A/N: This is mainly a filler chapter, but it'll help you guys later so make sure you read it and look for clues of what might happen! The clues are underlined for you, but you have to put it together.

Chapter 18: Diaries, Pt. 1

Draco's

A few days have passed since the idea came to my mind, but the longer it took for it to be put into the action, the more I felt like this wouldn't work.

Retina hadn't said that she disliked the plan, but we all knew she did and that may be why the Dark Lord was reluctant to follow through. I only hope that Luna and Trinity can be strong enough for Retina when the time comes for the plan to be put into action.

Luna's

While sitting in my large room at Malfoy Manor I thought of the plan our dragon came up with. I always knew dragons were smart, but this plan is brilliant compared to the Dark Lord's alternate choices.

I only wish Retina was into it. It's all up to her, and without her fully into it we'll fail. We can't fail. We just can't.

I may love Harry and wish that there was another way, but I have finally realized that as long as Godric Gryffindor is looked to the world will have no peace - we'll have no peace. Our souls won't move on without him gone completely from the world.

Retina knows what must be done, we all do, we all just wish there was a more peaceful way - even the Dark Lord wishes it.

Trinity's

My brother, our dragon, has finally proven himself as somewhere near smart. I can see why Retina would love him in every life she's lived.

What I can not bring myself to see is how Retina will get through this. How will any of us? Parvati, Padma, and Cho will have to go against their parents and siblings, all their relatives… We who were raised as Slytherins - raised to defeat Gryffindors - we do not have anything to hold us back from hurting them except our friends.

The plan will work. I know it will. It has to.

Blaise's

I hate seeing everyone so stressful. Everyone needs to loosen up and have fun.

The Dark Lady has been crying every time she sees Retina ever since Draco's plan was approved, even if it just bearly got accepted by the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord himself has been spending every waking moment with Retina as if he knows something bad will happen to her. Retina spends most of her time faking a smile anymore. She's either with the Dark Lord and Dark Lady, with Luna and Trinity, with Draco, or by herself, locked in her room.

It's mostly the last one though. We're all worried, but we know she'll be okay. She hasn't been eating either, and whenever it's brought up she responds with, "I have to make it look like I was mistreated, don't I? Or else the Order will never believe that I found a reason to go back to them."

It's annoying really.

Trinity and Luna… They are doing fine. As fine as they can be with Retina becoming more distant towards them. The rest of us are going through hell, I think. I can't stand seeing Luna hurting so much because Retina is scared, and Draco is hurting as well for he sees how much pain his plan is going to cause a lot of people.

I hope everything goes as planned. If it doesn't, well, everything goes downhill for us.

Ginny's

I'm going to miss it here at Malfoy Manor, but I know I can't stay. The five of us - Luna, Parvati, Padma, Cho, and I - are leaving for the Order's Headquarters soon. And even without this plan, I'd have to leave anyways and go back to Hogwarts in three days.

I wrote to Mrs. Weasley, though I had to call her "mum" in the letter, and said I was sorry. That I wanted to come home, that we all wanted to come home. For effect I forced myself to cry while writing, giving it the look of its writer being in immense distress. I got a reply today at breakfast. She seemed to have believed the letter, but I'll still have to put on a show when I see them all. I can't even imagine being in the same house as them, let alone hugging them and crying into their shoulders.

Father has been distressed with this plan as well. I can see it. I know he has visions like me, though somehow different. It runs in the family, and Mother told me of the dreams he has that are really visions of future events. Ones he knows he can not change. He won't tell me what he has seen of me, but I know it can't be good. Especially since he is spending all his time with me when he doesn't have to work on plans to win the war.

Mother cries a lot. I'm guessing Father told her of what his visions hold, and I can't bring myself to see why they are letting me do this if it'll end badly. Why? Why risk it if all the visions speak badly of it? Why put us through the pain of being separated again? Why hurt Draco, for we won't be able to see each other even at Hogwarts while playing this out?

I do not know the exact answers to these questions, but I can answer the question 'Why?'. It is because this plan is the only one we have that will immediately end the war with little blood shed. It is the only choice we have to bring down Harry, the soul of Gryffindor, and earn the respect of his followers who have been lied to for centuries. The only way to bring down those who are so corrupted and brainwashed by the lies of the past is this plan.

And while I've locked myself away in my room, my friends have been brave. They have been working on this plan while I've been contemplating whether this is the right course of action, and I have found that it is the right way. The only way. And though I don't like it and I may get hurt, I will go through with it.

