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Wednesday 23th September

The Burrow

So Kreacher's getting all excited about the pitter-patter of little feet in Grimmauld Place, is he?

That's oddly ... well, odd. At least we'd always have a baby-sitter available!

Don't frown like that, I'm joking.

Seriously though, I have no plans to keep you barefoot and pregnant, and I'd like to wait quite a while before anything like that – but not so long that I'm old and grey and bouncing my 2 year old on my gammy knee.

I would have said just one, but if you think just one is lonely (I'll take your word for it, 'cause I obviously have no idea about that) then two is OK. Or three at a push, no more than that though ... that's obviously not including any little surprises thanks to my Weasley Super-Jizz.

In our more immediate future! Harry says he's "having the painters in" at the first opportunity, and we can do "whatever the hell you want" with our floor on Grimmauld Place – well, within reason; he's not keen on the idea of it being painted "70's brown and orange with lime accents" and he'd like us to talk to him before knocking any walls down, but other than that we've got a free reign. The "having the painters in" is obvious enough (although Ginny and Mum always said that to mean something else, which made me laugh like a 12 year old), but I'm lost on "70's brown and orange with lime accents" ... apparently it was a fashion thing? Anyway, it sounds bloody horrible and I'm pretty sure we're safe.

Now that you say it, it's pretty obvious that Harry is probably trying to keep us as a family unit. Can't say I blame him, really. If I'd've been living with the Dursley's for my first 11 years I'd probably feel exactly the same. Do you remember telling Harry that he had a "saving people thing"? He got a bit arsey about that, but it's true. I think his saving people thing has to do with that too. Think about it, living with those people and they're your ONLY FAMILY IN THE WORD; he must've wished that some other family member would suddenly appear out of nowhere and "save" him from the Dursley's. So as soon as he got "saved" by Hagrid, he felt like he had to save anyone who needed it because he knew what it was like to not be saved.

Which makes me wonder about Dumbledore, actually, but I'll save that for later. Remind me!

And yeah, Sirius would love it. We've got to do something about that Black woman's portrait though. Remember when I was talking to the muggle PM in Kingsley's office just before the swearing in? He's got a little portrait that tells him when the Minister is going to floo in, and he said that when he was first there he tried all sorts of things to get rid of it (poor bloke thought he was cracking up). He even got the carpenters in and they couldn't even knock the wall down, so I reckon we're going to have problems getting rid of HER.

Harry thought a really strong silencing charm, but he was down there yesterday and it doesn't bloody work on the old bat (on the up side, it bounced off her and silenced HIM instead and he had to come into work after lunch and get me to fix him, what a laugh!). Pity really, because if that had worked then we could just put a fake wall over that part and not worry about it. So, there's your first job! Figure out how to take down permanently stuck stuff (Flitwick might know, charms are his thing), but don't rush on it or anything. Harry's not so fussed about that stupid family tree thing, because it doesn't actually scream or anything, so a fake wall CAN be shoved over the top.

What else?

George is trying to work out some trick furniture. It's basically the same as the fake wands, but the chair (or whatever, but so far he's trying it on chairs) turns into a rubber chicken, or whatever. It's SORT OF working, but not anywhere near ready for sale yet. Which gives me an idea. Maybe George can come up with something to make permanently stuck things fall off a wall.

Cousins! No, we don't see much of our cousins. They're all older, or younger (some must be about ready to go to Hogwarts actually), which is why we weren't at school with them either. We used to see them a bit, but once Harry started coming for holidays Mum and Dad decided it was best to keep to ourselves more. Now that the war's over, I suppose someone will re-start the Weasley family picnic. There are quite a few of them (you know that, you were at the wedding), so once or twice a year is really enough (I think).

Anyway, it's getting late and George is planning a really early start in the morning.

I hope you have a good day, 'Mione.

Don't forget that I love you ... Merlin, the idea of being able to wake up with you ... that'll keep me going to ages.

Ron