First Day Back
Tonk's woke early. She had cast a charm that would wake her at ten to 5 so that they would be ready to start their training session at 5. She quickly dressed and then moved over to wake Hermione. "Wotcher Mione" Hermione rolled over making Tonk's voice a part of the dream that she was having. Tonk's tried again, this time poking her as she called "Morning Mione" Hermione groaned and rolled over and looked at Tonk's. "Down in the common room in 5 minutes. I will go and wake the boys." Tonks left not waiting for a reply. To tell the honest truth Tonk's was dead tired too and she wished desperately that they could all stay in bed for the next 2 hours but she had her orders and follow them she must. As she walked the stairs to Ron and Harry's room she wondered what exactly she might find. When she was at school there were constant rumours that the boys liked to entertain themselves late into the night, or if they were particularly shy very early in the morning. However when she arrived all she saw were three sleeping boys and a closed off area that belonged to Ron and Harry. She made her way over to the curtain, opened it and stepped in and made her way over to Harry. "Harry, time to get up." Harry who was a light sleeper immediately rolled over to see Tonk's smiling face. She turned away and went over to Ron. Having already woken the trio for some of their runs at Dumbledore's she knew that no amount of talking or prodding would wake him. She promptly cast a silencing spell on Ron and then rolled him out of bed. Ron sat up swearing and shouting and lucky for his roommates his ranting and raving had been silenced. She quickly ended the spell and told the boys they had 5 minutes and Tonk's made her way down to the common room. Ten minutes later and all three of the kids had emerged though it wasn't a pretty sight.
The four of them made their way down the stairs until they reached the 3rd floor and made there way to their office. Viktor stood waiting for them at the office door. He looked just as he normally did and Ron asked him in an accusatory tone "Why do you look so bloody good and happy?" Viktor smiled at them, remembering when he first started to rise at this time and spoke in a flat voice "I have been getting up at 5 for training since I made the Bulgaria team. I have got used to it." They all were happy at the response but they were too tired to reply. Tonk's however started leading the way back down the hall, to the stairs. "We're going for a quick run, nothing like over the summer and then we are going to train." She said this with a voice that didn't encourage discussion which the Trio were more than grateful for. They made their way out onto the grounds and they were quickly joined by Ares for a run. When they finished their run Tonk's led them back up to the castle and up the stairs to the 3rd floor once again. She led them past their office and a door seemed to magically appear. She stopped just outside and looked at the now more alert group "This is where the DA will meet and where your lessons will be held with me in the mornings. The door only appears for those members of the order that are at Hogwart's and the three of you. Now come on." They walked through the door and they were all surprised to see just how big the room was. It was about 3 times the size of a normal classroom and its floors were sort of bouncy so that spells such as expelliarmus would not hurt when people landed on their bottoms. The trio looked around the room amazed. Off to the side was a magical workout room and there were two smaller rooms that could be used for private tutoring if needed. Tonk's quickly put a stop to their exploring and commenced their session. Harry and Viktor partnered up as did Ron and Hermione. The session seemed to fly by as they were only doing a revision session as they were all tired. When quarter to eight came Tonk's ended the session and they all hurried off to get ready for school.
Hermione and Tonk's waited patiently down in the common room for the boys to finish getting ready but Tonks soon got bored. "Mione can I change your hair?" Hermione had found she actually enjoyed Tonks changing her hair when they were on holidays and happily agreed and by the time the boys appeared Hermione had straight blonde hair. Being boys, neither Harry or Ron noticed that she had changed her hair until Lavender made her way down the stairs "Hermione is that you?" Hermione nodded, suddenly feeling embarrassed when all of the eyes in the common room were on her "You look great, who are you trying to impress. Its Viktor isn't it. He has come back to Hogwart's and you are trying to get his attention again aren't you." Hermione knew that she had to make Lavender shut up, Ron was still insecure about their relationship and it wouldn't help Viktor's cause very much if rumours were started among the general student population that he was having an affair with a student. However it was Tonk's that spoke up. "Hi, I'm Tina and I have a feeling Krum isn't the one that Hermione is trying to impress." Lavender turned on her heels and walked away without saying a word. The four of them looked at each other confused momentarily and then burst out laughing and then they headed down to breakfast.
