Chapter 19: Chapter 19
A/N: New chapter. Sorry for the delay.
Tonks had a day off from the ministry and felt that she and Hermione had not spoken to each other one-on-one in a long time and that is how Hermione found herself trapped in her room with Tonks.
"So... have you and Harry done it yet?" Tonks asked as she combed Hermione's hair.
"Done what?" she asked as she was reading a book on Dark Arts.
"You know..." she said coyly.
"No I don't." she said as she finally kept the book down beside her and looked at her through the mirror.
"'Mione, have you done the deed yet?" she asked wiggling her eyebrows and a smirk on her face.
"Tonks." Hermione gasped and then blushed in embarrassment.
"What?" she asked smirking. "So tell me." She said finishing up her hair and then she sat in front on Hermione and looked at her curiously.
"There is nothing to tell, Tonks." She said as she rolled her eyes.
"Oh! There must be something." She insisted.
"We haven't done the deed." She said as she blushed.
"Then what have you done?" she asked.
"I don't kiss and tell Tonks." she said shifting in her chair.
"Okay okay, so how about I will tell you something about me and Remus and then you tell me about yours." She negotiated. Hermione thought about for a minute, she knew that Tonks won't let the topic go until they talk about so she agreed with caution.
"Okay." She nodded. "But please, there is no need to go into the gory details I do not want to know all those stuff about my ex-professor." She warned Tonks.
"Okay." She agreed, she went and sat on Hermione's bed with her legs crossed and patted the space in front of her and invited Hermione to do the same. "Well you know one of the best things about Remus is his wolf stamina." she said smirking but a light blush could be seen creeping up her neck.
"What-" Hermione started confused about what she was speaking about when it clicked and she exclaimed "Tonks! I can't believe you... but seriously?" she asked hesitantly.
"Yup, he can go on for hours and hours together." She said as her eyes rolled back in pleasure.
"Too much information." Hermione cried as she slapped her hands over her ears and shook her head. Tonks just laughed at the other girl's discomfort.
"Okay, I told you now it's your turn." Tonks told Hermione.
"Well we haven't done the deed yet, just some kissing that's all." She said as she hid her face in her hands while Tonks just laughed at her embarrassment.
"Hey, I was thinking." Hermione after she cooled down a bit "You are the new defence against the dark arts professor, right?"
"Yes." Tonks said easily adjusting to the new topic.
"Well then you will have your own your own quarters, Yes?" she asked Tonks and she nodded in agreement. "Well I was thinking you can ask Remus to stay with you there so that we don't have to stop our training, we can continue it in Hogwarts."
"I am one step in front of you, I have already asked, he's staying with me." Tonks said smiling.
"Well then what about Sirius, he will be all alone here." Hermione said her high spirits dampening when she thought about Sirius living here alone.
"Don't you know he is coming to Hogwarts with us?" Tonks asked surprised that she didn't know that.
"No I didn't know anything about that." Hermione whispered looking at Tonks wide eyes.
"Oh!" Tonks said as she bit her lips lightly "I shouldn't have said anything."
"But it's too dangerous." Hermione protested.
"Hermione you know Sirius, nothing will change his mind; once he has decided that he'll go to Hogwarts with us, and then he will."
Hermione nodded and sighed knowing what she was telling was the truth. "Okay, so tell me then how is he going to Hogwarts?" she asked surprised.
At the same time Remus and Sirius are having a chat with Harry.
"Sirius, please don't tell me you are giving me 'the chat' again." Harry groaned "Oh! Remus is here too." He said as he saw Remus sitting in on the chairs a smile playing on his lips.
"No, no after what I saw that day I know now that 'the chat' won't work now." He said smirking.
"They why am I here?" he asked relieved as he sat on one of the chairs.
"Well you see, since we cannot do anything else, we both want to give you this." Sirius said as he gave Harry a rectangular box packed in gift paper.
"What is it?" he asked looking at the box suspiciously.
"Just open it." Remus said.
"These are just bottle of potions. What are they for?" Harry asked after he opened the box.
"Well we know that you are a teenager and-" Sirius said but Remus soon interrupted "These potions are to be taken before or after when you are going to have sex."
"Remus!" Harry gasped in shock.
"What, we know that you will do it with Hermione soon so just be safe. Drink the potion before you do 'it'. It will last for twenty four hours." He said with a smirk on his face while Harry's face turned Red in embarrassment.
"Which I say is a long time." Sirius said with a wolfish grin on his face.
Harry pointedly ignored Sirius and a quick "Thank you." and quickly left the room going to his room.
The next time Hermione saw Sirius was at dinner. She couldn't stop herself form asking him "Sirius why haven't you us that you will be joining us in Hogwarts?"
"What!" Harry exclaimed "Sirius, you are?" He asked him surprised.
Sirius groaned "Who told you, I wanted it to be a surprise." He whined.
"But how?" Harry asked again.
"Well, Tonks here told me that Madam Hooch had retired so I sent in my application to fill in as the Flying instructor / Quidditch referee / coach. And I got appointed."
