Chapter 7- Surprise at Tonks

Gathering by the fire place, Narcissa was teaching both Harry and Hermione how to use the floo to get from one place to another. Narcissa had put on a short light blue jean skirt and a white tank top with a pair of white high heeled boots.

Harry and Hermione had just put on the cloths that they had worn earlier that day, a pair of khaki shorts with a black snake shirt for Harry and a dark skirt with a blue flowered shirt for Hermione.

"It's about 4" Narcissa said looking over to the nearby grandfather clock. "Where is Bella?"

"She said she was changing" Harry said.

"Um Cissy" Hermione said. "Why don't you and Bella just change your clothes with magic?"

"Well, when you change something into something else using magic it's called transfiguration. When you transfigure something, generally speaking there is a time frame in which the transfigured object stays transfigured, which is different for every witch and wizard."

"So how long can you keep one going?" Harry asked.

"Well it depends on what the object is" Narcissa said. "Clothes generally last a long time while things like chairs and beds may only last a couple of hours. But, if you transfigure something you can't charm it for other uses."

"And normal clothes are so much more comfortable then transfigured ones" Bellatrix said walking into the room. Bellatrix was wearing a form fitting purple tee-shirt which was cut so that it showed her lower torso and a dark blue mini skirt along with black high heeled boots.

Narcissa then went over to the fire place and took out a small pot that was hanging on its left side. "Alright, so the first thing to remember when you're using the floo is too keep your elbows near your body"

"Oh, I thought it was not to land on your bum"

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"Ted hurry up!" Andromeda yelled from the top of the staircase. "They'll be arriving any minute and I want everything to be perfect"

Ted Tonks, the son of Timothy and Margret Tonks was what someone in England, or for that matter Europe… no scratch that… the WORLD would call American. Ted was big, standing at 6 foot 5 with very broad shoulders and being both toned and slightly tanned. He wasn't thin and lean and speedy, but rather built for raw power and endurance. He had short spiky brown hair and an oval shaped face with a little facial hair. He wore pair of khaki shorts and a black collared shirt over his white under shirt, which hugged his figure quite tightly and showed off some of his muscle.

Ted was born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in a well off family who specialized in the trading of different metals and minerals. Unlike in Britain, American wizards didn't live a secret double life; in fact there was no wizarding world in America. Yes American wizards didn't go around and talk about magic with muggles and they did have their own magical communities, but they did business, went to school and basically did everything else with muggles.

Learning how to do magic in America was like a Japanese child going to Japanese school in America in that it was added work for the magical child. A magical child would start off early, around the time they started second grade and then by the time they reached about seventh grade, the child would have already decided what type of magic they would continue in.

Ted had moved to England after going to Harvard University for business where he met his wife Andromeda and then they had bought a small estate outside of Winchester where they could raise their 9 year old daughter Nymphadora.

But that was an almost a decade ago and now Ted, being a strong man as his wife put it, was carrying all the presents that his wife and her sister had bought for their cousins from the basement to the living room, which was a very far walk especially when you had to carry hundred something packages. What the hell did those two buy? I mean, the kids were only five for god's sake.

"Ted what is taking so long!" Andromeda yelled again.

"Nothing, just reminiscing" Ted said tiredly.

"Well hurry up we don't have much time left"

Ted climbed the steps up to the main living area, where Andromeda had many of the house elves decorate the whole bottom floor with balloons and streamers that would change color every so often from red to green.

Andromeda was pacing anxiously back and forth fixing every little thing she could. She was just like that sometimes, with work and with just about everything in which she wanted everything to be as perfect as possible. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a green halter top which, if Ted had never seen her naked before, would have made him slightly aroused.

Andromeda turned to her husband and then pointed to one of the rooms "put the presents in there"

Ted nodded "I have a question sweetie"

"And what is that?" Andromeda asked.

"Why wasn't I allowed to use magic to carry these presents?"

Andromeda rolled her eyes "because I said so, now hurry up!"

A girl then walked into the room of about the age of nine or ten. She looked a lot like Andromeda when she was younger, and would normally have had brown hair with hazel eyes, but decided against that today. Today, for the girl at least, was defiantly a bubblegum pink day with orange eyes. The girl seemed to be more on the Tomboy side, with a pair of cargo shorts and a Pittsburgh Penguins shirt on.

