July 13, 1995, 12 Grimmauld Place

Wow. This has been one of the best days that I've had all summer. There was no cleaning whatsoever, and I actually had fun in this creepy old house. And for once, it was just Ron, Hermione, and I, no Fred and George in sight.

Yeah, Fred and George are fun to be around, but they just don't know a lot of the things that have been going on with Harry, You-Know-Who, you know…those kinds of things. It was nice to just be with my brother and my best friend for the entire day.

When I woke up this morning, I fully expected to have a day filled with cleaning, and a lot of boring feelings. I went downstairs for breakfast early, because Hermione was still sleeping, and I found Mum in the kitchen, happier than she has been in days.

I asked her what she was so happy about, and she turned around and hugged me, beaming. She wouldn't explain it, but she said that it was "about time we all had a relaxing, summer day in this house". She cooked me my favorite meal for breakfast: sausages, eggs, and potatoes, something that she only does on my birthday.

When Hermione and Ron finally came down, I told them about how weird Mum was acting. Ron didn't say a thing: he was too busy wolfing down the food that Mum left out before she went in search of Sirius and Professor Lupin. Hermione was happy; she hates cleaning this house just as much as I do.

After breakfast, we all waited around, still expecting to have cleaning assignments from Mum all ready to go. But about a half an hour passed, and still, no one was ordering us around, or barking at us to "get to work". Mrs. Black even seemed peaceful as we ventured out of the kitchen.

Hermione suggested that we all go and finish up our holiday work during the lull in cleaning. Ron looked at her like she was crazy(but we all know that he loooooooves her) and said that we were going to have some FUN, not do our homework. We all met in Ron's room. Fred and George moved in Bill's room yesterday. Something about not wanting to hear anything else about spiders in the middle of the night…

We started our day off by playing Exploding Snap. Hermione isn't very good at that game, so she dropped out early and watched me beat Ron…three games in a row! He wanted to play me at a game of chess, but everyone knows that he can beat anyone at that game.

After that, we went into the sitting room, and I showed Ron the picture of baby Draco Malfoy. I took it out of the album, and it's underneath my pillow(not that I like him or anything…it's just a safe spot to keep it in, that's all). I'm sure Sirius won't mind if it's missing. We looked through the rest of the photo albums and found plenty that included Professor Lupin and Harry's parents. We're putting them aside to show Harry when he gets here…whenever THAT is.

Then, we went upstairs, into Buckbeak's room, and spent about an hour or two feeding and stroking Buckbeak, and talking to Sirius while he sorted through some "Black junk", as he calls it. He told us a few stories about when he was in Hogwarts, and all the trouble he used to get into with Filch and McGonagall. Even Professor Lupin got detention a few times! I find THAT hard to believe!

Buckbeak started to get a bit drowsy…probably from all those rats we fed him. I wonder where Sirius manages to find so many rats to feed that hippogriff. We offered to help Sirius get rid of some more junk, but he shooed us downstairs into the kitchen, saying that we deserved a nice day off, with all the help we've been giving around here since the start of July.

While we were down in the kitchen, Ron turned on the Wireless Wizarding Network radio that Professor Lupin purchased in Diagon Alley last week, and we spent a good deal of the day listening to Celestia Warbeck songs, some of which Ron knew all of the words. Hermione pointed out a few Muggle songs that were playing on the radio. A few of the songs were by "the Temptations." Whoever THEY are…

For lunch, we had turkey and ham sandwiches, but we had to make them ourselves, since we couldn't find Mum anywhere in the house. She came back in time for dinner thought. I bet Ron was happy about that.

My cheeks hurt from smiling and laughing so much!

Oh! I almost forgot! I got my ruby necklace from Michael this morning! A beautiful brown owl delivered it to me right after I woke up. I didn't dare wear it in front of Ron, though. He'd freak.

The necklace is pure gold, and in the center, three rubies are arranged in a heart shape. It's just…lovely.

Ha. I'm off to look at the baby picture of Malfoy to get a good laugh before I go to sleep. Goodnight!

-Ginny


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