Harry Potter is not mine. This is a story from a fan.
When you're done, You're DONE.
Ch 16 Tonks almost had enough.
CH 15. "Mr Potter calm down, you are with friends," Minerva told him.
Harry calmed down as he heard the words, slowly he looked up and Tonks saw a look in his eyes she had seen one time before. That was when she was slammed against the wall. The look he gave her then promised her a slow death. She hoped she would never be at the end of that look again. She also hoped she would never see it again but here it was. She wanted to grab Minerva and pull her away, but she was too far away and it would only reflect badly on her if she did.
"Friends, you call them friends," Harry asked softly.
Tonks heard the tone of his voice and it immediately gave her the chills. It was a near whisper from Harry, but everyone could hear the words loud and clear. With fear in her body, her eyes went from Harry to Minerva, where she saw a little smile tugging on the corner of her mouth. 'SHIT' she thought. When you are petrified you can hear everything and see everything that your eyes can see. The rest of your body is as stiff as a board and Minerva knew it. 'SHIT' she thought again, Minerva played on the situation while Harry had held out on her again. That little shit was playing everyone around him and she wasn't sure on which side she was.
"You call people who abduct you from your place of living, friends. I'm not sure if they are my friends or if they are working with Voldemort at this point. I could never count on them and it is clear I still can't. Sorry Professor but it is clear you are going along with them, why else are you here?"
"Harry I never" Minerva started.
"Yes, that is right, you never did anything and it is clear you do not care about me, just like all of them".
"MR, Potter" Minerva screamed over him.
"Stop it, Professor, for me, you are just like him" and Harry pointed at Albus. Tonks saw the finger starting to point and took a deep breath. She knew that Harry was done, and her father always told her. When you're done, you're done. Don't hold back because that is a weakness and you never want to show any weakness. Tonks looked on but Minerva didn't react, she did look shocked but she didn't understand the smile she had before. "I'm again here in a place I do not want to be. I don't even know where I am. I have been watched from the moment I got to a place where I also didn't want to be. I have been ignored by everyone, my so-called friends don't even write to me, so no more. Show me my room so I can be alone and leave you all to plan my murder because that is the only thing you haven't done yet. At least with Voldemort, I know why he is looking for me and what he wants to do. With any of you, I do not know". Tonks smirked as she saw the shocked look on the face of Albus when he said the last thing. As Harry stormed off, she heard him slam the door as hard as he could. "The only one who did what she said was Tonks. Tonight I saw her for the first time and she told me straight away what she was there for, While Professor Mad-Eye ordered me. NO, MORE.
The faces around the table were all pointed at the door. As they heard the voice of Harry fade away in the distance None said a thing but Tonks was looking at the looks around her. Minerva did have a stern expression on her face. Severus was mumbling about the prince throwing a tamper tantrum. Albus was sitting with his mouth open. Mad-Eye had no expression and Remus was just holding his head down. Molly was turning red from anger and was sure to blow up any moment. The only one who smiled had been Flickwick. Tonks wanted to know why but this was not the place to ask.
"WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO MY GODSON" Sirius screamed as Molly rushed through the door and blew up herself.
#*
Molly had slammed the door behind her, just like Harry had done before. She walked onto the stairway that led up, all the way to the top. Harry had to come this way but she did not see him anymore. "Harry James Potter" she screamed. "How dare you talk to us that way. How dare you compare the headmaster with him who must not be named" and on she went. She screamed everything Harry had said, so every person who was in the house and not in the kitchen heard it all.
Tonks could hear her through the door but her focus was on Sirius. He had his hands on the table and was looking straight at the headmaster. "You told me he was cared for, you told me he knew he was watched. You told me he has been left alone because he wanted it that way and you only did it because he asked. Now he is here and what he just said, told me you lied about it, you lied about everything. Didn't he suffer enough, you had to keep him out of this too".
Albus couldn't say a thing, he looked over at Severus but he was already at the door. He knew Severus would get it too if he would not get him out of there. Sirius was mad and just didn't understand what the big picture was. He did it all to help the boy and he needed the boy to be left alone. "We can't talk right now. I will go and come back tomorrow evening. We will have a meeting without the kids and I will tell you all what I can" Sirius stood there with his mouth open still thinking about the words Albus had said. Just when it clicked in his head Albus was gone leaving the door open.
