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Chapter 5:

The Tea Party

Tonks woke in the late morning, still remembering the weird dream she had had. It had been about her joining a secret organization that Kingsley and Dumbledore and Mr. Weasley and a bunch of other people were in. And she had met Sirius Black who was innocent and the strange and quiet Remus Lupin…Wait a minute. Tonks looked around her flat, she looked down at herself and realized she was still wearing her clothes from yesterday…Which had been Saturday…So that meant…Her head snapped towards her alarm clock, and she saw to her horror it was 12:50 on a Sunday afternoon. The Tea Party. Quickly she threw on a pair of not-so-ripped jeans and a plain navy blue T-shirt and sneakers, while using her brilliant, wonderful metamorphagus powers to make her hair not look like a bed-head. Then she raced out the door, tripping once more over the threshold causing her to basically catapult into the air as she disappeared into the darkness, thinking over and over the address of the minister's manor.

With a thud and an, "Ow!" Tonks fell to the ground in front of a pair of elegant iron gates. Wincing she got up, her hands and arms scraped from breaking the fall and a tear in her jeans. She noticed a house-elf walking briskly to the gates before snapping his fingers. The gates swung forward and Tonks received her first real glimpse of the minister's home. There was a large and very green front lawn, with a couple trees that had ripe-looking fruit hanging from the branches. An orchard also was to the left, but the plants and lawn were nothing compared to the house itself. It was enormous and completely white on the outside with three or more stories, a balcony was at the top level, over-looking the front. She could see the very edge of a lovely patio around the back of the mansion and she could see a person seated at a table if she tilted her head to the left.

"Right this way, miss," the house-elf squeaked, gesturing in that direction. With that he led her down a path and towards the back. A quick glance at her watch told her it was 1:01.

"Shoot," she muttered under her breath. Now they turned and Tonks came into full view of some of the people she hated most. Cornelius Fudge, Percy Weasley, the Malfoy's, and Umbridge. They were all laughing, no doubt about some stupid joke. The house-elf stepped forward as Fudge then everyone looked up. Draco Malfoy looked Tonks up and down then smirked. Now the house-elf was saying,

"Announcing, Miss Nymphadora Tonks," the minister nodded to the elf.

"Thank you, you may go back to your work," bowing again, the dirty elf walked around the house again. Finally, Fudge smiled up at Tonks. "Nymphadora, so glad you made it! Take a seat," he waved his hand at the empty chair in between Draco and Umbridge. 'Just my luck,' thought Tonks bitterly. After sitting down, Umbridge gave a tiny cough, one Tonks would grow to hate very soon, and spoke.

"You are late, Miss Tonks. And what has happened to you, all scraped up and hardly dressed for the occasion," Tonks stared down at her plate.

"I tripped," she mumbled, "and I didn't know I needed to be dressed formally, Aurors don't usually go to formal gatherings except to stand as guards," She heard Draco snort.

"Tripped, did you? That sounds just like my dear older sister, Andromeda. Always a bit clumsy," Narcissa said from across the table. Tonks could feel a flush rising to her face.

"Well, an Auror. Sounds like a very interesting occupation," Luicus drawled to Draco's right. "Draco, how about you tell your cousin about school,"

"Well, I am doing very well in my classes, one of the best in my year, especially in Potions. Professor Snape is such a wonderful teacher," Draco said, in a perfect, but not so low-pitched impersonation of his father. 'Wonderful teacher, that's a laugh,' She thought to herself. Out loud she asked him,

"So, you in Slytherin, I suppose? I was in Hufflepuff, myself," It was not the right thing to say. The Malfoy's all looked at her like she was suddenly a bug on the ground they wanted to squish, Umbridge coughed a little and turned to her biscuit, and Draco openly sneered at her. Ooh, one day she was going to let him have it. She'd slap that stupid expression off his face in an instant if given the chance.

"You know, sometimes if you use one facial expression a lot and for long periods of time, your face gets stuck and you can't get it to change," Haha, Draco's face went from smirk to a look of horror in less than a second. The minister looked over at her and Percy even stopped writing in his notebook and gave her an appalled look. He seemed to think it was a crime to insult the Malfoy's, which was ironic since, if she could remember correctly, his own father had started a brawl with Mr. Malfoy a few years ago. Umbridge gave a small cough yet again.

"Pardon me, Miss Tonks, but I am sure those are probably only stories, and I am sure young Mr. Malfoy meant nothing by it. I would also like to point out that that is not how one is to conduct oneself when one is having tea," Tonks glared at Umbridge, who glared back, the sneer was once again on Malfoy's face. Tonks managed to whisper the words, "Watch out," without notice of the others.

"Ah, and here is the tea now," said the minister, breaking the uncomfortable silence. Tonks was rather worried, never having mastered the art of drinking tea. It was placed in front of her and to her right she could see Umbridge putting whole spoonfuls of pink sugar into her own tea. She nearly gagged. She reached out to pick up the tea, but upon touching it, nearly burnt her fingers.

"Ow!" The others looked up at her sudden outburst. "Sorry," she said hastily. After that incident, Tonks managed to scald her tongue, whereupon spilling her hot tea down her front, tip the cookie tray so the cookies slid to the ground, and drop the teapot, smashing it to smithereens. She stood up, seeing the others nearly bursting while trying to hide their laughter, and excused herself.

"Just know, you are always welcome in our home, Nymphadora," Luicus Malfoy's voice called across the lawn. Not bothering to wait for the house-elf, Tonks pushed the gates open, which caused alarms to be set off and left, turning promptly on the spot.

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After Tonks had vanished, Dolores Umbridge cleared her throat as she reached for a biscuit.

"I think that went rather well,"

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