Parvati's

I don't know how we'll get through this if Retina doesn't pull herself together. I mean, I know it's probably hard for her to agree to leave her parents, act like she despises them, act like she loves the Order and Harry fucking Potter, but she should get over herself - only a bit. I can't even hate her for locking herself in her room! I would probably do the same thing, I sort of am doing it.

Just thinking of having to put up with Harry, who will act all smug about us wanting to come back, makes me feel sick to my stomach, and Hermione has become a bitch lately. I thought I was bad when I hated someone, but she's about ten times worse towards us anymore. Ron, he's just a plain idiot who will probably just laugh like a troll and eat like a pig.

At least we'll have Andromeda, Tonks, and Remus. They've agreed to help us since they are tired of the Order and Dumbledork. I knew they would help the Dark Lord because their families were originally "Dark" families, though how people can classify witches and wizards as Light or Dark based on their beliefs is beyond me. Okay, certain magic that is performed is kind of Dark, and some people in the Wizard world are Dark themselves, but not everyone who believes that muggle-borns are scum are Dark.

I should go now, though. The last lunch the five of us will have with our beloved Slytherins is starting in a few minutes and I haven't even gotten dressed yet. I've been lieing in bed all day thinking of this mission we're on and haven't done anything else.

Padma's

Am I the only one who noticed an absence yesterday? I mean, usually everyone is at the meetings that have started since Draco's idea, but last night there was someone missing. I can't put my finger on it, but I know there was something amiss with the crowd that was around us. For one, there was a person I didn't recognize among the group of Death Eaters. He kept his hood up and didn't come into the light, but then a few Death Eaters were missing.

Alecto seemed disconcerted by this when I spoke of it to her, but she did well in hiding it from everyone around us.

I wonder who that man with his hood was. Especially since he wouldn't even take his gaze off of Retina the entire time. All, and I do mean all, the Death Eaters keep their gazes off of their Dark Princess, and they put their hoods down so as to show respect to her. I don't get how keeping their hoods down shows respect to her, but I think it may have something to do with an ancient belief of Rowena Ravenclaw - to never hide your head from your superiors or it will be seen as hiding your genius and underestimating them, or something like that. Being a Ravenclaw, I should know her beliefs, right?

Whatever. I'm going now. Lunch, then off to see the ugly wizard of the Light. (And I mean Harry. He isn't as cute as a lot of girls think. He kind of looks like a dwarf to me.)

Pansy's

I don't know why everyone's wigged by this plan. It is absolutely brilliant, made up by our personal Dragon, and it'll work.

Well, unless that weird hooded guy from the meeting ruins it. He probably won't since he was only there for last night, and we already caught the traitor in our midst. It was Stan Shunpike. Stan Shunpike had been revealing all our secrets to the Order, but he couldn't keep a straight face while lying to Retina. He cracked within seconds of being under her scrutinizing stare, and he hadn't been able to reveal the current plan to anyone on the other side. So it's all good for now.

Briant's behaving oddly though. He wasn't at the meeting last night, or the night before. That's odd, but what isn't odd about Briant? Absolutely everything is odd about him, but I guess that's why we love him dearly.

And I will not cry when Retina and the others leave today. I won't. Maybe. Hopefully I won't.

A/N: Hey, peeps! Not much in this chapter. it's mainly a filler cos I didn't feel like writing about all the meetings and stuff and wanted to get right to the part where they're playing out the plan, but I felt this would help you guys a bit. If you can figure out what the clues mean (though I doubt any of you will)you'll win a surprise. Obviously I can't tell you what the surprise is, but still, come up with a theory at least.

Ginny: Wow. Two chapters in two days. If only she always did this. We'd be out every night.

Luna: But I like the somewhat quiet solitude that we have in Amanda's head. It's strangely peaceful.

Draco: *snickers* That's cos she has nothing up there except us and the characters from her book.

Blaise: *pouts* I think Amanda favors those characters since she didn't yell at Aphrodite for hitting me over the head with a baseball bat.

Me: Careful, or I'll let them out in this story and make them hurt you, Blaise.

Blaise: *cringes*

Me: *smiles* Anyways, there were only two reviews for the last chapter...Not surprising since this is following not even 24 hours later, so Blaise and Ginny will announce the reviewers who have this chapter and the next dedicated to them.

Ginny: Okay! This chapter and the following are dedicated to Oxymoron8 and...

Blaise:...and FoahShelle15...

Me: YAY! Luv you guys! Glad you reviewed my story, and Oxymoron8 you're still one of my fave reviewers!

Trinity: Oxymoron is my favorite since she helped Amanda begin this story. Thanks SO much Oxymoron!

Luv Yas!
SlytherinLuver (...Blaise, Luna, Trinity, Ginny, Draco)