See ya after two weeks. That was so boring time that I wrote another chapter :)


III. Madman's crazy plan.

Nymphadora Tonks was awakened by the sounds of bustling about something coming from the kitchen. Probably Mrs. Weasley is preparing the breakfast, she though drowsily. It have taken her a moment before she realized that she is wearing yesterday's coat on her pajama. That was so strange fashion creation that she burst out laughing. She was still giggling when she was walking down and entered into kitchen. After she'd yawned she saw Hermione who was greeting with Ron with a friendly hug. Her big, ginger cat was sleeping on brown bags made of skin. Remus without a word to woman with violet hair cast a spell to transport witch's luggage to her current bedroom.

Hermione turned to Tonks and hugged her with gently smile. Brown haired young woman changed a lot since their last meeting. She was really pretty now and her normal clothes suited her very well. She was wearing red and yellow sweater with Gryffindor's emblem on the left side of her chest and dark blue jeans.

"It's nice to see you again, sweetheart." Prattled Molly Weasley amicably "You're more beautiful than last time. How could it be possible?" Woman smiled and invited everyone to dinette.

Hermione giggled and continued greeting her friends. Atmosphere was too good to be real.

Tonks shook her head to relieve fatigue. The Burrow was pulsating with life. They had breakfast and everyone was talking interrupting each other. Before Tonks saw Fleur and Bill joined the group.

"I can't wait for Harry to come!" Said Ronald suddenly while he was pushing toast with marmalade into his mouth. Tonks had covered her mouth with hand before she yawned again. The youngest of Weasley's sons looked at her and asked "Why are you so sleepy anyway?"

"Last night I didn't sleep too much." Replied woman with face expression like she was going to say 'don't worry about that'.

"Remus looked faintly too." Said Fred with laugh. "Is that means something?" He asked innocently.

"Only that he felt offended by me." She said and threw him off balance.

"You're cruel, Tonks." Chuckled George. She didn't know why but she looked at ring on her finger. Yeah, really cruel Hufflepuff graduate… She burst out with laugh of memory.

"Just remembrance." She explained herself.


When breakfast was going to end Alastor unexpectedly stood up. Silence was over and members of The Order of the phoenix were waiting for his speech. Artificial eye while it was rounding watched each one separately. His face and everything else was extremely serious.

"I heard that you were speaking about sleeping or the boy who lived." He deadpanned and looked around to make sure that everyone is closely following his movements. "We're going to bring Harry Potter here tonight. It'll be really dangerous mission so I want you to listen carefully and discuss about plan, eventually we'll change it in a part, after end of interpretation."

"Right. We're here to help Harry in his fight." Replied Tonks. Moody nodded and continued after a moment of silence.

"Ministry is now under Voldemort's control, so we can't use the simplest modes of transport. Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones are going to take Dursleys to safe hiding place around midday. Our task is much more complicated because of time – we have to move Harry to The Burrow before a protective shield of his mother's love will stop protecting him – and…" he sighed "open area".

Everyone's eyes were directed straight on him.

"At first sight my plan will sound crazy to you, but I'm going to answer all of questions later. We're going to divide into seven two-person teams. We have to go to house of Harry's aunt and uncle by brooms. Only one person is going to have the flying motorbike of Sirius Black. That will be Hagrid who I had already informed. He is going to fly in front of us and transport Harry Potter under the invisibility cape. Two of teams are going to use Thestrals as a conveyance."

"Why all members are going to go to that mission?" asked Ron suddenly. "Would not it be better if as few people as possible took Harry not to arouse interest?" Leader turned to him with anger.

"It would be better if we weren't at war, Ronald." He snapped. "We're approaching the explanation of plan's sense…" His voice returned to monotonous tone. "The ideal situation will probably never happen, so we have to prepare ourselves that death eaters would be informed about our plan. In the open space, on the unstable broomstick and above heads of unconscious muggle-borns it would be perfect occasion for Voldemort to try to kill his worst enemy. If there were two peoples and Harry, Voldemort wouldn't have any problems. But…"

"But he wouldn't have idea what's going on If we use polyjuice potion and 'create' more Harry's copies." Finished Hermione with flash in her eye. Smile appeared on Moody's face as soon as he realized that in the group there is a person who'd the same idea as he had. He nodded and continued with elation.

"Exactly!" He said. "I need six of us to turn into Harry at his house…"

He saw Ron who was raising his hand as he was about to ask question.

"Yes?" Asked man with artificial eye. "Are you a volunteer?" he added harshly.