As they headed into the Great Hall all conversation ceased. They were all looking intensely at the new arrivals, some even pointed. None of the group knew what was going on but when they looked up to the staff table they saw scowls on most of the teachers face and Dumbledore's eyes weren't twinkling. Harry held his head high as he walked down to their end of the table whilst Hermione and Ron followed behind with their heads sort of bowed. Tonk's looked around as if looking for an empty seat then made her way down to where the Trio was sitting, what she saw disappointed her. Sitting before Hermione was a copy of the Daily Prophet, A picture of Hermione, Ron and Harry looked up at her and the headline read "The Terrific Trio Have Done It Again". Tonk's grabbed the paper and started to skim the article. The article was filled with half truths about yesterdays attack. Luckily Ron's diviner talent wasn't mentioned and neither was her own part or those of Viktor, Ginny, McGonagall and Snape. However that also caused a problem as it portrayed the Trio as the sole heroes of the day. At the bottom of the page readers were asked to turn over for more news. The second page was even worse than the first. A different picture was present with the three of them present. "Terrific Trio to Receive Order of Merlin 1st Class" was the headline. The articles went on for several pages. One of the more interesting ones was on the development of Viktor Krum as a Hogwart's Professor and what it would do to Harry and Hermione's relationship. Another article was on whether the Trio should be allowed to graduate Hogwart's and become Aurors immediately. Kingsley and Moody were quoted in this article saying that they were only children but the article managed to manipulate their quotes. A self updating poll accompanied the article on the public's thoughts on the subject. It seemed like the public desperately wanted the Trio out protecting them as 98% of the people that had written in believing they should leave Hogwarts. Perhaps the most disturbing thing in the paper was a new column called Trio Talk where Hogwart's students were being asked to write into the paper and report what the Trio was doing. That days article gave a very long and detailed account of their experience on the train platform. McGonagall interrupted her reading when she made her way towards the group handing out timetables. "The headmaster wishes to see you 4 before your first lesson." They all nodded, barely glancing at their timetables, quickly finished their breakfast and made their way to Dumbledore's office.
When they reached Dumbledore's office they knocked and he called for them to enter. They were surprised to see Viktor waiting for them in the office as well. "Sit down" Dumbledore instructed "We seem to have a problem. It seems that Percy decided to inform Fudge last night about what happened yesterday. But we have more pressing matters, 'Trio Talk' could cause some problems for the 3 of you by providing Voldemort with details on your lives. I promise that I will do my best to try and stop it." The trio looked confused, they had refused to read what was written about them. "Excuse me Professor, but what is Trio talk?" Hermione asked timidly. Dumbledore was a bit disappointed at her tone of voice but continued on anyway "The Daily Prophet has decided to write a column called Trio talk where Hogwart's students have been encouraged to write in about you three." Ron was becoming increasingly frustrated and gave Dumbledore a piercing look "What is going on? Why is everybody looking at us all of the time?" Dumbledore looked saddened "Fudge has decided that you three should be portrayed as heroes for the Wizarding World. All through the summer they have been writing about the three of you." Hermione and Ron looked taken aback but Harry just asked calmly "Why Ron and Hermione, why not just me?" Dumbledore's expression remained neutral "I do not know. Now I believe it is time for your first class, potions isn't it? I am sure Professor Snape is waiting for you. I'm sure I'll see you soon. Cheerio." The four of them nodded their goodbyes and left the office.
