Chapter 4: Old scars, new hope
Sirius and Tonks walk into the bedroom. Sirius was furious. "Sirius, calm down, these are only scars. Past. Don't bother yourself." Harry tried to peacefully calm his godfather.
"Pup, you don't understand. They torture you!" Animagus pointed to his godson's scarred back. Harry's back was in all sorts of scares. It looked like a tank ran over his back at full speed. He had scars from being beaten with a belt, burns, and being dragged along the ground. There was no place bigger than 2 inches that was healthy.
"You told this like I wasn't there. Drop it, Sirius. It can't be changed now. From last year was better when I told them that the escaped man who was sent to the most protected prison for killing twelve people is my godfather." Harry said with a grin with hope to cheer everyone up.
"Harry, they must pay for…" Sirius started but was stopped by Harry who started to feel angry.
"Then why was I sent to these monsters? Why wasn't I with my rightful guardian? Ah yes, revenge was more important for him…"
"Harry stop!" Hermione snapped at Harry "it's not fair what you are saying to Sirius!"
"Hermione is right, Harry has gone too far." Tonks added in Sirius defence.
"Girls stop. Prongslet is right. It's hard but true. I failed as godfather." Sirius looked miserable.
After Sirius' statement everyone in the room was silent. Only sound heard by them was an explosion from Weasleys' game.
Then Harry looked like something curious about him. "Why did you call me 'prongslet' because of my father?" He asked.
"Yeah. When you were born every Marauder called you that." Sirius smiled weakly at memory.
Harry felt bad about what he said to his godfather and was looking for a way to cheer him up. Then he came up with a truly devilish idea. "So if you have a nickname for me, would it be fair if I came with one for you?"
Sirius didn't expect anything bad. Girls looked at him suspecting something that would insult Sirius more and Hermione was ready to stop him at any moment.
"So tomorrow when we will have some time, when Mrs. Weasley doesn't want us to clean some old things, you will tell me a story about how you and dad were close and in result you become my dogfather." Harry said that grimly, proud of himself. Hermione was worried that Harry went one step too far. Tonks was stunned. Sirius was silent for a few moments. This time both girls were stressed. And then Sirius erupted with a great laugh suspicious similar to barking.
"Prongslet. You are the son of your father. Only someone of Potter's blood could go with something like this!" Sirius told Harry.
Both girls breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay big boys, Now that you have sorted that out, we can start planning." Tonks said.
"What exactly do you want to plan?" Hermione asked. She pulled out a quill and some parchment from nowhere.
"I want to plan how to train Harry and how to overrule the headmaster in sending Harry to his relatives."
"Wait, do YOU want to train Harry? Why you? I have much more time than you and I fought in the last war so I can know things you know not." Sirius said pompously to Tonks.
Tonks doesn't look at Sirius, she looks at Harry with a grin. "I didn't tell him what you can do Harry." At that Harry smiled wider.
"I wonder, Sirius, how can you train me in this ability?" On that Harry repeated a trick with a nail. This time however, he turned every nail in Gryffindor red colour.
Sirius at this show looked like he didn't realize the importance of this trick "So you can change the colour of your nail. What a big deal. I can do this same with my wan-" On that statement Sirius realized that Harry didn't use his wand. "Merlin's pants! How did you do that?"
"Tonks realised it." Hermione said.
"Ok Tonks, I'm sorry. In that field you have greater experience." Sirius said his younger cousin with a theatrical bow.
"My idea is to teach you as much as I can until the first of September. So we have about two weeks. It's not much but better than nothing." Tonks said.
"Ok but how can we do it if Mrs. Wesley is ordering us to clean nonstop?" Hermione ask. "Add to that Harry is notoriously thrown to the biggest mess with Ron and Ginny."
"I'll get it sorted out. I ran out of patience for that woman. Not only she locked up her children, Hermione and Harry in this house. She also separates friends for all day and she orders them to work like house elfs." On elf statement Hermione frowned. "Oh, it's just a saying Hermione. Point is she is killing all summer happiness in teenagers."
"Ok, Molly is on your head. What about the rest of Weasleys?" Tonks asked.
"I think," Harry started "If we told them that you and Sirius are going to teach us some arithmancy or some boring subjects like magical law, then we can have a little peace."
"Ok so I can teach you some pureblood culture and Tonks can teach you something about magical law" Sirius said.
"This should work" Hermione told them "but I think you should tell us about this subjects for our cover"
"Yeah, of course it's for cover. No one could think of Hermione wanting to learn something new." Harry tease her. She blushed on that. Meanwhile Tonks and Sirius exchange knowing looks.
Tonks said to Sirius in a stage whisper. "Before Yule, 10 Galleons".
Sirius answered also in this same voice "Before Halloween, and I'm in."
"Deal" answered Tonks.
"What was that about?" Harry asked, while Hermione blushed in deep red realising about what was that bet.
"Nothing to worry about, pup." Sirius said to him with a grin.
"What about next summer for Harry?" Hermione asked, wanting to change topic.
"I'm thinking about something, but for now I don't want to raise your hopes. For me there is plan B, which is to send Harry to your house Hermione. Of course Harry will be under cover." Tonks explained.
"The whole summer under the invisibility cloak, this isn't fun." Sirius noticed.
"You are wrong, Harry will be Hermione's female friend" Tonks said.
"Can you train him to that stage?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, I can" Tonks replied with confidence in her voice.
A/N: Hello everyone. If you've made it this far, I hope you like the story. Who do you think will win the bet? Let me know in the reviews. Also if you see errors or mistakes let me know in PM.
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