"Albus ordered us to leave you alone so don't go blaming my kids, they are your friends and you are just an ungrateful boy at the moment" the shouting voice of Molly went on. Sirius who was still mad rushed to the door. The moment he wanted to step out it was shut before him. Harry had closed the door and he became visible when his dilusiment charm fell away.
Tonks just sat there and looked at Harry when he walked to the table. He looked even worse than the last time she saw him, like he hadn't had a good night's sleep for weeks. "Sorry Professor" Harry started.
"Don't Mr, Potter, We told you last year we would be on your side. Albus had done wrong when he left you in the tournament. We would help you but it had to be a secret. You just kept that secret by blaming me with all the others. I know you do not mean to do it but you had to do it".
"What is happening here" Tonks said as she looked at the people around the table. It was now that she saw that almost everybody had left. Only Minerva, Flitwick, Sirius, and Remus were left. Harry was still standing behind her and far away from Sirius and Remus. He didn't say a thing and only looked at both of them. As Tonks looked on she saw Minerva tap his shoulder and sit down to the left of her. She was blocking Sirius and Flickwick did the same thing on her right, where he blocked Remus. "What am I missing you little shit, what haven't you told me" while Tonks pointed her finger at Harry. It frustrated her that he didn't back up and only smiled when she said it.
Remus held up his hands. "We are Sorry Harry, we were drugged by Albus, Severus, and Molly". Minerva gasped as Tonks nodded. "Tonks had found it out and told us. It was a week ago before we realized we had ignored you on the orders from Albus. "We are clean and we will stand behind you. So tell us what you need from us and we will earn your trust again". Harry gave a small nod but didn't say a thing.
Tonks gave a deep sigh and looked over at Minerva. Minerva just smiled a little and it gave her a weird feeling. Minerva never smiled and she wondered if she still had to do some lines.
"Calm down Tonks. Flitwick and I are here to help Harry. We have been following Albus in everything he did until the last task. the fake Mad-Eye had taken Harry to his classroom. There he tied him up and was ready to kill him. We got him loos and I wanted to take him out of there. He needed help from Poppy and a lot of rest. Albus would not let me and stood his ground. I backed off and it was something I should not have done. Still, Albus started to ask the questions and we found the real Mad-Eye. We also heard that V..V..Vol"
"Call him Tom Riddle, it is his name," Harry told her.
Minerva gave a sharp nod and went on. "We heard that Tom Riddle was back and also that Harry had fought him to a standstill. We wanted to take him to Poppy but Albus kept on going and Harry went in shock. So I took him to Poppy and when he woke up I made a magical oath that I was standing behind him and would be there when he needed me. He asked me to play along to gather information until he needed it. That is also what I did this evening. You young man" and she smiled at Harry. "Have some balls to play it like that. By doing it that way, I might have thought you are a Slytherin". Harry thought about telling her that the sorting hat wanted to place him there but he thought differently about it. "Now I do not know what happened but it is clear Albus is still keeping secrets. So I will go back and see what I can hear from Albus. We do need to find a way to talk to someone".
Harry looked at Tonks, and Tonks knew he wanted her help. "First of all, I want all of us to make an Oath like Minerva had done. If Harry has to trust us he has to be sure he can. After that, I want to take you Professor to someone I trust and someone who will make the same oath to Harry as we will be doing". After that, she looked at Sirius and Remus.
Both men made the oath and were just in time as the door opened up and Molly rushed in. Her head was still red from anger but she was followed by the kits and Hermione. Hermione rushed on to take Harry into a hug but she hid a wall when she was a meter away from him. With Ronald, the same thing happened and Molly blew up again. "How dare you put up a shield charm in this house. Have you not learned a thing? You are not supposed to do any magic and here you are doing it again. I don't know why Albus is helping you with this because you are, clearly turning Dark".
"MOLLY" Minerva screamed as the others just looked at her in shock at what she had said.
Harry only looked and did not see Tonks stepping behind him, clearly able to put her hand on his shoulder where others couldn't. He was turning mad, but the moment she touched him it flowed away from him and he became at peace. "So, I'm going Dark" he only asked.