"That's second case which I wanted to report." Commented Ron with wide grin. "I'm not sure but from my calculation follows that we need two people more to make this plan possible." He said and heard quiet whistle by Fred.

"You're right. I asked Kingsley Shacklebolt to help us and I'll be fly on my broomstick with Mundungus Fletcher who is going to drink potion. Any questions?"

"I'm able to get along with Thestral." Said Bill and smiled.

"I can fly with you as Harry." Added Fleur with French accent.

"What will the formation be while return?" Asked George with interest.

"That's one think about which I can't inform you yet because of eventually traitor. I'm going to tell you that when I'll be explain everything to Harry. " He said. "Volunteers… Fleur, Ron…"

Hermione, George and Fred raised their hands in sequence. Moody nodded.

"I can fly on Thestral too." Said Hermione.

"Good. Each of you is going to fly with experienced wizard. Hermione with Shacklebolt, Ron with Nymphadora, Fred with Arthur, George with Lupin and Fleur… yes, you can fly with Bill." He saw relief on Bill's girlfriend face. "The last thing about which I have to ask you… Are you with me?"

He was watching members of Order as they nodded in sequence. He felt that he wasn't alone. In this war Voldemort's side hasn't got the most important thing; love and trust for each other.


After a breakfast everyone started to prepare theirselves for atypical mission. The horror of a deplorable situation had a different effects. Weasley's twins were joking about everything and giggled nervously with more frequent than it is often. Hermione was repeating spells to boredom. Molly invented the darkest scenario before Moody asked her to go and do something. Lupin kept silence and was sitting on couch with half-closed eyes. There were people who wanted to contemplate in silence away from rest of the group. For example Tonks who went to her bedroom after a meal and laid down on her bedding.

That was strange presentiment that not everything is going to go according to plan. Her thoughts have directed into cooperation agreement and her childish feeling of excitement. She wondered if it could be possible to make an appointment with Carrow which will based on not to casting deathly spells on each other. After a moment of contemplate she realized that she isn't sure if she could cast one of unforgivable spells on him. It has scared her because she was sure that he would kill her without hesitation.

She felt the need to talk with someone about it. It could be anyone who can listen to her while she'll be talking and give her an advice when she'll have finally end. She had closed her eyes and sighed before she heard quiet sound of knocking. She sat up abruptly and looked around. After a moment she saw small, black owl which was sitting on the windowsill and pattering into windowpane. When she was opening the window letting the owl in she realized that any of her friends has got black owl with grey and white dots on the tips of the wings.

Bird has landed on desk and raised up its leg. Tonks untied miniature card from animal's leg and expanded the letter.

Nymph, next meeting tomorrow morning in the same place without Nott.

I'll give you some information too.

~ C.

Message was short but it made Tonks smile. Suddenly she realized that she jumped to the conclusions because it could as well say that she's going to die on another meeting. He wouldn't want to give her information about The-One-Who-Couldn't-Be-Named if he didn't want her to do something. This kind of information is really expensive for Order so death eater is probably going to order her to do dangerous or suicidal work.

She sighed. After a moment she saw that owl took a flight and disappeared in the dark of night.

"Reducto." She muttered and took a letter with her wand. Sheet of paper turned into dust and ran down. Small pieces of white ash were lying on the floor.

For a moment Tonks was staring at powder. She was disappointed with herself because of her thoughts about man who was joking with her in a muted room in Hog's Head. She thought that she must be insane to mention one happening so many times.


It was evening when many members of The Order and a few additional people were waiting in the middle of The Forbidden Forest for Moody's signal. Hermione with a stern expression and Shacklebolt who was petting one of Thestrals were standing next to Bill with Fleur. Tonks has been in silence since she left her bedroom. Mad-eye was standing on the rock and thoughtfully brushed small bottle with potion with his fingers.

The time has come. On the signal they have taken off into the air.

The night was quiet. Around them the fog started to form. They were flying above lit with yellow and gold lights muggle-borns houses. Short streets which were running between buildings were completely deprived of people. The main ones were the opposite; filled with colorful and loudly vehicles called cars.

Town was beautiful.

"We're going to fly." Started Moody with visually stare "In that Order: First two pairs of two are going to consist of Fred and George. Behind them Nymphadora and Lupin. Behind Thestrals. Hagrid will fly completely from the back and, if the battle starts, he has to ignore us and as fast as it's possible deliver our friend to The Burrow."

Everyone nodded without a word. They were overwhelmed with seriousness of the situation.