She seemed to be in a happy mood, grinning widely at her parents. "Ha, dad is being whipped"

Andromeda then turned to the girl and gave her that disapproving glare that every child gets when the piss off their parents. "Nymphadora, do not say that your father is being whipped. I am just telling him what needs to be done since he can't manage things by himself"

The now identified Nymphadora growled slightly, changing very quickly from the happy mood, "don't call me that! I like being called Tonks"

"Nymphadora" Andromeda sighed "Tonks is your last name and it is improper to address you by it. Besides Nymphadora is a lovely name"

"Listen to your mother" Ted said from the other room. "Besides you know Tonks means 'fool' anyways"

"Yah but it could also mean 'powerful strike'" Nymphadora retorted. "Besides its better then Nymphadora any day"

"Nymphadora stop degrading your name" Andromeda said. "And is your room cleaned?"

Nymphadora shrugged "I don't know, maybe?"

"Nymphadora Andromeda Tonks, I swear that if your room is not cleaned you will be cleaning the lawn till September! Do I make myself clear young lady?"

Ignoring the Nymphadora part, Nymphadora rolled her eyes at her mother. "Sure, whatever" Nymphadora said leaving the room.

Andromeda sighed, 'what am I going to do with her'. Nymphadora was defiantly not like Harry and Hermione, as they were very quiet and didn't cause too much unnecessary ruckus, but unnecessary ruckus was a common thing among Tonks. Just then, Andromeda heard two crashes, one from the room that the presents were in and the other down the hall.

"OWW! Mom I tripped on the stairs!" Nymphadora yelled.

"Um honey… the presents kind of… fell" Ted said shakily from the other room.

Andromeda slapped her forehead in exasperation. Yep clumsiness, noise and just total chaos were just some of the things you got when you lived with a Tonks. Andromeda then took a look at her watch and groaned.

'Great it's four' she cursed mentally. 'And Cissy will never be late, Bella maybe, but not Cissy.'

She heard a 'swoosh' come from the living room and guessed that they had already arrived. She walked into the room and saw Bellatrix sprawled on the floor in front of the fireplace, upside down. Bellatrix looked up to see Andromeda smirking at her on the ground and growled at her showing some teeth, which upside down looked like a very carnivorous smile.

"Well looked who decided to drop in" Andromeda said smirking at her older sister.

"Oh shut it you git" Bellatrix growled. "Help me up off this floor."

"Oh but what's the magic word?" Andromeda said in a sing song voice.

"Or ill crucio your pretty little ass" Bellatrix retorted in her baby voice, which unlike Andromeda's, would make someone's skin crawl in fright.

Andromeda approached Bellatrix and helped her up, and once she did both sisters began to size each other up, looking up and down each other standing stock still. It would remind someone very closely of a standoff between two cowboys, except in this case they were girls and didn't wear cowboy clothing.

"Well look at you shorty" Andromeda said smirking.

"Well look at you flatty" Bellatrix retorted, getting a scowl from Andromeda.

"I'm not flat" Andromeda said.

Bellatrix grinned at her "oh but they're nowhere near as big as mine."

Andromeda rolled her eyes at her older sister. "Oh please your breasts could fit an oversize cow."

Bellatrix laughed wildly at this "you would love to have these wouldn't you" she said groping her breasts. "I mean guys like big breasts not the WNBA"

Another 'swoosh' was heard from the fireplace where green fire spontaneously appeared, and Narcissa walked out of it with Harry and Hermione following her looking very shocked.

Narcissa looked at the scene in front of her and sent a death glare at Bellatrix, who was stilling holding her breasts, and at Andromeda. She knew that she should have gone first, after all, Andromeda and Bellatrix had always had this rivalry with each other, trying to beat the other one in anything.

Both Bellatrix and Andromeda had chills run down their backs from the icy glare that Narcissa gave them. They looked at one another and a mutual understanding passed between them. 'We will continue this later'

"Whoa" Harry said, his eyes spinning from the Floo travel. "That was weird"

"I don't feel so good" Hermione mumbled holding her stomach.

"Don't worry you'll get used to it" Narcissa said.

