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Chapter 4: The Beginning.
07 August 1996 12:00 PM A.D
Harry and Tonks had been staying together for a week now talking and trading story's of their lives before and after Hogwarts while flirting with each other every now and then. Along the way Harry had become very good at Occlumency over this time thanks to Tonks teaching but he still had the odd nightmare and he was thankful that Tonks was there to wake him up right after they started. They had also read all of the books that his mother had left him including the diary.
On this day the weather outside was fine but both Harry and Tonks were still inside the house reading about the dark arts and trying to work out how to get by all of Voldemort's defences.
Tonks was sitting at the desk she had made in the study after the first day of staying with Harry. She looked up to see Harry sitting at his desk reading the diary again trying to find out something about the last Dragon Lord since the diary was written by the teacher of that lord.
Harry feeling someone looking at him looked up to see Tonks watching him. "Something you wanted Tonks?" Harry asked after he could still feel her gaze on him a minute or so later.
"No. Nothing. I was just wondering what you were doing that's all." Tonks said looking away while thinking. 'Yeah and how good you are starting to look. Really good looking thanks to the training I'm putting you through and eating more often.'
"Oh, well I think I'll go for a run. Care to go with me or are you going to stay here?" Harry said getting up and closing the book as he did.
"No, you go ahead. I'll finish this and then get some lunch ready for us when you get back." Tonks said as Harry nodded and walked out of the study.
"What is it about the Dragon Lords that has you so interested Harry?" Tonks said to the room a little after he left having heard him walk out the main door of his room.
"Maybe he is looking for some new power to help against Voldemort." A voice said from the doorway that Tonks knew well after being on the receiving end of his lectures for seven years due to her mischief at school.
Tonks turned around to see Dumbledore was standing in the study door, his blue robes still showing the signs of travelling by floo powder. "Dumbledore. What brings you here?"
"Your letter from last week. About the image of Harry you saw that day and what else you might know about this image?" Dumbledore said casting a quick cleaning charm on his robes.
Tonks sat back and thought about it before answering him. "Well now that you mention it, I recall that it was wearing some of that classic style chain mail armour."
"Did you see anything other than that?" Dumbledore asked sitting in Harry's chair behind his desk. "Nice chair by the why."
Tonks nodded, accepting the compliment and thought some more. "Well the armour did look like it was made of melted silver, not the usual metal and his eyes looked more powerful but also more wise than they are now. Otherwise he looked... stronger than he is now."
Dumbledore nodded and looked at the diary resting in front of him. "Is this one of the books that his mother gave him?" He asked pointing to the book while looking at Tonks.
Tonks nodded and walked over to one of the shelves in the room and took down the other three books Harry had gotten from his mother. "You can take these three if you like but I won't allow you to take that one." She said pointing to the book Dumbledore was starting to pick up.
Dumbledore looked at Tonks and then at the book before him "And why not, my dear Nymphadora?" He said knowing how much she hated her first name.
Tonks looked at Dumbledore with a very pissed look about him using her first name but said, "Because his mother stated that only he can read that but anyone can read the others."
Dumbledore raised an eyebrow at that. "But I need to find out if he is learning any dark arts from this book and the others as well." He said pointing to the books sitting on the other side of the table and then the diary in front of him.
"Well, I can tell you that there is no Dark Arts in these three and that last one... well you wouldn't be able to read it any way." Tonks said taking the diary from the table and out of Dumbledore's reach.
"And what makes you think I can't read that book?" Dumbledore said keeping an eye on Tonks and that particular book wondering what it could be written in for him to be unable to read it.
"Because it is written in Parseltongue." Harry said from the doorway having just gotten back from his run around the block and a quick shower.
Dumbledore looked at Harry and nodded in greeting, noting that because he had had a shower his hair was looking tame for a change. He was dressed in some muggle clothing but also wore the silver cloak. "Well, that proves that this book needs to be looked at by me to make sure it has no dark arts spell in or on it." He said reaching for the book in Tonks's hands but she moved out of his reach.
"Professor, I have all ready read it three times and Tonks did perform some charms to make sure it was safe before I could read it and if I am not mistaken you can not read Parseltongue. Am I right?" Harry said taking the book from Tonks when she walked over next to him and then moved to stand a little behind him.
"True, but spells can translate it for me. Now please give it to me." Dumbledore said holding a hand out for it looking Harry in the eyes and seeing quite clearly that Harry did not trust him any more.
"No and before you say anything I well tell you this. If you can convince my mother to give it to you then yes, you can take it but not before then." Harry said placing the book in his cloak on the right hand side having found out that only he could open that pocket after something was placed in it.
Dumbledore looked at little put out by this and looked to Tonks to see if she would help him only to see that she was not on his side but agreed with Harry.
Tonks walked out of the study and to Harry's room and came back with the red diary Lily had giving to Harry so they could talk through it. "If you like you can try to talk Lily into letting you read that diary with this." She said handing the book to Dumbledore an innocent smile on her face.
Harry smiled and winced remembering that he had a very long fight with his mother when he first had used it a week ago about his grades and how he was doing at school. "Thank you Tonks for getting that for me. Now if you both don't mind I have to practise my Occlumency for tonight's lesson with you." Harry said the last part to Tonks after he removed his cloak and layed it over his chair and then left the room and went into his room, but not before causing Tonks to giving a startled jump when Harry gave her a quick slap on the backside.
