Harry sat cross-legged on his bed fidgeting with his quill, stroking the soft white feather gently across his cheek. He stared down at the parchment in his lap and bit his lip, deep in thought. Sitting next to him was Ron paging through an owl order Quidditch supply catalog. Occasionally he would point out a broom or new style of Quidditch robes. Ginny was across the room sprawled out on Ron's bed, mindlessly picking at the lint balls stuck to the comforter while she pretended to listen to her brother. Except for Ron's occasional comments they remained in silence until Harry asked, "So who should I invite to my party? I just don't know where to begin."
Ginny looked up quickly, forgetting the lint balls that had kept her so entertained. "Why not just invite the entire D.A.?"
Harry contemplated this for a short moment. "That's a good idea, but I think that Tonks' flat would be to small."
Ron and Ginny nodded and Ron spoke up, "Who do we want there for sure?"
Harry thought for a moment and began to write as he spoke. "Well, Hermione of course. Fred and George, the Gryffindors in our year..."
Ron thought for a moment. "What about the Gryffindor Quidditch team and past members? So that would be Alicia, Katie, and Angelina."
Harry wrote their names down and his eyes lit up. "Oliver Wood! I doubt he can come with his busy training schedule, but it would be fun if he could!" Harry thought for a few moments and looked over to Ginny. "Anyone you want to invite?"
"Well, umm, Luna would be nice," she said.
Harry glanced over to Ron with a smirk that would rival Draco Malfoy's best. "Any new boyfriends you would like us to invite?"
Ron's head turned to stare at Ginny in interest. Ginny lightly blushed and said, "Well, I'm still with Dean so it's all good."
"So is he treating you better than Michael Corner?" Harry tried to be nonchalant, but it was hard to hide his amusement at Ron's protectiveness over Ginny.
Ginny had a hint of what Harry was doing and decided to play along. "Oh yes, he treats me wonderfully. He is also a much better kisser than Michael ever was."
Ron's eyes bulged. "You've kissed him! On the lips?"
"No Ron, I kissed his big toe. Yes, I kissed him on the lips, and I must add, he is quite talented with his tongue!"
Ron's jaw dropped and he turned to Harry in amazement. "Can you believe it?! She's too young for that!"
Harry chuckled, "Ron you're just jealous that your little sister is getting more action than you are."
Ron's face turned to a shade of purple. He quickly got up from his place on the bed with Harry and stormed out of the room. Behind him Harry and Ginny burst into a fit of giggles. Harry grinned. "Thanks."
"For what?" Ginny asked.
"Playing along," Harry said.
"But I was telling the truth."
Harry shrugged, "Well as long as you're happy." Harry got up from his spot on the bed he quickly folded the parchment and stuck it in the pocket of his new pair of corduroys. He assumed Tonks would be around sometime today and he could give her the list. He went over to the desk and grabbed a transfiguration textbook and brought it back to his bed to read in comfort.
Ginny was now sitting on Ron's bed watching Harry with interest. She waited until he seemed buried into his studies until she spoke up. "Do you like Tonks?"
He looked up startled by her comment. "Well of course I do. She's super nice and she's helped me out a lot."
"No, that's not what I meant. I mean do you like her," Ginny prodded.
"Well I suspect I'm too young for her and I've just never really thought of her like that. I just have so much on my mind. It's hard to think about girls with everything else going on."
Ginny got up from Ron's bed and hugged Harry. "If you ever need anyone to talk to, I am here." With that she walked out of Harry and Ron's room leaving Harry wondering.
Tonks was pretty, he wouldn't deny that, but she would never like him. He wasn't anything special and considering he would probably die at the hands of Voldemort, now wasn't a good time to start dating. He pushed the thoughts of the Metamorphmagus out of his mind. Now just wasn't a good time to think about girls. He went back to his transfiguration textbook, burying his thoughts into transfiguration theories.
Two hours of study felt like more than enough for Harry. He wandered down the stairs into the drawing room. Ginny was curled up in front of the fire writing a letter and Tonks was sitting on the couch reading a muggle magazine. Fred and George, who had been discharged from St. Mungos earlier that day secluded themselves in a corner and were whispering earnestly to each other. "Probably plotting some new product or act of mischief," Harry thought with a grin. Ron and Dudley were sitting at a small table in front of a large bay window playing Wizards Chess. Harry's eyes widened by the sight. He stumbled over to the couch and sat next to Tonks.
