Chapter 21: Dumbledore's secret plan

Tonks knocked on the door to Dumbledore's office. She couldn't understand why he had send for her at Christmas while she was having a good time with her boyfriend Remus and all the others. She didn't understand what made her so special.

"Come in, Nymphadora," Dumbledore said.

"How many times do I have to tell you that it's Tonks, sir?" Tonks said getting a bit angry at the use of her first name.

"It's one of the disadvantages of being a teacher I'm afraid. But close the door behind you and take a seat," Dumbledore chuckled in reply. Still you could hear a serious undertone in his voice that wasn't to be ignored.

Tonks slowly walked to the chair in front of Dumbledore's desk and sat down. "Why did you want to see me, sir?" she asked.

"I've thought up a plan that will keep young Harry alive although it's terribly risky and requires some sacrifices from certain people, including Harry," he spoke after surveying the young Order Member through his half moon spectacles.

"I'm one of the people that's got to sacrifice something, aren't I?" she asked

Dumbledore nodded. "This is probably the most important task I've ever appointed to you. No body else can do it. It's the only way."

"What is it that you want me to do, sir?" Tonks asked, now a little apprehensive.

"I want you to seduce Harry and carry his child," Dumbledore said, but when he saw the look on her face he added: "You are worried how Remus is going to react to this. I've a special task for him too. For which he is the only suitable candidate."

"But Remus is my boyfriend. I want to have his children. Not Harry's. I love Remus!" Tonks shouted.

"And that is exactly why Remus will let you go through with this. You are the only hope to the survival of the son of his best friend. And like I said you are the only one that can do it," Dumbledore replied. "You know the Black Family Tree that hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place?"

Tonks nodded. She didn't know what that had to do with her having to sleep with and get pregnant by a sixteen year old wizard.

"You aren't on there. You're mother was burned of there for marrying your father. But I've found the reason on there why Harry was able to own the place and Kreacher without being a pureblood." He paused for a second. "Your great-grandfather Pollux had a sister called Dorea. Dorea married a pureblood by the name of Charlus Potter. They always wanted children but only late in life they managed this feat and got a son which they named James."

Silence hung over the room. None of the portraits moved.

"So Harry's grandmother is a Black? I'm related to him?" Tonks asked finally.

"Yes, you are related to him. They couldn't wipe him of there because Dorea made a nice pureblood marriage and the rest aren't Blacks but Potters."

"How will that information lead to me having to get pregnant by him, sir?"

"Nymphadora, if it wasn't for this information and your metamorphmagus ability I would've chosen anybody else. So many women and girls would've loved to oblige. But where his mother's blood has saved him so far, only his father's blood can safe him here." Dumbledore sighed.

"I've to pretend I'm the Lovegood girl," Tonks had cottoned on. The girl was the only way of getting to him. Then she stood up and said. "I'm up at the Astronomy Tower if you need me sir." She just needed to think.

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Remus didn't know what the Headmaster had discussed with Tonks. But he knew that the Headmaster have other plans for him.

"Remus, I've got a job for you and I really should have asked it a long time ago. But now it seems I have no choice anymore," Dumbledore told him.

"I need to go and spy on the werewolves. But what about my job? What about Defence Against the Dark Arts?" he asked.

"I wanted to ask Nymphadora to take on that position. Is that okay with you?"

Remus just nodded and left Dumbledore's office.

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When Tonks re-entered the room. "I'm going to do what you've asked, but you have to swear that Remus won't know a thing about it."

"I had another question to ask you though too. Would you like to become our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher?"

"What? But Remus… Oh! Sure, sir!" Tonks said while her eyes became wide.

"Then I must ask you to call me Albus!"