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Chapter 33: Coloring Chaos
After a long lecture about not going off alone and how they could have gotten hurt, Remus decided that the boys would enjoy coloring for a bit.
He was helping Tonks grade some papers in her office (it was her off period) while the boys sat in the classroom coloring on some parchment with some magical crayons (crayons that turned whatever color you told them to and pictures became animated).
That was a mistake. Draco got bored with coloring his own pictures and decided he would help Tonks grade papers. He snuck to her desk and pulled a few papers from the stack before "grading" the papers.
Harry joined him soon and the stack of scribbled on papers grew larger.
Tonks went to grab another paper and realized that the stack was noticeably smaller. She looked around to see where the papers could have gone.
"Remus? Have you seen some of my papers? They seem to be missing." Tonks asked.
Remus looked up from the essay he was reading and answered "No." before looking around. That was when he noticed the two boys on the office floor coloring on the essays. Tonks followed his gaze and let her head fall to the desk.
"What wrong Nyphie?" Draco asked having picked up her first name (or part of it at least) from Remus.
Tonks called the papers towards her and piled them on her desk. "Why don't you boys see if Professor Dumbledore needs your help? I remember him saying something about it."
Harry and Draco brightened and rushed out the door. Remus shook his head and moved to follow. When he entered the classroom, he stopped and gasped in horror.
Apparently the boys had decided that Tonks' classroom needed some decorating help. The walls were now covered in childish drawings.
There were pictures of people walking around, houses with smoke coming out of the chimneys, a a rather good drawing of Hogwarts (for a four year old at least).
"Uh...Nyph? You better see this." Remus called back into the office.
"What is so important Remus?" Tonks stepped into her classroom and her eyes widened in shock and horror. "You'd better find them before they do this to all of Hogwarts."
Remus headed for the door picturing Snape's reaction if the boys did this to his dungeons. The thought of Snape's face made him laugh and temped him to let the boys loose there.
Meanwhile, the boys were playing tag on their way to Dumbledore's office. They knew the password (they overheard Moony saying it a few times) so they decided to surprise the old man. The only problem, he wasn't there. The boys decided they would surprise him in a different way.
They set to work on their surprise.
Albus Dumbledore whistled as he headed towards his office. His talk with some of the key order members had gone well and now he was going to have a nice relaxing cup of hot chocolate and maybe a nice game of chess with one of the staff.
He greeted the stone gargoyle and headed into his office.
He stopped suddenly. His whole office had been redecorated. His walls were covered with little crayoned moving pictures, his books were stacked like bricks forming a fort that any child would be proud of, his phoenix was ruffled looking exausted, and the portraits looked outraged at the little boy asleep in his office chair.
Dumbledore raised his eyebrow at Fawkes looking for some answer to his unspoken question.
The phoenix ruffled his feathers and turned to snub his master. It wasn't his job to keep an eye on the two little boys.
Dumbledore called Dobby to retrieve Remus while he looked for the other little boy.
Draco was snoozing with his head on the armrest of Dumbledore's chair and shivering at the slight chill from the lack of fire. The old wizard conjured a blanket to cover the boy with and began looking for Harry. He found him in the fort of books, he was asleep with his stuffed Dragon under one arm and his other hand pillowing his head.
Remus chose that moment to come in and gasped at the sight. "I'm so sorry headmaster. Tonks told them to come see you and help you with some things and they darted off. I didn't think they knew where your office was or the password so I searched the school for them. I'm so sorry. I won't let them near crayons again." Remus began babbling.
"Its alright Remus, they are just children. I do think its time they begin school though. Just the basics but its school none the less. It will keep them entertained for a bit each day." Dumbledore smiled at the younger man.
Remus shook his head. The headmaster didn't know what he was getting into.
A/N: Sorry this took so long to actually post. It took me forever to get the thing typed. I only have four classes and I still manage to have a busy schedule. Thanks for being patient with me.