"But, you can't come to Hogwarts looking like this." Harry said still shocked that Sirius will be coming with them to Hogwarts.
"Harry, I am going to be under an appearance." Sirius said shrugging.
"Yah, about that I was thinking blonde hair..." Tonks said as she ate her pie.
"No, no too Malfoy, instead brown hair with blond streaks in them, like this." Hermione said as she swished her wand.
"Yeah, and blue eyes, longer hair, sharper nose..." Hermione mumbled to herself as she flicked her wand.
"Freckles?" Tonks asked as she swished her wand over his face. Then she shivered looking at him.
"No definitely not." Hermione shook her looking at Sirius as Tonks vanished the freckles from his face.
"And this too." Tonks said as she swished her wand again, her tongue sticking out a little bit in concentration.
"What did you do?" Harry asked as he looked at the new 'Sirius'.
"Don't you see it?" Tonks asked now feeling a little disappointed as she studied her nails.
Harry looked at Remus but he shook his head too indicating that he too didn't see the change either. Harry and Remus desperately looked at Hermione and she snickered slightly and sighed "Of course we do Tonks, those flicker of green in his eyes look great." She said cheering Tonks up and Harry and Remus shot a relieved looked at her to which she replied by rolling her eyes at them.
"Yup, that will work." Remus said awkwardly, not looking at Tonks and started at Sirius who was sitting with a scowl on his face.
"And what will be your name?" Harry asked.
"You are looking at Andrew Carlson." Sirius announced as he got up from his seat and spread his arms.
"Well one thing is for sure, you will get loads of female attention, I mean if I wasn't your cousin and if I was not in deep love with Remus here, I would go for you." Tonks said feeling everyone else's shocked gazes on her as she snickered.
2 weeks later
"Harry, Hermione come on, we have get going like now." Tonks said from downstairs while Harry and Hermione were lying on Hermione's bed.
"So you ready to face them?" Hermione asked Harry as she listened to his heart beat.
Harry didn't need ask who meant by 'them'. He knew it would be so hard for him to act as though nothing happened during the summer with the Weasley's, as though he didn't know what they were up to since all these years he knew them.
"Honestly?" He asked playing with her hair.
"Yeah..."
"I don't want the holidays to be finished, it was so good, the holiday's felt like a dream, easy, fun, and happy, no war, love, and no fear. I just don't want it to end." he sighed.
"Yeah me too, Harry." Hermione agreed.
"But all good things have to end." He said as he got up and sat on the bed wrapping his hand around Hermione's waist.
"Not all good things." Hermione said as she squeezed his hand and kissed him. Harry broke the kiss looked into her eyes "You are right, I love you."
"As I love you." She replied smiling and then giving a short kiss and then getting up from the bed "Let's go." She pulled him and he complied.
"Ready?" Tonks asked as she saw both them descending from the steps.
"Yup."
"Okay, you both will go separately, first Hermione will apparated there with Remus and then ten minutes later Harry and Tonks will. I will meet you all at Hogwarts. And remember Harry, you were coped up in your house all summer and Hermione, you were staying with your parent." Sirius said and Harry and Hermione nodded; they went out to their backyard, already in his appearance, looking ten years younger. Every one nodded and Hermione waved at then as she apparated with Remus.
"It's almost time, Harry. Remember to take the potion once a week to fight Amortentia." Sirius said as he hugged him and apparated which was immediately followed by Harry and Tonks.
They apparated in front of 9 3/4 and Harry turned towards Tonk's "Meet you at the station?" he asked.
"You bet." She said as she kissed him on his cheek and apparated. Harry took a deep breath and ran towards the wall only to emerge in front of the team.
"Harry." He heard a cry and suddenly found himself in a hug.
"Hermione." He spluttered as he held her in a hug.
"Act Harry." She whispered as she broke the hug and went and stood next to Ron. He immediately felt himself being hugged by Ginny and Mrs. Weasley leaving him gasping for breath. "Hey Ginny." He mumbled giving her a fake smile.
"Hey sweetie, where were you, I tried to send you letters but they all were sent back to me?" she whined.
"Oh! I was with the Dursley's this summer." He said feeling disgusted by just looking at her.
"You look different." Ron said as he looked at him.
"You know they kept me busy by running, gardening, cleaning the muggle way helped." He said shrugging.
"Off you go kid's, the train is about to leave." Mrs. Weasley said loudly before giving hugs to everyone. They all entered the train but before they could start searching for an empty compartment to sit in Hermione intervened shrugging off Ron's hand from her waist "Harry and I have to go to the prefect's compartment." She said as she pulled Harry with her without hearing their answer. They were the first one to be there in the compartment. Harry immediately closed the door and casted a silencing charm. "Thank god, I couldn't stay with them for an extra minute." He said as he gave Hermione a long kiss.
"Me neither." Hermione sighed.
"How are we going to do this, I mean we both have to kiss, and hang out with them, it just disgusts me." Harry shuddered.
"We will get through." Hermione said as she pulled him into a hug "Just remember that I love you." She mumbled to his shoulder.
"I love you too." He sighed returning the hug.