July 29, 1995, 12 Grimmauld Place

I have some very good news: Hermione and I are friends again! It's actually quite an interesting story, so I'll start telling it from the beginning.

This morning, Hermione sped out of the bedroom before I got a chance to talk to her. All through breakfast, she refused to meet my eyes. As you can imagine, I finally got fed up with her. I cornered her in our bedroom before she could go to visit Ron again.

I asked her why she was ignoring me, and at first, she tried to act like she didn't know what I was talking about. One look from me, and she sighed. She sat down on her bed and started to explain everything.

Hermione was jealous of my relationship with Michael. She wants someone to like her the way that Michael loves me. She thought that I had forgotten about her, because of all the letters I've been writing to my boyfriend, and she didn't want to say anything to me, because she thought I might blow up in her face or something.

Trust me, that's the last thing I would do. And I told her exactly that.

We spent the rest of the morning and a few hours of the afternoon together, just laughing and visiting with Tonks. She's staying at 12 Grimmauld Place for a few days, because she has some big mission for the Ministry.

We've all been talking about Bill, and his little "fling" with Fleur. Hermione bets they won't last longer than two months. I've never met Fleur in person, so I don't know what she's like. Then, Tonks turned herself into a Veela girl and pranced around the room for a while. Hermione said that's exactly what Fleur is like.

Bill seems to like her…but that's probably only because of her Veela blood.

After lunch, I decided to go and talk to Buckbeak, and guess who I found there!

Sirius!

Well, I found Buckbeak there, too, but Sirius was with him. He let me help him feed the hippogriff some dead mice. It was a little gross at first, but Buckbeak just loves them. He's the sweetest hippogriff I've ever met…but then again, I haven't met many, but still.

After that, I was just about to leave, but Sirius stopped me. He said he wanted to talk to me for a few minutes, so I sat on the floor, and we talked.

You thought I would just leave you hanging. Ha!

Sirius told me that he's heard a lot about me from Ron and Hermione. He asked me about my crush on Harry. I must admit, I blushed a little at the sound of his name, but I'm starting to get over it.

I told Sirius that a did have a crush on Harry, but that I didn't like him anymore, and that I already had a boyfriend, a Ravenclaw named Michael Corner. Sirius looked like he didn't believe me, but I told him that everything I had said was true, that I was totally over Harry.

He asked me if Harry ever gave me any attention back when I used to like him. I told him no, other than the occasional "Good morning" at the Burrow. I said that we didn't write letters to each other, and didn't give each other birthday presents. Sirius asked me if I considered me and Harry to be friends.

And quite honestly, I didn't know how to answer his question.

I stuttered for a few seconds before Sirius put up his hand and told me that he understood what I was trying to tell him, that I wasn't sure if Harry and I were friends. I told him that we were merely "acquaintances", and he laughed and told me that Hermione uses that word often.

I didn't want to leave the room so quickly, so I confided in Sirius the one thing I haven't told anyone: my despair at having to stay locked up in a house for the entire holiday. I felt rather stupid telling all of this to an escaped convict who is probably going to be living here for a few more months, but he was patient while I was speaking.

Sirius said he was glad that someone else shared his hate at not being able to leave the house, but he kindly pointed out that I would be leaving on September 1, and that I probably won't see this house again after that. He had disappointment in his voice, which told me that Sirius would be lonely without the house filled with people all the time. I joked with him for a while, saying that I would remember to visit "Old Uncle Sirius" in his retirement from the "escaped convict life". He smiled and laughed.

Mum called me down for dinner duty after that, and Sirius told me that I had better "cook him a good meal". I stuck my tongue out at him, and he did the same to me. I waved goodbye and trudged down the stairs to the kitchen.

Dinner was simply fantastic. It seemed that all of the Order members were there, and for once, no one was sulking or bearing bad news. There was plenty of shouting and laughter, mostly coming from Sirius. I noticed a twinkle in his eyes that hadn't been there when I had first seen him on my fourth night here. Hermione and I played our usual game of daring Tonks to morph into different people.

And, not to mention, I saw Ron staring at Hermione when she laughed and turned her sparkling eyes upon him. Ah, my brother is such a lovesick little puppy!

I'm all tired out, and my face hurts from smiling so much. This has been one of the best days of the summer.

Here's to today, and many more days like it!

Good night!

-Ginny


Hermione and Ginny are friends again! And Ginny actually had a good day, that didn't involve running out of ink! Hooray!

Cheers to my reviewers, sorry, I don't have an actual list of people to thank.

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Puddlemere News: The 3rd chapter will be posted no later than Sunday, July 31, 2005.

Oh, god. I am so tired right now. My dad lost his job a few months ago, and I've been scourging my room for things I can sell so that my family can get some money to send me to high school in 2006. My mom isn't taking it too well, either, and it seems that people are always screaming and crying in my house.

Oh my god...I just bought this awesomem song on my iPod. It's called "Iris" and it's by the Goo-Goo-Dolls. Tell me in a review whether or not you think I should do I songfic involving Ginny using that song!

Enough about me!

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