Disclaimer : I do not own anything of the Harry Potter universe, it all belongs to JK Rowling, I just love writing about the fantastic universe she presented us.
The next morning, Harry and Tonks woke up like the morning before, with Harry's arm around Tonks' stomach. This time Harry had woken up before Tonks and ashamed, he tried to pull his arm away without waking up Tonks.
He didn't woke up Tonks, but he wasn't able to move his arm because the moment he tried to move it away, Tonks unconsciously moved her own arm over it to keep it there.
Not really knowing what to do, Harry decided not to wake up Tonks so he could remove his arm, but decided to leave it there. A few minutes after that decision, he started to understand Tonks' reaction from the day before a lot better. When he relaxed himself in the hold, he really reveled in it, getting lost in the feeling of warmth and security. Before he knew it, he had drifted away again.
An hour later, Tonks woke up and the little movement she made waking up, woke Harry.
"Good morning" he told her and gave her cheek a little kiss while still holding her close to him.
Tonks not knowing what had caused the change if she thought back about the day before, turned around to face Harry "You seem a lot more at ease"
"I do, you're right, waking up like this is really nice" Harry admitted, but when he saw the look on Tonks' face he added "I woke up a little while ago and I couldn't move since you grabbed my arm when I tried to remove it. Eventually I relaxed enough to notice that it really is nice"
"I'm glad for the change and although I would love to lay here for a while, I think we need to get up"
"I know, can I take a quick shower first?" Harry asked.
"Yes, but I could join you" Tonks said for a wink.
Harry's face became entirely red and he started sputtering, not knowing what to respond.
"Relax, I was just teasing you" Tonks assured him.
Harry just nodded not trusting his voice, took some clothes and disappeared in the bathroom. There instead of a normal shower, he made it a cold one since he had trouble getting Tonks' suggestion out of his head.
Eventually he got out of the shower and put some of his new clothes on, before returning to the bedroom. Tonks just past him towards the shower, so Harry took out a book he had bought about occlumency and started reading.
When Tonks got out of the bathroom, he had read the first chapter. "Did you know I already learned more about occlumency by reading this first chapter, than in all of Snape's lessons"
"It doesn't surprise me actually, since you told me about this lessons" Tonks commented.
"That's true, I've ordered breakfast for us, it should be here any minute"
"Thanks, that's thoughtful" Tonks wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by a knock on their door.
Harry got up to get their breakfast.
During breakfast, Harry was thinking about something he had read in the occlumency book. Tonks had noticed Harry's even more quite demeanor and asked about it.
"In the book about occlumency, they say that you have to learn occlumency with somebody you trust and knows you completely. I trust you completely, so I want you to help me learning it if you want to do that, but there are so many things you don't know about yet and I'm not sure if I can talk about them" Harry explained.
"Things about the Dursleys?" Tonks carefully asked.
"That's one of things, but also my adventures at Hogwarts and stuff"
"If you want me to know about these things, then there are two way we can do this. The first thing is that I use legimency to enter you mind and look for those memories, but that could harm your learning of occlumency. The other way is making sure we have a pensive and going through your memories like that"
"I would prefer the pensive, but that's expensive I've heard"
"We can afford that easily Harry, don't worry. If you want, you can go an buy one in Diagon Alley, there is a shop next to the apothecary that sells magical items, they should have pensives" Tonks told him.
"Ok, I'll go and get one before I go to Gringotts then" Harry agreed.
They finished eating breakfast and then headed out. Before they split up, Tonks gave Harry a kiss
"I'll see you later, have fun shopping" Harry told her.
Tonks nodded and she started to walk towards the store they had gone the day before. Then Harry also started to walk towards Gringotts.
It took Harry 5 minutes before he reached the Leaky Cauldron and he quietly went to the brick wall without being noticed much. Before he headed to Gringotts, he went to the store that Tonks had described to him.
In the store he saw lots of magical items, but not wanting to lose any time, he went to the shop keeper and asked "Do you have any pensives?"
"I do actually, we have new ones and secondhanded ones. What would you prefer?" the man asked.
"I think a new one would be better" Harry said, so the man directed him to the right place in the store.
