Chapter 1
Nymphadora Tonks couldn't sleep. Even though she was exhausted from work and guard duty all week, she tossed and turned in bed for nearly an hour. She tried counting sheep—the oldest trick in the book—and got bored by the time she reached 95. She tried to make up a story to entertain herself, but of course her imagination chose that moment to fail her.
Tonks sighed and glanced at her watch. 1:37 AM: only seven more hours or so till morning. Suddenly she got an idea. When her father couldn't sleep, he would always get up and read until he felt sleepy. The young Auror got out of bed and, taking her wand, made her careful place to the Grimmauld Place library.
She arrived without tripping, slipping, or knocking anything over, a truly remarkable feat for her, especially given the lateness of the hour. Tonks spotted a copy of Magical Me by Gilderoy Lockhart on one of the shelves near the door, and realized with a smile that Molly Weasley must have been in here recently. She has heard plenty of stories about the dumb prat from Ginny and Hermione, and picked up the book to see for herself whether he really was as stupid as the girls said.
Tonks settled herself on the couch and was about to open the book, when she heard a distinct rattling sound coming from the old mahogany desk. "Probably a stray doxy or something," she thought to herself. Without thinking, the witch opened the top drawer of the desk…and gasped in horror as she saw what was making the rattling noise.
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