Chapter 78

Summer Time Part 1

A/N: I would like to first congratulate all of you who answered my question last chapter. Yes, as you will find out this chapter, the mysterious young Auror, is in fact one Nymphadora Tonks, and yes she and Charley Weasley will be a couple in this story, you will find out how in the first ten paragraphs. Please as always, read and review. One more thing, I am going to try writing really long chapters for you all, and have this story over 200,000 words by chapter100. —Donald

The student groggily made their way down to the Headmasters office in the morning that they were going to be leaving. When they walked into the office, the headmaster met with them and smiled. "Good morning everyone, did you all get enough sleep last night?" He had one of his all knowing twinkles in his eyes, that said that he had already known the answer to that. "Don't worry to much about that tho, you will be traveling a very long time today, so you will be able to get sleep on the plane. For those of you that don't know what a plane is, it's a muggle way of transportation that takes you up in the air and takes you someplace really fast. While it's not as fast as floo or portkeying, it is faster than any broom. I hope that you all finished your summer assignments since you got them last week, for you won't be with your trunks for the summer. They will be at your respective homes, or with the Weasley's for those of you who's respective parents are going with you. Now the adults will be waiting for you at the Leaky Cauldron when you floo there, so please leave your trunks here, and have your luggage for the trip ready to floo with you."

"We have gotten it done Professor, I made sure that everyone had everything done last night. It seems that we all were excited about this trip, and even those that usually wait til the last minute to do their summer homework got it done before summer." Hermione smiled at the headmaster and then nodded towards some of the others that were looking sheepish at what she was saying, but they even nodded that they got it all done.

The sixteen students that were going on this trip, gathered around the fireplace to start their trip to the Leaky Cauldron. They were going to meet up with the adults and then get some breakfast before heading to Heathrow Airport for their trip to America.

What the teenagers saw when they flooed into the Leaky Cauldron gave them all a chuckle. They were met by a lady, that they all assumed was the Auror that was accompanying them on their trip, by how close she seemed to be to Charley Weasley. She had Bubble Gum Pink Hair and Green eyes, she had walked up to them and said. "Wotcher everyone, names Nymphadora Tonks, and I am your Auror escort on this trip. Don't worry I'm not a person to spoil everyone's fun. By the way, call me anything besides Tonks, and you will find what it is like to have a woman mad at you." She smiled at the teenagers and laughed at their looks.

"Oh common Nymphy, why don't you let all the kids get through the fire so we can get going." A man with a deep voice that she instantly recognized behind her, she turned around with a smile on her face.

"Siri, Remy, I didn't know you two were coming along also. Nor you guys should know these two, they were your DADA professors this past year and all. Well along with that, Sirius here is my cousin. Now are all the living marauders going to come, or did James not be able to come?"

A deep laugh came from behind her again, and she was encompassed in a big hug. "Of course I'm going Tonks, so is Lily. Now how are you and Charley getting along? Has he decided to make an honest woman of you yet?" James had only been kidding with that question, but when both Charley and Tonks blushed, the rest of the group cheered.

Hermione got a weird look on her face, one of concentration, where she was thinking of something, and couldn't quite put her finger on it.

"What's wrong Mione? You look like you are thinking of something, but couldn't figure it out." Harry gave her a smile when he asked this.

She looked up at him with a smile, and it clicked in her mind. "Do you know who she is Harry?"

"I'm sorry Mione, but I don't. Even tho she looks young enough to have gone to Hogwart's just a few years ago." He thought a second, and then it clicked. He got a wicked grin on his face, and turned towards the young Auror. "Hey Tonks," he said sweetly.

Tonks turned towards him and said. "Yes Harry, did you need something?"

Harry smiled and said. "I don't need anything, but I was just wondering, didn't you used to be a Blonde, then a Brunette, no wait I remember, one day you were a beautiful Weasley redhead, but now you have Pink hair, what's up with that. Also, are you still clumsy?" He smiled sweetly as he saw the shock on her face. "Yes I remember you now, you were in the 7th year when we started." He gave her a lop-sided grin and laughed at the looks on their faces.

"Ok you caught me Harry, or was it Hermione who clued you in? I am the same person, and yes I did have the colored hair and unfortunately yes I can still be clumsy. The hair color was different each time, depending on my mood. To explain that, I'm a metamorphagus, or in other words, I can change my form pretty much at will. Now onto your other question. I guess I can call myself officially a Weasley now. We got married last night in a private ceremony, we're sorry that we didn't invite any of you, but we just had a really small ceremony, and part of the reason that we're going with you is because it is also going to be our honeymoon." She blushed but was happy.

"Congratulations you two, but are you sure you want to be help watching 16 teenagers while on your honeymoon? I mean it's not like there won't be other grown-ups around, but still." Harry asked seriously, but smiled when he saw the look on her face.

"I told you Charley that we picked our two teenagers right. Don't worry about that Harry, we have split the teenagers up into groups of either two or four, each with a set of adults. You and Hermione are with Charley and I. Dudley and Pavarti and Dean and Padma are with Frank and Alice Longbottom. Ron and Luna, and Draco and Pansy are with, now perish the thought, Sirius and Remus. Seamus and Dawn, and Lavender and Blaise will be with James and Lily. And finally Ginny and Neville will be with the Grangers. That way no one will be directly supervised by family, well except you Harry, but then again, we will be to occupied to supervise you to much. Now you two better not do anything that will cause us to lose trust in you two while your pretty much on your own on this vacation, you hear?" She smiled at the two teenagers as they quickly agreed that they would behave. "Now I said nothing about behaving, this is your vacation after all. Just don't do anything that will get the American Police or Aurors after you, but on that end, you don't have to worry about not using magic while on this vacation, for you two, and the rest of the teenagers, have been given permission to use magic while on this vacation from Dad. Now while this Is only a temporary thing, if you don't abuse the ability, Arthur has said that he might make it permanent. You also don't have to worry about using magic in front of the muggles, for we are going to a wizards resort. We are also flying on the Wizard Airlines, it just started up. It's for witches and wizards who want to try traveling the muggle way." She smiled when the teenagers all cheered at this, and went to meet up with their assigned adults for the trip.

They had a couple of hours before they were to be at the Airport, and already had a Port-key set up for them to get there, so they decided to do a little bit of shopping before their trip. They went into Diagon Alley after they had breakfast, and got some money, and stuff for the flight. They knew that they had around a 15 hour flight to Hawaii, and that they were only going to be able to get a few hours sleep on the plane. They picked up some light reading and stuff for the trip, and had some fun along the way.

A/N2: Ok the next chapter will be on the flight to Hawaii, and their vacation there. I know that they seem to be placing their trust in Harry and Hermione, but Charley and Tonks figured taht they probably would be the most responsible of the 16 teenagers, and that they could trust them while they had their honeymoon also. Please as always, read and review. —Donald