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Chapter 2: Birthday

31 July 8:00AM 1996 A.D

The next morning Harry walked into his living room to see Tonks layed out in one of the chair's fast asleep still dressed in the same cloths as yesterday, her face buried under one arm like a bird to block the light.

"I think I'll let her sleep." Harry said after walking out of the room and down stairs for breakfast on this his 16th birthday.

When Harry got back up to his lounge room he saw that Tonks was still asleep. Sitting in the chair next to her Harry looked her over seeing that she had shifted since he had left the room.

Her hair was a light brown but the same length and style and her nose was smaller more flush to her face, her ears were small and closer to her head as well. Her eyes were about the same shape as he recalled and her lips were fuller and looked softer than before. The rest of her looked the same as always.

Just then her eyes snapped open to show a neutral gray colour. The moment she saw Harry watching her, her eyes shifted colour to the blue they usually showed and her hair flushed into the bubblegum pink. Her nose grew out a little and her lips were not as soft looking before her ears shifted into little points like an elf's from legends.

"Harry! How long have you been there?" Tonks asked with a little fear in her voice hoping that he hadn't seen her as she really looked.

"Just a few minutes. Is that what you really look like Tonks when your not like this now?" Harry asked as gently as possible.

Tonks nodded before saying anything. "Please don't tell anyone. You are the first person to see my true form other than my parents."

"I swear I will not tell anyone with out your permission first Tonks. I like to think that we are good enough friends for that." Harry replied to her as he got up and walked over to the fireplace to look at the symbol over it.

Tonks looked relived at this and got up and walked next to Harry as he kept is eyes on that painting. "Why are you so interested in that painting? I mean, I did paint it but it can't be that good."

"I think I've seen it before now Tonks and just so that you know it is a very good painting even if it is done with magic." Harry said still looking at the painting "Can you get Dumbledore or Moody to come here some time soon Tonks?"

"I think I can. What time is it anyway?" she said while stretching her arms above her head and Harry heard her back crack all the way up.

"It's about 8:30. Why?" Harry said turning from her and going to the box he got the other day from the basement.

"WHAT?! I was meant to report in over a hour ago..." Tonks cried as she started to run to the main door of Harry's room.

"Tonks, if you get time do stop by any time." Harry yelled out after her as she run out his door and down the stairs.

Harry sighed and set aside the box, heading for his new study since he wanted a friend with him when he opened his mother's letter.

It was noon before someone knocked on the main door to Harry's rooms. 'Can't be my uncle. He never knocks.' Harry thought getting up and started to walk from his desk in the study and out into the living room.

Opening the door showed Mad-eye Moody with Tonks standing behind him. Tonks looked the same a she always did while Moody was dressed in his muggle clothes and looked like the cat that got into the cream. A large toothy smile was plastered all over his face.

"Ah. Hi there. Nice of you to come so soon and do I want to know what happened to my relatives?" Harry said after letting them into his room.

Tonks after entering fell into Harry's arms laughing and only said one-word "Ferrets."

Harry looked at the young woman in his arms then at Moody who was over by the fire looking at the painting. "The amazing bouncing ferret back from holidays, Moody?" Harry asked with a smile.

Moody looked at Harry and smiled a very scary smile and chuckled. "Yes it is and now it comes with two partners in the act."

Harry fell over at this and joined Tonks on the floor in a laughing fit but still managed to say "What did they do to get turned into ferrets?"

Moody walked over to the two laughing idiots and looked down on them. "Well, I did ask to come in nicely but your uncle would not let me in so I turned him into a ferret. Then your cousin and aunt showed up as well and started to yell at me about what I did so I turned them into ferrets as well and then we came up here to see this painting of yours."

Harry nodded from the floor, Tonks sitting next to him quietly having recovered from her laughing fit.

Moody nodded and walked back to the fireplace. "Tonks, you can go and do what you wanted to do. I should be fine here until later."

Tonks nodded and helped Harry up and then led him over to one blank wall in the room where she pulled out her wand and waved it over the wall. A door appeared in the wall and like the others it was painted a light blue and had a silver door handle.

Tonks opened the door and on the other side was a room decorated in light peach paint and gold trim. The bed dominating the room was the same size as Harry's but had pink sheets instead of black. The bedside table and chest of draws were the same colours as the walls and the floor was a light cream.

"Ah, Tonks what's with the room?" Harry asked after looking around the room for a minute.

