Now if you found the last chapters a bit confusing here is a short resume that hopefully will clear things up….

Harry spends the beginning of the summer at privet drive as usual. This year Tonks is his guard from the order and she keeps him company. They become good friends. After few weeks, Tonks brings him to Diagon Allay to meet Bill and Fleur and they go together to Grimmauld place where Harry is needed to verify Fleur's identity. Later that day Harry discovers that he has very strong feelings for Fleur and Fleur claims that she returns them but she cannot be with Harry because she is in a relationship with Bill. As it turns out Harry is not the only one to fall in love, Ron and Hermione does as well. Hermione suspects that Fleur might be a spy and that she is using Harry. Hermione tells Harry and Ron of her suspicions and Harry realizes that she is right. Still they don't have any evidence against her so Harry has to play along to try and find out more about her, if she is under the imperius etc… Harry still has very strong feelings for Fleur and when Hedwig dies Harry brakes apart completely and turns to Fleur for comfort since he is sick and tired of everything and don't have any energy left to fight his emotions for her. Fleur in the meantime is still Bill's girlfriend and is very confused or she is acting Harry don't really know or care. Hermione and Ron are angry with Harry for deserting them and they don't speak to him.

Now to another matter the combination of Romance and R rating of this fic seems to give the message that there should be a lot of sexual action between Harry and Fleur, which there is not. Should I change it to Drama?

I know all they do is go down to eat all the time, but what else is it to do at Grimmauld Place?

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Chapter 8 Mayhem

"Hey, let's go down and help Mrs Weasley with lunch" Harry said "If you feel like it"

"Yeah, sure let me just go and wash up a bit" She answered and gestured to her tear streaked but now smiling face she was glad for a change of subject.

"Meet you down there then" Harry said and stood up with Fleur.

"See you in a bit" She said and walked off towards the bathroom leaving Harry alone. It felt good to know that he and Fleur would give every thing a serious chance. He smiled and walked out towards the kitchens. Mrs Weasley was alone in there.

"Oh, good Harry at least one of thinks of me down here" Mrs Weasley smiled and then added "But I guess Ron and Hermione are too busy?"

Harry blushed on their behalf "Yes I guess you can say that"

"You are all getting so old. I remember having Bill as if it was yesterday" Mrs Weasley said and smiled sadly.

"Why don't you help me with the potatoes?" She said and gestured towards a large pot "I thought we should have mashed potatoes"

Harry washed his hands and started to mash potatoes.

"Are you feeling better today?" Mrs Weasley asked him concernedly after a moment.

"Yeah" Harry muttered he had pushed Hedwig out of his mind and was not quite ready to discuss the matter.

"And Fleur?" Mrs Weasley asked him carefully.

"Yeah, she's better. She was just a little upset about Gabrielle" Harry said.

"Poor dear I can't imagine what she is going through" Mrs Weasley said.

"Yeah" Harry agreed.

Fleur entered the room a few moments later but Mrs Weasley didn't let her help she forced her to sit down at the table and eat an apple. Soon lunch was ready Remus and Ron entered the room, Ron ignored Harry completely he didn't even look at him. Remus too was acting strange he kept looking at Harry and Fleur, maybe Ron and Hermione had told him about giving up. Harry didn't care much he had Fleur sitting next to him.

"Ron" Mrs Weasley asked "Where is Hermione and Ginny"

"Up in their room, said they would come down later" Ron explained. They all started to eat. It was of course as delicious as usual.

"I'm sorry about Hedwig, Harry" Remus said as they ate.

"Thanks" Harry said dismissingly but Remus did not let the matter drop.

"Did you expect an answer from Tonks?" Remus asked politely, Fleur looked questioningly at Harry. He hadn't told her Hedwig was an owl.

"Yeah I asked her something" Harry said he now stopped eating he had lost his appetite.

"Do you mind telling us what you wrote to her?" Remus asked still very politely.

Harry looked up at Mrs Weasley for a short moment he didn't want her to know that he had wanted to leave but he felt that he didn't have much choice.

"I asked her to take me back to privet drive… But I changed my mind" He added hastily as Mrs Weasley looked over at him. Remus looked over at Fleur with a curios expression.

"Harry, why didn't you tell me?" Mrs Weasley asked him.

"I don't know" He lied.

"Harry you know that you can always come to me" Mrs Weasley said.

"I know" He replied.

"Harry I have spoken with Tonks she says that she never even got your letter" Remus said.

