A/N: Hey all. This is an A/U story, so there is your warning on that. Um, Harry will be slightly O/C because of the War. I mean who wouldn't be? Anyway, might be some character death later on, but I won't say who...

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of the Harry Potter world. That, my friends, belongs to J.K. Rowling. She owns it all, so any problems with her books should be directed to her, not any fanfic writers. LOL.

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Journal Entry #1 October 31, 1998

No.12 Grimmauld Place, London, England. 12:00 a.m. GMT, July 1, 1998.

This place, this date...it's where it started. The Beginning, and The End. Heh, Alpha and Omega. You're wondering what I'm talking about? Why, the end of the world of course, or at least, the one we know of. Most of humanity is gone, wiped out in the first wave of attacks that Snakeface launched. The Muggles didn't realize what was going on, at least, not until they started dying en masse. At first, they blamed each other, and declared war against their supposed enemies. They launched their nuclear weapons, wiping out most of the world in a fit of rage and panic. The poor, damned muggles didn't know...they couldn't possibly know. They started their own World War III, only to realize magic existed...that it was REAL.... At any rate, they started their war just months before Voldie made his move. Afterall, how can you take over the world when there are soooo many muggles in it? Why not let them kill each other off, and pick up the pieces afterwards?

How did they find out about magic? That dumbass Snake revealed us, and himself, to the remaining muggle nations. That's when our little magical cold war got hot, extremely fast, and extremely dirty. He began all-out assaults against the remaining muggles, killing them in the most gruesome ways imaginable. We, the Order, resisted as best we could, protecting the muggles as much as we could. It wasn't enough, they were weakened by their own war they fought, but not so weakened that they couldn't take of few of those bastards down with them. That surprised Voldemort quite a bit, seeing his Death Eaters get mowed down in rifle fire. God, I bet ol' Voldie doesn't even know what a rifle is! As for the Order, well, let's put it this way, we were outnumbered, and the resulting battles confirmed it. It was usually 10 to 1 odds, but our training made up what we lacked in manpower in sheer skill. Still...the overwhelming numbers threatened to consume us, and we had no choice but to fall back.

Anyway, what does the Order HQ have to do with it? Simple, on July 1, 1998, Midnight, that's when the most devastating blow was delivered to us, the complete and utter surprise attack that killed or captured most of the senior Order members. I remember that day every now and then, the day Dumbledore fell in battle, the day Mcgonagall was captured, the day Shacklebolt died trying to save Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, and Luna... All this happened because of Snape, the same Snape who supposedly was a spy for the Light, for Dumbledore...

What happened to Ron and the rest? They made it out, unhurt, but extremely scared. And who could blame them? Afterall, the war hit them right in the face. They watched Dumbledore fall and Mcgonagall get hit by Crucio and get captured. They're with me and the rest of the Order now, trying to figure out the best place to fight a guerrila war against Voldie. Lord knows Hogwarts isn't going to last, not with Dumbledore and Mcgonagall gone. The muggles are pretty much gone now, having been pretty much wiped out by themselves and Voldie's D.E's.

OH yes, the Ministry. It's still there, barely, but still there. What troops it has are the best they got, considering the weaker ones went down first. They're with us now, hiding out and fighting a pitched battle here and there. We have allies over the pond, in America, seeing as how the American muggle government and the American Ministry is relatively functioning. But they can't send help now, they're fighting the War there too, so all their resources are tied into that. So no help from them for quite some time...and Europe...oh god, don't get me started. There is no help in those countries there. We're on our own, until the Yanks can send aid. In other words...we're very much screwed for the time being.

Well, this is the War. I'm not sure what it'll be called by either side in the future, but for now, I think the Light should call it The War of Blackened Dawns. Fitting in a sad, morbid way, but every dawn from now on is going to be black...

Harry James Potter

Order of the Phoenix