Ok I'm sorry it took awhile but I have been very busy, once again thanks for all the reviews and please continue to do so, everyone loves feedback on their work.

I know I've said it all before so now I'm getting someone better looking to tell you, Fleur if you please…

" 'ello loyal readers, Dlikee bribed me into zis intro by offering to write a story based on me and 'arry soon, I tried to get 'im to split me and bill in zis story as well but 'e wouldn't do it…"

Miss Delacour if you please.

"Oh yes sorry, ve would like to thank everyone for their kind reviews; it means a lot to Dlikee to know people appreciate the 'ard work 'e puts into 'is stories."

"If anyone doesn't like the idea of 'im splitting 'arry and Ginny then please don't review telling 'im, just tell 'im to split me and bill instead, 'e is too old and I'm too attractive to be with someone like 'im…"

Ok thank you fleur, anyway nearly all characters are owned by J.K Rowling, and no money is, has or will be allowed to be made from or through this book.

Dlikee

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Chapter 3

Harry awoke early the next morning feeling tired, between the old nightmares of Sirius and Cedric's deaths, and the new nightmares of Dumbledore being tortured to death before coming back to blame him, Harry hadn't got much rest at all.

After having finally dragged himself out of bed, Harry decided to survey his new home for the first time having been too tired the night previous, starting with his new bedroom.

The bedroom was about the size of the Gryffindor towers not overly large but it felt very comfortable, it was also shaped and styled after the Gryffindor tower except the walls that were dark blue and green in colour. His bed, no longer the small springy mattress it was before, was now a comfy, new, wooden four poster bed similar to those used at Hogwarts, on the wall opposite the bed stood an old mahogany wardrobe holding his cloths and robes, opposite the door stood an old red cherry oak desk overlooking a large oriel window, similar to those found in Hogwarts and other medieval castles and churches, and finally in the very centre of the room hanging from the high ceiling was a large model of a dragon in flight, holding a large crystal ball which gave off a gentle glow, all in all it reminded Harry of the Muggle chandeliers.

The rest of the furniture was cosy but not nearly as overly extravagant as the light, but the view through the window although just an illusion, was simply breath-taking, Green fields, beautiful large blue lakes, green forests and large hills as far as the eye can see.

"Beautiful isn't it Harry?"

"Tonks! How long you been there?" Harry asked clearly startled.

"Ohh I only just arrived, I thought we could look around the place and get something to eat" Tonks casually replied

"Yer ok, sounds good, I was thinking the same thing"

"Great, come on, hurry up then, I'm starving"

The first room on the tour was a very large bathroom, about the size of the perfects bathrooms in Hogwarts, it had green marble walls, medieval stained glass windows to one side there was a shower and in the centre of the room a large sunken bath the size of a small swimming pool with a large lion head at one end.

"Wow this bathroom's amazing! I doubt you'll see much of me anymore Harry!"

"I know what you mean, its more extravagant then the prefect's bathroom"

"I didn't know you were a prefect Harry?"

"I'm not, being a Quidditch captain gets you the same privileges as prefects. Anyway come-on, let's check out the rest of the rooms"

Next-door to the bath room was what appeared to be a large duelling chamber and gym; at one end was a raised duelling platform similar to the one Lockhart used in Harry's second year, and the other end held Muggle weights and gym equipment while in the centre of the room was a large swimming pool.

The room had wooden panel floors and walls throughout except around the pool which had epoxy stone surrounding it.

As Harry was making his way over to the gym equipment he heard a sudden splash behind him, it didn't take him long to identify the source of the splash as the moderately accident prone Auror made her way out of the pool.

"Not a word! Just one, and I'll throw you in me self!"

Unfortunately for Harry, who was struggling to get his laughter under control (and failing miserably!) was also unsuccessful in hearing the young ladies warnings, nor did he notice the silent levitation charm placed on him until it was too late and his turn for a swim, after Tonks finally controlled her laughter and cast two quick drying charms the duo made their way to the next room.

After crossing the hall, the room opposite the gym was a very large library which had an air of elegance to it with its white walls and oak furnishings.

It had a soft red carpet and a beautiful painted ceiling with cherubs flying over mermen, centaurs and goddess's of the sea, in the very centre of the painting stood a woman riding a dolphin drawn shell chariot.