"Oh" Harry replied. No one said anything for a moment.

"What happened to her?" Harry finally asked.

Remus sighed "We don't really know Harry; we believe that the rainy weather forced her to rest in a tree somewhere near the ministry of magic because Tonks was there all day doing paper work. We think that somehow someone managed to capture her and take her letter, we don't know if they intended for Hedwig to get away or if she escaped" He said gravely and after a moment he added "Owls are unfortunately very frequent victims in times like these and many owls go missing outside the ministry. Voldemort goes for the weakest first"

Harry sighed "I'll have to bury her" he said shortly he wasn't sure if his voice would carry otherwise.

"Where do you want to bury her?" Remus asked him.

"Hogwarts" Harry replied he was quite sure that Remus asked him where in the garden outside but Harry really didn't want to burry Hedwig here.

"Oh, I can't promise you any thing Harry…" Remus said.

"If Harry wants to burry her at Hogwarts then Hogwarts it is even if I have to create an illegal port key my self!" Mrs Weasley snapped.

They ate in silence after that until the door swung open and a very angry Hermione entered, she glared at him in a way she never had looked at any one except perhaps Draco Malfoy when she had slapped him. Harry gulped.

"Ginny is a tiny bit upset" She said in a deadly calm voice "She says that she won't come out of her room. So I have to bring her some food"

"She's upset?" Asked Mrs Weasley urgently and piercing Hermione with her gaze.

"Yes" Answered Hermione as she pulled out a tray from a cupboard.

"Do you know why?" inquired Mrs Weasley.

"No idea" Said Hermione glaring strait at Harry. Was she accusing him for upsetting Ginny? He would never do any such thing. Ginny was one of the people he cared most for in the world. Ever since he had saved her life in the chamber of secrets, he had felt very close to her.
He tried to catch Ron's eye to see if he also blamed him, but Ron focused to one hundred percent on his food. Hermione brought out two plates and started to fill them with food from the table.

"I'll go and speak to her" Mrs Weasley said.

"She told me not to let you" Hermione told Mrs Weasley sadly.

"I'm her mother" Mrs Weasley said exasperated.

"Molly, some things are better understood by people of your own age" Remus said softly.

"All right but if she doesn't come down for dinner" Mrs Weasley said warningly to Hermione.

"I'll tell her that" Hermione said she cast one final glare at Harry and left.

The lunch progressed in silence after Hermione left, when they were done Ron left quickly. Harry, Fleur and Remus helped Mrs Weasley to clean up. None of them mentioned Ginny at all. Harry spent the day with Fleur in Buckbeak's room exchanging stories about their childhoods. When Harry had told her Ginny had once had a crush on him, Fleur rolled her eyes.

"Don't be so thick" she said.

He grinned "Sorry can't help it"

"At least you admit it" Fleur said teasingly "Why do you think Ginny didn't come down for lunch"

"I don't know" Harry said.

"She hates me, for stealing you and I guess that Hermione told her we spent the night together" Fleur said "Ginny still has a crush on you"

"But nothing happened!" Harry said.

"Yeah, well why should she believe it?" Fleur replied.

Harry didn't reply what had he ever done to lead Ginny on he wondered. Why couldn't she just forget about him, and go and find a nice boy that really loved her. But then Harry felt guilty Ginny had always liked him and he had always ignored her, he could at least have spent some time with her. But his heart had chosen Fleur an almost complete stranger, and even before Ginny had had a chance to say anything about it he had spent a night with her or so Ginny thought.

"I haven't been very nice to her have I?" Harry asked Fleur but before she could answer, he continued "She always liked me and I didn't even spend some time with her, I didn't give her a chance"

"Harry it's not your fault, it's not like I chose to love you. If I'm completely honest with you I wish I felt this way for Bill and only Bill. Because he deserves it, he has been so nice to me for over a year. But it doesn't work like that" Fleur explained.

"Well then maybe we deserve each other anyway. Neither of us deserves someone as nice as them" Harry joked feebly.

"Yeah lucky Hermione though, to be able to love a Weasley and no other" Fleur replied.

"Do you think I should face her?" Harry asked Fleur after a short moment.

"I don't know Harry it's not as if you need to explain any thing to her, you never were a couple" Fleur said and sighed Harry sighed too. He knew that if he felt guilty about Ginny it was nothing compared to how guilty Fleur felt about Bill.