They stood outside Dumbledore's office for 5 minutes discussing their predicament. It was hard enough existing in the school when only Harry was famous but with the three of them famous things were bound to be worse. Just as they were about to leave for class McGonagall approached them. "Miss Granger I believe this is for you?" Hermione looked down at the several pages of parchment that McGonagall had passed to her and gasped in surprise. The parchments that she had handed to her were meant to be the questions about the DA. There were some questions regarding the subject matter but the majority of questions seemed to be about the trio. Hermione nodded dumbly, a first for her and started reading some of the questions out "What is Ron's shoe size? Does Harry have a secret fetish? Who am I going out with, is it Viktor or Harry?" The three of them couldn't believe it but the adults could. They had all worked so hard at shielding the three of them over the summer but they couldn't completely protect them now that they were back at Hogwart's. McGonagall's stern voice broke through their thoughts "You do not want to be late to your first class do you? I believe Professor Snape doesn't think too kindly on tardiness." They all got the message and left to make there way down to the potions classroom.
Viktor hurried ahead as he thought it may have been unprofessional walking into the classroom with the group. They entered the classroom just as the bell rang but Snape was already waiting for them "Oh look the dream team has arrived, oh and you have a new friend. What dark lord is she going to help you bring down?" The 4 of them didn't reply just quickly and quietly found their seats. Over the summer they had come to respect old Snape, they didn't like him but he didn't like them either and they knew he terrorised them so much to keep up appearances. When Professor Snape had instructed them to start brewing the rather advanced Dreamless sleep potion they took the opportunity to look around. They were shocked to see that Neville had made it into the class. They were also surprised that not one Hufflepuff was present. What wasn't surprising was that the whole of Ravenclaw house was present along with a rather large contingent of Slytherin students that most probably did not achieve the outstanding OWL that Snape required for the class. For a change Snape didn't bother to leave his desk to terrorise the students instead he let Viktor do it. As Viktor approached Hermione and Ron's area she hissed quietly "Go and help Neville, he has made a few major mistakes" Viktor nodded knowing that Hermione's potion and by default Ron's would be perfect. He also wasn't worried about Harry's and Tonk's as Tonks had already passed both 6th and 7th year potions to become an auror. Even though Snape had not terrorised them too much they were all pleased to hear the bell go.
The rest of the morning passed peacefully except for a small incident in Charms when no one would let Tonk's sit next to them. In the end Hermione ended up giving her seat up with Harry and Ron and moving over to sit with Lavender and Parvati. Lunch was another tense affair with everybody staring at them again but staying at lunch with the constant staring seemed much better than going to the double lesson that awaited them. A double lesson with Percy was the last thing the trio wanted on their first day back but they were resigned to the fact that the lesson was going to come whether they wanted it to come or not. They decided to leave lunch early so that they could get seats in the back row. When the bell went and the rest of the class had entered and found their seats Percy started. "Good afternoon. My name is Professor Weasley and I am the ministry official assigned to Hogwart's I will also be teaching you Defence Against the Dark Arts." When Percy had said his name it had magically appeared on the board behind him. However seeing an opportunity to embarrass Percy, Ron discreetly waved his wand under the desk and Weasley became Weatherby. Harry smirked and Hermione kicked Ron under the table but she had a smile on her face. Percy was still talking about himself and what he was planning on doing for the rest of the year when Seamus raised his hand. Percy looked pleased and called on him. Seamus looked a bit scared but boldly asked him "Excuse me sir," Percy's smile widened at being addressed as Sir so Seamus continued "But did you say your name was Weasley or Weatherby?" Laughter rang out throughout the classroom and Percy turned a bright red colour and glared at Ron. He took a few deep breaths and said in a clear and calm voice. "It's Weasley as you well know. I was headboy here at Hogwart's in your 3rd year and I look very much like all of the other Weasley's that you know. Now as I was saying we are going to be studying the art of duelling at the start of term and then move onto other things. However I think today's lesson would be best served by watching a duel. Any volunteers?" Everybody kept their heads low except for Tonk's and the trio. Tonk's even had her hand up in the air but she was pointedly ignored. Percy smirked and then said aloud "Very well Mr Weasley if you insist."