Tonks walked over to Harry and said in a low voice. "I asked if I could stay with you for the rest of the summer to keep you company and to teach you Occlumency and some base Auror training and Dumbledore said I could. If you are willing."

Harry smiled at her and said in just as low tones. "I would like that but I have a condition. You must look normal as often as you can for me, ok?"

Tonks nodded and led the way to Moody as he took one of the chairs and placed it in front of the fire. Harry and Tonks each took a chair as well.

Moody looked over to them and then back to the painting. "Harry do you know what that symbol represents?"

Harry also looked at the symbol. "No, that is why I asked for you or Dumbledore to come and tell me about it. I could have sworn that I have seen it somewhere before."

"I'd be surprised if you hadn't since its been hanging on the wall of the fourth floor of Hogwarts for as long as the school's been standing. You see this is the symbol of the last Dragon Lord. No one knows his name, only his dragon's name was known. A beautiful name she had as I recall. It was Silvenestri. She and her master were the last of the Dragon Lords and Silver Dragons." Moody was looking at the painting with a slight smile on his face.

Harry looked at the painting then at Moody before saying anything. "What is known about the last Dragon Lord and his dragon?"

Moody glanced at Harry then at Tonks. "Would you make us some drinks, Tonks? This will take some time."

Tonks nodded and waved her wand over the coffee table and three glasses and a jug of pumpkin juice appeared on the table with a plate of sandwiches.

Moody nodded his thanks then taking one of the glasses he started to talk. "No one know where the last Dragon Lord came from, just that he vanished over 2,500 years ago after he sealed the last portal to the Realms of the Dead. Legend says he was a tall man for the time, meaning that he would stand not much taller than you Harry. That was about all anyone knows of him because his face was covered by his cloak. It was his dragon that ensured everyone knew of him. The dragon was no older than five years but was flying and using some of it magic such as being able to change it's form to a little girl with silver hair and the eyes were the colour of star light. You see Silver dragons don't get any use of innate powers until around twenty years after they hatch. After the portal was sealed the Dragon Lord's last words were carved into a stone near the site where Hogwarts now stands. 'My friend and I will be back when I am needed most.' That was what he said and then he vanished with his dragon. The stone is still there under the castle to this day. I have seen it with my own eye." Moody finished his drink and looked at Harry and Tonks who were looking at him in awe at the tale of the last Dragon Lord.

Harry was the first to say anything about the story of the last Dragon Lord. "Moody, was there anything about the Dragon Lords that made them different from normal wizards and witches?"

Moody smiled at this then looked at Tonks. "Well for starters all of the Dragon Lords were male and they could only have children with a Metamorphmagus..."

"WHAT! That would mean that Dragon Lord's had to get other lord's to replace them some other way, right? I mean my type of witch or wizard is rare, even now." Tonks said, looking down at Moody seeing that she had jump up at this.

Moody nodded at her and continued "Yes, that is true. Metamorphmagus were rare even back then but never the less only a Metamorphmagus could survive childbirth, both mother and child. Any other witch would die in birth and the child would as well. Now all Dragon Lords had one thing in common, they all were Parseltongue's. Seeing as that it is the ability to talk to reptiles, not just snakes, and dragons are just one big reptile." Moody refilled his glass and looked at the stunned look Harry and Tonks both had after learning about the Dragon Lords.

Moody looked at them both and after Tonks sat back down he started to talk some more about what he knew. "The other thing that Dragon Lords had that was different was that their armour and weapons were made from the shed scales of their dragons. You see the scales could be melted down and shaped like iron would have been into their weapons and armour. The most common weapon was a twin head sword which was just two long swords or in the last lord's case, two scimitars joined at the hilts making a very deadly weapon in the right hands."

Harry looked back at the painting and then at Moody who was starting to get up and head to the door. "Ah, Moody thanks for telling me all this and do stop by again." Moody nodded and was about to walk out the door when Harry said "Oh, before you go, do turn my relatives back to normal on your way out."

Moody smiled and nodded while walking out closing the door behind him.

Tonks had by then walked over to the fire and was looking into the flames while saying in a low voice. "We could use him now."

Harry heard this and looked at Tonks before saying anything. "I know but we don't have him now." Harry looked away from her and over to the box he had found the other day. "Tonks, can you do something for me?"

Tonks looked at Harry to see him looking at the box he had with him yesterday. "What do you won't Harry?"

"For you to be with me when I open my mother's letter in that box." Harry replied without looking at her.

Tonks looked at Harry then to the box again before answering. "I'll be here for you."

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