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Author's Note: This will be Harry's Sixth Year and Sirius will live! YEAH! The story might be changing from Ginny's POV or diary to Harry's to nobody's. Ok, now on with my story that your all just dying to read.
&&&&&&&&&&&A year to Remember&&&&&&&&&&
Chapter One: Escape
Ginny's Diary August 15, 1996I thought I would be happy never to clean headquarters as much as I did last year but now after being at Grimmauld Place for almost three weeks I really wish there was more I could help with. Mum wouldn't dream of letting Ron or I in the meetings so we know practically nothing about You-Know-You besides what the Daily Prophet has been reporting, which is not much. The Ministry of Magic did finally announce the truth. I'm bored out of my bloody mind! Fred and George rented out a store in Diagon Alley called Weaslys' Whizbees and above it is a small flat they're sharing. They joined the order as well so occasionally there around but not much. Ron's a mess since her Hermione's coming tomorrow and he has been since we found out, a week ago! He and Hermione really are clueless! I hope JOURNAL you can see how very bored I am. Sirius, Mum, and Dad are with Ron and I. Sirius is in a rather good mood since Harry's coming in exactly 28 hours 32 minutes and 12 seconds but it's not like I'm counting or anything. You didn't believe that huh? It's not fair that I have to be hopelessly in love with, A. My brother's best friend, B. The boy-who-lived, and C. Someone who doesn't know I exist! Errr… Mum is screaming at me to come clan the dishes. I take back what I said about cleaning. I think I would much rather be bored out of my mind.
The next morning at Number Four, Privet Drive…
"BOY!" Uncle Vernon yelled causing Harry to jerk awake. Looking over his shoulder he glanced at his alarm clock and it read, "6:30". Sighing Harry climbed out of bed and looked at himself in the mirror. His jet-black hair was extremely untidy like each little hair had to be in a different angle. Instinctively Harry reached to pat his hair down but failed as usual. His horn-rimmed glasses lay askew on the brim of his freckled nose and hid a pair of stunning emerald-green eyes. He fixed his glasses and went to find some clean clothes. Deciding on a faded red shirt that was once Dudley's long ago, a pair of baggy jeans, and worn in chuck's (AN:I love chuck's : ) ) he headed downstairs to make breakfast. At the table Uncle Vernon was reading a newspaper article on car tires, Dudley was whining, and Aunt Petunia was fussing over Dudley.
"Took you long enough boy!" Uncle Vernon said.
"You could have made it yourself," Harry thought but instead said, "What would you like?" through gritted teeth.
"Pancakes!" screamed Dudley who was currently eating a doughnut.
Harry made the pancakes and after getting some cereal for himself ran back upstairs to pack his things. He would be leaving for Grimmauld Place this afternoon and he had no idea who would be picking him up. Harry communicated with Ron, Hermione and, Ginny through out the summer but had not told them about the prophecy. The thought of it made him want to curl up and die. Sure he had done some pretty miraculous stuff but the thought of killing the darkest wizard in a hundred years or being killed by him really depressed him. People would of course help Harry but it was a heavy burden for a sixteen-year-old boy. Harry would often lie awake for hours tossing and turning but it did no good in the end it was Voldemort or himself. He would try his best he thought and that was the best anyone could do.
Sighing and shaking the thought off Harry packed his few possessions. By the time he had finished packing and laid about his room it was twelve o'clock and he went down to get a sandwich, chips, and cookies to find an revoltingly hideous girl sitting next to Dudley on he couch. Harry wouldn't have even realized that it wasn't a pig had the girl not been wearing a hideous flowery dress.
"Who's the pig?" Harry asked Dudley who at them moment was staring at her longingly.
"This is Mildred, my GIRLFRIEND," said Dudley kissing her on the lips.
"OWWWW! My eyes! The pain!" said Harry running from the room with his food before Dudley could punch him to a bloody pulp. He managed to throw a glass vase at Harry before Harry escaped. He heard Mildred laughing and snorting uncontrollably and gushing over Dudley.
In his room Harry investigated that he had a rather large gash across his cheek but it was worth it. By the time he brought the dishes down from his lunch Mildred the human pig was gone and Dudley was back to watching wrestling on the telly. Just as Harry was about to head back up stair the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!" said Dudley before Harry could mention whom it probably was and was pushed into the cupboard. Why spoil the shock anyway though Harry grinning mischievously to himself.
Harry listened behind the couch to Dudley answering the door.
"A ga-ga-girl and a… man!" screamed Dudley.
Harry was baffled. Since when did Dudley run away from girls? Or men?
"And the the…the… MURDERER!!!" Dudley finished screaming and ran away clutching his rear end.
"Oh, now it makes sense, "thought Harry chucking to himself.
"Why on earth was he clutching his arse?" a very familiar voice Harry recognized as Ginny's.
"I'll explain later," another familiar voice Harry realized was Professor Lupin's.