"I'll get you for that." She called back to him just before he left the room a large smile on his face and mouthing the words 'I can't wait.' Back at her unmindful of what Dumbledore might say.
As soon as Harry left the study the image of the older Harry appeared again sitting in the chair where the cloak was placed, a phantom red diary in his hands. Dumbledore and Tonks looked at it neither seeming surprised that it appeared to be laughing at Dumbledore as though it knew what the book before him would say. After a moment he started mouthing the words, 'Not yet. It's not time yet.' at them over and over again.
Dumbledore looked at the image noting the silver armour and silver cloak it wore and Harry's emerald eyes looking at him but the hair was longer and much tamer than Harry's hair. "Who are you?" Dumbledore said to the image.
The image just looked back at him and then at Tonks and mouth the word, 'You will need each other tonight.' Then vanished with out a trace.
Tonks looked at where the image had been and then to Dumbledore who was now writing in the red leather book. She could see the replies showing up on the page but could not make them out though it seemed clear that Dumbledore was getting no where fast with his talk with Lily.
"You know Dumbledore, I have yet to talk to Lily, but from what I've been told by Harry she will not let you look at that book." Tonks said watching Dumbledore fight with the book.
After an hour Dumbledore yelled out in frustration at the book. "God this is worse than fighting Lily for real. I give! I surrender. Harry can keep the book but make sure he doesn't learns any dark arts from it." Before waiting for an answer he walked over to the fireplace and flooed back to Hogwarts, the other three books in his arms.
Tonks looked at the red leather book still open on Harry's desk. After thinking for a minute she walked over to it and picked up the quill and after re inking it wrote in the book. 'Ah. Hello. How are you Lily?'
'What? Who are you?' appeared on the paper in front of her in a neat lopped handwriting that looked to be the same that the Hogwarts letters were written in.
'My name is Tonks. I've been living with Harry over the last week, keeping him company. What did you and Dumbledore talk about?'
'Just him trying to get that book. What are you doing there anyway?'
'I've been showing Harry how to use Occlumency for his mind to give him some peace and also some of the Auror training so he can fight he-who-must-not-be-named.'
'Oh, you're that Tonks. Harry has talked about you so much every night that I think he likes you. So what do you do besides being a Auror?'
'I fight against the Death Eaters as a member of the Order and then there is teaching Harry how to fight. Not counting our flirting sessions.'
'Thank you for being there for my son and know that he will be there for you if you need him. I think I had better go. Harry should be here soon.'
'Thank you. I hope to talk to you soon.' Tonks had just put the book away when Harry walked in and sat in one of the chairs for that night's lesson in Occlumency.
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After that nights lesson Harry went to bed while Tonks sat in the lounge room thinking about what the image had said and what Lily had told her about Harry. 'Maybe he does like me as more than a friend but that cant be right. I'm five years his senor but it would be nice to be loved for me and not for what they want for a girlfriend.' She thought while looking into the fire her face slipping through the transformation into her natural looks.
Tonks was brought out of her thoughts by Harry's scream of horror from his room. "Harry!" Tonks called as she entered his room to see him sitting up in bed his face coved in sweat. "Harry it's all right. I'm here and it was just a dream." Tonks said sitting on the bed next to him, running a hand over his back to calm him down so he could tell her what happened.
"It was Voldemort and his Death Eaters." Harry said after a while looking at the far wall his eyes showing the horror of everything he had seen. "They attacked a street in London killing anything that moved." He paused and then looked Tonks in the eye for the first time since waking up. "He was in a house and there were pictures of you in your school robes and other clothes through your years at Hogwarts on the walls. Kneeling before him was a woman crying as he tortured her. Her brown hair was covered in blood from the wounds caused by one of his Death Eaters hitting her and her eyes... they were your eyes." Harry finished looking at Tonks who was starting to breakdown and cry.
"Harry, you just told me what my mother looks like." Tonks said lowing her head and bring her hands up to her face as she started to cry out loud at the death of her mother.
"It's alright Tonks. I've got you and I am sorry about what happened to your mother. I'm so sorry." Harry said pulling her into his arms and just holding her, letting her cry on his shoulder while silently swearing that Voldemort would pay for every death that he caused.
The next morning found Tonks fast asleep next to Harry on his bed. Harry was watching her in her true form slowly running a hand through her hair as he watched her tear streaked face. 'Why did he go after her and that street and not after my friends or where they lived? Oh, I am so sorry Tonks, but as I promised you last night, I will kill him. For you as well as for me now.'
Harry got up then without waking Tonks up and walked over to the diary of the last Copper Dragon Lord. "It's time." Harry said opening the book to the last page where a spell the lord had written for Harry was there, his name in small script at the bottom of the page.
Harry looked back at Tonks and then down at the spell. "I'll be back in a few hours Tonks. Don't worry about me." Harry then chanted the spell out loud.
Through times veils I see
and through times veil I go,
back through space
and back through creation
to the time where the old is new
and the new is yet to be.
Tonks awoke just as Harry uttered the final words to the spell "Harry?" she said sleepily, seeing him surrounded in a mist of purple smoke "Harry!" Tonks yelled at him waking up fully as he looked at her with a smile then he was gone the book falling to the floor still open to the page of the spell as it melted into mist above the page. "Harry where have you gone? What have you done?" She said and started to cry, not noticing the owl that carried the note that would tell her of her mothers death fly into the room and wait patiently for her.
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