Harry poked Tonks to get her attention and leaned towards her, whispering, "How long has that been going on?" nodding towards the chess players.
Tonks grinned and whispered back. "What, no hello? Just a request for gossip?"
"Erm, hi Tonks. Now back to Ron and Dudley." Harry kept his voice down so Ron and Dudley wouldn't hear him.
"Well, Ron was whining because he was bored. So Molly made him play chess with Dudley. He groaned and moaned but since they've started, there have been no complaints and I swear I heard laughter from the corner."
Harry snorted. "He must be easily amused."
"Harry!" Tonks laughed in disapproval.
Before Tonks could go on, Harry interrupted, "I know, I know. Be nice to Dudley, he's going through a lot of rough changes."
"That's not what I was going to say. I was going to tell you to keep your voice down so they can't hear you." A sly grin formed over Tonks' pink lips.
Harry found himself staring at those pink lips, remembering what Ginny had asked him earlier that day. Did he like Tonks? Well, she was cute. No, he took that back, she was hot. She was sitting next to him with spiky brown hair, loose fitting jeans that were cut low and hung on her hips, and a tight t-shirt that said, 'Quiet, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip.' She was like a big sister though, or at least what he assumed a big sister would be like. Well, except most big sisters wouldn't be considered this hot. He tried to mentally clear the thoughts from his head. Harry grinned at Tonks. "Well, Dudley should know what I think of him; and Ron, well Ron I think should know better."
"Poor Harry, his best friend choosing his cousin over him."
"No," argued Harry, "I choose studying over him."
Tonks laughed. "Little studious Harry. Your teachers are going to have heart attacks when you go back to school and you actually know what's going on."
Harry shrugged. "Hopefully Snape will be the first to go."
"Harry!" Tonks playfully smacked the back of Harry's head. "Snape is the greatest part of Hogwarts!"
Harry rolled his eyes. "Let me guess. Every girl's fantasy."
Tonks licked her lips and nodded. "What girl wouldn't want to tie him to her bed?"
"Most girls I have met are rather afraid of Snape."
Tonks smirked. "Well, they're no fun."
Before the odd conversation could go much further into the dark realm of tying Professor Snape to beds, Mrs. Weasley poked her head into the drawing room. "Tonks! I was hoping I could talk to you about Harry's party."
Tonks smiled up at Mrs. Weasley and quickly turned back to Harry. "Since we are on the topic of the party, do you have a guest list for me?" Harry dug into his back pocket and produced the crumpled piece of parchment. He handed it to Tonks, who turned her attention back to Mrs. Weasley. "What were you saying, Molly?"
"Well, I was thinking that since you'll have your hands full chaperoning this party maybe me and Arthur could help out and chaperone with you."
"Oh no, Molly, I couldn't possibly ask that of you." Tonks smirked and continued. "I'm sure I could get some extra help from the guests that are of legal age if you're that worried about my ability to handle all this." Tonks turned to the corner where the Weasley twins where hidden and hollered over to them. "Fred! George! You're invited to Harry's party! Want to be chaperones, too?"
The twins quickly whispered between each other and one hollered back, "What do we get out of the deal?"
"The chance to be a role model to younger and more impressionable people!"
The twins consulted again and replied, "Sure!"
Tonks grinned at the paling Mrs. Weasley in the doorway. "Since they were invited anyway, it will save you the extra work. Plus, I consider them very trustworthy."
A/N
I want to say thank you for reading this and I also want to ask for a little bit of help. I need gift ideas as to what other people would get Harry. People like the Weasley twins and Hermione are easy, but everyone else? That leaves me with a cute lost puppy look.
This really is in response to some of the reviews I have been getting. There aren't a lot of reviews that have made me go into this rant but enough to make me want to explain myself. I would also like to say I'm so sorry I haven't updated recently. I have been sucked into the world of reading fan fiction. This is a cruel, cruel very addicting world. I also had no clue how to start chapter 8. I believe I did about five or six starts. This chapter was something I really didn't want to write and it seems really bad to me. I just saw it as a chapter of necessity.