All eyes turned towards Ron who was looking extremely pale. Harry and Hermione shared a knowing look. Ron wasn't paled because he was scared, he was incredibly angry. Ron stood up and made his way to the front of the classroom. There was only a very limited amount of space for duelling but Ron thought that it would be adequate. Percy had been talking to the rest of the class as Ron made his way to the front. He had reached the front of the classroom and turned towards Percy. For the first time that day Percy was scared, Ron's eyes had focused on him and he could read the anger in them. Percy told the class how it was going to go and turned to face Ron. Percy bowed and Ron slightly lowered his head and took up a duelling stance. Percy was the first to cast a spell, "Expelliarmus" he called, Ron easily dodged it and sent a very minor pain spell back at him but quickly removed it when Percy didn't look like he knew how to do so himself. He waited for Percy's next spell but as it was only NEWT level he deflected it right back at him. Ron was boring of the duel and he felt that he had embarrassed Percy enough so he quickly confounded him and then disarmed him. Ron walked over to Percy and helped him up and quickly removed the confundus spell before walking back to his seat. The class sat there with their mouths hanging open. They had never seen Ron act so confidently and it didn't look like he was trying in the duel. Malfoy and his goons were shocked but Malfoy shouted out anyway "Nice one Weasley, getting your brothers help to look good." Harry, Hermione and Ron all glared at Malfoy and then turned to Percy expecting him to at least tell him off but Percy seemed to shocked himself to answer. The rest of the class was spent on theory, Harry and Ron passed notes, Hermione listened expectantly and Tonk's studied the people in the class, some auror habits die hard. When the bell rang Percy dismissed them but asked Ron to stay behind. Hermione, Harry and Tonk's glanced at Ron but he shook his head letting them know that he would be okay.
Ron stayed in his seat as everyone left and Percy made his way towards his seat. Percy pulled a chair out and sat facing him but didn't say anything. Ron decided to open the conversation "What do you want Percy?" Percy looked at him surprised at how much his youngest brother had grown up. "I don't really know?" This answer exasperated Ron and his anger at his brother over the last year boiled over "Do you know what you have done to Mum, to our family. You didn't even visit when Dad was attacked last year. And what about yesterday, selling us all out to Fudge. You don't know anything Perce, you don't know we have all been through and how you are only making things worse. It's time for you to be a man, admit your mistakes and work towards fixing them." Ron got up and left leaving Percy to think about what Ron said. Percy didn't move for an hour after that and then he slowly got up and made his way to Dumbledore's office.
When Ron stepped out of the classroom he was surprised to see Tonks, Hermione and Harry waiting for him "Why'd you wait for me? I told you to go." Tonk's smiled at him "Couldn't leave you by yourself could I. What do you want to do now?" Nobody answered so Tonk's used her initiative and guided them to their rooms. Viktor was waiting for them when they got there "How was school?" he asked as they walked in and noticing the solemn looks on their face he decided it wasn't too good. Tonk's answered for them. "It wasn't too bad but the student population hates me and we just came from Defence where Percy tried to embarrass Ron" To Viktor this explained a lot "Do you have much homework?" They all shook their heads and Viktor got a smile on his face. "Hey Tonk's do you mind if I take the boys out and go flying?" Tonk's considered the request and decided that it seemed alright as Viktor was an order member and had been training with the Trio since Harry's birthday. Tonk's nodded her head and explained that she and Hermione would be down in the office when they returned. Viktor gathered his Firebolt and two of his spares as well as a box of snitches from his room to save time and handed the brooms to the waiting boys "Are you ready?" They both nodded not bothering about changing out of their school robes and they shouted their goodbyes to the girls.