"Yah" Andromeda said. "Bella is almost 30 and she always lands on her butt"

"Oh shut it flatty" Bellatrix mumbled before she was whacked in the back of the head by Narcissa.

"There are children in the area!" she scolded while Harry and Hermione giggled at Bellatrix sheepish expression.

"Ok, I get it" Bellatrix muttered. "Don't have to be such a stickler about it"

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Since arriving at the Tonks residence, Narcissa had noticed the blossoming of some favoritism between her older sisters and the twins. For some odd reason, Bellatrix had felt the need to spend more time with Harry while Andromeda felt that she wanted to spend more time with Hermione, and so a rivalry blossomed between the two sisters, again. It was obvious to all those around them, Ted, Nymphadora and Narcissa, that Bellatrix and Andromeda were downright ignoring everyone else and putting all their intention on their chosen child.

Standing off to the side, the three of them watched as Bellatrix and Andromeda helped Harry and Hermione open some of the presents, and once in a while they would see Bellatrix and Andromeda taking glances at each other like they were in competition.

However with Bellatrix and Andromeda occupying the twins, it gave Narcissa time to mingle with her niece and brother in law, both of who she never really had time to talk to.

"I can't believe it" Ted said looking at his wife obsessing over Hermione. "She has never obsessed over Nymphadora like this before, even on her birthday."

"And I am very thankful for it" Nymphadora said. "And don't call me Nymphadora!"

"Why?" Narcissa said. "I think Nymphadora is a lovely name."

Nymphadora snorted at this "a lovely name you say. That's easy for you to say, you and Bella both have pretty awesome names. Hell my mom has a pretty awesome name, but Nymphadora? It so… girly and weak"

"If you think so" Narcissa said. "But Nymphadora is a Greek name much like mine and my sisters."

"I know that Aunt Cissy" Nymphadora said. "But I don't like being referenced to a Nymph."

"Well don't think about it that way" Narcissa said. "Think about it like this, the greatest Greek warrior was Achilles and his mother was a Nymph."

"Then why not name me Achilles!" Nymphadora said exasperated.

"Because that's a boy's name" Ted said.

"Well Nymphadora" Narcissa said. "You know Harry's real name is Hadrian, but we call him Harry since Hadrian is not as friendly as Harry"

"Hadrian?" Nymphadora said with a grin "I've never heard someone being called Hadrian."

"Neither have I" Narcissa said. "But James and Elizabeth probably wanted to give him a strong name as his formal name while having Harry as his pet name. You usually don't take someone seriously if their name doesn't give off some sort of power and Hadrian sounds much more powerful than Harry."

"You never heard of the name Hadrian before?" Ted asked his daughter and sister and law, and both of them shook their heads. "You've never heard of Hadrian's wall before?"

"No we haven't dad" Nymphadora said rolling her eyes. "Now stop beating around the bush and just tell us"

"Hadrian was the name of one of the Roman emperors during the height of Roman expansion and conquering in ancient times" Ted said. "He built a fortification across England called Hadrian's Wall that was here to keep the barbarians of Northern England and Scotland out of the Roman occupied Southern part."

"I'll be perfectly honest Ted, I really don't care" Narcissa said bluntly, getting Nymphadora to laugh very loudly at her father who looked rather sheepish after being called out by Narcissa.

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Albus Dumbledore sat in his headmaster's office, filled with all of his various tinker toys, reading the headlines of that day's daily prophet.

Normally, Albus could only be described as a grandfather to anyone who approached him, with his long white beard, purple moon robes and his crystal blue eyes which seemed to twinkle when you looked at them. But now, his mood was unsatisfactory.

He had been following the stories and emergence of the true identity of Lily Potter which had caused a bit amount of problems for him.

For starters it was who Lily Potter really was that had really set him off, Elizabeth Rosier and the sister of Druella Black aunt to the infamous, or famous depending on how you look at it, Black sisters. Not only that, but Harry had made his first appearance in the wizarding world, six years before Albus intended him to because of that damn Black woman.

Albus had been trying to carefully orchestrate the future of the wizarding world with Harry, as he was essential in many of his plans. It was essential that Harry be as subordinate as possible when he got to Hogwarts and was willing to do anything for Albus. He had intended for Harry to die later in his life after killing Voldemort in a suicidal way, leaving the Potter, Peverell and hopefully Black wealth, at Dumbledore's disposal and therefore, the greater good.

