July 11, 1995, 12 Grimmauld Place
For the first time this summer, today has been filled with a lot of Order-related stuff. I guess I should elaborate more on the "stuff". Here it goes:
Professor Lupin came back from a secret Order mission, and he was all bloodied up. There were cuts all over his face and hands, and the full moon isn't until next week, so I KNOW it's from the mission.
Well, he stumbled into the kitchen during breakfast and Mum nearly had a heart attack. She sat him right down and started fixing up his wounds. She told all of us to take our breakfast plates and finish our meal upstairs. Then she hollered for Sirius to Floo Dumbledore as soon as possible. So again, we were shunted upstairs.
On the way upstairs, I told Bill that an Order meeting was probably about to happen, and he flew down the stairs faster than the speed of Buckbeak the hippogriff! So Fred, George, Ron, Hermione, and I finished breakfast in Ron's room.
Mrs. Black started screeching again as more Order members came into the house, and Fred and George went downstairs to see if they can make her shut up. Lucky prats! They're allowed to use magic!
So Hermione, Ron, and I were stuck, theorizing about what's happening downstairs. Hermione says that Lupin was out guarding the weapon that the members have been talking about ever since we arrived. Of course, Ron, being the Hermione-adoring person that he is, agreed with Hermione's theory. Okay, okay, so I agree with her, too, but…you know what I mean…
Fred and George came back up a while later. They said that Mum wants all of us to start working on the dining room that's down on the first floor while the Order meeting's going on. So we all went downstairs, and we each took turns using the last Extendable Ear to listen in on the meeting. Fred and George have yet to make more of them. Mum keeps rumamging through their bedroom, and it's dangerous to leave their inventions lying around.
So, anyway, when it was my turn to listen in, they were talking about Harry. One of the wizards in the kitchen said that Harry had every right to know what was going on "on our side" so that when he did go back to Hogwarts, he wouldn't be completely clueless. Then Professor Lupin said, weakly, that Harry knows much more than the average teenage wizard, and that launched a whole other argument about Harry not being the "average teenage wizard". It's always the same thing! Oh, yeah, and they were talking more about getting "better protection" for their guard duties, because of what happened to Professor Lupin. Hermione reckons that he was attacked by something while he was out guarding the "weapon".
I just wish that we could all be in that meeting right now. It's still going on, and it's past lunchtime. We tried knocking on the door, but no one's answering. I'm bloody starving! We gave up our attempt at cleaning the dining room. There are a whole bunch of magical pests in there, and we don't know how to get rid of them.
Ron invited Hermione and I to a game of Exploding Snap, but Hermione said she had holiday homework to do(again!), and I'm not really in the mood to play anything at the moment. I'm just sitting here, on my bed, writing in my journal, and listening to the melody that my new jewelery box is playing. Hermione hasn't complained about it yet, so she must like it, too.
Oh, yes, I asked Sirius about the key to the box this morining at breakfast, and he said he would try to find it for me. Of course, that was right before he Flooed Dumbledore, so he probably forgot all about it. I'll have to remind him about it later, after he gets out of the meeting.
I can hear laughing down the hall. George probably lost Exploding Snap. He hasn't been able to win a game all summer. Poor George…
I am desperate to get a hold of that baby Draco Malfoy picture again. I could use some laughs when I'm stuck up here in my room. I have a feeling that I'm going to be spending a lot of time in my room this summer. Don't they have another room that they could use for Order meetings? Or at least they could let us inside, so we wouldn't be bored!
That's it. I'm going to play Exploding Snap. I'm bored out of my mind. It's not that writing in this journal is boring, it's just I really have nothing else to write about, and nothing really happened today. I promise I'll write later if anything important comes up. Bye for now!
LaterWell, something important DID come up after all.
While Fred and I were playing Exploding Snap, we heard this huge scream downstairs in the kitchen. We all rushed down there in a heartbeat, and we found Dad holding a sobbing Mum. At first, I thought it was because of Percy, and I started to get angry, but that Dad explained.
He's going on guard duty tonight.
Oh, I know he has to do it for the Order, but after what happened to Professor Lupin…I don't even want to THINK about what could happen! Mum's beside herself. She refuses to talk to anyone, not even Professor Lupin. Sirius helped us make dinner, because Mum didn't want to come down. He's a pretty good cook, much to our surprise.
It's just after ten now, and I'm worried so much I probably won't be able to sleep. But I'm dead tired.
I just hope Dad comes home safe and sound tomorrow morning.
'Night.
-Ginny
Yeah! Another long chapter!
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-Rox
