Harry Potter and the Order of Dawn
Chapter 2: Seeing Stars
Harry awoke in darkness. He was in a room that appeared to be about 3m by 3m but you couldn't really tell. The little light seemed to ebb out as it fell further from the apparent center of the room. In the center lay a worn table, its amber coloured wood shone under his gaze. Two plain chairs, obviously part of the same set as the table sat facing each other at opposite ends of the table. Harry blinked. As he had been examining the room it had suddenly started to get lighter, so that he could see much further from where he was. The floor just seemed to stretch off into all directions, nothing mottled the uniformity of it.
Harry groaned. As he cracked open his heavy eyes a bright white light assaulted him. Flecks of red and blue danced cheekily in front of him as he strove to get his bearings. "Harry" Tonk's voice clearly called to him, a quiver was noticeable in her voice. He moved to see her but only got a vague baby blue coloured area where she should have been. "Harry, please wake up." Raising his arm to shield his eyes from the bright light he saw a deep emerald light where his hand should have been. Overcome by the assault on his brain he fell back into darkness.
He awoke again. This time he observed that he was in a plain muggle room. Or it would have been if I hadn't been for Tonks, who was snoring softly, awkwardly draped over a lounge chair. Slipping carefully out of bed he padded over to where Tonks was. "Tonks" he said, shaking her awake.
"Harry, you're awake" She muttered sleepily. "Wait, you're awake!" She pounced on him, taking him to ground.
"Tonks?" He asked, slightly winded.
"Yes?" She replied chirping.
"Get off me please… you're heavy" She relied with a pout and a smack in the arm.
"Ow?" He answered sarcastically.
She then stood and helped him up, falling over in the process. Harry smirked. His stomach rumbled loudly. Tonks grabbed his hand and dragged him off into the kitchen and proceeded to make him a large stack of pancakes complete with maple syrup, oddly she seemed at ease in the kitchen, which was a far cry from her usual behavior. He tucked in hungrily, eating a large stack in a few minutes.
"So", he said rubbing his stomach contently " what's been going on since the holidays started? I haven't got much mail."
Tonks wrinkled her nose " I would tell you but Dumbledore made me promise not to tell you anything that you didn't need to know. And since he found out that you were staying here while I looked after you he made it clear that you didn't need to know anything at all."
Harry scowled "Manipulative old bastard"
Tonks' eye brows were raised "Wha'd'ya mean Har'?"
"I'm assuming that since you're looking after me full time something happened with your job?"
She nodded her assent "Fudge fired me"
Harry winced in the metamorph's sympathy "Doesn't it make you wonder why you lost it? Isn't Fudge trying to get back into Dumbledore's 'good books' at the moment? If Dumbledore had asked I'm sure Fudge would have reconsidered his judgment."
It was clear that Tonks was not a happy Metamorph, her hair and eyes went a blood red, she grew fangs and her nails grew into claws.
"That fucking bastard!" She screamed, still feeling the pain of her dismissal power coursed through her words ready to strike out at the first thing that made a wrong move. It was also that moment that the Phoenix pendant that she was wearing heated, indicating that a new meeting of the Order of the Phoenix had been scheduled for that night. Her magic reacted, incinerating the pendant and sending a wave of raw magic down the connection.
In Dumbledore's office
The aged man was scowling. That damn Potter boy had broken the seals on his magical core with his last power surge. Now he was sure that Potter would go Dark and be lost to the light for good if he ever found out what he had done. After pressing a small red button he walked away from the small statuette in the form of a phoenix. After a few moments it lit up, and proceeded to get brighter and brighter. He shielded his eyes until the inevitable happened. It gave way, but due to the numerous charms on the piece of stonework it couldn't shatter. Instead it proceeded to melt so it resembled a blob. He glowered, annoyed that many days of work had been destroyed.
Harry sat goggle-eyed at Tonks. He could feel the power coming off her in waves. "Tonks?" He asked clearly, wanting to take her mind off her anger.
"Yes?" She snapped rage was evident in her voice.
"Calm down please. You're scaring me."
She looked over Harry and reverted to her original form, green hair and eyes. "Sorry about that," She muttered "I won't blame you if you never wanted to see me again."
He looked on with kindness radiating from his eyes, which had gone a baby blue. "I understand Tonks, it's just that you show your anger more than most people." He caught her eye and smiled warmly.
"Harry James Potter" Tonks squealed "Why didn't you tell me you were a Metamorphmagus?"