When Harry, Ron and Viktor reached the quidditch pitch they were happy to see that it was empty. Viktor looked at the two boys who were accompanying him and spoke "I will release all of the snitches and then we go snitch hunting. You'll have to join us Ron as there isn't anyone to practise keeping with." Ron nodded knowing that Viktor was right but still dreading the coming session with 2 of the best seekers he had ever seen on a broom. They all mounted their brooms and Viktor released the 10 snitches from the box. It wasn't long before Viktor had caught one of the snitches but he had spent a lot of time talking to Harry about seeking techniques. After about an hour 5 of the snitches had been successfully caught. Viktor had caught 4 of them and the other by Harry. A large crowd had also gathered and one or two Slytherin's had started singing Weasley is our King. In a shocking turn of events it was Ron who managed to catch the next snitch which successfully silenced the singing Slytherins. Harry managed to catch the next snitch and after another hour Viktor managed to catch the last remaining snitches. On the way back to the offices Viktor bravely broached the topic of the song. "Ron, what were they singing?" Ron promptly turned red from embarrassment and started in on his story. "As you know I joined the Gryffindor quidditch team last year, I'm not a bad keeper but I had a small problem, I have performance anxiety problems." Viktor couldn't believe it, it certainly didn't fit with the Ron he knew so he laughed thinking it was a joke. It wasn't until Harry elbowed him hard in the ribs did he realise that Ron was telling the truth. He went to apologise but Ron didn't want to hear it, instead he continued with his story "I was so used to being invisible Ron that I couldn't stand the thought of everyone watching me just waiting for me to stuff up. Needless to say my performance sucked and so the song Weasley is our King was made." Now Viktor felt really bad for laughing but he couldn't take it back so he wracked his brain for some inspiring words that he had once heard but he couldn't remember it exactly so he decided to try and get back into Ron's good books another way. "That's not what I heard. I heard from your brothers that you won the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor." Ron smiled remembering the memory but didn't say anything.
While the boys were out practising the girls were working their way through the D.A. questions. It was quite a fun task as they took great joy in laughing at the stupid questions that they had been asked. When they finished answering the questions Hermione made 5 copies of the answers, one each for the common rooms and one to stick on their doors. Hermione then started doing some reading for Arithmancy while she waited for the boys to return. When the boys finally returned they still had an hour before tea so Hermione went over some details about the DA club and then convinced them to go and see McGonagall. They said their goodbyes to Viktor who had decided to go and do a workout and made their way to McGonagall's office. They knocked once and they were promptly called in. Professor McGonagall smiled at them all from behind her desk and asked with a slight hint of teasing in her voice "How was your first day Nymphadora?" Tonk's scowled at the woman for a second before breaking into a smile "Just perfect Minerva. Severus on my first day back, I had to watch Percy embarrass himself in front of his entire class and to top it all off everybody hates me." McGonagall considered what Tonk's had said "Tonk's they're jealous of you. From what I have heard over the years nearly everyone wants to be part of the Trio and then you come and are immediately part of the group."
Harry, Hermione and Ron all shared looks that suggested that McGonagall was off her rocker and Harry spoke up "I don't think you're right Professor. 1st year everyone was jealous because I was on the quidditch team, 2nd year they hated me because I was a parslemouth, 3rd year everyone was scared to come near me as I had Sirius chasing after me, 4th year I was the attention seeking cheater in the Triwizard Tournament and we all know what happened last year and it wasn't pretty." Harry said this bitterly and McGonagall thought about not answering but then thought better of it. "Be that as it may, I think nearly everyone has been jealous that all of you got to go off and break nearly every school rule in existence" Harry had a scowl on his face while he thought that it was hardly anything to be jealous about but he didn't say anything.
Hermione sensing that that part of the conversation broached the topic of why she had come to see her "I was wondering Professor McGonagall have you managed to organise anything about Ancient Runes?" McGonagall looked at the young girl in front of her and nodded. "Yes I have Hermione but do you think that it is wise to take on another subject. You do remember your 3rd year don't you?" Hermione nodded and then opened her mouth to say something but McGonagall cut in before her "You don't have a time turner this year and you already have so much on your plate." Hermione decided that it was time to justify her decision "I can do the work while the boys are at Quidditch training. I would have decided to take ancient runes if it wasn't necessary to have a guard but I refuse to let this stupid war ruin my chances of getting into a job in the future." They all looked at Hermione with something of admiration on their faces but Harry was the one that spoke up "You don't know what you want to do when you leave Hogwarts Hermione." Hermione nodded and then went on to explain "And that is precisely why I need to continue to do Ancient Runes, I don't know if I'll need it in the future." Harry knew that they couldn't argue with that sort of logic so he kept quiet allowing McGonagall to finish the conversation "The assigned reading and exercises will be delivered to you at breakfast every Monday and all of your work will be due the following Monday, any queries are to be sent by owl and they will be replied to as soon as possible. Now unlike the DA club all of your other lessons are to be commenced this week. I believe that you Ron have a session with Firenze tonight?" Ron nodded and then McGonagall informed them that it was time for tea.
