Chapter 2 Hedwig
Lily woke up to the sun coming in through the window next to the bed in her dormitory. She looked at her watch to see it was a quarter to eight, she didn't have to be done at the great hall for 45 more minuets she pulled back her hangs around her bed and just sat there staring out her window until fifteen minuets later when Emma and the girl who's named was Candice Ancles, woke up too and started getting ready. Lily joined them and they made small morning talk until it was ten minuets tell they had to be at breakfast. "Do you think we should wake up Tonks?" Emma asked looking at her as she brushed her hair. "No." Lily said simply she was already ready for the day and wanting to go and be done. Emma ignored her and started shaking Tonks.
Tonks woke up and jumped out of bed. She could tell it was soon when she needed to be down at the great hall from the way the sun was shinning in the window. She quickly got dressed and put on her shoes. "And why didn't you guys wake me up sooner?" She said looking at Lily inparticular, no one had looked at her since she through the covers off from over her head. She quickly brushed her hair and waited for an answer. "I don't know, why is your hair?" Lily said as if the to thought was connected she would have been more astonished that her hair was a different color but it had been very late when she had gotten to bed last night and lack of sleep made her giddy. "Is it blond?" Tonks said trying to look at her hair. "I hate it when it dose that!" Tonks said changing the color right there from light purple to blue to her regular color. "Don't want to scare too many people on the first day!" Tonks said finishing up. "Well are you ready to go?" She said asking them when Emma was the only one that didn't look at her like she was insane and with a 'how did you do that' look ether. "How did you do that?" Lily asked as they made there way done the stairs to the common room. "I have always been able to. My mom had the power to, it was called something with an m I believe, but I never paid much attention to it, I don't quite remember what it is called." Tonks said scratching her head. "Do you know Emma?" Tonks asked walking down the stairs. Emma gave her an exasperated look.
"Metamorphmagus! Gosh I can't even tack this one to not reading, you just don't pay attention, I mean you are one you should no what it's called!" As they went through the portrait hole Candice left them to go hook up with other girls. "So what is a Meta thingy any way?" Lily asked intent on trying to find out as much stuff as possible before class started. "There people who can change there shape at will. There born, you can't become one, like Tonks here who got it form her mum." Emma said shaking her head at Tonks. "Fine I will try to remember! Metamorphmagus! Got it!" Tonks said whispering that to herself as she went. "I usually have blue, purple or pink hair but mum and dad told me not to do that just so I don't scare people...or attract attention." Said Tonks making her hair change color as they walked. When they got out of the seventh floor corridor she stopped changing her hair color and made it Dark red almost brown again.
They entered the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table no sooner had the gotten settled though did a bunch of owls come swooping down for the rafters caring mail. Lily wasn't surprised to see that Tonks and Emma both received mail, but was stunned when a snowing owl landed in front of her. At first she thought it was for some one else and looked up and down the table for someone who it could belong to but when it pecked her sharply on the ear she took the note of her leg and proceed to read it. "Dear Miss Black this is Hedwig, I've been keeping her for you." "THAT IS HEDWIG!" Tonks said putting down her letter before she could read it. "Who was it from?" Tonks said excitedly. "Yeah, I know it is Hedwig It said so in the note." Said Lily confused and irritated. "What it doesn't say is who it's from or how they know me!" She did not like the idea of some anonymous stranger writing to her! Tonks got a weird look on her face. She turned and looked at lily. "What is your dad's name?" Tonks said very sternly looking at her. Lily did not look at Tonks or Emma, She was really getting tired of their continues up summations that she was tied into the Wizarding World. What did it matter if she came form a muggle family the only thing that mattered to her right now was who this letter came from? "Okay I just got an anonymous note from some complete stranger in a world I've been a part of for three days." She shot angrily at Emma and Tonks. "What do you have a problem with muggle born's or something, is that why your determination to tie me into a Wizarding family!" Lily said angrily and marched of to gone the line getting their schedule. "No!" Tonks said sadly, she had nothing against them she was just wondering. "Before you say anything. Will you listen me out?" Tonks said walking up behind her. "If your father happened to be Harry. He was a very dear friend of my family. And the Order. He disappeared after the war. He thought people dear to him died. But they went missing. They were found. And one of the people who had gone missing has been looking for him all her life pretty much. Hedwig was his owl. If you really are so worked up about not telling us anything about your father. Then I am sorry. We are just curious; we miss him for our own sake and not just our parents. How bout you send a message, tell Hedwig to give it to whoever sent her. If you would like. I would love to help you write it." Tonks said finishing looking down at her shoes. "If this Harry really was as great as you say then he's not my father. His names not Harry, he's not a war hero, you meeting him would not be good for anyone sake cause he would probably shut you as soon as look at you, he hates magic, was furious when I got my letter and I had to sneak out just to come here and he's probably to drunk to even notice I'm gone." She said quietly not looking at anyone as she took her schedule for Professor Granger and walked back to her seat. "You could send a note to whoever sent me the owl if you want to, but it's probably just the man who worked at the Pet Store in Diagon Ally, I got to talking to him when I was there, he was really nice. He said he'd try to find a way to get me a pet. And if this Harry was as great as you say their are probley a lot of Owls named after his!" Lily said angrily. "Ok, What ever but there has never been another owl named Hedwig at Hogwarts, and to top it all off, I know for a fact that is the real one, how many snow owl's are there. I will write a letter. Ok, but you have to rewrite it no matter what it says and I will drop this whole thing unless it really is Harry Potter. Ok?" Tonks said looking at Lily. She had just grabbed her schedule and Professor Hermione had heard her say Harry Potter and eyed Tonks for a minute. Tonks sat back down and opened her letter waiting for a response from Lily. "Okay fine but it's not so it doesn't matter." She said tying the letter to the bird and sending her off. Tonks looked like she was about to say something but Emma interrupted her. "Just drop it both of you." She said over her letter. "Let's just head to potions we have it first and the sooner we leave the sooner it will be over. I hate Snape." Said Emma. "He is still teaching!" Tonks said worried. "I hate his guts... I am going to go with my hair hot pink just to make him mad!" Tonks said giggling. She finished her letter and totally ignored the last sentence. "P.S. Don't make any teachers mad at you, including Snape!" Her dad had written that. "Ok, well I am going to go to potions.
"Meet you guys there!" Tonks said and ran out of the room. Once she was out she turned her hair Hot Pink and was still running when she ran into someone. She looked up. "Professor Snape. Sorry Sir." Tonks said quickly and ran off before she could look at his face.