When I started writing this I had two goals of things I really wanted to change. One would be Harry's angst. This is something that JRK did that really bothered me. I really couldn't stand it. It's expected a person in Harry's place would have a rough time, but I don't think it would be taken that far. It also seemed very awkwardly written. (Sorry JKR *blows kisses* I really do love you) So I really wanted to eliminate this. This kind of makes Harry seem out of character, but as a fanfic author I am allowed to make a few changes. A second thing I wanted to change was Harry's hate of Snape. I personally love Snape so you'll see a lot of him in this story popping in or being mentioned. I really want to introduce the side of Snape that I love. He's this dark character that I believe in the end ill die to save Harry's ass. I was also told at one point that it seems weird that Harry hasn't forgiven Petunia for what she has done. I have to question how can you forgive someone who has made your life a living hell for so many years? Who has treated you so foul. I think that with time he might accept her a little bit more, but I think that forgiving something so huge is unlikely.
I have gotten a lot of comments on my Tonks. To those who don't like the Harry and Tonks age difference let me point out this. Harry is 16 and Tonks is about 22 or 23 so there's only a 6 or 7 year age difference. This really isn't that big of a thing. Let me point out JKR hinting at a Bill and Fluer relationship. Fluer is 18 or 19 and Bill is between 31-33, there is a huge gap there. I also read mainly Hermione/Snape fics so the age difference seems minimal to me. Also when I read OotP I saw that Tonks just seemed to have this fascination with Harry. She was there at the end with the people Harry loved most defending him against the Dursleys. That's just a huge hint to me. Now to the complaints Tonks is out of character. Yes, Tonks really isn't a klutz. I think the main reason for this is it's kind of hard to write and when you start without it it's hard to all of a sudden start adding it in there. Also, I really base Tonks after myself and subconsciously I don't want to admit to being that klutzy. I have also been told Tonks is to serious. The only time she has been serious is when she turned into Auror mode. I did kind of explain this in one chapter. When you are in situations like that you learn to detach. You can't be bubbly and funny when Voldie-Poo is attacking. I see Aurors are elite. They have a lot of control and take charge of situations. I think that the normal loose happy going attitude Tonks normally has would be a vulnerability in the field. So turning off the emotion and being hard is necessary for the position she is in, especially when people she cares about are at risk. I don't know if any of that made sense but it's my best explanation.
I also got yelled at for Dumbledore yelling at Mrs. Weasley. I don't understand why this is so unbelievable. By not alerting the Order Mrs. Weasley could have potentially gave the Death Eaters access to Grimmauld place and to Harry. Which would have basically ended the war there. Of course he is going to be mad.
Ginny looked up quickly, forgetting the lint balls that had kept her so entertained. "Why not just invite the entire D.A.?"
Harry contemplated this for a short moment. "That's a good idea, but I think that Tonks' flat would be to small."
Ron and Ginny nodded and Ron spoke up, "Who do we want there for sure?"
Harry thought for a moment and began to write as he spoke. "Well, Hermione of course. Fred and George, the Gryffindors in our year..."
Ron thought for a moment. "What about the Gryffindor Quidditch team and past members? So that would be Alicia, Katie, and Angelina."
Harry wrote their names down and his eyes lit up. "Oliver Wood! I doubt he can come with his busy training schedule, but it would be fun if he could!" Harry thought for a few moments and looked over to Ginny. "Anyone you want to invite?"
"Well, umm, Luna would be nice," she said.
Harry glanced over to Ron with a smirk that would rival Draco Malfoy's best. "Any new boyfriends you would like us to invite?"
Ron's head turned to stare at Ginny in interest. Ginny lightly blushed and said, "Well, I'm still with Dean so it's all good."
"So is he treating you better than Michael Corner?" Harry tried to be nonchalant, but it was hard to hide his amusement at Ron's protectiveness over Ginny.
Ginny had a hint of what Harry was doing and decided to play along. "Oh yes, he treats me wonderfully. He is also a much better kisser than Michael ever was."
Ron's eyes bulged. "You've kissed him! On the lips?"
"No Ron, I kissed his big toe. Yes, I kissed him on the lips, and I must add, he is quite talented with his tongue!"
Ron's jaw dropped and he turned to Harry in amazement. "Can you believe it?! She's too young for that!"
Harry chuckled, "Ron you're just jealous that your little sister is getting more action than you are."
Ron's face turned to a shade of purple. He quickly got up from his place on the bed with Harry and stormed out of the room. Behind him Harry and Ginny burst into a fit of giggles. Harry grinned. "Thanks."
