Chapter 6: Dementors and Detention
"Okay," said Emma as Tonks left the room, "but don't forget your detention with Snape!"
"I won't!" Tonks said walking toward Professor Granger's room. "How can I? and I know I saw a dementor," Tonks said to herself. She was on the third floor now and was waiting for the stairs to move, it was 6 o'clock, she had 2 hours. "I am going to check the library for a picture of dementors." Tonks said and walked toward the Library, she could hear Peeves in the background making fun of a girl.
"Peeves! I will tell Bloody Barren on you!" Tonks yelled and Peeves stopped and floated over to Tonks. "Look at Miss Werewolf here!" Peeves yelled, but Tonks didn't care, all she wanted was a picture of dementors, to see if the thing staring at her was one. She opened the door to the library. There was no Professor she could ask, but there was a prefect.
She was Tall and had a light straight red hair. Umm...excuse me, is there a book here that has a picture of a dementor?" Tonks asked Flur
"Now what would you need a picture of a dementor for?" she replied sweetly, "There such terrible creatures why would anyone want to look at one!"
"I thought I saw one before, and I wanted to know if that is what it was." Tonks said looking at her.
"Where would you have seen one before?" she replied with a simper laugh, "First years are always having such imagination!"
An annoyed voice form behind them said, "Flur stop being a bran-dead git and just tell Tonks were the book is!" Tonks looked behind her at a boy in his third year with red hair who was sitting at a table studying.
"I don't remember asking your opinion little brother!" she said sourly throwing her long blond hair over her shoulder.
"HI!" Tonks yelled at him, "you might not remember me, but I am Lupin's daughter!" Tonks said to the other Weasley that she liked much better the Flur. "And I didn't make it up, thank you" Tonks finished and waited for a response.
"Course I remember you," he said with a smile getting up form the table, "who could forget some one who would change into all the different people we need for our pranks on Flur here," he laughed and Flur frowned at the both of them, "Here I'll show you where to get a book about dementors" he started to walk through the rows of books. "Thank you!" Tonks said changing her hair to red, she laughed a little and he turned around, Tonks quickly changed it back to her so called normal color.
"If you mock me I won't give you the book!" He said with a smile, Tonks knew he was lying but stopped anyway. He grabbed a book and handed it to Tonks. "Thanks!" Tonks said and ran off to a table. She started flipping through the pages.
"Ok, ok," Tonks whispered to herself. "Aha!" She said when she found the page. "It was a dementor..."Tonks started up and grabbed the book and ran out of the library.
"Where is she going?" Flur asked confused.
"Obviously, she found out something." The other Weasley said and went back to reading.
"What'cha Hurry?" Tonks looked up to see Filch and Mrs. Norris.
"I have to see Professor Granger, sorry for running." Before he could stop her she walked quickly away and then out of sight ran again. She busted open the doors of Professor Granger's Class room.
"Hi Tonks," said Hermione when she entered the room, "to what do I oh this pleasure?"
Tonks ran over to her desk and caught her breath as she handed the book with the page of the dementor on it.
"What is this about?" Hermione asked.
"I saw one outside the common room window, it was staring right back at me!" Tonks said sitting down on a desk that was close by.
Hermione studied her for a second then said "There hasn't been any Dementors on the grounds since I was here in be third year, and every since the Ministry got them back under control after the war they've been under close surveillance. Are you sure there isn't anything else it could have been?"
"No, I don't think so, it was staring at me, but I really couldn't see its face but I had that feeling that it was just there, looking at me from under its cloak." Tonks said trying to think if it was anything else.
"It could have been a boggert, or some spell someone decided to use as a prank," she replied considering, "I'm not saying it's impossible it's just not reasonable. When the dementors came on the grounds in my third year it was during a Qudittich match, everyone was outside and the dementors were already on the grounds, but there is barely anyone outside now and there shouldn't be any dementors around here."
"Ok." Tonks said giving up. "But could you maybe have a look, I would but I would be late for detention." Tonks said looking up at her.
"You have detention already?" Hermione said shocked.
"I was helping lily with her potion... but could you please look?" Hermione nodded. "Ok, well bye!" Tonks said and dashed for the dungeons.
Snape was waiting for her in the Classroom when she came in, he gave her a gloating smile "SO good of you to join me. It seems only fitting that since you enjoy helping so much, that you should help me with evaluating the supplies. I've been gone a bit and it seems my predecessors weren't very organized. So you will sort through the supplies closet baking sure none of the supplies it spoiled bake sure there is 150 of everything exempt the should be 263 toadstool remedies, and keep track of what's messing how much, then organize form A to Z." he finished and held open the cabinet so she could start.
Tonks started and made it look like she was having an awful time, tell the truth the best detention she could have would be organizing, but the counting bugged her. Snape sat at his desk waiting for her to finished, after a couple of hours she was finished.
"Finished Sir," Tonks said closing the cabinets. She had a piece of parchment that had the data on it about how many were missing of what.
"I will check your work and if is not write I will give you another detention to make up for it. You may go but I expect we will be seeing each other here again soon." he said as he closed the door behind her.
"I did do it right!" Tonks said sighing and heading for the common room. She knew dinner was over it was around midnight. "Joy, I am starving!" Tonks said to herself as she walked up the stairs. "Jiggy-log" Tonks said as the portrait flew open and she crawled in she saw Emma sitting in a seat by the fire and Lily trying to stay awake.
"You got mail," Emma said before anything else and handed Tonks the letter.