"We have different kind of models. The cheapest are the ones that can only hold one memory, so you need to remove them every time you want to watch another one. Then we have those that are a little more expensive, those can hold as much memories you want. The most expensive ones also have a locking and protecting mechanism, so keep you memories safe for those who shouldn't see" the man told him.
"And what are the price differences?" Harry questioned.
"The cheapest ones you can buy for between 200 and 250 galleons, then it's between 600 and 800 galleons and the most expensive ones are between 1200 and 1500 galleons"
"Then I'd like to see the models of the last category" Harry said.
"Of course, these are the three models that we have here" and he showed him the three different models.
"I would like to buy the one in blue stone please"
"Alright, if you could follow me to pay for it, then I'll wrap it up"
Harry nodded, got out his wallet and thought about the money he needed, before a piece of paper appeared, which he gave to the man.
After checking the piece of paper and transferring the gold, the man went to wrap up the pensive.
"Do you know how to work with a pensive?" the man asked.
"Yes, I'm familiar with them"
"Okay, if you have any problems, then you can always come back to ask for more information" the man said.
"Thank you for your help" Harry answered and left the store after putting the pensive in his backpack.
Then he quickly went towards Gringotts.
The moment he entered the bank, he was whisked away by a goblin, who told him to follow him. After walking a long way, he ended in a medieval like infirmary.
"Thank you for coming Mr. Potter" Sliptooth told him.
"Sliptooth, I should thank you for helping me with this problem. Without the help of Gringotts, I still wouldn't have known about this" Harry said politely.
"It is our pleasure, you family was already an important client of ours, but combining the Black and the Potter fortune, it made you one of the wealthier wizards in the world, so we are happy to help" Sliptooth said.
Harry nodded, a bit surprised about the wealth of his family and that of Sirius. "What do I need to do?"
"I have asked two of our best healers to come in today. They will help with releasing the blocks" Sliptooth answered.
"Alright, when do we start?"
"Now, if that is agreeable for you"
"Yes, the faster this is done, the better" Harry agreed.
Sliptooth nodded and snapped with his fingers, opening a door.
"I'll leave you in the good care of Gemrald and Diamoron" Sliptooth said before he left the infirmary.
"Good morning Mr. Potter, we are going to start with a full body scan, to see what we are dealing with here" Gemrald told him.
"Alright, what do I do?"
"You just go and lay down on this bed and relax, it will only take a few minutes" Gemrald explained.
Harry nodded and did what they had said. Laying on the bed, while he felt something tickling over his entire body, he thought about Tonks and what he wanted. He thought it was amazing that he felt so great and he didn't mind at all that they would be married, but he didn't want Tonks to miss out on everything that a marriage meant. Formulating a plan while the diagnostic scan ran over him, he had just formed the basic lines when Gemtooth asked his attention.
"It seems that you have multiple blocks on your magic, some older than the others, but our scans have picked up something dark around the scar on your forehead, so we'll perform another scan, but this might hurt a bit" Gemtooth warned him.
Harry didn't mind, he was used to have pain in his scar so he told him "Go ahead" and went to lay down again.
This time he did feel some pain in his forehead, but it was nothing compared to when it would hurt because of Voldemort. He continued thinking about his plans, which he would set in motion if he got out of Gringotts that day before Tonks.
"Mr. Potter, we know what the dark aura where your scar normally is. We believe that it is a horcrux, or the part of a person's soul, in your case that of Voldemort. We have the possibilities to remove it and we would advise you to do so, since Voldemort can't die before it is removed" Gemtooth explained.
The blood drained from Harry's face "You mean I have a piece of Voldemort's soul in my head? If you wouldn't remove it, what are the other possibilities to make it disappear?"
"Your death, otherwise there isn't another possibility. Nobody apart from goblins know that we have a technique to remove this" Gemtooth said.
"Alright, go ahead" Harry told them "Remove it, please"
"Of course, we will start with the removal of the horcrux, since it might be harder after we removed the blocks on your magic" Gemtooth elucidated.
"Please follow me then" Diamoron spoke for the first time.
Harry just followed them, trying to wrap his head around the fact that he had a piece of Voldemort in his head. They stopped in a weird room with a lot of symbols on the walls and floor.
