Chapter six

Hello Tonks,

You said I could visit you, I hope my owl can to. We, (I and uncle Moony) went to Gringots after the Ministry. We saw my family tree. I came to know I am the heir of Gryffindor and Slytherin. I really thought I had gone mad when I saw their names. But apparently I'm not mad. Good to know. After that we saw my parents Will. Did you know our parents knew each other? My parents left something for your parents, but because the Will was closed they didn't get it. It will be delivered to them later. But in their Will also stood that Peter Pettigrew their Secret Keeper was. Uncle Moony explained everything to me. Could you tell this to Amelia, I think she would like to know an innocent man was sent to Azkaban. But the reason I decided to write you (apart from teasing uncle Moony) is that after that we did a power check. It said, among other things, that I am a metamorphmagus grade three. Since you are a metamorphmagus I hoped you could explain this to me. Could you send me a letter back? Oh, wait, I have a better idea. Why don't you visit us here. I'm sure uncle Moony won't mind. You should have seen his face when I said I was going to write you. It was just as funny as your face when I mentioned I could bring him with me.

Write me back,

Harry Potter

Harry gave his letter to Hedwig. "Will you bring this to Tonks for me?" Hedwig took the letter and flew away through the night sky. Harry went to eat dinner.

Tonks was impressed when she read Harry's letter. Among other things? Tzjeez what a powers must this kid have. She chuckled when she read the last part. She would come to visit. She wrote a letter back and gave it to Hedwig, who was happy to be able to fly freely.

Wotcher Harry,

I already sent a letter to Amelia with your information. I hope we can do something about it. He was my second cousin, you know? As for being the heir of two founders, I'm impressed. I'll explain about the metamorphmagus if I can come to visit. Say, the day after tomorrow? You'll first have to ask uncle Moony of course. Why do you call him that actually? Send me a letter if it is okay.

See you,

Tonks.

The next morning Harry asked if Tonks could visit at breakfast. "What do you mean? Today?" Remus asked quickly. Harry chuckled. "No, tomorrow. She will help me with the metamorphmagus thing." "Oh." Remus said, he sounded relieved. "That's okay, I think." "Thank you, I'll write her after breakfast. Oh, uncle Moony?" "Yes Harry." "Mrs. Weasley has invited me to stay there for the last two weeks of the summer break, should I do that?" "If you want to, it would be the best to keep up appearances. You can tell your best friends about staying here, but no one else. And tell them in person don't owl them about it." Remus said. "That's good, I should write Ron and Hermione to. Oh, I also asked Tonks to tell Amelia of Sirius Black." Harry quickly finished his breakfast and went to his room to write the letters.

Hi Hermione,

Everything is okay here so far. Are you going to Ron's to the last two weeks? It would be cool to see each other again. I don't have much to say through owl post right now, but I hope I'll see you.

Take care,

Harry

Harry's letter to Ron also was short. He couldn't really tell them about Remus and he didn't want to lie so he didn't have a lot to tell.

Hi Ron,

How are you? I'm doing ok. Does the offer for those last two weeks still stand? I'm looking forward to it. Is Hermione coming to? I hope so. I'll come on my own to yours. Please don't come to pick me up. It wouldn't do any good. I'll see you

Bye,

Harry.

After that Harry wrote to Tonks. He told her it was okay to come. He also told her about the Marauders and Remus' name. Remus had told him about it the evening before, when he had asked about it. The letter to Tonks was a lot longer than the ones to Ron and Hermione, but to Tonks he could at least talk about Remus. He also had a lot of teasing material for Tonks. He had found it funny how Tonks and Remus had reacted to each other in the ministry and later. He decided he would also write to Aunt Minerva. She deserved to know what had happened. After all those letters he and Remus just had some fun.

