A/N - Sorry for the longer than usual wait between updates but I got totally distracted with a one shot I'm writing and my new long story. Hopefully I can get some more of this written soon so I can keep updating quickly.
Hermione walked along Diagon Alley with Luna looking in various windows as she passed by the shops. She was also listening to Luna fret about what to buy for Teddy's birthday. The young boy was turning three the next day and Tonks was throwing a party at her house which Charlie and Luna were attending.
"How about something Quidditch related." Hermione suggested. "From what I've seen of wizards, it doesn't matter how old they are, give them something related to Quidditch and they're thrilled."
"That's a great idea." Luna smiled at her friend. "Come on there's a shop along here somewhere that sells Quidditch things."
Luna dragged Hermione down Diagon Alley and into the Quidditch store that happened to be jam packed with people.
"I just don't get it." Hermione exclaimed, looking around the packed store. "What is the big fascination with Quidditch, it's a ridiculous sport."
"I'm not sure." Luna said, as she examined various team shirts. "But it is fairly exciting to watch."
Hermione snorted and turned around, in her opinion the entire game was far too dangerous and not at all exciting. Whenever Hermione had watched the game at school she had spent the entire time worrying about Harry and then Draco once they got together. Even now she didn't get the fuss about the game, despite Draco dragging her along to a couple of match's when Theo or Charlie were unavailable to attend with him.
"Aren't these cute." Luna cooed to Hermione, holding up baby versions of Quidditch tops in various team colours.
"I suppose." Hermione shrugged. "Scorpius has a few and they are pretty cute on him."
"I wonder what team to get for Teddy." Luna mused.
"I don't know." Hermione replied shortly. She had never met Tonks' son and knew the chances were she never would, as Tonks still resented her for switching sides in the war.
"Sorry." Luna said, realising how insensitive she was possibly being by talking about someone that Hermione didn't know.
"It's alright." Hermione said, attempting to smile at Luna. It actually still hurt Hermione that Tonks was still so against her but she had accepted that Charlie and Luna were the only people from the Order she would ever have as friends.
While Luna debated over which team jersey to buy for Teddy, Hermione wandered around the store eventually coming to stop in front of the book display. There were several shelves full of books related to Quidditch and Hermione browsed through them even though she had no interest in the game. She found a thick book chronicling the history of The Tutshill Tornadoes, Draco's favourite team, and decided to buy it for her husband.
At the checkout Hermione joined up with Luna who was also joining the queue. Luna seemed to be carrying a couple of tops and a few toys as well.
"Did you find one?" Hermione asked her friend.
"Yes, I got this one." Luna said, holding up a small Appleby Arrows jersey.
"What's with the rest of the stuff?" Hermione asked, eying up Luna's full arms.
"I also bought a few extra toys for Teddy." Luna said. Hermione wasn't surprised that the blonde witch had bought multiple presents for Teddy as she knew from her experiences with Scorpius that Luna was extremely generous.
"What's with the other jersey?" Hermione asked, pointing to an adults Falmouth Falcon's Jersey.
"It's for Charlie, he supports them." Luna said.
"Are you sure it'll fit, it looks a bit small for Charlie?" Hermione questioned, Charlie was quite muscly and the top in Luna's arms didn't look very big.
"It's not for him to wear." Luna said blushing bright red.
Hermione's eyes widened slightly at Luna's response and she decided it was better for both of them to drop the subject before they both became too embarrassed to talk to each other. If Pansy were around she would have teased Luna mercifully and the conversation would have taken a distinctly racy tone for the rest of the afternoon as the former Slytherin wasn't opposed to regaling Hermione and Luna with tales of her sex life. The raven haired witch was also pretty good at wheedling information out of the other two women regarding their own love lives and Hermione had often found herself revealing more than she intended about her and Draco.
Luckily for Hermione Pansy wasn't with them and they were soon served before too much awkwardness built up between the pair of them. Conversation drifted back to safe subjects as the two women emerged back on the cold streets of Diagon Alley a few minutes later.
"Is there anywhere else you need to go?" Hermione asked Luna once they were walking along again.
"I don't think so. I have Teddy's present for the party tomorrow and that was the main thing I wanted." Luna responded. "How about you?" She asked Hermione.