"This is our ritual room, it is a safe place for us and you to remove the horcrux and place it in an animal as host" Diamoron said.
Harry just nodded and followed the directions of the two goblins of what he had to do. So before the ritual started, Harry was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the floor. He just had to close his eyes before they would start.
They started the ritual with slowly binding Harry with goblin magic so he couldn't move. Then they started chanting and applying more magic. It was a long time before Harry started to feel something, but then it started with lightheadedness with changed to pain. He wasn't really surprised that he would be in pain, but it was still bearable for him. After the pain receded again, the lightheadedness surrounded him again, before his head became clear again.
"We will now remove the bind Mr. Potter, we have successfully transferred the soul fragment to a host animal" Diamoron said while Harry started to feel his body move again.
"Thank you Diamoron and Gemrald" Harry earnestly said.
"No problem Mr. Potter, how do you feel?" Gemrald asked.
"I'm not sure actually, lighter, if that makes sense, more at peace" Harry tried to explain.
"It makes completely sense Mr. Potter, the soul fragment in your head were from a very evil wizard, so that could have affect you a lot. It is very likely that you will notice some changes in your character the next weeks, since your soul needs to adjust again to be alone in your head" Diamoron said.
"If you will now follow us again towards the infirmary, so we can explain the blocks you have" Gemrald asked.
"Of course" Harry said, getting up from the ground and following the goblins again.
In the infirmary, they lead Harry to a desk with a lot of pieces of parchment.
"This was the result of your diagnostic test, it seems that you have been through a lot in your life Mr. Potter" Diamoron said.
"Yes, after my parents died, I didn't really had the best upbringing and I tended to attract trouble in Hogwarts" Harry answered.
The goblin merely nodded before she started to explain "On this role, are the blocks you have on your magic. You can see that you got a block from your parents when you were only a few days old, which blocks your metamorphmagus magic. They also placed a magic compressing block on you when you were eight months old. Normally such blocks are removed when a child is seven or eight years old, but since their deaths, this probably didn't happen"
"Can you remove them?" Harry asked.
"Yes the removing itself shouldn't be a problem, but you also have other magic block that was placed on you the night of October 31st by Tom Riddle, probably unintentional. You also have a block placed on you when you were four years old by Albus Dumbledore, which restricts your intellectuality, another one when you were six years old by the same person that restricted your magic and he placed another one the day you entered Hogwarts" Gemrald described.
Harry felt angry towards the headmaster, for manipulating him so much and placing restrictions on him, but he had less trouble controlling it.
"The fact that you have multiple blocks on you and also multiple similar blocks, this will be painful. We can remove the blocks one by one, or we can remove them at once, but the pain could be unbearable" Diamoron said.
"You can remove them all at once, I'll handle it" Harry said, wanting to get rid of the blocks as fast as possible.
"No problem for us Mr. Potter, if you'll follow me again towards the ritual room" Gemrald said smiling a little bit which made Harry think it might not be such a good idea.
Once they were in the ritual room again, Harry had to go to the same place on the floor, but this time he had to lay down on his back with his arms and legs pointing towards some of the symbols on the floor.
"We are going to start like we did with the last ritual, only this one will be quicker, but a lot more painful" Diamoron said.
Harry just nodded and mentally braced himself for what would come. He felt the bind again, but quickly after that he felt a tingling in his entire body that rapidly started to feel as if his entire body was in fire. Till that point, it was still bearable for Harry and he didn't made a sound since he had always learned at a young age not to make any when he was hurting. Harry was starting to get accustomed to the burning feeling when the tingling started to get worse and it was like they were putting swords over his entire body. A tear flowed from his eye from the pain he was in, but he still didn't made a sound, even though it felt worse than the cruciatus curse Voldemort had put him under. Then, it all stopped at once. All the pain he had felt had disappeared.
Harry felt the binds being released and the two goblins neared him.
"How do you feel Mr. Potter" Diamoron asked.
"Confused about the sudden release of the pain" Harry answered.
"You are a strange human Mr. Potter. The few people we have put through the release of a block were screaming of pain and the one we had to remove three blocks fainted in the middle of the ritual" Gemrald told him.
