Title: Taking
Things Seriously
Word Count: 100
Characters: N.
Tonks, Snape
Notes: Originally posted to hp100 on 7-21-2004.
One minute she was the newest full Auror in the department, ready to go out and kick dark wizard butt (according to Ministry specifications, of course). The next she was fighting (!) You Know Who and receiving reports on his actions from her old Potions master.
It just didn't seem real, Tonks thought as Professor Snape droned on. You Know Who just couldn't be back. They didn't live in that world anymore . . . .
" . . . and then performed the Cruciatus Curse."
Startled, she abruptly started paying attention, cursing herself. This was the next war, and she had to be ready to fight in it.