" Where's Harry?" asked the voice Harry was most surprised to hear, Sirius's, since he wasn't supposed to leave Grimmauld Place or so he thought.
Harry surprised to hear his name hit his head on the top of the cupboard. He was certainty much taller then he was when he was eleven. "Shit!" Harry said.
"I'm guessing that would be him," said Remus. "Harry, where are you?"
"In here, the cupboard." Harry answered straining to hear their voices. He heard footstep coming closer and they unlocked the door.
"Harry?" Sirius asked. "What in Merlin's name are you doing in a cupboard?"
"O, well nothing really. Harry answered embarrassed. "See I..Well…um..Dudley kind of shoved me in hear when I was off guard to answer the door,"
"The cupboard?" Remus asked.
"Well it's my old bedroom before Hogwarts," Harry answered pulling himself out of the tight space.
"YOU BEDROOM WAS A CUPBAORD!" howled Sirius.
"Errr..Yeah?" said Harry looking at Sirius who was now muttering some colorful four-letter words he would never have said in from of Mrs. Weasely.
"Oh my god Harry!" Ginny said rushing over to him. "What happened to your cheek?"
Harry turned and blushed embarrassed to have Ginny see him being locked in a cupboard. He decided to sound macho. "Yeah that's a good idea," thought Harry. "Oh, that little thing? It's nothing just a scrape really. I forgot it was there." He said but unfortunaly Ginny touched it causing him to wince in pain. Remus stared at him with a grin as if he knew something. Harry panicked. Nobody was supposed to know about his other recent problem, Ginny Weasly. Harry had started to realize last year after breaking it off with Cho how Ginny really had grown up. Her face wasn't as babyish anymore. She was rather pretty, well actually she was gorgeous and her personality was like a female Fred or George.
"Harry, it is not nothing! You winced when I touched it and I can see that it's really deep." Ginny said leaning in and unintentionally breathing in Harry's ear causing a shiver down his spine and a blush form again on his cheeks. Remus saw and looked at him strangely again but with the same smile on his face.
" O shit," thought Harry but he convinced himself he was just panicking. "He wouldn't know from a simple blush," Harry thought. "And he wouldn't say anything either," Harry tried not think about Ginny's six older brothers who would probably beat him to a bloody pulp if they found out.
"Really I'm fine," Harry said. "I'm going to go get my stuff now," He said trudging up the stairs.
"Well I'm still going to have my mum look at it!" Ginny yelled up at him.
Remus had gotten Sirius to calm down and Harry had gotten his things so they left.
"How are we leaving?" Harry asked. "By broom again?"
"Yup," Remus said motioning towards the fours brooms.
"Two more questions," Harry said. "One how did Sirius get out of Grimmauld Place and why are all of you picking me up?"
Ginny answered. "He's on a spell. Only people in the order can see him so for now he's safe and were picking you up because everyone in the Order went on some top secret mission thingy were not to know about except Remus who said he would pick you up. Sirius couldn't go. O and I'm here because I had to get out of the house! The cleaning is driving me nuts. Mum doesn't know I left though." She winced at the thought of how mad Mrs. Weasly would be.
"Well we didn't either," said Sirius. " She followed us! She's turning out more like Fred and George everyday!"
They all laughed and mounted their brooms after putting on an invisibility spell so nobody could see them and headed off.
The trip was quite entertaining as Ginny told Harry about the happening at the Order and Sirius did tricks in the air as well as telling several storied about his detentions with James. Harry caught himself glancing over at Ginny at numerous times studying her face and figure. He couldn't tear his eyes off her. Her flowing red hair and warm brown eyes was enough to entrance him. The butterflies he got in his stomach that he used to get around Cho had doubled. Ginny caught him staring one time much to his embarrassment and asked if something was on her face. All Harry could manage was a blush he hoped wasn't to noticeable and a quick, "un-uh"
They arrived shortly before five and Mrs. Weasley gave him the usual bone-crushing hug. Ron arrived down the stairs look slightly taller and gangly but not as lanky as he had in fourth and fifth year.
"Hey mate!" Ron smiled. "God it's good to have you here I've been with two teenage girls for two whole weeks! I'm going mad!"
Harry laughed and followed Ron up the stairs. Ginny tried to follow but Mrs. Weasely caught her.
"GINERVA WEASLY!" Mrs. Weasly shouted. "COME DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT! YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!"
"Quick let's go" Ron said with Harry behind him to the room from last year.
Hermione was sitting there engrossed in a book as usual but dropped it to give Harry a hug, which Harry noticed seemed to bother Ron.
The three friends chatted for a while but still Harry couldn't bring himself to tell them about the prophecy.
"Dinner!" Mrs. Weasely yelled resulting in two very hungry boys running followed by a muttering girl.
Okay end of first chapter. Sorry if it ended kind of sudden but I thought it was starting to drag on. Next chapter will be dinner and perhaps cleaning followed Diagon Alley. Then they will go to Hogwarts. Please Review!!! Just write anything. I'd be happy to review your stories as well.