"I'm used to pain I'm afraid" Harry explained.
The two goblins were speechless for a moment before Diamoron asked "How do you feel now?"
"Powerful, like the space in my head doubled and I feel magic running through my veins" Harry tried to describe.
"It is normal that you would feel more powerful, your magic has amplified four times, but we added a part in the ritual that will allow you to keep this magic under control. I believe you already figured out that the clarity in your mind is because of the removal of the intelligence block. And the magic you feel in you veins should have two dimensions, the first one is because of the amplification of you magic, the other part is your metamorphmagus magic" Diamoron clarified.
"Will I have the side effects that I will go through a rainbow with emotions?" Harry asked.
"No we don't thinks so since you already learned how to control you magic, so this magic, like you accidental magic is already under control. I have no idea what effect it will have on learning to change your appearances, but it appears that your blue hair and blue eyes is a preferred form for you, so you will probably find it easy to change back to this form while you are practicing" Gemrald explained.
"Thank you for all the help you have provided me, what can I do to compensate this?" Harry asked.
"You don't have to do anything Mr. Potter, your family has always been very respectful towards goblins and you have a lot of money here, so we are already earning a lot with you" Diamoron said.
Harry nodded "I really appreciate the help you have given me"
"The pleasure was ours" the two goblins answered together.
Diamoron snapped with her fingers and a door opened again, where Sliptooth was already waiting to escort Harry back to the lobby.
Once they were there, Harry thanked Sliptooth again and made his way out of Gringotts. Since Tonks wasn't there yet, he started with his plans he had made and went to look for a magical jewelry. He found one close to Flourish and Blotts and entered.
"Good afternoon, how can I help you this morning?" the shop assistant asked.
"I'm looking for engagement rings" Harry told her.
The young woman smile and waved him over to a display "Are you looking one for you girlfriend or for the both of you?"
"I'd like to have one for both of us" Harry replied.
"Of course, we have couple engagement rings over here" and she waved her hand over a part of the display.
Harry didn't need much time to look at them, since his eye fell on two rings immediately.
"Those please" Harry said and he pointed towards an elegant platinum ring with a diamond in the middle and little diamonds over the rest of the ring, the other ring was wider with just small diamonds over the entire ring.
"It seems you are certain about your choice?" the woman asked.
"Yes, they are perfect" Harry simply replied.
"Alright, it is possible to put a few spells on them"
"What are the possibilities?" Harry questioned.
"Self-adjusting, self-cleaning, a spell that allows you to make them invisible everybody except you and your fiancé that you can switch on or off and a spell that only allows yourself or your partner to remove the ring" the shop assistant described.
"I would like to have all those spells on both of the rings" Harry told her.
The woman just nodded and waved her wand over them in a very intricate pattern.
"There you go, that would make the total of 900 galleons" the woman said a bit nervously.
Harry again got out his wallet and gave her a payment note. "Thank you for your help"
"No problem, good luck with the proposal"
Harry nodded and left the shop. He put the ring away in his backpack and quickly went to Flourish and Blotts again to buy some books about business, goblin relations and politics before he headed back to the Leaky Cauldron.
Once back in muggle London, he made his way to the clothing store. He was glad to go back to where Tonks was, since he had missed her during the morning.
In the store, he made his way to the woman section and went to look for the lime green hair Tonks had at that moment. He didn't find them at the racks, so he made his way to the changing rooms. There he found Mary, but he silenced her with a signal.
When Tonks came out a few minutes later, Harry swirled her and kissed her on her lips before she knew what was happening. It only took her a fraction of a second before she knew it was Harry because of the bond that calmed her directly.
After the tender kiss Tonks wrapped her arms around Harry and hugged him.
"I've missed you this morning" Harry told her.
Tonks looked him in the eyes for a moment before she replied "I missed you too" and planted another kiss on his lips.
A cough from behind them reminded them that they weren't alone.
"Sorry" Harry sheepishly said.
"Don't apologize, you two are really cute" Mary told them. "But we should continue"
Tonks nodded but said "Don't worry, we almost have everything of clothes and sportswear, then it's only the shoes left"
"Take your time, alright" Harry assured her.
