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\\\\"James! Do something, you're the maurader!"
"You're the Mom, you do something!"
"Argh, Sirius?"
The shaggy grim-looking dog lay on the floor, both paws covering it's ears. James and Lily Potter and Sirius Black were all crowded around baby Harry Potter's crib, none of them knew how to calm the baby. The occupants of the room sighed in relief as their doorbell rang, signaling the arrival of their company. All three rushed down to the bottom floor of the house, each as eager as next to leave the shrieking baby. Lily arrived first at the door and threw it open, a big smile on her face as she welcomed the Tonks' into her house. The adults all talked and did other things adults did, while little Nymphadora Tonks explored the house. They were all carrying on, laughing at Sirius' jokes when all of a sudden, the wailing stopped. James and Lily soared up the stepped, Sirius and the Tonks' behind them. They were all quite shocked to see young Nymphadora cradling baby Harry, a starstruck look on both the children's faces.
"Nymphadora, how did you get him to stop crying?"
She lightly shrugged, too entranced by the baby's eyes to say much of anything.////
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Tonks sighed as she remembered her old life, the life she had before Hogwarts. No-one had ever made fun of her until she got to the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Now a seventh year student, she sat on her butt at the bottom of the stairs, wondering how things could get worse. She and her boyfriend of four years, Charlie Weasley, were about to have sex for the first time, but he asked her to change from her normal form into a supermodel. She left the room crying after telling him her relationship was over. She had no friends at all, all of her friends were Charlie's friends. No-one really wanted to be around, because she was clumsy, so when Charlie befriended her in her third year, she was ecstatic. She was now without a boyfriend or any other friends. She was contemplating running away when a voice shook her from her reverie.
"Are you alright?"
A scrawny first year stood before her, a mop of messy raven hair on his head and glasses over entrancing emerald eyes. A small lightning bolt scar rested upon his forehead, peeking out from under his raven locks.
"Uh...sure."
He sighed. "Good, I'd hate to have to carry you up to the hospital wing- no offense."
She chuckled and offered him her hand. "None taken, now would you be so kind as to help up a lady in need?"
"Of course milady, but I must ask, what is milady's name?"
She smiled at the short first year as she stood, he was smart for a kid. "Nymphadora Tonks, and you milord?"
"Harry Potter."
Her expression dropped, her hand did also. A frown found it's way to his face, did he say something wrong? Suddenly she grabbed him into a great hug, crushing his lungs like his friend's mother did.
"Harry! I missed you soooo much!"
As she held him away from herself, he frowned quizzically.
"Have we met before?"
She smiled as she told him of all the times they had come in contact with each other as children. He beamed at her and they made their way to the Great Hall, standing at the door.
"So, what house are you in Harry?"
"Gryffindor," He said rather proudly, "you?"
"Ravenclaw." She spoke just as proudly, then realized they were sitting at two different tables. Seeing her expression dim considerably, he grabbed her hand and led her to his table, sitting down beside Ron as usual. From that point on, they were unseperable, you would never see one without the other.
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As Tonks watched the young boy before her sleep, she couldn't help but feel guilty. The four of them had gone down to defend the Sorcerer's Stone from Snape, but she had decided she would stand guard, afraid to admit to Harry she was too scared to go. And now here she was in the Hospital Wing, watching the broken boy sleep. Because she didn't go with him, he had almost lost his life. She could've protected him, but she didn't.
"It wasn't your fault Miss Tonks."
She turned around to see Dumbledore standing by the end of the bed, his hand halfway into the bag of every flavor beans. Tonks sighed and turned back around to face Harry.
"I know, but I had've went with them..."
"You may have been lying in the bed next his."
"But-"
"Have you decided what you want to be? The end of the term is but a week away, and you really could have left after you finished your Newts."
Tonks glanced at Harry, the need to protect him growing stronger every time she looked at him.
"I'm going to be an auror, so I can protect Harry."
Dumbledore just smiled.
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A/N: Wasn't much I could do with first year (that I felt like doing) so I didn't do anything. Anyway, this story is AU so uh, don't come flappin your gums and $h!t whinin' 'bout how Tonks is and aint...kinda sleepy right now so I'm going to bed...R&R plz