"No matter what we'll always be friends?" He asked even though it hurt.

"No matter what!" Fleur agreed and smiled slightly.

Ginny didn't turn up for dinner that night though Tonks and to Mrs Weasley displeasure so did Mundungus. Mr Weasley was working late and wouldn't come back until much later. Harry was quite sure that Mrs Weasley was not leaving the kitchen to see Ginny because of Mundungus she didn't trust him any further then the twins. Ron and Hermione ignored Harry completely, they sometimes muttered a few words to each other, but otherwise were quiet. Harry was very happy to see Tonks again, and Fleur seemed very happy to get to know her better after all Fleur didn't have any friends. At the end of the meal, Remus announced that he was going on a mission the following morning and wouldn't see them for a couple of weeks. Harry would miss Remus but not too badly since Tonks would stay with them when she wasn't on duty. Harry spent the rest of the evening with Fleur and Tonks in the drawing room.

"It's getting late" Tonks said. "Wish I had a time turner so I could stay up later, but the ministry would never let me near one with my record of accidents"

"You're too nice Tonks why don't you just turn into Fudge or someone when something happens and blame it on him" Fleur suggested.

"I can't turn into men and don't tell any one but" Tonks said lowering her voice conspiratorially "I lost hundreds of house points for Slytherin"

"But you're a Hufflepuff" Harry said.

"Yeah, well let's just say that I made a habit of turning in to a Slytherin when I left the dormitories at night" Tonks whispered.

"I wish I was a Metamorphmagus" Fleur said.

"Well, it's not as if you need it. I mean you're a veela every one loves you the way you are" Tonks said absentmindedly.

"Right" Fleur said rolling her eyes.

"Well I'm off to bed" Tonks exclaimed and got up.

"Tonks, do you mind if I sleep in your room with you?" Fleur asked hastily.

"Sure, but don't keep me up chatting. I need my sleep or I get clumsier then ever" Tonks replied

"I won't" Promised Fleur.

"You're just leaving me here?" Harry asked jokingly.

"Yep" Tonks said.

"See you tomorrow" Fleur said.

"Right, Night" he replied

"Night Harry"

"Don't stay up to late"

He was alone. He got up and decided to go to bed early maybe he would be able to get up early tomorrow and say goodbye to Remus. But where was he going to sleep he wondered but then he decided that he was not the one that had made any mistake. Ron and Hermione would just have to deal with it after all, Fleur had never done any thing but to say that she loves him and it was not their business what kind of girls Harry fancied. Soon Harry was standing outside the door to his and Ron's room. He decided to knock he didn't want to walk in on them again.

"Yeah" Ron's voice sounded through the door. Harry opened the door and found Ron sitting alone for once in the chair.

"Oh, it's you" Ron said and turning down over the desk. Ron clearly didn't want to talk to him and Harry was certainly not going to push the matter. Harry changed into his pyjamas and crawled into his bed.

"How can you do this" Ron's voice asked him. Harry turned and looked up at him.

"Do what?" He asked.

"See Fleur when you know what she is" Ron said angrily.

Harry knew what Ron meant he wondered why Harry had given in to Fleur why he had stopped fighting.

"She says she loves me" Harry said trying to make Ron understand what it felt like for him.

"Well that is damn wonderful isn't it" Ron said sarcastically "Did you ever consider there might be other girls who might do that, someone who is crying in her room at this moment someone who says that she can't compete because she is just a little brat"

"I'm Sorry" Harry muttered.

"Ginny truly likes you, and you prefer Fleur's lies" Ron said sadly.

"I'm Sorry" He repeated.

"Can you imagine Ginny's reaction if she ever finds out that Fleur is lying to you and you knew it and still preferred Fleur instead of her?" Ron said silently in a very cool voice.

Harry didn't reply. He didn't know what to say. He had never in any way encouraged Ginny's crush on him and now Ron was blaming him for not loving his sister. Still he felt very guilty he could have been a lot nicer to Ginny.

"You know what I think she might kill her self" Ron said dangerously.

"I'm sorry" Was all Harry could think of to say.

Ron looked at Harry in a disgusted way, turned around and walked out of the room. Harry seriously doubted that Ron would ever forgive him for this. He felt very sorry for Ginny, he knew how it was like to be heartbroken. For a few moments he had decided that he would give up Fleur for Ginny just to make Ginny happy but then he realized that by doing so he would not only make himself unhappy but maybe Fleur too. Besides, he doubted that any girl would like to be with a boy just because the boy felt sorry for the girl. He fell asleep a few moments later emotionally exhausted.