Hell, he had made sure that his twin Hermione had complications at birth so she was born late and thus easy for someone to go and take her. He had made sure that a couple of months ago that those Granger people would find her and then adopt her, so that when she went to Hogwarts to learn magic she would think she was a muggleborn.

It was known that muggleborns never, ever got their blood done at Grinngotts as most didn't know it existed, so it would be highly unlikely that she found out. And if by some miracle she did, hopefully she and Harry would be friends at that point and already in Albus's pocket and when Harry did die, she would marry into one of Albus's light families, like the Weasleys.

He couldn't have anyone be there for Harry in his early life as it would destroy almost all chances of him being able to control the boy. Albus had made sure that the only people he could be with were the Dursleys. First he helped create those anti-werewolf laws, of course through someone else, so that Remus Lupin couldn't take care of the boy. He had made sure that the boy's god father, Sirius Black, was imprisoned leaving him only one family he could be with, the Dursleys.

But of course that plan had just backfired as Sirius Black was now dead and his cousin Narcissa just had to go snooping around looking for a way out of her marriage.

Albus snorted, why couldn't that Blacks just go with the wills of others and not stand out so much? Why couldn't Narcissa just live her life as Lucius trophy and why couldn't Sirius just suffer in Azkaban? Hell, Albus didn't even believe that Sirius was really dead. Leave it to a Black to go and masterfully fake their death so that they disappear from the wizarding world and records.

But through all of this many problems had arisen for Albus. For starters, Narcissa had actually gone to the Dursleys and saw how they treated Harry. She had been to Grinngotts and no doubt had taken the guardianship of Harry and Hermione, and thus read the wills of the Potters, which Albus had sealed when they had died so that nothing would stop Harry being sent to the Dursleys.

No doubt she would bring light to this, but Albus wasn't worried about being thrown in jail, he had too much support and power to be jailed. No, the problem was that people would see that he had made a mistake and he couldn't have that. It would also make Harry, the one he wanted to be completely devoted to him, would harbor ill feelings to Albus.

Grabbing a lemon drop from his bowl on his desk, Albus went deep into thought.

'I will have to wait and see how this is going to play out' Albus thought putting the lemon drop in his mouth. 'Let the chess match begin'

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After a couple of hours at the Tonks house, everything was starting to wind down as the two five year olds had begun to drift off to sleep on the coach each holding a different stuff animal they had gotten, Hermione a white tiger and Harry a black wolf.

The two twins had played quite a bit with their relative Nymphadora, who they found out was their first cousin once removed, not their niece by Bellatrix. To say the least, Bellatrix was using that as leverage against Andromeda for making such a silly mistake since she was supposed to be the smart one.

Nymphadora really liked the twins, because both of them weren't able to call her Nymphadora, as it was just too hard for them to say, and instead called her Dora or Tonks. Nymphadora had shape sift a couple of times for the two of them which they found enjoyable, and Nymphadora was very happy that neither of them pushed for her to transform into something that she didn't want to transform into.

Ted had also had a little time with the twins where he gave each one of them a special gift, which were their favorite, and caused the three sisters to get very ticked off since they had bought the most gifts and each one hoping that the twins would like theirs best.

Ted had gotten Harry his own wizard chess set but in very dark and gothic style. All the pieces were dark, and when you were the white player they would switch to dark silver and when you were the black it would switch to black. The pawns had been made to look like dark knights with large kite shields and swords. The knights were dark knights, but instead of riding a horse they rode on a dragon and carried a very long lance. The rooks were larger knights, but they carried huge two handed swords and the bishops were necromancers. The king himself was an old necromancer king called the Witch King.

However the most interesting part of the chess set however was the fact that the queen was none other than Morgan Le Fey, which had gotten Harry really excited because he knew that he was her heir and her incarnate.

Hermione on the other hand had gotten a female white tiger cub which she had decided to name Stripes. What was really special about it though was the fact that the cub had magical properties, allowing the cub to transmit emotions to its owner and also be able to locate its owner. It also helped that the cub itself was magical enhanced to fight as well.