The others wanted to say something but a force they did not know was placed over their mouths and none could make a sound. Molly looked at him in anger. She would always become mad when her babies were treated unfairly according to her. "You don't listen and only scream and talk about things you, do know nothing about".
Harry wanted to answer her but Tonks stopped him. "Sorry Molly, but if Harry does not know what he is talking about, then tell him how he should know anything. Did you tell him".
Molly turned to Tonks and pointed her finger at her. "Albus is doing everything for him and he is just an ungrateful kid".
"Grateful for what," Tonks asked her.
"For protecting him in the first place" Molly screamed.
"And tell me Molly" Tonks replied. "How does Harry have to know that Albus is protecting him? We were not allowed to tell him. The kids were not allowed to write to him and I don't think you told him. He did not even tell him we were going to get him an hour ago".
"He has his reasons," Molly said. "And he is just ungrateful".
"I'm ungrateful," Harry told her as he spoke up. "Albus didn't help me when I got Ginny away from the snake. Albus didn't help me to save Sirius. He only told us to use the time-turner for three hours. Albus didn't help us when we went after Hermione to save her from a Troll. The reason for her hiding there had been Ronald in the first place. Ronald and Hermione helped me in our first year.
Ronald and Hermione helped me in our second year. Telling me I was wrong to think bad things about people. In our third year, Ronald and Hermione stepped away from me a little because they were getting too much backlash about being my friends.
"In our last year, they did the same when my name got out of the Goblet. Hermione helped me but did not believe me at first. Ronald just accused me of being a bad friend because I did it and I did not include him. After I was fighting a Dragon they believed me and I welcomed them back. Now I needed them again but where were they? No answer no nothing.
You told me every time I was like a son to you. Tell me, Miss Weasley if Ronald saw somebody been killed before his eyes. Would you lock him up in his room and leave him there without a, how are you doing". This time Harry stopped and waited for almost thirty seconds but there was no Answer. Harry looked at Sirius and asked for his room again. He heard it was on the second floor, the second door on the right. Harry closed the door behind him as he walked out.
Everyone looked on and Tonks waited while she was holding her breath. She did not know what would happen but she wondered if Molly would listen. After another twenty seconds, she got her answer. "See that spoiled brat can't even wait for an answer".
Tonks shook her head and looked at the professor. "Well, Professor I do not have to stand guard with Harry tonight. How about you meet me for a cup of tea at Rosemerta say around ten tomorrow morning? It had been a couple of years since I saw her last". Minerva nodded and knew she had to go to Albus giving him her version of the happenings after he left.
#*
Albus had just returned to Hogwarts from the Order headquarters. Severus was still walking behind him, all the way to the office. When they got there he sat in his throne-like chair and Severus before him. "We screuwed it all up Albus" Severus told him".
"That we did my boy. I know you never got over the fact that you have been bullied, And I just got wrapped up in knowing it all. He is turning against us and somehow we have driven him to the Dark. The only thing we can do now is to see what will happen tonight at the meeting. If I'm right Harry will be asking to be there and We have to see what we will do, but it ain't no fight for kids".
Severus just nodded at words from Albus. He knew they had walked back to Hogwarts from the hogshead. Albus had used the Floo from his brother to enjoy the night air. It had taken them an hour before they came to the headmaster's office. Just as they had been sitting down Minerva walked in. Severus looked up and saw the look she gave him. This wasn't going to be nice and he knew it.
#*
While Minerva walked into the headmaster's office, Tonks stood before Harry's door. There were some soft MUffle sounds and she hesitated to knock. Slowly she lifted her hand and dropped it a little bit later. After a little shake of her head, she walked on. Just as she was about to walk into her, own room the door of Hermione opened. "Tonks, why did Harry push us away, we only did what the headmaster wanted us to do," she asked softly.
Tonks gave a deep sigh and thought back to the moment Harry rushed out. After Molly had started to scream the kids had followed her. Before it, Harry had pushed them away. Ron was angry but Hermione looked hurt. She motioned her in and pointed to her bed. While Hermione sat down she gave one look at the door of Harry. After that, she closed the door behind her and sat down in the chair across from Hermione. "Tell me," Tonks started. "If it was the other way around, and headmaster Albus asked him to leave you alone. He might do it. But, would he still do it after he got one of his, own letters written by you".