"Stupid damn Bloody Hell!"

Harry opened his eyes. The morning sun brightly illuminated the room. Tonks was laying flat down on the floor next to his bed.

"Whassup" He asked her.

"Harry I need to talk to you" She said as she gingerly stood up.

"I'm listening" He said but caught himself drifting off to sleep again.

"You better sit up" Tonks said as she grabbed his hands and pulled him into a sitting position. Harry could now see that Ron wasn't in his bed in fact it looked as he never had slept in it.

"Harry Remus just woke me up and told me that there is a chance that Fleur is using you"

"Yeah" Harry said.

"But why are you with her if you suspect that she is using you" Tonks asked him.

"I love her too much for my own good" He said trying to make sound like a joke.

"You really love her?"

"Yeah"

"Harry you do realize that she might be dangerous"

"Yeah"

"And even if she isn't she already have a boyfriend"

"Yeah"

"Harry are you awake?"

"Yeah"

"Has she done any thing to you?"

"Yeah… I kissed her once and she kissed me back" He said too tired to really think.

"Only one kiss?" She asked him disbelievingly.

"Yeah"

"Why have you only kissed once if you love each other?" Tonks said raising an eyebrow.

"I didn't enjoy it all that much" He said truthfully.

"Why she's gorgeous and she loves you" She said in disbelief. "I thought every thing boys of your age wished for was someone like Fleur"

"It is" Harry said he couldn't understand why he didn't enjoy it.

"Can I ask you a question?" She asked, it was very much unlike Tonks to be this subtle.

"Yeah" He said.

"Do you fancy boys?" She asked him carefully.

"No" Harry said firmly after a moment, he was sure of it but then why didn't I enjoy kissing Fleur he wondered.

"Are you really sure that it is Fleur you love?" She asked him.

"Yes" He replied this was getting annoying.

"Remus told me you can't be under the imperius, but do you mind if I make sure?" Tonks asked him.

"No" He replied, he couldn't blame her he would have been suspicious too.

"Right… IMPERIO" Tonks said loudly. It was wonderful all his love troubles were gone, the guilt he felt about Ginny and Bill was also gone but he didn't realize any of this he just felt so free and relaxed.

"Harry get out of bed" He heard a distant whisper inside his head.

"Never I'm too tired" said a very strong voice in the back of his head.

"Just get out of bed" The distant whisper pleaded.

"I won't" The voice in the back of his head roared and threw the curse off.

"Harry, get out of bed!" Tonks urged him.

"No way, maybe if you asked me to get back to bed instead I wouldn't have bothered to throw it off" He said with a grin.

"You threw it off then?" She asked him.

"No, I just got out of bed didn't you notice?" He teased.

"Oh shut your face" Tonks said in mock anger.

"Maybe if you put the imperius on me" He joked.

Tonks didn't reply she was thinking deeply.

"Well, I guess we just have to trust Fleur then" Tonks stated.

"Why?" Harry asked him.

"Because she really is Fleur, she takes no polyjuice potion and she is not under the imperius curse" Tonks said and then added "And I don't think you would be able to love her if she was evil"

Harry didn't like this at all he didn't want the Order to rely on him like this. He didn't want to be responsible if anything happened.

"Well she is too good to be true isn't she?" Harry asked her angrily.

"No, Harry I know you. You are at least as too good to be true as she is" Tonks replied. Harry didn't reply he knew that Tonks was trying to cheer him up but it didn't help. There was no way he could compare with Fleur.

"And if she really was to good to be true. She would have done stuff to you that boys of your age like to dream of" Tonks said and smiled.

"Let me win in Quidditch?" Harry joked feebly; he didn't like the subject at all.

Tonks smiled at him "Harry I got to go now, I've got to be on time today. They got this old bloke who they think is a death eater and I got to follow him around everywhere but he never goes anywhere interesting, honestly if he is a death eater…"

"See you later then?" He asked.

"Yeah, Bye" Tonks replied and left the room stumbling slightly on the doorstep.

Harry dressed and headed down for breakfast a few moments later. All in all, he felt much better now that Tonks had told him that Fleur was not under the imperius curse. However, if she really was as a spy then she was it of her own free will. She might be black mailed he though, but with what she had already lost her family. When he entered the kitchen, Fleur and Mrs Weasley were already there.

