July 6, 1995, 12 Grimmauld Place
Well, breakfast wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be. I must admit, Ron, Hermione, and Professor Lupin looked a bit surprised to see Sirius down at breakfast. Ron opened his mouth to say something, but Mum glared at him and asked Sirius if he wanted butter on his toast.
Sirius took his toast and sat down across from me. He asked me if I slept well last night. I felt the famous Weasley blush creep up into my face, and I mumbled that I had slept well. Ron snorted into his orange juice and Mum whacked him on the back of the head with his spatula.
Then, Professor Lupin started reading his Daily Prophet. He scanned the front page, and he gave an odd sort of yelp. We all looked towards him and watched as his face paled very quickly. Mum went over to see what was wrong, and she seemed a little nervous, too. She told Ron, Hermione, and I to go upstairs, and not to come down until she called for us. She asked Sirius to Floo Dumbledore, and then Professor Lupin escorted us upstairs.
Ron reckons that it has something to do with the Order, but what does the Order have to do with the Prophet?
Hermione said that the newspaper has been bashing Dumbledore, saying that he's an old fool. They're even talking about taking away his Order of Merlin, First Class! So the paper probably printed something about Dumbledore, and the entire Order needs to know.
It's around lunchtime, and Mum still hasn't come up here to tell us we can come down yet. Fred and George have tried eavesdropping on the meeting, using their new inventions, "Extendable Ears", but they're just picking up a lot of shouting, and we can't tell what the people are saying because everyone's talking at once.
I would have expected that living at headquarters would be a lot more exciting than sitting up in your bedroom, waiting to be called downstairs. I would have thought that there would be a lot of drama in this house, with secret Hit Wizards coming and going, you know, that sort of thing, like in those Muggle James Bond movies Hermione told me about once.
But it's rather boring. We just sit here, clean all day, and try to get a clue into what the Order is doing to fight against You-Know-Who. Mum won't tell us a thing.
"You're too young! You're not in the Order!" is all she leaves us with.
Oh. Fred and George have just come in! They've picked up a decent conversation in the kitchen with the Extendable Ears!
Apparently, the Daily Prophet printed a story about the Triwizard Tournament, and it was a complete lie. They wrote that the tournament ended "pleasantly", the winner being the, "Boy-Who-Lived himself", and that only one "minor casualty" occurred! The casualty(Cedric Diggory) was said to have been a "boy who used a jinx incorrectly" in the maze, and the jinx "backfired upon him, killing him instantly".
What a load of codswallop! Cedric Diggory was murdered, and he certainly knew how to use jinxes, and the tournament did not end pleasantly.
Dumbledore isn't too happy about the story, George said. It doesn't mention anything about You-Know-Who returning, which means that a good deal of the Wizarding world has no idea that a deadly threat is looming right in their own backyards! He wants to send more Order members around the world, preaching about You-Know-Who's definite return.
God, I bet you anything the Ministry is behind this. They just don't want to accept the fact that You-Know-Who is back, and that we all have to fight.
Moving on to a nicer subject…
I've been able to send an owl to Michael. Hermione told me this morning that if anyone saw the owl leaving the house, she would say it was her owl, sending a letter to her parents. She's such a lifesaver!
Of course, I didn't tell Michael where I am. I just asked him how his summer was going, if he was doing all right: you know, the usual things a girl would write to her boyfriend. I even signed it "Love, Ginny". I hope he doesn't get freaked out about that…
I also hope that Hermione doesn't tell Ron about Michael. My brothers are very protective of me, and if any of them found out that I'm dating someone, they'll all go and hunt him down, and who knows that they'll do to Michael then. But I trust Hermione, and she won't tell a single soul, I bet.
Ugh. Hermione wants to know if I've started any of my holiday homework yet. The answer is…no way! It's not even the middle of July yet, and already she wants me working on Potions essays and Transfiguration theories. It's not like I'm taking my O.W.L.'s this year! And besides, I usually get mine done two weeks before term starts anyway…
Now she's rattling on about S.P.E.W., or "spew" as Ron calls it. She wants me to join, but I just tell her that I haven't got the sickles that it cost to get a badge.
I asked her what S.P.E.W. stands for.
"The Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare."
Wow. I don't care about any of that. I wonder how Ron and Harry can stand Hermione going on about elf rights all the time.
Speaking of Harry…
No one's breathed a word about whether or not he's coming here for the summer. But it's not like I care if he's coming or not. I'm totally over him, remember?
Okay, I'm not entirely over him yet, but I did promise myself at the start of summer that I would no longer blush heavily when he talked around me.
Great. Mum's calling us down to lunch.
"And then we're cleaning the pantry!"
Ugh…
-Ginny
I seem to be writing short chapters these days. This one is two and a half pages long on WordPad, so its longer than the usual ones. But there's really nothing for Ginny to write about, besides cleaning and Michael, because she doesn't know much about the Order(yet). Just wait until Harry comes. The chapters will be five pages long, you just watch.
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