But now it was just the adults who were awake as Nymphadora had turned in for the night seeing as though the twins couldn't play anymore. All of them sat around the table while Narcissa and Andromeda laid out all of their paperwork for Bellatrix and Ted to see.

"As you can see" Narcissa said. "The total wealth of our estate is roughly 16 billion in liquid funds and the rest are in different properties and investments."

The others starred wide eyed as they read over the files.

"This is insanity" Bellatrix commented.

"It is" Ted said. "But I would expect this much from wizarding Britain. All the wealth belongs to the old families' just like during the middle ages. You people are still living in a feudalism society trying to act like a democracy."

"Pretty much" Andromeda said. "I myself have started to create some cases against Albus Dumbledore for endangerment of a child, false guardianship, and the tampering of a lords will."

"That sounds good and all" Bellatrix said "but you honestly can't expect him to fall that easily. He will most likely pull some strings and get off with barely a slap on the wrist."

"We know that" Narcissa said, "but it's the principle of the matter and it will allow us to move along with our plans"

Both Ted and Bellatrix got lost here as neither one of them had heard of any sort of underhand plan. "What are you talking about?"

"Think about it" Andromeda said. "After we go to court with Dumbledore and win, with our prestige and wealth we could create a way for us to control and monitor him"

"What if we told you that Dromeda and I are planning to create a new department in the ministry, where we would be in charge and allow us to monitor wizarding education" Narcissa said. "It's a common practice in muggle society where you have government regulation on schooling, and considering that Dumbledore had endangered Harry bloody Potter; people would want to make sure that their children are safe with him while they go to Hogwarts."

"So your saying you want to make sure Dumbledore can't pull a fast one on Harry and Hermione when they go to Hogwarts, which they most probable are" Bellatrix said.

"Not only that" Andromeda said, "but it will allow us to check on the teaching staff and make sure that they are preforming to expectations." She then had a sly smile cross their face "and we could promote and demote people based on the information we gather. In other words, have a say in who gets to teach and who gets power second to Dumbledore at that school."

"I never thought you two had it in you" Bellatrix said grinning "so very sneaky, it makes your sister very proud"

"What do you think of this honey?" Andromeda asked Ted, who seemed to be in deep thought.

"I personally think it is a good idea" Ted said. "Dumbledore has too much power over the minors being in charge of that school with no one able to equal him. It will be good for both the students and the rest of the community if there could be a checks and balance system at Hogwarts."

"Enough of this" Bellatrix said slouching back in her chair, "this is all important and stuff but let's talk about something I don't know, more interesting?"

"Like what?" Narcissa asked.

"I don't know" Bellatrix said.

Just then, audible knocks could be heard from outside because of someone knocking on the door.

"Ooo, this is interesting" Bellatrix commented while Andromeda got up scowling.

"It's almost 10 o clock, who in their bloody mind would be coming here at this time of night?"

"Maybe Ted ordered pizza" Narcissa commented.

Andromeda walked over to the door and opened it to reveal a haggard looking man who couldn't be much older than Bellatrix, with long lustrous black hair, striking grey eyes and a the most charismatic smile that could almost make some people, males and females, puke in lust.

Andromeda just starred at the man wide eyed, her mouth hanging open looking at him. 'No it can't be…'

"Was up Dromeda" the man said "hope I'm not too late for the little pup's party?"

"Sirius?"

"What" the man said "never seen a Black fake his death before?" Apparently, Sirius Black is alive.

The last page was so much fun to write… I just couldn't kill Sirius. You all are probably like 'what the fuck is this moron doing! This is so stupid'. Yah sorry if you think that but hey, you can't get rid of the dog father that easily.

In the next installment I'll explain what happens now, and no, Sirius is not going to marry one of the Greengrass girls. He faked his death really well to the point even when he's alive he could be considered dead. I know, fucked up but I will explain later.

I understand if some of you are unhappy with how some of these things are going, so I'm offering anybody who wants to copy my story, with my consent first, and change anything they want and make it a new story. I write because it helps me clear my head of thoughts and i post it because i like seeing what people think. I understand if some of you hate on my stuff, that is cool with me, but i really just do this out of pure pleasure.

As Tony Stark said in Iron Man 2, "If it's one thing I've proven, it's that you can count on me to pleasure myself."