All round The library there were 30 foot high bookshelves, full to the brim, it looked as though it held as many, if not more books then Hogwarts library.

On one side of the library there was a large round desk with some comfortable chairs, while on the other side was a complete potions laboratory, including a golden cauldron, ingredients and scales.

Nether could believe their eyes, to Tonks this was the most beautiful library she had ever seen, and the painted ceiling was amazing, Harry on the other hand feared what would happen should he ever bring a certain bushy haired witch here.

"Probably never see her again ether" he muttered to himself,

"Who's that Harry?"

"Oh just thinking how Hermione would react seeing this"

"Yer I heard she's worse then most Ravenclaw's" Tonks said with a smile

"That's probably the best description for Hermione I've ever heard, she's better now though. At first she never left the library, I'm sure she's read every book there at least twice. She doesn't do that as much now after the tri-wizard tournament, Ron's influence must have rubbed off… Still won't come near a broom though" Harry said grinning

"Why's that? I loved flying when I was in school"

"Dunno all I heard was that it involved ill-tempered brooms and apple trees"

The last door they found led them down some stairs to a fairly large but cosy dinning room with mahogany ceiling panels, cobalt coloured Canterbury carpeting, and a mahogany Queen Anne Dinning Table with matching chairs.

Unlike the other rooms however the dinning room walls were all magical paintings, the wall surrounding the entrance to the dinning room was painted like a forest clearing at night, a slight sound of crickets and animals could be heard from it and nocturnal magical creatures would randomly wonder around it.

The wall to the left of the entrance featured a beautiful sunset over the ocean from the beach, the sounds of waves and seagulls could be heard in the background.

The wall to the right of the entrance was the most magical, once again it was a night's sky, all the stars are out and shining brightly and in the centre was the Hogwarts castle sitting on a mountain above a cliff over the great black lake, a picture that brought tears to their eyes remembering the magic they felt the first time they saw it.

The final wall was similar to a magical photograph; the picture was of a picnic basket and a blanket, laid out on a vast grassy field at sunrise, the stars just starting to vanish.

On the blanket there was a large variety of food with a bowl of fruit seeming to draw your attention in the centre.

In the background the sound of the wind and people laughing and having fun could be heard.

"Ok… we've been to every room in this place and we still can't find the kitchen! That's it were eating out!" Tonks exclaimed loudly, never being the most patient of witches.

Harry meanwhile being curious about the last painting stepped closer to examine it, after just brushing against the bowl of fruit a doorway soon appeared leaving Tonks speechless.

"How'd you know that door was there?"

"The kitchens at Hogwarts are the same, their hidden behind a painting of a bowl of fruit" Harry said as he headed into the newly appeared kitchen area.

"Master Harry Potter sir! How may Dobby help you sir?"

"Hello Dobby, what are you doing here?"

"Dobby and Winky work here sir, old master Dumbledore asked Dobby and his Winky if we could serve you Harry Potter sir"

Just then a shriek could be heard by the kitchen entrance

"Dobby quick it's the pink haired one! Hide the china!"

"Why hello Winky, I see you've meet Tonks" said Harry whilst trying to hold back a laugh.

"Master Harry Potter sir!" squeaked Winky out of fright, "I'm sorry sir, I never meant to insult your mistress sir… bad Winky, BAD WINKY!" She screamed as she ran to the closest cabinet to punish herself

"WINKY STOP!" "You are not to punish yourself, if you feel bad about what you said you apologize to Tonks, you and dobby are not to punish yourselves" Harry told Winky sternly.

"Winky very sorry master Harry Potter's mistress, please forgive Winky"

"I don't know what you mean Winky, what have you done?" Tonks asked looking at Harry, a very confused expression on her face, "I only heard you shriek in Elvish"

"But how come I understood what she said Tonks?"

"That's because we you's house-elf now master Harry Potter sir" said dobby "we both agreed to be bound to master Harry Potter, only he can understand us talk in elf"

"But why can I understand Elvish now dobby?"

"Its part of our Elven magic, Master Harry Potter sir, it stops us speaking bad of our master, you can understand what we is saying but not what is said" explained Winky

"Oh I get it; it's like a translation spell. One person is speaking in one language while the listener hears it in another" Tonks cut in, giving a good Hermione impression, the over-excited elves just nods in reply.