"For what?" Ginny asked.
"Playing along," Harry said.
"But I was telling the truth."
Harry shrugged, "Well as long as you're happy." Harry got up from his spot on the bed he quickly folded the parchment and stuck it in the pocket of his new pair of corduroys. He assumed Tonks would be around sometime today and he could give her the list. He went over to the desk and grabbed a transfiguration textbook and brought it back to his bed to read in comfort.
Ginny was now sitting on Ron's bed watching Harry with interest. She waited until he seemed buried into his studies until she spoke up. "Do you like Tonks?"
He looked up startled by her comment. "Well of course I do. She's super nice and she's helped me out a lot."
"No, that's not what I meant. I mean do you like her," Ginny prodded.
"Well I suspect I'm too young for her and I've just never really thought of her like that. I just have so much on my mind. It's hard to think about girls with everything else going on."
Ginny got up from Ron's bed and hugged Harry. "If you ever need anyone to talk to, I am here." With that she walked out of Harry and Ron's room leaving Harry wondering.
Tonks was pretty, he wouldn't deny that, but she would never like him. He wasn't anything special and considering he would probably die at the hands of Voldemort, now wasn't a good time to start dating. He pushed the thoughts of the Metamorphmagus out of his mind. Now just wasn't a good time to think about girls. He went back to his transfiguration textbook, burying his thoughts into transfiguration theories.
Two hours of study felt like more than enough for Harry. He wandered down the stairs into the drawing room. Ginny was curled up in front of the fire writing a letter and Tonks was sitting on the couch reading a muggle magazine. Fred and George, who had been discharged from St. Mungos earlier that day secluded themselves in a corner and were whispering earnestly to each other. "Probably plotting some new product or act of mischief," Harry thought with a grin. Ron and Dudley were sitting at a small table in front of a large bay window playing Wizards Chess. Harry's eyes widened by the sight. He stumbled over to the couch and sat next to Tonks.
Harry poked Tonks to get her attention and leaned towards her, whispering, "How long has that been going on?" nodding towards the chess players.
Tonks grinned and whispered back. "What, no hello? Just a request for gossip?"
"Erm, hi Tonks. Now back to Ron and Dudley." Harry kept his voice down so Ron and Dudley wouldn't hear him.
"Well, Ron was whining because he was bored. So Molly made him play chess with Dudley. He groaned and moaned but since they've started, there have been no complaints and I swear I heard laughter from the corner."
Harry snorted. "He must be easily amused."
"Harry!" Tonks laughed in disapproval.
Before Tonks could go on, Harry interrupted, "I know, I know. Be nice to Dudley, he's going through a lot of rough changes."
"That's not what I was going to say. I was going to tell you to keep your voice down so they can't hear you." A sly grin formed over Tonks' pink lips.
Harry found himself staring at those pink lips, remembering what Ginny had asked him earlier that day. Did he like Tonks? Well, she was cute. No, he took that back, she was hot. She was sitting next to him with spiky brown hair, loose fitting jeans that were cut low and hung on her hips, and a tight t-shirt that said, 'Quiet, brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip.' She was like a big sister though, or at least what he assumed a big sister would be like. Well, except most big sisters wouldn't be considered this hot. He tried to mentally clear the thoughts from his head. Harry grinned at Tonks. "Well, Dudley should know what I think of him; and Ron, well Ron I think should know better."
"Poor Harry, his best friend choosing his cousin over him."
"No," argued Harry, "I choose studying over him."
Tonks laughed. "Little studious Harry. Your teachers are going to have heart attacks when you go back to school and you actually know what's going on."
Harry shrugged. "Hopefully Snape will be the first to go."
"Harry!" Tonks playfully smacked the back of Harry's head. "Snape is the greatest part of Hogwarts!"
Harry rolled his eyes. "Let me guess. Every girl's fantasy."
Tonks licked her lips and nodded. "What girl wouldn't want to tie him to her bed?"
"Most girls I have met are rather afraid of Snape."
Tonks smirked. "Well, they're no fun."
Before the odd conversation could go much further into the dark realm of tying Professor Snape to beds, Mrs. Weasley poked her head into the drawing room. "Tonks! I was hoping I could talk to you about Harry's party."