Harry looked on doing a good impression of Crabbe "I'm a Metamorph?"
She nodded vigorously, conjuring a mirror so he could see himself. He looked into it wide eyed at his blue eyes. "Whoa…" he muttered, trailing off.
He grinned. "Looks like we're going to be seeing more of each other, 'eh?"
Tonks beamed at him "At least something good came out of me getting fired, the Ministry is obligated to pay me a salary as your Magus trainer so I'm going to be teaching you full time."
"Uhhh Tonks? How do I change my eyes back?" He asked
"Just clear your mind" She replied cheerfully "You should know how to do that because of you Ooclumancy training"
Harry scratched the back of his head "Umm, Snape never told me how to do that. He just told me to do that and then assaulted my mind."
Tonks winced "Just concentrate on a spot on the wall, nothing else. Then as your eyes unfocus just stop seeing the spot either. That's how I started, you tend to make your own way up after a while."
Harry stared at the wall, putting all of his concentration into it. A few minutes later his eyes almost shimmered and changed back to their original emerald green. But that wasn't all that changed. He had grown another 4 inches making him a respectable 5 foot 7, he had also filled out, while not a body builders body more like an athlete's, lean and powerful. Tonks looked on wide-eyed, as if she'd never seen that happen before. Commenting to herself aloud "So that's why you didn't look a day over 12."
Frowning, Harry replied "What'd'ya mean Tonks?"
Tonks screwed up her face thinking, then abruptly ran into the room in which Harry had been sleeping. A few moments later she came back out proudly holding two photos. Harry looking curiously at Tonks. Explaining "These are two photos that I salvaged from your house. One from your first year and another from last year." She handed the two photos to Harry upon which he examined them closely.
"In this first photo we all look young and childlike, but in the second Ron and Hermione look like teenagers but I haven't changed at all". Harry sounded really shocked. "So, my Metamorph powers made me stay the same as I remembered them?"
Tonks nodded "Pretty much, though I think you got a little taller as you compared your height to Hermione and Ron's"
questioningly, Harry asked, "Whats your real form like Tonks?"
Tonks took on a look of concentration, then shrunk to a height of about 5'1. Smiling up at him she asked "That better?"
With a pensive look " Yeah, is the reason you're so clumsy most of the time because you make yourself bigger which includes your feet?"
Tonks thought for a moment "Probably, I never thought of it that way before." With a gasp she started fishing around in her pockets, Tonks pulled out a slightly charred and very crumpled letter. "You had this on you when you came in. I just remembered" She answered his questioning look while handing over the letter.
Breaking the black seal Harry read:
Mr Potter,
I know that I'm probably one of the last people who should contact you but I need your help. My Husband and his darling son, who is not related to me by blood, have started squandering the family fortune helping that Dark Lord achieve his goals. I have grown tired of being restrained of any action that I might take against them and as you are likely to become the next Lord Black as you were Sirius' 'son', you have a chance of getting my marriage annulled. Now as a former Slytherin I understand that everything comes with a price, therefore I am willing to give my aid in training you in some of the less used magical arts and find trainers for any abilities you might have. I hope that you will arrange a meeting after the reading of the will as I believe it will be mutually beneficial. I leave you with a piece of advice. 'Light does not always lead to Goodness, just as the Dark is not inherently Evil'.
Narcissa Black
Harry looked over at Tonks shocked. "Well that wasn't what I was expecting."
Answering, Tonks replied "Aunt Cissa was always really nice to me when ever I met her. Aunt Bella was too, but I haven't seen her since she got shipped off to Azkaban. Never believed that she'd do that personally."
Harry looked of dumbfounded, that Tonks would have so much praise for her supposedly Evil Aunts.
Tonks grinned "Remember Harry, 'Dark doesn't mean Evil'."
Harry nodded still trying to process the information, which was more than a little shocking for him. Harry yawned. Tonks jumped to her feet and pulled Harry back towards the bedroom. "You need your rest, we've got a big day tomorrow with Sirius' will and all."
Getting back into bed Harry smiled. Things were finally starting to look up for him.
A/N This took a little longer than expected but it is up now. I tried to make this chapter a little longer but I couldn't really think of anything else to write about. Anywho, Harry wont really have any more powers just the three that he already has and his Animagus form which I can assure you is very original, as is his combat weapon. If anyone other than my Co-Writer can guess Harry's Animagus form I'll let them make one thing happen in the story.