She was the same Tonks except she was not clumsy anymore and like any house elf shunned the use of clothes. Harry had to order her to wear simple things like a sundress to avoid offending the order or the members of the Weasley family.

He still blushes with shame every time he thinks of the instance where his relationship with Tonks stopped being platonic. It was two days after his party when Tonks laid her mother and father to rest. His Lilith grieving and broken and begged him to stay with her that night. He felt like a complete cad but she was in grief and he was her friend so he allowed her in his bed for comfort. She went to bed wearing nothing but g-string underwear. It allowed him to fell the softness against his side made his body react and harden painfully. So much so he turned away from her to hide it. She senses it and asked,"Master Harry did I do something wrong?" he heard her asked with confusion and hurt in her voice.

"No Lilith you did nothing wrong". At her confused expression he added, "I never woke up with a girl much less a woman before."

Tonks looked at him and his body and it dawned on her what the problem was.

"I see. If I may, Master Harry, I think I can help with your problem".

Bugger. He was going to Hell for this. But it was so uncomfortable he needed release. He closed his eyes in submission. Tonks took this as cue and untied his pajama strings and used her tongue and mouth to give him much needed relief. After a moment he asked, "Are you alright Lilith?"

"Yes. Why do you look so sad Master Harry?" asked the witch confused at the sight of his tears.

"I took advantage of the situation. You are my friend and I treated you no better than a whore". He replied with shame

She laid her head on his shoulder "I wanted to master Harry, you did not take advantage. Please don't cry."

"I order you to always tell me the truth Lilith, never do something that you think I want you don't want to do it and use the word no when I do something you don't want. I never want to be the kind to force a woman."

"Of course Master Harry" she replied as she wiped his tears away with her soft hand.

***

Harry knew he had to talk Hermione and Ron about the new glitch in their plan. Originally it was the three of them that would destroy the artifacts that made Voldemort invincible known as Horcruxes. Now that Tonks was irrevocably bound to him, he had no choice but take her with them. He was not at all looking forward to telling Ron this. He was Harry's best friend and he loved him like a brother, but he could be so immature and childish sometimes. Ron was always prone to insecurity over Harry's popularity. He no doubt would feel like he was being pushed over for someone else and not feel important anymore. Hermione was especially outraged at this situation, one of her best friends was made into a slave. It made her want to double her long battle to free house-elves and have them fairly treated. She was so dedicated to this that she created the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare or S.P.E.W. He was not at all surprised when Ron was outraged at the idea

" She is not part of the plan! Dumbledore entrusted this task to us three alone!" replied the red haired boy.

Harry did not take kindly to that at all."Ron you selfish prat! If I leave her behind I kill her or drive her mad!"

Ron looked to Hermione for support, for she was staying silent. "Don't you look to me for support Ronald Weasley! Tonks is our friend! It is disgusting that you choose our original plan over her wellbeing! You make me sick!" Ron red-faced left the attic room where they where talking without another word.

Ron would not speak to them for the remaining weeks that they where at the burrow preparing for and attending the Wesaley/Delacour wedding. Harry never stopped being amazed at Hermione's genius. She had charmed her small diamond encrusted purse to be bottomless and expandable to carry many items that they would need a tent, polyjuice potion, spell books and the like. She had put Harry's things and Tonks things in there in the eventually that they would have to leave quickly.

Tonks was not oblivious to the tension and was saddened that she would come between the three friends. "I am sorry Master Harry for causing such trouble." She finally said the night before the wedding. They where laying in bed together in their usual bed cloths, Harry had an old pair of pajama pants and Tonks was in her underwear.

"This is not your fault Lilith, it is Ron's for being such a berk. You have done nothing wrong."

"Is that all that is bothering you Master Harry?"

Harry sighed. She was so good at reading him in the short time that they where together.