Hermione sat there for almost a minute thinking about the question. The longer it took the more her face was speaking to Tonks. First, it was defiant a little later questioning, and right after it, it became sad. "NO, Harry would help us any way he could. When they told him to go to the common room he didn't and came to find me. We weren't even friends. When Ginny was in trouble he went to save her no matter what. We could have killed Sirius but he wanted the story first. When we heard it he could have killed Peter but again he wanted him to face the Aurors. It was his thinking that could free Sirius. He didn't know the Veela girls but he went after them to save the girl who was a hostage. He also brought back the body of Cedric while we all would have made a run. Harry would always help others before he would help himself even if he would get in trouble for it".
Tonks nodded and looked deeply into the eyes of Hermione. "I think you gave your, own answer just now. I would say go back to your room and wait but most of all think about it. If you want to make it right you have to give him the one thing he wants the most".
"Friendship," Hermione told her.
"Trust, Hermione, he wants to be able to trust you," Tonks told her, as she watched her go. She placed her chair softly back on his spot and looked at the wall. As she laid her head on the pillow she thought about Harry who was on the other side.
#*
Minerva gave a deep sigh as she conjured a chair for herself. While she sat down she looked at the both of them. After another profound sigh "How could you not warn him that you were coming to get him?" Minerva waited a little and as Albus wanted to make an excuse she went on. "How could you not have told him you would be keeping an eye on him?". Again she waited and as Albus wanted to say something again she went on. "I stayed there for a little bit just to see if I could calm him down. I can tell you I could not. You two have, and I'm sorry to say this. But you two have FUCKED UP". Every time she started, she stopped. Albus was shocked and Severus looked down. She hated herself to think it but she was enjoying herself. After she had seen how they had treated one of her favorite students she just wanted some payback for the boy. "I have told you many times Albus, that the boy is smarter than you think. I also told you" and she looked at Severus. "That the boy was nothing like his father, but did any of you listen. NO".
Severus was still looking down. Normally he had been spluttering and complaining but this time he was not. "Minerva I know that we have done wrong so what can we do for him to trust us again" Albus asked her softly.
Minerva had to smirk but she did everything to avoid it. With her lips pressed together in almost a straight line she went for her kill. "Nothing, That boy is done. He has said what he wanted to say and nothing you can say now will change that. I do not know if you have heard him, but he said it all. Now I do not know if anything he said was true. But I do remember that most of the time we just went to him when it was all done. I also know that you did nothing to help him. Most of all the time with Ginny. You took care of her, but you left the boy alone. Last year you took it to a level he could not take anymore and now you have just done it. Either you help him for real or you will be seen as an Enemy. If that happens I will join the boy".
"You would join the pampered Prince" Severus sneered a little.
Minerva stood abruptly as she looked at him. "You know I will stay at the order but I'm done. I will help you because you are helping the boy. But if he asks me I will join him first before I join you". After those words, she left the office. As she walked back to her own room she wondered what Tonks would do to help Harry James Potter.
#*
With everything that had gone down that evening and night, it became around five in the morning. After Minerva had left there was not much said. Molly had driven Harry away and with Molly there, there wasn't much that could be private. So she had gone to her own room and had a little talk with Hermione. She knew the girl had made her own bed. But she still felt bad for her. She wasn't going to help her right away, no, she just would let her be on her own and see if she could point her in the right direction if needed. That way she might just do it on her own. When she looked at the clock she gave a sigh and turned around. It was way too early and she wanted to sleep some more. When she heard Harry leave his room she got up.
Slowly she made her way down and into the kitchen. Harry was standing at the stove making some food for himself. She sniffed the air and moaned in delight as she smelled it. "You can cook," she asked making him jump.
"Tonks" Harry screamed as he stood there with his wand pointed straight at her face.
"WOW, kid" Tonks screamed as she lifted her hands in the air. "We have to stop meeting like this. One of these times you will hex me and I'm too hot to die". Harry snorted at those words and dropped his wand. "What, you don't think I'm hot enough". As he turned back to his pots, Tonks stepped closer to him. She looked at him and could see he hadn't slept at all. "When was the last time you had a full night of rest".
