AWF

GPOV

It's been three days since my little interrogation scene. Nothing else has happened, but Dad said we had to be up early today. I don't know why; he said it wouldn't be wise to talk about it. All he said was that Fred and George would be coming by. It's Christmas Eve; I was hoping they would. It's around six or so in the morning and we're having breakfast. Dad keeps looking out the window, so I'm assuming Fred and George are on their way.

The next minute, there is a pop! outside and I'm looking at, not two redheads, but one slightly graying man.

"Professor Lupin?" I ask as he comes through the door.

"Remus John Lupin, former Hogwarts professor, werewolf—"

"Remus, we know it's you," Dad smiles, "We have Death Eater alerts around the house…"

Lupin laughs and takes a seat. I was about to ask the obvious question when I hear another pop! in the garden and see Nym walking toward the house. I let out a squeal and run to the door to let her in. She beats me to the punch and wraps me in a hug when she's barely inside the house. When we finally let go of each other, Fred and George have also entered the room.

"What's going on?" I ask her as everyone else talks and eats.

"Your brothers have a little project going. I think one more person's coming."

"Project?' I start to ask, but then we all hear another pop! in the garden, and see Lee Jordan walking towards the house. Once he's in, my dad quiets everyone and starts talking.

"So, boys," he says to Fred, George, and Lee, "Tell us a bit about this…thing, before we get started."

"It's called Potterwatch," Fred begins.

"With You-Know-Who spreading lies about Harry, we thought it would be a good idea," Lee added.

"We all have stage names," George explains, "And we give out information about Death Eater activity, and about Harry, if we have any."

"Today we're just moving the equipment," Fred tells us, "Because we've gotten raided six times now. We have to make sure they don't have us traced…"

"So, the logical place to move the stuff was your house?" Tonks asks.

"Ahhh, but you don't know," Dad says, "We have a secret keeper on the house. The boys need to leave to make sure they aren't being followed, but while they're here, they're perfectly safe."

Everyone nods in understanding.

"So if we're not doing a show today," I start, "why are we all here?"

"Because we had an alibi if anyone stopped us on our way," George explains, "It's Lee's birthday tomorrow; we were going to say that he's celebrating with our family this year. That way, it wouldn't look too suspicious if people kept disappearing where our barrier starts."

"A lot of people have secret keepers," Fred tells me, seeing my skeptical look, "Now that there's all this danger, it's not uncommon."

"Let's get the stuff in before it starts snowing!" Lee says.

Outside stood a pile of long, thin golden wires; on top of which was a Muggle radio.

"It's actually easier to program it if it isn't already magical," Lee tells us, handing Lupin an armload of wires.

"What happens," Fred says, giving me the radio, "is we set these antennas up around the house, and charm them with the week's password—"

"So it'll be harder for the Death Eaters to pick up the show," George interjects.

"Right. Then, all we do is charm the radio, and broadcast the show!"

"Sounds simple enough," Nym says, tripping over one of the wires.

"In theory," Lee offers her a hand up, "We keep having to move around so we don't get busted."

"And we have to make sure that the password charm doesn't wear off of any of the antennas; or else anyone can pick up the show."

"That was why we got raided two weeks ago," George tells Dad with a grimace.

"This'll be a good test," Lee says, looking at the sky, "If it snows tomorrow, we'll be able to see if we can use these things indoors…"

AWF

We spend the afternoon setting up the wires indoors. It started snowing about an hour after we got them inside. Mum, Nym, George and I made dinner for everyone, and we ended up eating in the living room; since the kitchen's too cramped.

It's about nine o'clock now. I'm in bed. Dinner was interesting; Lupin's been doing undercover work with the werewolves, so he gave us a report. Apparently, he has to move to another clan, because he saved a boy from being bitten three days ago. He'll be abroad by next week…

I hear a knock at the door and go to answer it.

"Hey Nym!" I say.

"Hey," she smiles, "Can I come in?"

I let her in and she sits down, legs crossed, on my bed.

"What's up?" I ask, sitting next to her.

"Nothing," she says, wrapping her arms around me, "I just…I was worried about you," she mumbles.

Knowing good and well that we'll be locked in, and that I'll have hell to pay with my mother, I get up and close the door. I walk back to the bed, get under the covers, and hold my arms out to her.

"You might as well," I say, grinning, "You're kind of locked in now."

"Your mum's going to kill me!" she says urgently.

"Well, I'll just tell her that I trapped you in here. It's not a lie…"

She rolls her eyes, and I see her put on her "morphing face". Her hair turns from baby blue to yellow. Bright, glowing yellow at that.

"Did you just get the urge to change?" I ask.

"Kinda," she laughs, "I just wanted to be yellow."

She climbs into bed and I see her change it to purple. And then to green. And then to pink…

"Tonks, is there something on your mind?" I ask.

"Just thinking…" she says.

"About?"

"…I don't want you to go back to Hogwarts," she says seriously.

"Well…" I say slowly, "I don't really want to go back. But I have to; there aren't that many older students to take care of the younger ones if they have to hide."

"I know," she sighs, hair turning blue.

I hate this. It's our only time alone together, and she's already worrying about me going back…Well we're not spending our time together in depression if I can help it...

"I've got a plan," I say suddenly.
"Oh really?"

"Yeah," I smile, "You-Know-Who's using Dementors to guard Hogwarts, right?"

"Yeah," she says.

"So let's make a few more happy memories. You know, just in case I have to fight them again…"

LbN: Good plan Ginny ;D...Hope you liked this chapter!