Tonks nodded, gave him another quick kiss before she disappeared in the fitting room again.
Three changes later, they had everything and Mary placed a lot of clothes behind the counter before they went to the shoes section.
There Harry even helped looking for shoes. While Harry was looking around, Mary quickly whispered "You're lucky, I haven't seen that many men interested in helping shopping for their girlfriend of wife before"
"I know I'm lucky and not only because of that" Tonks whispered back.
Mary nodded and then went to look for shoes herself. Tonks took a little over an hour to pick her shoes and settled on six pairs of normal shoes and two pairs of running shoes.
They helped carrying the boxes to the cash register and Mary started scanning all the items.
Harry asked Tonks "Do you know what time it is, I really have no idea after everything at the bank"
"It's a little past two, was everything alright at the bank?" Tonks asked a bit concerned.
"I've found out some interesting things, but they helped me out really well. I'll tell you about it this evening, alright?"
Tonks nodded and Harry put his arm around her waist while they were waiting for all the items to be scanned.
Eventually Mary said "That will be 11460 pounds in total"
Tonks smiled and swiped her credit card through the machine again and signed the receipt. Done with that she asked "I was wondering if you wanted to join us for lunch since I made you miss two of your breaks"
"Let me ask my boss, I'll be right back" Mary told them.
"I hope you don't mind" Tonks asked Harry.
"No, not at all, after helping you for six hours, I believe she deserves some lunch" Harry said smiling.
Mary came back with a smile and said "I can just stop for today my boss said, I only have an hour left and after the two big sells is did today and yesterday, he found it only reasonable to do something back"
"Great, do you know a nice place to eat something? We don't really know that much around here" Tonks asked.
"Yes, I know just the place, but we might start with taking your bags away. I'll even help" Mary told them.
Alright, luckily we don't need to go that far" Tonks agreed.
The three of them all took a couple of bags before they left the store. While walking towards the hotel, they were talking a bit about Mary's job.
When Harry entered the hotel first, Mary looked at them a bit strange.
"We are staying here for a couple of weeks, so we can decide what to do next" Tonks explained.
"A couple of weeks?" Mary asked bewildered.
"Yeah, come on, we shouldn't stay in the entrance" Tonks said and started moving again.
They all took the elevator to the right floor and went to Harry and Tonks' room. Once they had placed all the bags on the bed Mary couldn't help herself and said "You really inherited quite a lot if you can stay here for a couple of weeks"
"Yes, that and the fact that we don't have an apartment or house to go to yet doesn't gives us that much options" Harry said.
Mary just nodded while they left the room again. She was quiet while they were walking to the restaurant she had thought of.
When they were there she said "I hope this is an okay place?"
"Of course it is, it's not since we have a lot of money that we need to eat in the best restaurants… Yesterday we ate in a little tavern, so don't worry" Tonks said with a smile.
"Alright, come on, a friend of mine is the owner" Mary told them and went inside.
It was a small and cozy restaurant. There weren't that many people there, but that was understandable since it was three in the afternoon.
"Hey Jim, could we get something to eat?" Mary asked him.
"Of course Mary, just pick a table" the man behind the bar told her.
They took a little table and talked a bit and their meal arrived when Mary asked how they met each other.
"Are you alright if I talk about it?" Tonks asked Harry a bit concerned.
Harry nodded so Tonks started "I met Harry when I got him from his relatives so he could spent some time with my cousin, Sirius. Sirius was Harry's godfather, but he hadn't really had the chance before to spend a lot of time with Harry. That was less than a year ago I think. I've seen Harry around a bit in the few weeks he spent with his godfather before he had to go back to school. Then in the Christmas break I saw him again. It were all short encounters, but we always got along quite well"
Tonks had to take a deep breath before she could continue and she also took Harry's hand for the comfort it gave her "In May, Sirius died and I contacted Harry since I wanted to know how he was doing. We talked every day for long amount of times and when we saw each other when he came back from school a few day back, there was just a connection that we couldn't ignore"
"Wow" was the only thing Mary was able to make out in the beginning before she said "I'm sorry"
"No problem, Tonks already helped me a lot with processing Sirius' death. I don't know where I would be without her" Harry admitted.