"Morning" He said when he entered.

"Morning Harry" Fleur replied.

"Morning" Mrs Weasley replied very coldly. Harry was a bit surprised by this Mrs Weasley always was very nice and warm towards him. He sat down next to Fleur and started to eat some toast. Mrs Weasley didn't say anything she just looked at him and Fleur coldly. He wondered what he might have done to upset Mrs Weasley like this and then it struck him she had been talking to Ginny and Ginny had told her that Harry have stolen Fleur from Bill. He looked down on his toast, he couldn't face Mrs Weasley. Why was he to be punished like this for loving Fleur he wondered bitterly. He finished breakfast and left with Fleur quickly he didn't want to meet Ron and Hermione if he could help it.

Harry spent the day with Fleur avoiding everyone as much as possible, which was made easy since everyone avoided them even Mrs Weasley.

"It is settled" Mr Weasley told him during dinner he was the only one that wasn't cool towards him "Harry you have been asked to attend the Wizard high court as a witness of Dolores Umbridge's misuse of power 10:30 at august the 23rd. I expect they'll send you an owl any day now informing you"

"Oh, we got a good chance then?" Harry asked him, he was very happy to take attention from his love life.

"Yes, I recon we do. Dumbledore himself will bring you, he is the one behind it all" Mr Weasley said "Dumbledore has even arranged it so that the very same afternoon the Wizengamot will test the werewolf laws, hopefully then most of the Wizengamot will be convinced that Umbridge was not impartial and fair when she wrote those laws"

"Oh, do I need to do anything?" Harry asked him, he wasn't really sure how the wizard justice system worked.

"Just tell them what happened they will want to see your scar but that should be all" Mr Weasley replied.

The dinner continued in silence after that. Mrs Weasley looked at him with a slightly softer expression, though she still glared at Fleur. Tonks arrived later that evening exhausted, she went to bed almost at once and Fleur followed her leaving Harry alone. Harry went to bed and noticed that Ron wasn't in their room. The following day progressed in pretty much the same way.

He and Fleur decided that they should cremate Hedwig and when Harry returned to Hogwarts, he would spread the ashes from the astronomy tower. Fleur conjured a very nice urn for the ashes and burned Hedwig with magic. It was all very sad; he didn't think he could have gone trough with it if Fleur hadn't been there for him. Ron and Hermione continued to ignore him and Ginny wouldn't leave her room. Mrs Weasley however seemed to forgive him after a few days and let him help prepare dinner. Tonks arrived late again and went to bed together with Fleur almost at once, Harry decided to go to bed too. Ron was not in the room today either, but Harry didn't care if he was going to be thick headed that was his problem.

Harry lay staring up in the ceiling, he felt lost without his best friends. He didn't really know what to do, he didn't want them to hate him and he didn't want Ginny to be sad. The following morning Harry's mood improved, Ginny turned up for breakfast as usual but didn't bother to hid the fact that she was hurt and had been crying. Harry didn't sit too close to Fleur not to make matters worse. After breakfast, Harry and Fleur stalked off to the drawing room where they usually spent most of their time.

"It's just odd she had a boyfriend and seemed to have forgotten me and now…" Harry sighed.

"Well she is a teenage girl" Fleur stated "Some got it worse then other"

"What?" Harry asked.

"Hormones" Fleur explained shortly.

"Oh Harry I forgot to tell you" Fleur exclaimed suddenly "They are making me an official order member the 23rd when you and Dumbledore get back from the ministry"

"That's great Fleur"

"Yeah, then maybe I will be able to actually do something. I think Bill made them take me in early because he didn't want me to be alone" Fleur told him and sighed.

"He didn't want you to be alone, I though you two saw each other frequently?" Harry asked.

"Well he didn't want me to be alone at all" Fleur said hesitantly "He kind of… well… I was really sad there for a while"

Harry froze "You didn't actually try anything did you?"

"Oh no of course not" Fleur said quickly "He just… well I told him I was considering ending it… and he kind of found some pretty strong potions ingredients in my apartment. Don't look like that Harry I didn't do anything and I won't do anything I am not that sad anymore"

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I know some things in this chapter might suggest that Tonks and Fleur have sex, and that is not a bad idea (they would make a nice couple!) but they don't. Fleur just really wants Tonks as a friend and is unsure how to behave since she doesn't have much experience with friends. There is no slash at all in this fic.

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