Tea turned out to be a low key affair as the group tried their best to eat as quickly as possible. As soon as they had exited the room Dumbledore stood up to make another announcement. "Your attention please, as I am sure that you already are aware of the Daily Prophet's urging for you to inform them of Mr Weasley's, Miss Granger's and Mr Potter's activities but I am standing here before you asking you to respect their privacy. They are students like yourself for the most part and I am sure that most of you would not want the world knowing what you got up to everyday." Ginny looked at the headmaster thinking that he didn't really know Ron but quickly turned back to her conversation.
Back in the common room Harry was putting up the Quidditch notice announcing that trials would be held the next week on Tuesday from 5 until 8 while Hermione and Ron talked quietly together by the fire. Ron was actually dreading the private lessons that Dumbledore had arranged for Ron to help him with his diviner ability. If Ron was completely honest with himself he was a little scared about what he would discover as most of his visions he had received turned out to be traumatic as they were generally about the war. As 9 o'clock approached the common room had well and truly filled up and Tonk's excused herself from talking to Ginny and walked over to Ron, Harry and Hermione "You guys going to come while I drop Ron off or are you going to wait here?"
Hermione was in two minds she was already missing spending quality time with Ron but she also wanted to have some alone time with Harry, Harry answered for her "We'll stay here. Promise." Tonk's nodded and Ron said goodbye to the other two as they left the common room. Harry looked around and noticing that no one was in ear shot leaned a bit closer to Hermione "It's weird isn't it?" Hermione feigned a limited understanding "What's weird Harry?" Harry knew that she was in denial about the sudden turns in their lives but he decided that she should face it "Everything. You know what I'm talking about Hermione. The articles, everyone watching us, Tonk's, Dumbledore and McGonagall." Hermione hesitantly opened her mouth "I think Tonk's knew this was going to happen. She said something about it when we were on holidays together." Harry chose not to comment on that statement but abruptly changed topics "Are you sure that you want to do Ancient Rune's" Hermione looked at Harry sadly "No. Not really. I feel like I don't know anything at the moment. I know I want this all to end but I think that I want to keep doing Ancient Runes I really enjoy the subject. I most probably would have quit Care of Magical Creatures if it was up to me but they thought it was best that I kept going with it. I guess they're right and I'll get to see Hagrid because I bet that we won't get much time to go and visit him this year."
Harry nodded thinking that Tonk's was probably going to be back soon. "Did you take a look at the sign up sheet for the D.A. It's going to be much more work than we planned." Hermione nodded she hadn't expected the whole house to sign up. When Tonk's entered a minute later Harry informed them all that he was going to bed. It had been a long day. Hermione secretly wanted to go to bed too and Tonk's could tell "Mione why don't you go up to bed too, Ron won't be back for another hour and I am sure he won't mind if you go to bed." Hermione nodded "You're right Tina, I'll see you tomorrow." Hermione got up and said goodnight to random people as she made her way to her room where she immediately fell asleep.
Tonk's took Hermione's empty chair as she sat up waiting to retrieve Ron and she was quite surprised when all of the 6th years excluding Neville and 7th year students surrounded her. One of the 7th year students who was obviously was the leader of the group stepped forward "Who do you think you are? We have been trying to be friends with the Trio for the past 5 years and then you walk in and suddenly you're all friendly with them." Tonk's wanted to laugh but knew that she shouldn't. There was no way in hell that the group was going to do anything more than just warn her a little bit and she didn't want to make them any angrier so she just sat there.
