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She started rummaging through her clothes, looking for something in particular. Her wardrobe needed some serious cleaning-up, she decided, after spending five minutes on finding what she was looking for.

Then she finally found it. It was a hideous pink robe, given to her by her mother a couple of Christmases ago. She had never worn it. She strongly hoped that it would fit.

She put it on in the speed of lightning, perfecting her plan and spilling a glass of water on the floor as she did so. She turned towards the full-length mirror. She shut her eyes tightly, as if she were trying to remember something.

She felt the changes all at once. Her hair turned back to her original color -mousy brown-, keeping its length and becoming curlier as it did so. Her eyes grew bigger and her body shorter and plumper.

When she opened her eyes, Dolores Umbridge stared back. Her eyes were full of disgust and fear. Then Umbridge's plump and clumsy body turned around and she left the room as fast as she could. She grabbed her wand and went through the back door, towards the front door.

"Hem hem." Kingsley jumped and turned around.

"Madam Umbridge?" His booming voice was full of surprise. "What brings you to this neighborhood?"

Tonks panicked. Then she answered, using her best Umbridge-like voice, "I- I'm afraid I must ask the same question, Shacklebolt."

"I'm here to pay a visit to my fellow Auror Nymphadora Tonks, sir," he said respectfully.

Tonks opened her huge eyes even bigger. Then she asked the question she had been dying to get an answer to. "Why, I must ask?" Though she highly doubted that Kingsley would tell the truth.

Kingsley pondered a moment. "The Minister's orders, sir." He looked like he wanted to give out as little information as possible.

Tonks wasn't satisfied, though. "But Cornelius- I mean, the Minister would've let me know. Has she done anything wrong?" She glanced as darkly as possible to her own house. "I hear she supports Dumbledore," she said in a whisper. Better to whisper than high-pitch her voice.

At that precise moment, she saw Kingsley's hand fly to his robe pocket. So the idea of Dumbledore frightened him, too.

"I didn't know that, sir. But it is highly possible."

He didn't? That was a lie. And why would he lie to Umbridge, if he was really there because Fudge told him so?

She hesitated a bit before talking this time.

"Really, then why-" Kingsley had his wand pointed at her. Then-

"Obliviate!" Tonks flew to the grass swiftly, something that could not be expected from Umbridge's untrained body. She too snapped her wand out and yelled, "Protego!" Kingsley's second Memory Charm bounced off her shield.

Under her protection, she changed her features back to normal. "It's me! Hey, it's me! Tonks! Peace!"

Kingsley looked shocked. "T- Tonks?" he stammered. "What the- !"

Tonks was up on her feet by the time. She ripped the pink robe off her and went towards the front door.

"You what! If you're not firing me, then what are you doing here?" she questioned crossly. She opened her door. "Come in!" Without really waiting for a reply, she walked in, Kingsley hot on her heels. After they both were in, Tonks shut the door.

"Yes?" she asked, hands on her hips. Kingsley was busy charming every single window and door. Tonks became more and more irritated..

"If it's okay, can I ask what you're doing?" she snarled. Kingsley didn't speak until he was finished.

"OK, no one can hear us now. Before I start, by the way, what was that stunt for?"

Tonks gritted her teeth. "Look who's asking! After two days of staring, right after hearing me siding with Dumbledore, you practically track me to my door! How was I supposed to react? I thought you were trying to arrest me or something!" She took a deep breath. "And I still don't even know why you're here.."

There was a tense silence. Then Kingsley laughed. Tonks looked murderous.

"No, don't look at me like that... It's just- I don't want to tell Fudge anything. Not even to Scrimgeour. There's a request I'd like to make."

Tonks raised her eyebrows. Kingsley chuckled again.

"Moody would've been proud. Constant vigilance, eh?"

"He was my instructor," Tonks snapped. "Go on."

"Now you trust me? OK, OK," he added after catching Tonks' glare.

"There's this Order, the Order of the Phoenix which Dumbledore established. To protect people from You-Know-Who, and to kill him, if possible. What I'm asking -What Dumbledore's asking, actually- is you to join us."

Tonks froze. They wanted the clumsy stupid newly-made auror in this Order thing? When she voiced this, Knigsley chuckled again.

"Well, we know you're not stupid, I'm fully convinced after all that drama before... and your clumsiness? We can deal with that. are you in or what?" Tonks thought for a moment. "What is this thing? I mean, exactly."

Kingsley explained everything to her, though she wasn't convinced until she heard Arthur, Bill and Charlie Weasley were in, too.

That night, long after Kingsley was gone, she thought about how Dumbledore was actually doing something, and how she would help him change the world.

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