"What year is it" he asked her.
Tonks laughed at the joke but wondered if he was joking at all. The more she looked at him the more she saw. She knew he was in a hell but he was deeper than she thought before. PLONK. As she snapped out of her thoughts, she looked down in front of her. He had placed a plate on the table that smelled wonderful. Eat she heard him say. He took his own with ferry little on it. "You need to eat more Harry. You are a growing boy". Harry opened his mouth and wanted to say something. The first sound came out of it and he turned a shade of red she hadn't seen before. Tonks doubled over from laughing at first. "Oh Merlin you got a dirty mind," she told him between laughter.
"What, You said I was a growing boy. You can only know that if you looked at it" he told her.
"Look at what," Sirius said as he stumbled into the kitchen.
"Good point meaning, my big sausage," Harry told him as Tonks sprayed all of the juice in her mouth over the table. Harry smirked at her as Sirius just looked at her with his mouth wide open. Harry placed a plate before him with a piece of his baked Sausage that smelled wonderful.
Little shit was the thing Tonks thought as she looked at a smirking Harry. She knew that she would not learn anything more, but she did wonder why he looked the way he looked. That boy needed mental help and she was sure he would not get it here. When Molly walked in Harry walked out. So now she was sure they would not learn anything more.
#*
Minerva sat at the table the furthest away from the Bar. Rosmerta was sitting next to her. Hogwarts was closed for the summer, meaning it was very quiet in this little town. Only the people that lived in town would come to her but never that early. As they were talking about whatever Amelia walked in. She saw Minerva sitting there and was followed by Andromeda. "I see Tonks brought out the big guns" Minerva called out when she saw them coming.
When they were halfway across the floor The Floo erupted again.
#*
Augusta Longbottom was sitting in her living room. She was slowly sipping tea as she read a letter she got that morning. Across from her was Neville who was slowly getting afraid. "So Neville according to his first letter Harry has asked you for information. He also told you not to respond because Albus had people watching him". Neville nodded slowly. "So after all the communication we had last year after his first task. Nothing has changed. You had finally been able to tell him about the Potter and Longbottom alliance. And that all happened when Ronald Weasley turned his back on him and wasn't standing between you two". Neville nodded again. "So Nobody is reaching out to him and nobody knows we have been helping him to learn all about being a Lord". Again Neville nodded and knew that his grandmother would come to the one letter she got that morning.
Augusta gave a huff and held up the new letter that had been on the table.
Dear Battle Axe.
I know you have been helping the Potter boy.
Everything he does looks like your handy work.
So Miss Kitty and Skeleton will be waiting for you at rosy.
Meet us at ten and bring Neville.
We will also have the White sheep speaking Black.
PS Susy will be looking for a nice walk in town.
Augusta placed the Letter back on the table and looked at Neville. She gave him a weak smile. "Somehow, that boy has made some powerful friends or he had been noticed by one of them".
"Grandma, I don't get it. I know they call you Battle Axe in the Wizangemot. But who are the others" Neville asked her.
"Well, we are going to Rosmerta right now, Rosy is Rosmerta. There we will find Amelia and Minerva. If you ask me Minerva is the one who got all of this going.
#*
Tonks watched as Harry left the kitchen. She knew he would stay in his room and only hoped that Sirius would look in on him. She would be away and hoped he would understand. She had left him a note so that would be alright. "Really how can that boy be so ungrateful? I have been making dinner and breakfast from the moment I got here. And he is just doing it alone and not even enough for all of us. Who does he think he is? I think Severus is right about him and he really is a pampered prince".
Tonks rushed to her feet and left the house before she would blow up.
#*
Augusta stepped through the door of the bar and was followed by Neville. Susan was behind Amelia and smiled as she saw that her letter had arrived in time.
(When they were halfway across the floor The Floo erupted again.)
Tonks was blown out of the Floo and skidded across the floor. In her flight, she screamed about a bullhorn that was not allowed to be killed. When she got to her feet she looked at Amelia. "If we get Harry in the chamber I will personally arrest Molly. I do not know what I can put on her but I will look from A to Z and everything in between until something will stick. I had it with that foghorn".
This is it again for this time see you all in two weeks.
Gr Winmau