The Professor and the Auror
Prologue:
Nymphadora Tonks stumbled across the threshold of the Auror division of the Magical Law Enforcement floor at the Ministry of Magic.
"Bloody Hell Tonks! Can you not walk through a door without tripping or fallin' and doin' yourself some harm?!" Eva called from her cubicle. The only answer she received being a middle finger sent her way as Tonks moved past her friend's cubicle.
"Was that Nympadora's ever present grace being called into question? The booming voice of Kingsley Shacklebolt echoed down the office block.
"Oh piss off Shacklebolt. It's too bloody early in the morning. And it's TONKS!" She called as she flung her belongings down in her cubicle and slumped into her desk chair. Within moments Kingsley came around holding a huge stack of paperwork.
"Delivery for a Miss Nymphadora Tonks." He said with a cheeky grin presenting the stack to her.
"Oh bugger off. How is that all for me?!"
"First year Auror's get stuck with paperwork most of the time. I'd get used to it sooner rather than later if I were you. Oh and Moody wants a word in his office." Kingsley smiled as he turned around the corner.
"I suppose I'd better see what the old man wants." Tonks thought to herself.
She was surrounded by odd and potentially dangerous in Mad Eye's office. He was called so rather fittingly she thought.
"Do ya know why I asked you here, lass?"
"Nah, just guessed you wanted to lecture someone about constant vigilance or you're feeling the urge to yell at someone again." She replied with a wink.
"You know I was surprised your humour wasn't lost somewhere in training." He answered the joke. "I have a case for you. Since your speciality Is Concealment and Disguise, it was put forward for you."
"You're not serious." She leaped up with shock. "My very own case?! Shut up! I can't believe it!"
"Thought you'd be happy." He replied calmly. "You are to report to Platform 9 ¾ on September 1st. This is a case that requires you to be back at Hogwarts. As a Hogwarts student."
"You want me to pretend to be a thirteen year old? Those were not my best years. Why? What could be at Hogwarts that requires me there? Wait… Has this got anything to do with Harry Potter?"
"Yes. You will play the bodyguard. After Harry's last year the ministry feel like it is best for him to have someone to protect him with him at all times. Also as you are aware, mass murderer Sirius Black is Harry's Godfather, so it's the ministries idea that he might want to pay Harry a visit and therefore he will be needing additional protection. You will play a new Gryffindor transfer student in your third year, by the name of Kaye Adamson. Just your normal London witch."
"So I'm babysitting then?" Tonks huffed.
"You are protecting a very important person. Be happy the job went to you and not a more senior member. You have a week to prepare everything. You will be at Hogwarts for the foreseeable future." He informed her sternly. "Now get back to your cubicle before I force you out."
"Only because I'm a metamorphmagus…bloody cheek…" Tonks grumbled on her way out. "Suppose it's better than paperwork…and I get to meet Harry Finally."
Tonks got back to work on the ever growing pile of various sightings reports, most of which were crazy reports of Sirius Black being sighted in the most obscure locations or the escapees of Azkaban shopping at Portsmouth's local market.
The day of paperwork passed rather slowly for most of the Auror's, especially Auror Tonks, who was spending most of her time mulling over all the things she would need to do to prepare to go back to Hogwarts. Top of her list was to head to Madam Malkin's robe shop to grab some new Hogwarts uniform, seen as she couldn't just use her old Hufflepuff ones.
As soon as the clock turned six, the exit was rammed with witches and wizards trying to leave work as fast as possible. Once she reached the fireplaces she flooed to Diagon Alley and worked her way through the hordes of parents doing last minute back to school shopping. She almost stepped into her destination when she realized she had to play the part of a third year Gryffindor. She morphed herself shorter, less filled out and a natural blonde hair colour (she would work out her exact looks later.)
"Bear with me one moment dearie, whilst I help this young man." Madam Malkin swooped past her holding some Ravenclaw robes that were clearly intended for the other boy in the shop. Around five minutes later the shop owner came to help Tonks.
"Hi there. How can I help?"
"Wotcher. Can I get a full set of Hogwarts uniform please?" Tonks reprimanded herself for her common greeting.
"You want the works? Don't get that very often apart from the first years, but you look a little older than a first year. You must be a transfer am I right?" Malkin asked cheerfully.
"Exactly right. I was told I would to get a full set."
"Okay. Can I get you to stand over there darling and I'll just measure you up and then I'll grab you everything you need." Tonks followed the instructions of the kind witch and soon enough she was walking out of the shop carrying her new uniform.
Within the week, Tonks had gotten everything prepared for her case. She was just making final touches to the appearance. She had been told that the more senior members of staff, professor Dumbledore and professor McGonagall, would be aware that she is an Auror and not a new student. Tonks had decided that she would try to keep her face as natural as she could without arousing suspicion, as the teachers couldn't know it was her. She shrunk her nose and made her lips slightly fuller and kept her eyebrows and eye shape the same, only altering her eye colour to blue. She decided that as the school would find out she was a metamorphmagus she wouldn't worry too much about her hair colour.
AN: Hi everyone. So I haven't written anything in quite a long time and I'm not entirely sure where I want this to go. I'm using this fic as a kind of warm up, as I'm going back to college to do English and Creative Writing and I haven't worked on anything in a long time. So there's no schedule for this one. It's kind of just whenever I finish a chapter, I will get it up as soon as I can. Anyway I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if there's anything in particular you want to see. Critiques are welcome.