NiƱo's de la muerte y de la luz

Fourth year Katie Bell hurried out of her foster parents house. She was dressed in her Quiddich robes and carried her wand and broom. Before leaving the magical household, the unlawful young woman cast an advanced disillusionment charm on herself. She was the daughter of two feared Second Circle Death Eaters, her parents directly under Bellatrix Lestrange herself. Because of this the current head of the DMLE had stationed an Auror of each level around the Gryffindor girl to protect her. A fact Katie had forgotten in her rush to leave the house.

Nymphadora Tonks, Auror trainee level 1, had grown accustomed to using her abilities to catch the mischievous girl every time she had tried to sneak out. This time, instead of stopping her, Tonks, curious about the broom and having flown to the foster home herself, sent a message to Madam Bones and followed the girl. She was already under her own disillusionment charm, but then she was an adult, having graduated from Hogwarts two years before.

The older witch rolled her eyes as she realized that they were flying towards London. Probably just wants to go to a mall or something. She knew that she would have to talk to the kid, again, and that she would have to accompany her. Tonks hated shopping, especially in London. She sensed the presence of another witch to her left, and instinctively looked over, her wand in her hand.

Madam Amelia Bones, the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, did not have Aurors to spare on chasing Katie Bell yet again. She had a special relationship with the girl, having been the one to rescue the bruised toddler from her mother in the first place, so she decided to go herself. She mounted her office broom in London and apparated directly to Tonks side, very nearly being cursed by the pink-haired woman. She quickly identified herself, and cast a spell that allowed her to see within the disillusion spectrum. The two former Hufflepuffs followed closely behind the Gryffindor chaser.

They passed London and were over Surry when Katie finally slowed down. She looked for the park Harry had told her about. She saw the broken swings, and Harry Potter's white owl Hedwig sitting on top of the set. Recognizing the signs for Harry being near, Katie began to descend. Before she could get very far, she noticed a scrawny black-haired boy being chased by five much larger boys. His reflexes were great, for catching a snitch, unfortunately, Harry zigged when he should have zagged and was tackled by three of the boys.

Tonks was startled by Katie's stillness, and even more so when the girl suddenly shrieked in obvious outrage and flattened herself against the broom, pointing the handle at the ground and rapidly descending. Tonks exchanged looks with Bones and the two adults followed at a slightly less breakneck pace. Tonks now believed that Katie was meeting a boyfriend and had caught him with someone else. The new goal was to keep the child from casting any offensive magic.

For her part, Bones knew exactly where they were, and had relaxed quite a bit before Katie had screamed. This was Harry Potter neighborhood, and she knew that Katie and Harry were teammates. And then the girl screamed and dived, the happy relief evaporated and Bones gave chase. Katie must have a reason for this behavior. She was not raised a purist. Potter is not in danger from Katie Bell. That was Bones' mantra during the rapid and heart clenching plummet. There was a reason she did not play Quiddich.

Katie swiftly reached the gang of boys, Tonks right behind her. She didn't wait to take off the disillusionment charm before she had bashed the largest boy in the face with her broom handle. The fat boy stopped kicking his victim's stomach and clutched his broken and gushing nose. The top two inches of her broom skittered up the street. Katie cursed harshly as the five boys began screaming and ran from their invisible foe. She hastily removed her concealment and crouched next to the bleeding boy on the pavement.

Tonks hurried over, more careful about cancelling her own charm and swiftly joined by Madam Bones. Harry and Katie were quietly hissing at each other, a common tongue discovered the previous December. The hissing stopped and Tonks looked at the blood-covered teens. "Parseltongue," Katie said, not looking at either adult, "is a most effective language when your jaw has been broken." Her hand gripped the remnants of her useless broom as though it were a club. Since she was looking at Harry, Katie never saw Bones' jaw tighten, or Tonks' hair turn a violent shade of red. "One or more of his left ribs are cracked, but the rest is just cuts and bruises." She laughed bitterly. "Dumbledore promised him he was safest here. Safe! Harry is never SAFE!" She was crying freely as she half whispered half shouted at her guardians. "Can either of you heal him?"

Bones' felt her heart break as she knelt next to the broken teen. She first cast a field diagnostic spell. Her breath hitched when it showed more injuries than Katie had mentioned. The boy had been beaten bloody before he had been beaten. She began casting every healing spell she knew, fixing his jaw and binding his ribs. As soon as Harry could breath and speak again, he said, "See Katie I told you they wouldn't stop you this time." She laughed and helped him up. Both flyers turned their attention to Katie's newly useless broom, "I will buy you a new one. A better one. There's no need for you to get that fixed."

Katie hissed in reply, and to Tonks it didn't sound friendly, nor did Harry's response, so she was surprised when Katie hugged the boy and asked to go to Diagon Alley. Bones' just shook her head at the girl, she knew that not only would she give in, she would probably take Harry and Katie to Bones Hall for the night. Provided, of course that Tonks agreed to chaperone.

"How would we get there? My comets not good for two people, Cant expect Madam Bones to piggy back you both, Katie's broom is broken, and I can only apparate me, I am too clumsy to risk a passenger just yet." Tonks could see her mentor was wavering, and about to give in, so she made herself the bad guy.

"I have a broom, that can handle both me and Katie," Harry said, "and an invisibility cloak that will fit over both of us, so no magic needs to be used really. I do have to tell my aunt, and we probably can't go until after I cook dinner. You two may want to hide yourselves again, when we get there. Uncle Vernon is still at work, but Aunt Petunia can barely tolerate me, she seems ok with Katie as long as she doesn't have to see her." He began walking away, Katie by his side and his owl lazily gliding above.

The adult witches exchanged a look and reapplied their charms, striding after the teens. She's been here before? Tonks questioned herself, not while I've been on duty she hasn't. I am certain of that. I know how teen girls like to escape from their minders. Though, the broom did throw me off today.

AN: this is a second posting of the same chapter because when I read it on the site I realized my computer had auto corrected me and made Tonks have very bad grammar and English skills. Bad computer. This idea just sort of popped into my head, and it wont let me be. So here is yet another begun story.

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