"It's Ginny. We were involved last year but I broke it off to protect her. When you had taken ill she was distraught and we where very close to sleeping together if Mrs. Weasley did not come in looking for her. After I received the letter explaining what happened to you she has been cold to me, like it was my fault you are in this situation. I don't blame her for being angry at what happened to you but it still hurts."

She kisses him softly as a comforting gesture that after a while began rather heated. She tasted like blueberries and tea, and chocolate. A strange combination but still arousing. All thoughts of being noble left his mind when her expert tongue was exploring his mouth. Somewhere in his hazy mind he registered that he was no longer kissing Tonks, he was kissing Ginny. He let his mind and emotions go as he finally was able to express what he was feeling to her. He was elated when she responded in kind and showed no ill will. When he recovered he took her into his arms and laid her sweaty form against his side. After they both catching his breath he asked, "Did I hurt you?"

'No master Harry" her reply startled him back to reality.

"Get some rest Lilith it will be a long day tomorrow". He said while shedding silent tears for taking advantage of her once again.

***

It was a beautiful August day when the wedding of Bill and Fluer took place.

Tonks used her powers to put a type of charm that acted the same way as polyjuice potion that had him looking like Ron's brother. They introduced him as a Weasley distant cousin Barny. The wedding guests included Victor Krum, and Roger Davis who attended with Cho Chang.

Hermione looked very lovely in a Lilac colored dress matching heels and hair straight and shiny. Tonks was looking especially beautiful in a pink halter dress and long blond hair. He could see Remus looking at the pair oddly then turn to talk to Luna and her father as they arrived. "Harry have you seen Ron?" ask Hermione as she approached him.

"No Hermione I didn't." he said with a sigh. Poor Hermione was still upset over their fight and hoped that Ron would see reason. Ron however was never the logical or rational one, and had still acted as he and Hermione carried the plague. Harry wanted Ron to come with him, he was still his best friend and he needed his support.

"He will come around Hermione. I just hope he gets over it before we have to go, I would hate to leave him"

Just then they saw a Lynx appear in the middle of the party speaking in Kingsley's voice:

" The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming." *

Tonks did not hesitate one moment. She grabbed Harry, Hermione, and Hermione's purse and Disapperated them away.

Tonks Apprated them to a neighborhood that was foreign to both Harry and Hermione. At the end of a little street there was a beautiful old manor house where she invited them. In response to their confused faces she said, "This is Shaklebot House, the house where Kingsley grew up in. He said once that it was protected with anti black magic charms. He always told me if I was in trouble to use it".

"I would say that we are in trouble" replied Hermione. "I hope Kingsley and everyone else is ok".

The house was spacious with high ceilings with a living room that had comfortable chairs and a fireplace, a kitchen that could fit twenty people a dinning room that could sit fifty people with antique furniture. They where sitting in the living room trying to decide what to do next after they changed out of their best cloths.

"Master Harry where did you plan on starting your quest?" asked Tonks

Hermione raised an eyebrow at him. " When she first woke up she called me master and I asked her to call me Harry. She has been calling me Master Harry ever since" he replied with a Weasley worthy blush.

"I only know what I need to do Lilith not where to start. There wasn't enough time." Said Harry.

"What was the last thing that you did Master Harry?" asked Tonks in a curious tone.

"I went with Dumbledore to find the locket Hecrux. Only it was a fake, the real one stolen by someone called RAB"

" Hecrux? Is that why we are unable to kill him Master Harry?"

'Yes Lilith it is. That is what Dumbledore wanted us to do for him before he was killed."

She looked thoughtful for a moment and said "The only RAB that I know of Master Harry, was Sirius's younger brother Regulus Arcturus Black."

Harry and Hermione both looked at each other shocked. Why didn't they think of that?

"It sounds like it could be possible, Regulus was a death eater. The only way to know for sure would go and ask Kreacher about it" replied Hermione after she got over her shock.

"In the morning I guess we can sleep here until all the chaos has died down." Replied Harry reasonably.