Tonks smiled up at Mrs. Weasley and quickly turned back to Harry. "Since we are on the topic of the party, do you have a guest list for me?" Harry dug into his back pocket and produced the crumpled piece of parchment. He handed it to Tonks, who turned her attention back to Mrs. Weasley. "What were you saying, Molly?"
"Well, I was thinking that since you'll have your hands full chaperoning this party maybe me and Arthur could help out and chaperone with you."
"Oh no, Molly, I couldn't possibly ask that of you." Tonks smirked and continued. "I'm sure I could get some extra help from the guests that are of legal age if you're that worried about my ability to handle all this." Tonks turned to the corner where the Weasley twins where hidden and hollered over to them. "Fred! George! You're invited to Harry's party! Want to be chaperones, too?"
The twins quickly whispered between each other and one hollered back, "What do we get out of the deal?"
"The chance to be a role model to younger and more impressionable people!"
The twins consulted again and replied, "Sure!"
Tonks grinned at the paling Mrs. Weasley in the doorway. "Since they were invited anyway, it will save you the extra work. Plus, I consider them very trustworthy."
A/N
I want to say thank you for reading this and I also want to ask for a little bit of help. I need gift ideas as to what other people would get Harry. People like the Weasley twins and Hermione are easy, but everyone else? That leaves me with a cute lost puppy look.
This really is in response to some of the reviews I have been getting. There aren't a lot of reviews that have made me go into this rant but enough to make me want to explain myself. I would also like to say I'm so sorry I haven't updated recently. I have been sucked into the world of reading fan fiction. This is a cruel, cruel very addicting world. I also had no clue how to start chapter 8. I believe I did about five or six starts. This chapter was something I really didn't want to write and it seems really bad to me. I just saw it as a chapter of necessity.
When I started writing this I had two goals of things I really wanted to change. One would be Harry's angst. This is something that JRK did that really bothered me. I really couldn't stand it. It's expected a person in Harry's place would have a rough time, but I don't think it would be taken that far. It also seemed very awkwardly written. (Sorry JKR *blows kisses* I really do love you) So I really wanted to eliminate this. This kind of makes Harry seem out of character, but as a fanfic author I am allowed to make a few changes. A second thing I wanted to change was Harry's hate of Snape. I personally love Snape so you'll see a lot of him in this story popping in or being mentioned. I really want to introduce the side of Snape that I love. He's this dark character that I believe in the end ill die to save Harry's ass. I was also told at one point that it seems weird that Harry hasn't forgiven Petunia for what she has done. I have to question how can you forgive someone who has made your life a living hell for so many years? Who has treated you so foul. I think that with time he might accept her a little bit more, but I think that forgiving something so huge is unlikely.
I have gotten a lot of comments on my Tonks. To those who don't like the Harry and Tonks age difference let me point out this. Harry is 16 and Tonks is about 22 or 23 so there's only a 6 or 7 year age difference. This really isn't that big of a thing. Let me point out JKR hinting at a Bill and Fluer relationship. Fluer is 18 or 19 and Bill is between 31-33, there is a huge gap there. I also read mainly Hermione/Snape fics so the age difference seems minimal to me. Also when I read OotP I saw that Tonks just seemed to have this fascination with Harry. She was there at the end with the people Harry loved most defending him against the Dursleys. That's just a huge hint to me. Now to the complaints Tonks is out of character. Yes, Tonks really isn't a klutz. I think the main reason for this is it's kind of hard to write and when you start without it it's hard to all of a sudden start adding it in there. Also, I really base Tonks after myself and subconsciously I don't want to admit to being that klutzy. I have also been told Tonks is to serious. The only time she has been serious is when she turned into Auror mode. I did kind of explain this in one chapter. When you are in situations like that you learn to detach. You can't be bubbly and funny when Voldie-Poo is attacking. I see Aurors are elite. They have a lot of control and take charge of situations. I think that the normal loose happy going attitude Tonks normally has would be a vulnerability in the field. So turning off the emotion and being hard is necessary for the position she is in, especially when people she cares about are at risk. I don't know if any of that made sense but it's my best explanation.
I also got yelled at for Dumbledore yelling at Mrs. Weasley. I don't understand why this is so unbelievable. By not alerting the Order Mrs. Weasley could have potentially gave the Death Eaters access to Grimmauld place and to Harry. Which would have basically ended the war there. Of course he is going to be mad.