Harry just gaped up at Lupin, He hadn't been expecting such a direct answer. "But it's true." Said that nasty little voice in Harry's head. There was no time to continue the conversation however, because they had reached the kitchen doors. When Lupin opened it, Harry saw a young woman Putting two cups of tea on the table. The woman had short wavy blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, but some pieces that weren't long enough to fit framed her face. She wore muggle jeans and a white tank top. She smiled when she saw Harry and added a third. Just than there was a loud pop, and Tonks was in the kitchen. She looked nervous for a second, and had her wand out but relaxed Immediately at the sight of Harry.

"Wotcher, Harry!" She said happily, as she suddenly replaced the straight black hair that she had for neon blue spikes. She continued "I see you have met my sister." The woman who had been in the room interrupted with a small laugh.

"Actually, he just came in when you crashed our little party." She then turned to Harry and shook his hand. "I'm Alexandria Tonks Harry, this troublemakers big sister. Don't be frightened though, I'm not as scary as little Nymphadora here." She shot a mischievous glance at Tonks who had taken out her wand to hex her sister. Lupin cautiously pushed her hand back down as Tonks stared fuming.

"You know I hate it when you call me that." She said crossly, than turned to Harry. "I mean Nymphadora, really? Apparently mum ran out of good names after Alexandria, although I'm not jealous of my youngest sister, she's called Doriellia, seems mum was fond of names that ended in the letter A. Well, I'm off to bed, just dropped in to say good night to Lexi, but now I don't think I'll bother." With that she was gone. Harry was astonished in the difference between the two sisters. Tonks was tomboyish and clumsy. Alexandria was completely the opposite. She moved with grace and charm, and was very girly. "Not the bad kind of girly though", Harry thought to himself, "more sporty." Harry looked up to see that Alexandria seemed to have shrunk a few inches.

"Are you a metamorphmagus too?" Alexandria laughed lightly,

"Yes, it runs in my family, Dads side, I always try to be a bit taller than Nympha- Tonks, I mean. In reality I think she has passed me, but she doesn't need to know that." She winked at Harry, "I trust you won't tell my secret."

"Nope," He grinned, "Secrets are safe with me!"

"Good, listen, Harry there's something we need to discuss with you, the actual reason Lexi is here." Harry raised his eyebrows, wondering what Lupin was talking about. Lupin didn't leave him in suspense for long before continuing. "Remember how I told you Sirius left this house to you?" Harry felt that sinking feeling come back.

"Yeah"

"Well, we expected you to be..." Lupin paused to choose his words carefully, "a bit reluctant. So we thought of a plan, of another way for this house to stay in the order, if you turn down the offer." He was interrupted by Alexandria.

"That's where I come in Harry, see, If you turn it down, the house would go to any of Sirius's immediate family, but they're all dead. So it would go to Bellatrix, but seeing as that she's wanted for being a death eater, she can't really accept. So his next oldest cousin would be my mother, but she has passed away, so she can hardly accept it." Harry glanced at Lupin and was shocked to see that his face was white as salt and he seemed in a trance, a look of fury on his face. Alexandria was saying somthing to the effect of "never let the Malfoys have it.-" But was cut off by Harry running to Lupin and shaking him. For a moment it looked as though he would strangle harry but then he forced a smile.

"Sorry, please continue" He said smoothly. Harry was worried,

"What happened, what was wrong, are you-" But Remus cut him off quickly, and turned to Alexandria.

"I don't understand how you and Tonks are so happy, you speak of your mother and Doriellia so lightly, how do you do it? How can you accept it?" Harry was extremely confused, somthing Alexandria seemed to have noticed.

"You see Harry, Bellatrix killed my mum. Now my mum was always her favorite sister, so when she joined the dark side, which was when she was still a child mind you, Bellatrix tried to convince my mum to join her. My mum refused, but promised not to tell Bellatrix's secret to anyone. As they grew older though my mum had second thoughts. One day Doriellia was missing, and mum found her at our doorstep, almost insane, just laying there. Through all the rambling we finally figured out that Bellatrix had tried to use the Imperius curse on her, I'm not sure why, but her mind was to weak for it. It didn't work, but instead made her crazy. She is still like that today. My mum decided that this was the last straw, she was going to tell the ministry, but Bellatrix killed her before she could. She killed my dad too, but we reckon that was an accident."

"Wow." Harry was amazed. "Er.... You seem to have gotten over it, I mean, that's not what I meant...How did-...?" He stopped mid sentence aware that she was beginning to talk again.

"Tonks deals with it by becoming an auror, it's her way of fighting back. Me, I just accept that they are in a better place, and that what goes around comes around, Bellatrix will be punished." When she said that last part her face had gone stone cold, and she had pushed her fist into her opposite palm. She had looked extremely dangerous, and Harry suddenly realized that she was very powerful. Just seeing her look like that was enough. She smiled then, and Harry wondered if he had just imagined it, but he was sure it had been real. "The point is, I will be taking the house if you don't want it. It can then stay in the Order and all's well. Plus I get to join the order!" Harry had quite a bit to think about so he just nodded and said,

"Thanks, I'll take you up on that, the house is yours. I'm going to go to bed now, 'Night Lupin, Alexandria."

"Oh, call me Lexi, it's much easier."

"And me Remus, I'm not your professor anymore Harry."

Harry nodded and went off to bed. He slept soundly that night, but Lexi's face when it was cold and dark haunted his dreams. He had never seen anyone with a look of that much determination before, and wasn't sure he ever wanted to again.