"I don't think so. I've picked up some new clothes for Scorpius and the other couple of bits I wanted." Hermione said, trying to decide if she had forgotten anything.
"Should we go and get a drink then and get out of the cold." Luna suggested.
Hermione agreed and the two women headed into a nearby café where they spent the next few hours talking happily together.
Tonks spent the morning of the party, making sure the house was tidy and worrying about the best way to approach her friends about re-joining the Order. By the time the first guests arrived Tonks had settled on a plan, she would have a quiet word with everyone and ask them to stay on after Charlie and Luna had left. The couple had already informed her that they could only stay a few hours before they left to have dinner with Luna's father.
Once the party was in full swing, Tonks started making the rounds with her friends. Under the pretence of thanking them for their gifts for Teddy, she quietly asked if they would all stay until later. A few people asked why but she told them all would be revealed later, she also told people not to mention it to anyone else so that Charlie and Luna didn't hear about what she was doing.
Once everyone had been asked to stay, Tonks made sure that Teddy had a great birthday surrounded by all the people who loved him. Fred and George helped the three year old open his presents, the twins often looked after the young boy and Teddy adored the troublesome duo. After the presents were opened, Tonks brought out a large birthday cake for her son.
"Well I suppose it's time for this little one to have a bath and have a nap." Tonks said once all the cake was gone and the party had been going for a few hours.
"We'll do it." Fred said, picking Teddy up in his arms. George followed his brother and Teddy out of the room and up the stairs.
"We better be off, Xeno's expecting us." Charlie said, helping Luna up from her chair. "It was a lovely party, Tonks."
"Thank you." Tonks smiled. "And thank you for Teddy's presents."
"You're welcome." Luna smiled, she didn't think it was wise to tell the witch that Hermione had been the one to suggest Quidditch related presents for Teddy.
Once Luna and Charlie had left Tonks turned to the assembled group of adults in her front room.
"As I'm sure you've all noticed, I've got something I want to discuss." Tonks said. "If you don't mind, I'll check Teddy and then we can all talk."
When Tonks left the room, everyone began speculating on what she could wish to talk about. All sorts of theories were thrown around the room. She was dying, she was getting re-married, she was going to live as a muggle.
"Does anyone know what's going on?" George asked as him and Fred re-entered the room.
"Tonks said she had something important to discuss with everyone." Fred said. "Where's Charlie and Luna?" He asked, looking around the room.
"Gone." Seamus Finnegan replied. "Obviously Tonks didn't want them present."
"I wonder why?" Alicia Spinnet mused.
"She probably doesn't trust them. I don't. They're too friendly with Hermione and her family." Seamus said. "Sorry." He added to Fred and George when he remembered he was talking about their brother.
"It's okay." They said together.
While Fred and George loved Charlie as he was still their brother they too were uncomfortable with his close relationship to the darkest family in the wizarding world. As such their relationship wasn't as strong as it once was and the twins actually found themselves spending more time with Tonks and Teddy who they regarded as family.
The group continued to gossip about what Tonks wished to discuss for another couple of minutes until the witch in question reappeared.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, I'll get straight to the point." Tonks said as she sat down. "I want to re-form the Order of the Phoenix. I want to fight for what's right and bring about Voldemort's downfall. If you don't want to join me I'll understand but I will ask you to leave before I reveal more about my plans, I don't want to put you in any danger if you don't plan on helping with the fight."
Tonks waited and hoped that the group would all agree to join her. She knew that the group hadn't kept their magic because they had given in to Voldemort and believed in what he stood for, they had just been to attached to their magic to sacrifice it completely. After the end of the war it had been Tonks who had insisted the group stay in contact and since then she had subtly been reminding them of everyone who had sacrificed their magic, were locked in Azkaban or had died during the war. She regularly spoke of people who were no longer in their lives to make sure when the time came for her to reveal her plans the group would be supportive of her idea.
The group looked at each other before Hannah Abbott spoke. "I think we'd all be willing to join you, but there's only a small number of us and without Harry he can't be defeated." The rest of the group all nodded in agreement with Hannah.
"I understand that, perhaps this will help you decide." Tonks said, she knew she would now have to play her trump card. "You can come out now." She called loudly in the direction of the stairs.