Suddenly Ginny approached. She had been watching the group curiously but decided to intervene once she saw what they were doing to her. "You call yourselves Gryffindor's. Tina is a new student and if I am sure of one thing. Harry, Hermione and Ron would not be happy if they found out about this. Leave them alone and leave Tina alone or you will have to deal with me." The group dispersed and Ginny took Harry's vacant chair. "I thought you would have stood up for yourself Tina?" Tonk's looked at Ginny. Ginny knew part of the reason why Tonk's was here. Ginny had been told it was to guard Harry so she knew that she had to be friends with the Trio. "I would have but I was too busy trying not to laugh. I don't know what they thought they would do to me but I doubt it would have hurt me." Ginny and Tonk's both laughed and Tonk's continued on "What's the deal with this boyfriend of yours?"
Ginny's smile vanished "His names Dean Thomas, which I am sure you already know. Started dating him just before school let out and then he spent the summer hounding me about being allowed to visit. I don't know something's different about him this year." Tonk's considered what Ginny had just told her and started to worry. It was unlikely that Dean would have been involved with death eaters or the sort but that didn't mean that he still couldn't cause trouble. Tonk's decided that she better warn Ginny about her thoughts and so when it was time to go and get Ron she invited Ginny with her. "Ginny" Tonk's said carefully "I've known you awhile now right" Ginny nodded wondering if this is what an older sister talk would go as opposed to the older brother talks she got. "And I have gotten to care for you; can I give you some advice?" Ginny once again nodded, Tonk's could give her advice, it didn't mean she had to take it. "I have a bad feeling about Dean. I think he could cause trouble." Ginny looked taken aback, she was used to her irrational brothers ranting on about her boyfriends but she didn't really expect Tonk's to interfere unless she knew something that she didn't. "Are you saying that with you know as an auror or an over protective big sister." Tonk's knew from previous talks with Ginny that she sometimes found it hard with 6 older brothers and so she wouldn't have said anything unless she had a pretty good feeling so she answered carefully "I don't think he is in with the death eaters or anything like that but I do have some very bad feelings about him." By that time they had reached the class where Ron was and so the conversation was over.
When Ron finally appeared out of the classroom ten minutes later he looked horrible. Tonk's took one look at him and marched him straight to the hospital wing shouting to Ginny that she would see her back in the common room. Ron fought Tonk's the whole way to the hospital wing "For crying out loud Tonk's I only have a headache. I don't need to go" and he nearly had her convinced until Ares chose to intervene. "You will go to the hospital wing. I'll make sure of it." The moment Ares voice started Ron stopped walking, pressed his palms to the side of his head and tried his best not to call out in pain. Unfortunately for Ron Tonk's had picked up on his new pain and continued on her march towards the hospital wing. Surprisingly Madam Pomphrey was expecting them, apparently whenever a new seer or a diviner started their training they received head splitting headaches. She handed him a potion and informed him that he was able to leave. The potion that she had given had done wonders for his headache and he was able to talk to Ares. "That wasn't nice Ares, you are lucky that you can find your own food now otherwise you would have gone hungry for a week." Ares chose not to reply leaving Ron to talk to Tonks. "So, how'd it go?" Tonk's asked him. Ron shrugged his shoulders and then decided that it was best to elaborate. "I can pretty well get visions from the past if I am asked to or given a prompt. Like I could probably tell you all about your 1st day of 6th year." Tonk's looked impressed, she knew that most diviners had only a small amount of talent. Ron as if reading her mind interrupted her thoughts "Don't worry, I'm not special or anything the brains strengthened my talent, that's all." Tonk's nodded and they soon found themselves back in the common room where Tonk's informed him that the others had gone off to bed. Ron nodded and he too found himself heading off to bed. Tonk's waited another hour before heading off to Dumbledore's office for a report on their first day back.