"Being angry and not talking to anyone" Tonks said.
"Yeah, probably" Harry agreed "My friends pushed me to talk about my Sirius, while that was the one thing I couldn't do. Tonks just listened and talked about other stuff, helped me study and when I wanted to talk about Sirius, she was there for me"
"I think Sirius would be glad to see you two now" Mary told them.
"Thanks, he would take the mickey out of us, but he would be happy for us" Harry agreed.
"He was quite the prankster" Tonks clarified.
"And according to the stories, especially when it was Sirius and my father" Harry said with a little smile.
"Harry's father, Sirius, Remus and another friend were a group that was famous for their pranks at the boarding school they attended. The teachers hated and loved them" Tonks said "I heard a lot of stories from my mother about it"
"Sounds like you had a great father and godfather" Mary said, not knowing what else she could tell.
"They were, or in my father's case, so I've heard" Harry responded.
"How do you mean?" Mary asked.
"My parents were murdered when I was younger. Sadly I don't have any memories about them" Harry explained.
"You really have had a rough time if I hear it like that?"
"That is an understatement, but it's also made him the great guy he is now" Tonks said and she squeezed his hand.
"Now to change the subject, what do you do in your free time?" Harry asked.
"I'm a student at the university of London and I work part-time in the store during the school year and fulltime during the vacations, so I don't have that much free time, but I like going out with my friends" Mary told them.
"What do you study?" Tonks asked.
"Law" Mary answered "I'm in my third year for the moment"
"Wow and what do you want to do when you're done studying?" Tonks asked.
"I want to specialize in child abuse and neglect, and hopefully help some children who can't speak for themselves" Mary explained.
Harry tensed for a moment before he spoke "I think that's a really noble idea. I hope you can help a lot of children in the future, but there is also a lot of work further down the chain so children are listened to when they ring the alarm bell"
Mary looked at him for a moment before she spoke "You're right. Sadly a lot of people don't take a child serious or the parents are able to suppress the child enough so they are afraid to contact someone"
"Or both" Harry said.
"I'm sorry if I'm blunt, but that's what happened to you, isn't it?"
"Yes, after my parents were murdered, I was sent to my aunt and uncle and their treatment wasn't that good. I once told my teacher, but he just informed my relatives about it" Harry told her, amazed by himself that he was able to tell it to her, but Tonks rubbing circles on his hand with her thumb might have helped. "The clothes we bought yesterday were the first new clothes I got that I can remember, except from my school uniform"
"Well, I'm glad I was able to help with at least that" Mary said.
Harry smiled "You're going to be a good lawyer Mary, you listen to a person, that's already an important step, definitely if you work with children"
"Thank you" Mary said with a smile. "What do you two do?"
"I work at a police department" Tonks told her "But I can't really tell you that much about it"
"And I'm a student in a boarding school in Scotland" Harry told her.
"I don't want to pry, but aren't you too young to be on your own?" Mary asked.
"I'm his legal guardian for another three weeks" Tonks made up "After I found out a few weeks ago about his relatives, I set the wheels in motion so he wouldn't have to go back to them"
Mary nodded "So you're almost eighteen then?" she posed the question towards Harry.
"Yes, although you wouldn't say based on my stature, but that is mostly because of my relatives" Harry said, going with the story.
"I'm glad for you two, really and I'm happy I was able to help you two out a bit"
"It was also nice to have someone help us" Tonks said "Imagine that we had to do that on our own"
"No thank you" Harry said with a wink towards Tonks.
"Actually, I should thank you. We get a bonus of five percent on what we sell, so thanks to you I'm quite a lot richer after working today and yesterday" Mary told them.
"Glad to hear that" Harry said.
"Now I don't want to be rude, but I have plans for the evening, so I should better leave" Mary explained.
"No problem, it was nice to get to know you and thank you for all the help" Tonks said another time.
"My pleasure, are you sure I don't have to pay my share of the food?"
"Yes, very sure" and Harry gave her a smile.
Mary nodded and left the restaurant. Harry and Tonks went to pay for their food before they left the restaurant and made their way back to the hotel. On their way they talked about Mary and Tonks' morning.
