Yeah of course I know it wasn't my best but I really was intending for it to be. I just didn't have enough time to type any more for the time being. Hehe. But anywho I'm glad you liked it anyway. Oh and yes I am pretty sure it did scare Ginny after all wouldn't it scare you at least a teensy bit?

~RussellGrl15-Yeah it was creepy. That's what I intended. Oh and you said it had meaning even if it was a short chappie. Thanks. I tried to get as much done as possible and this is all I could type for the time being. I hope you liked this chapter though.

~cristen- Thanks I hope you actually enjoyed it cuz you didn't really say if you did or not just that it was short and freaky.

~jac- You going on the right track! I hope you liked this chappie. I finally revealed what the journal says. Did it confuse you in any bit?

~xzaire- Okay maybe it was a bit more than three days but its here right? Did you like it? Oh by the way you didn't offend my by saying what you didn't like. I usually don't like negative criticism (you know like "Oh I don't like this and that") but you didn't make it sound very… well…mean. Thanks. By the way you can always say what you didn't like. It helps me try to improve it. Just don't cut me down by saying stuff like "OMG that was so crappy and such" not that you did I was just giving an example. Okay all that explaining is giving me a headache. Thanks again.