The next day Harry was early. When he walked to the kitchen, he realised he wasn't the only one. Remus stood in the kitchen making breakfast. He looked a bit nervous Harry noticed. "Good morning uncle Moony, nervous?" Harry chuckled. Remus almost jumped at Harry's voice. "Good morning Harry, why should I be nervous?" he asked. "Well, because the girl you obviously have a crush on is coming to visit?" Harry found it difficult to not outright laugh at the moment. "I don't have a crush on Tonks, Harry and even if I would, which I have not, she is too young for me." If Harry had it difficult before, he didn't know what this was called. They quickly ate breakfast. "How late did she say she would come?" Remus asked after a while. "Wotcher Harry, Remus." Sounded from the living room at that moment. Remus almost jumped as he heard her voice. Harry calmly stood up and walked to the door. "You didn't have a crush you said?" he called over his shoulder. Remus just stood there, blushing.

"Hello Tonks, are you okay?" Harry asked after he saw Tonks laying on the ground. "Yeah, I'm okay. I always trip, I'm dead clumsy. What did you say about a crush earlier?" Remus who was just walking to the living room stopped dead when he heard that. "Oh, nothing, it's just that uncle Moony keeps saying he doesn't have a crush on you, but his actions say otherwise." Harry said nonchalant. Now Tonks was just as red as her hair. Which was a Weasley red today.

"Good morning Nymphadora." Remus, who had just walked in, said. "Don't call me that and you good morning to." Tonks replied.

"Now Harry, you have to know there are five grades of metamorphmagi. Grade one can only change the length of his hair. Grade two can change Hair length and colour. Grade three, which is you, can change hair length, colour and eye colour. Grade four can do all that and control their length and grade five can change everything. I'm grade five. Do you have any questions?" Harry shook his head. "Good, you change your appearance by thinking hard of how you would like to look like You visualize that in your head and you will your magic to change. It is a bit difficult, especially if this is the first time you change, try it." Harry closed his eyes and thought of himself with Remus' hair. "That was quick." He heard Tonks say. He opened his eyes and looked in the mirror that lay in front of him. He did it, he had now Remus' hair. "Do you always change everything or only your hair?" he asked Tonks. Tonks sighed and stood up. She closed her eyes and a second later a total different person stood in front of them. It was Tonks, you could see that. She hadn't changed her body much, but the colour of her eyes was different. Before they had been a very light blue. Now they were a soft brown shade. Her hair was just over her shoulders and was mouse brown. "I like myself better with a lot more colour so I normally don't use my original appearance." Tonks closed her eyes and went back to how she looked before. She and Harry changed back and forth the whole morning and at the end of the morning Harry was just as quick as Tonks. Tonks was impressed

"Normally for someone not familiar with the ability it takes a lot longer, but you pick it up quickly." She said. "Well, they said I had the ability of wandless magic, so maybe that has something to do with it." Harry replied. "Wandless magic? How many abilities did you have?" "I had four with potential for a fifth. I am a Parselmouth, I can see magic and the other two you know." "Wow, that's amazing, can you try to see my magic?" Harry nodded and tried. He felt his own magic calling in him. He took the magic and let it flow for his eyes. When he opened them again he could see the magic everywhere in the house. Most magic was silver but Tonks magic was changing colours very quickly. He looked at his own magic. It was changing but not that quick. "Your magic is changing colours very fast, I think that comes with a metamorphmagus, because mine is changing to, but not that quick." "That's amazing." Tonks said. "I have to go now, because I have to be at work, but I'll owl and maybe we can do some experiments with this. See you Harry, Remus." And with that she disappearated. "That was cool." Harry said and he took the magic from his eyes. Now he could see normal again. Harry and Remus ate lunch and spent the afternoon talking and playing wizard chess.

The next weeks flew over. After the first week Harry and Remus had been at the ministry again and it was now official: Remus was Harry's guardian. Tonks also had been over a couple times. She and Remus kept stealing glances at the other when they thought said person wasn't looking. Harry found it all very amusing. Aunt Minerva also visited a couple of times. Harry learned that she was a very kind woman behind the stern mask. Soon the time came for Harry to go to the Weasleys. They agreed that Remus would come seeing Harry of, but he would go under a couple of glamours and the goodbye would be brief. They would write letters later. Harry got his trunk and went to the Floo. He stepped in the flames and called: "The Burrow." Remus watched as Harry disappeared. Harry had just gone, but the flat already felt empty.