When they were finally in their room Tonks asked "Could you now tell me about your morning?"
Harry nodded, went to sit on the bed with his back against the wall and padded next to him so Tonks would come and sit next to him. When she finally did so, Harry placed his arm around her and started to tell her about his visit to Gringotts. Tonks remained mostly silent, listening to his story.
"So how do you feel about everything" Tonks questioned when he was done telling about his morning.
"I'm really relieved that I don't have piece of Voldemort in my head anymore, but I don't understand why nobody else knew about this" Harry mused.
"Or they did" Tonks said. "If I look at your history, the parts I know, then we can safely say that Dumbledore manipulated you, like you were a pawn on a chessboard. Who says he didn't knew you were a horcrux, but that is was just another maneuver in his play"
"That was what I thought about it. Since he placed those blocks on my during my stay with the Dursleys before Hogwarts, he must have known about my treatment there and he didn't do anything about that either"
"I'm glad you are away from his manipulations and that I left the Order" Tonks told him.
"You're not the only one" and Harry pulled her closer to himself.
"So how do you feel now that the soul fragment and the blocks are removed?"
"Different, to say the least. I feel my magic running over my entire body, which is apparently divided in my magic itself and my metamorphmagus magic. I also have the feeling that I have much more capacity to learn" Harry explained.
"Are you happy with the change?"
"Definitely. I don't feel angry anymore all the time and more free. It's quite an amazing feeling" Harry said with a smile.
"I'm really glad to hear that" Tonks said "Did you know that the more our bond will form, the more we will get each other's abilities?"
"No, can you tell me more about it?"
"Of course. I'll start with explaining bonds to you if that is alright?" After a nod from Harry she continued "You normally have live bond, a love bond and a soul bond. A life bond is quite common and it results in a better understanding of the other and a better relationship. A love bond sets the love of a person and will protect the couple to attempts to break their bond, it will also help with understanding each other like with the life bond. The soul bond is generally known as the strongest bond and it happens about once in five to ten years. Couples who have a soul bond will be able to feel the others feeling to some extent and their relationship will be protected. With me so far?"
"I believe so, which one of the three do we have?"
"None of the three" Tonks answered with a smile. "We have something only a very select few people know about. When someone is identified as a metamorphmagus with the ministry, they get a book that helps them and their family to train their powers, but there is also some background about metamorphmagi. They describe that a bond can only occur between two metamorphmagi and that it is even stronger than a soul bond. The couple is described to receive the abilities of the other, since they are so connected, the bond searches for equality. It is also described how the couple will start to feel each other's emotions and in some cases with two strong people, they are able to communicate through their mind. According to the book, this should start the moment the second phase is started and the more intimate, emotionally and physically, you become, the more the equilibrium will be reached"
"That's amazing and scary" Harry admitted.
"I agree, I don't know what will happen exactly and that scares me, but I also think it's exciting to see what will happen in the future"
Harry nodded and yawned "Sorry, my visit to Gringotts took a lot of strength out of me"
"No problem, you can go to sleep even though it is still early. I can read or something like that, maybe even watch some television"
"Alright, do you think I should take the potions for my sight today?"
"Yeah why not, I'll just set an alarm with my wand when you have to take the next potion" Tonks agreed.
Harry nodded again before he got out of bed and took his pajamas and went to the bathroom. He quickly changed and then got into bed.
"Here" Tonks handed him the first potion.
Harry smiled, carefully caressed Tonks' cheek before kissing her softly "Good night and thanks"
"Good night Harry" Tonks said before giving him another kiss.
Harry downed the potion and then went to lay down. He was asleep in seconds, so Tonks set her alarm and went to retrieve a book they had bought at Diagon Alley. An hour later, her alarm went off, which she quickly quieted. She shook Harry half-awake so she could give him his potion, before he just fell asleep again. This time she set her alarm for eight hours. She read some more, ate some dinner which she had ordered before she also went to sleep. In the middle of the night, her alarm went off again, but Harry didn't woke up from it, but Tonks did. Like the second potion, she woke Harry just enough so he would drink the potion before they both went to sleep again.