"Ok just remember next time that neither of you are allowed to hurt or punish yourselves anymore ok? And please just call me Harry"

"Master Harry Potter truly is the world's greatest wizard" could be heard from the pair of hyper active elves.

"Is there anything dobby can do you master Harry Potter sir?"

"No that's ok dobby we just came down to make breakfast…"

"Winky can do that for you sir; you just sit down with you's mistress"

"That's ok Winky I can do it"

"No! Master Harry Potter will sit at table and wait! This be's Winky's kitchen, now out!" with that and a click of her fingers both Harry and Tonks find themselves back in the dinning room seated at the table.

"Looks like she told you, aye Harry" joked Tonks as Harry just mumbled about pushy elves and soon breakfast appeared on table.

"Now Harry, will you be returning to Hogwarts this year or seeing as Professor Dumbledore asked me to train you in Auror magic, and I heard you would also like to do that as a profession, I was wondering if you would be willing to train as my apprentice? You would have to do very vigorous training to get into the best physical and magical shape, and you would also have to pass the entrée exams to NEWT levels before you'd be accepted but I feel this would be in your best interest"

"Don't you have to go to some sort of collage to do Auror training?"

"Most people choose to these days as its set in a safer environment, however I feel an apprenticeship is better as it involves more practical knowledge then theory, and because it's on the job training you'll be getting paid as well, however you wouldn't be able to return to Hogwarts or visit your friends very often as being an Auror apprentice is a fulltime job"

"I wasn't planning on returning to Hogwarts this year anyway as I need to destroy the Horcruxes, so if you don't mind could I be your apprentice?"

"Of course Harry, I'll make the arrangements with me boss to allow you to use magic now rather then waiting until your seventeen, and in the mean time we can start on your physical fitness training, Occlumency and newt level potions"

"Who is you boss Tonks?"

"The head Auror Gawain Robards, he is the current Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and Head of the Aurors as no one seems to want to take Amelia's place"

Breakfast continued on in a friendly fashion before Tonks sent Harry off to get changed into some trunks while she wrote to her boss to notify him of Harry's apprenticeship.

Tonks, Harry soon noticed was a very strict teacher after some warm up exercises and stretches she had Harry do 10 lengths of the pool followed by sit ups, push ups some weights and 30 minuets of laps around the gym, to say Harry was tired was an understatement

"Come on Harry, hurry up and get showed and changed then meet me in the library for your potions lesson"

After a quick shower and something to eat Harry felt a little better and quickly made his way to the potions lab in the library.

"Ok Harry, I know I seem like I'm being a little harsh on you for with this training but we only have ten days until bill and fleur's wedding and then just another two weeks until your birthday, if we can get you up to a newt standard in potions, charms and transfiguration, you could take the entrée exams for your newts and get your apparition license on the same day"

"Do you feel I can learn all that in just three weeks Tonks?" Harry asked in shock

"During the last year at Hogwarts students mostly revise the past six years work for the newt test, there is very little they teach during the year so yes, if we work hard I believe you can be up to standard within the month" "now the potions we will be starting today are mostly the more common used healers and pepper-up potions as they are a must for any Auror, they will also help you recover after training"

The next few hours Harry and Tonks spent making various different potions. just like last year Harry noticed he seemed to have a knack for potion making when being taught by a competent teacher, after Tonks helped explain why certain potions needed to be stirred in a certain way and what the different ingredient did inside a potion both felt passing this particular exam should go easy, as long as he can memorize the instructions for each potion.

"Now Harry before you go off to bed I feel these books will help you with your exams so study them well, and start with the one on Occlumency" said Tonks handing Harry a large selection of books from the library as she left.

After a quick look at the spines Harry noticed the pile included mostly his old school books however a few new ones included 'the why's and how's of potion making by A.G Fleming' 'the Aurors hand book' 'the delicate mind, a beginners guide to Occlumency' and 'from the darkest of dark to the lightest of light, the Aurors compendium of curses by L.V.A longlyf'

'Thanks Tonks' thought Harry before tiredly heading up to bed.

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hi sorry its late again ok I know most of this chapter is description, but I thought I would end it here before starting anything more exciting as this chapter was too long as it is.

Dlikee

(Cobalt is slightly paler then navy blue, the libraries painting is called "the nymph Galatea", A.G. Fleming or Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin)