Chapter fifteen
That evening Harry went to the Hufflepuff common room. "Hello Harry." Susan said, not at all surprised when he didn't enter through the normal entry. "Hello Susan, Hello Hannah." Harry replied. At that moment everyone else noticed Harry. He was greeted with a lot Hello's and questions about The Hogwarts Heir. Harry answered them truthfully. "Why did you visit us first Harry?" Hannah asked after a while. "Well I had to choose between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. I somehow don't think Slytherin would have appreciated my presence in their common room." This drew some laughter. "And Susan approached me this lunch so I could announce it to her. The other reason is that my sister would have my head if I didn't, since this is her old House." "You have a sister?" Justin asked. Harry started to explain his sister and the rest of the evening was a huge success. Five minutes for curfew Harry announced his departure. "I'm sorry guys, but I promised Ron something and it's almost curfew." After a lot of goodbyes Harry left to his own quarters.
"Let's get this animagus training started." Harry said after he had told them of his evening. "Who wants first?" he asked. Ginny volunteered. Harry gripped her hand and let his magic touch hers. He quickly found her animagus form. It was a cute red cat. Harry then started to manipulate Ginny's magic. It took some time, but finally he asked Ginny to change. Ginny tried it and in a whip the cat stood in front of them. Changing back was a bit more difficult , but she quickly got the hang of it. Soon everyone had pulled of the transformation. An Owl was flying around the room. Hermione was finally starting to love flying too. Harry was having a wrestle match with a big lion named Ron. Ginny was just relaxing in her cat form and Neville was a dog. Everyone loved their forms and they all fitted somehow.
The rest of the time for Halloween flew over. Halloween itself was on Saturday. Tonks would come over on Friday morning and would leave Monday after classes. She had already had the weekend of, but wanted to stay longer. Tonks had decided to floo over before breakfast. She stumbled the living room in and was greeted with the sight of a bunch of animals sleeping peacefully. The panther woke up and walked over to her, pressing his head to her legs. She bended down and petted the panther. "Good morning." She said to it. A second later she was looking at a laughing Harry. "You should see your face, it's priceless." He laughed. Tonks started to laugh to. "I presume these are your friends." She said gesturing to the other animals. Ginny had chosen that moment to transform. "You are right." She said from behind Tonks. "Merlin!" Tonks screamed. This woke everyone up and soon they all were laughing. "How are we going to call you if we want Dumbledore to remain oblivious?" Neville asked. "Call me Dora, it's a shorter version of my name." Tonks shrugged. "Can you please make yourself look more like me?" Harry asked. "Why, I thought it was known that we aren't really siblings?" "That's true, but that way we can throw Dumbledore off of your real identity." Harry explained. "Plus, it's a good prank." Ginny added. This got Tonks to change her appearance. "Let's go." She said.
Tonks draw a lot of attention when they entered the Great Hall. She almost walked to the Hufflepuff table, but Harry pulled her over just in time. "This is amazing, I feel like I'm little again." Tonks said. "If you were little again uncle Moony might have a point about too old." Harry snickered. "Harry!" Tonks exclaimed blushing. "You know you're quite red, right?" Ginny said. "I surrender. You all know already that I like him, so I don't see the deal." She said while throwing her hands in the air. "We're trying to let you admit it is a bit more than simple liking each other." Ginny said. Tonks was now completely red. Harry came to her rescue, but couldn't resist teasing her a bit: "Yeah, it's pretty evident that you two love each other. You just have to admit it. But I feel a bit uncomfortable discussing my sister's love life so open." This was also a warning to the others that Dumbledore was approaching. "good morning everyone, I was wondering if I could have a word with you in my office later, miss?" "Just call me Dora, professor and I would love to come to your office later. But can I fist finish breakfast with my little brother?" Tonks said. "Don't call me little." Harry said, fake mocking over it. "Off course." Dumbledore said and he leaved. "well done sis." Harry said. Too soon for everyone the classes started and Tonks made her way to Dumbledore.
"Hello professor." "Hello miss Dora. Take a seat." Tonks had to stifle a laugh as the headmaster called her miss Dora. "What if you want to speak with me about Headmaster" "I merely wanted to get to know you, since nobody has ever known Harry Potter had a sister." Tonks was laughing inside as she recognised what Dumbledore had actually said. He had basically said he wanted to know who she was and what the heck she was doing with Harry. "Well Headmaster, Harry and I discussed this exact problem this morning. We have decided that everyone will call me Dora and we won't make my real name known. This is merely to keep it out the press and to protect me from Voldemort." "I see, you can't even tell me?" Dumbledore asked. Tonks had to stifle a laughter again. "I'm sorry Headmaster. I don't think even Harry's friends know my full name." It wasn't a lie, she thought. They didn't know her full name, but it was just her middle name they didn't know. Dumbledore looked a bit disappointed, she noted. "Well miss Dora, I'm glad you and your brother have taken the precautions to ensure your safety. I wanted to ask you a question though. Do you really know what you signed up for with adopting Harry as your brother?" Tonks sighed inwardly. This was exactly what they had anticipated. "I'm very sure Headmaster. Harry needs a family and I'm very willing to help him. I love him as a brother and call him that. He loves me as a sister and calls me that. I think that would count for something." Tonks said, hoping she had built a strong case. "I agree with you, but don't you agree that young Harry needs a strong person to guide him?" Dumbledore said, trying to be sneaky. "I agree with you Headmaster, but you don't know my achievements or my age. I won't share them with you now, but I can assure you that I will help Harry as hard as he can. As for a strong person, I think Remus can help Harry fairly well with that. He is a werewolf and has experienced the prejudices of the world, but he still is a kind man. I think he is one of the best to guide Harry. We aren't the only ones though. Harry had started calling Hermione sister and Ron and Neville brother. This may be a strange family, but it is family and Remus and I aren't the only two adults in it." Tonks had added the last bit in the hope of throwing Dumbledore off. It appeared that it had worked. Dumbledore looked more curious as ever, wanting to know who the other adults were. Tonks decided that she had stayed long enough and said: "I you'll excuse me Headmaster. I may be on leave, but that doesn't mean there aren't things I have to sign or read for the weekend." And Tonks left the Headmaster's office.
At lunch everyone was laughing at Fred, George and Lee as they were dancing like monkeys on the table. "Was that you?" Tonks asked the five friends. They just nodded their heads, not being able to answer. "That's brilliant." She said, laughing very hard to. "How was your meeting with professor Dumbledore?" Harry asked after they had calmed down. "well that git tried to convince me that you needed a strong person in your life. I told him he didn't know me. And he practically demanded me to tell him who I am. Packed in a question off course." It was clear Tonks wasn't very happy with Dumbledore at the moment. "Well, calling him git isn't very nice, but I dare say I agree with you." Hermione said. "Let's go the lessons." Harry said. "We can start training Dora tonight." And he winked at the others. "Training, do you mean to become an animagus?" Tonks asked. "Yep," Harry said. "That way can stay with a werewolf during the full moon. I thought that would solve your problem." Tonks threw herself at Harry, off course she managed to let them both fall on the ground. "Thank you, thank you thank you!" she almost yelled. "We have lessons." Harry managed to say. "Oh, off course." Tonks stood up from the floor and let Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville go. She was so happy, maybe this would show Remus she loved him. Oops, did she just admit that to herself?
A/N: Now that they have completed their transformation I need Marauders names for them. Someone a suggestion? And can someone geus Tonk's animagus form?
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