The group all looked in the direction of the stairs as they heard footsteps heading their way. Pandemonium reined as the figure came into view and the group realised they were looking at Harry Potter. Tonks had just been to see Harry and had apparated him back to her house so he could be a part of the discussions.
"Hi, guys." Harry said to the stunned group. Everyone spoke at once, throwing questions at Harry. "Hold it, why doesn't Tonks explain first and then I'll try to answer any questions you might have."
Everyone agreed and they settled back down and turned to Tonks waiting for an explanation.
"I'll start at the beginning." Tonks said. "You all know I only signed the contract because I was pregnant with Teddy. From the moment I returned home I began researching the potion that Voldemort had given the rest of the group. Last year I found out who made the potion but I decided it was too risky to go and see him so I continued my research without seeing him. Three months ago a wizard contacted me claiming he could help with an antidote for the potion, I went to meet him on Christmas Eve and he told me how he could help."
"You can return people's magic." Cho Chang exclaimed, shocked by the revelation.
"Yes, he's currently working on the antidote now." Tonks said. "After the meeting I accidently bumped into Harry who had no memory of me or even himself."
"But, he knows who he is now." Michael Corner said, looking to where Harry was sitting next to Tonks.
"Yes, now I do. Tonks cast a spell on me and returned my memory of the battle, my other memories are slowly returning as well." Harry explained.
"How are you alive?" Seamus said to his friend. "We all saw you die."
"I can't explain that, my memories of after the battle haven't returned yet." Harry said. "But what I do know is that Voldemort stripped me of my magic, removed my memory and forced me to live as a muggle. When I get my magic back I intend to fight him and this time I plan on winning."
"What about Hermione?" Fred asked, wondering how Harry felt about his best friend.
"What about her? She betrayed us, she's one of them now." Harry said bitterly, the memories of Hermione were proving the hardest for Harry as he could still clearly feel her betrayal. "She's the enemy now."
"So, is everyone in?" Tonks asked. As she suspected the entire group nodded and declared their intention to re-join the fight against Voldemort and his followers. "This has to stay secret, everyone is to carry on as normal and Charlie and Luna mustn't find out."
"Why not?" Harry asked. "Surely they'll want to fight for freedom as much as we do."
"Both Charlie and Luna are friends with Hermione and her family." Hannah explained. "Charlie's even godfather to Hermione's son."
Harry looked totally shocked that members of the Order had carried on being friends with Hermione after she had betrayed them all and helped Voldemort win the war.
"What about you, Hannah?" Terry Boot asked. "You work with Hermione, can we trust you not to say anything."
"Of course you can. I took the job because I need to work and it paid well, I have very little to do with Hermione." Hannah said outraged. "Besides I could come in useful working at Hogwarts."
"You work at Hogwarts?" Harry asked and Hannah nodded in response. "That could be very useful."
"So what are our plans?" Seamus asked.
"First we wait until the antidote is ready and then we test it on Harry." Tonks explained. "If it works then we start to return the memories and magic of everyone who has been forced to live as a muggle. Once that is done we break into Azkaban and rescue the older members of the Order, then we wage war on Voldemort and his Death Eaters."
"You plan on breaking into Azkaban?" Alicia questioned.
"Yes, if we're going to win we need everybody. I've been working on a plan but we'll discuss it nearer the time." Tonks said. "For now everyone should return to their lives and act as if nothing has changed. I'll let everyone know when the antidote is ready."
At Tonks' dismissal everyone started to get up and leave. Before they went they all gave Harry a hug, barely able to believe he was alive and standing next to them.
"Thanks for coming, Harry. You made all the difference." Tonks said once they were alone.
"It's fine. It was good seeing everyone and making plans." Harry said. "I better be getting back though, I don't want anyone to notice I'm missing."
Tonks nodded and quickly apparated Harry back to his flat before returning home and heading into Teddy's room to check on her son. She knew they would have to leave soon, for as soon as Voldemort realised what was happening he would come after them all. As she headed for bed, Tonks decided she needed to start looking for a new house to serve as Order Headquarters and somewhere for everyone to live once they had gone public with the re-forming of the Order.
