Harry Potter And A Magical Summer

Chapter 1. Aftermath and new Beginnings

Harry Potter a skinny black haired green eyed boy lay in his tiny bed of the tiniest room of Number 4 Privet Drive. Harry groaned at the sound of banging on his door, so he rolled over to check the clock and see that it was 9 am. Of course this was unacceptable living with the Dursley's, he was given a strict schedule the minute he arrived home by his aunt and uncle of chores and other 'duties'. All of this was mainly thanks to threatening way a few of the Order members approached Harry's Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.

"You think its funny boy? Trying to intimidate me with those freaky friends of yours? I won't have it not in this house and not in this lifetime." His Uncle Vernon roared for what seemed like the Hundredth Time

"You will wake up at no later than 7 am and cook breakfast. You will mow the lawn and clean the garden when that need be. And you will clean the house whenever I say so." His aunt Petunia added.

"Yes Uncle Vernon. Yes Aunt Petunia." Harry replied sounding defeated. This look of defeat brought a nasty grin to his Uncle's face.

"You are to go to your room right away. If you're lucky you might even have dinner tonight." Aunt Petunia said with and equally disturbing smile.

The only member of the Dursley's who didn't have anything to say to Harry was surprisingly Dudley who had always rather enjoyed it when uncle Vernon would punish to yell at Harry. As Harry looked up he could see a rather sad look in his eyes, was Dudley sorry for Harry? No Harry thought of course he isn't he's enjoying every minute of this.

Without even replying harry picked up his trunk and Hedwig's empty cage and slowly walked up the stairs. Harry was too tired and miserable to even consider arguing with his 'family'. He had just lost the only real family he had ever known in his godfather Sirius Black. After the Battle of The Department of Mysteries everyone else who didn't know better would say this was a great victory to the wizarding world 10 death eaters captured and Sirius Black escaped mass murdered dead. To Harry he was devastated he would trade every single one of those Death Eaters to have his godfather back, not only for the fact that that he got the one person who truly loved and understood Harry but for the fact that it was completely and utterly his fault. If only he would have listened to Hermoine's plea of not going he would still be alive. But of course Harry went and everything snowballed into something awful. Hermoine nearly killed, Neville tortured by that lunatic and his godfather's murderer Bellatrix Lestrange, Ginny's ankle broken, Ron nearly strangled by brains which when you think about it was rather funny.

So Harry walked up his stairs and into his small cramped bedroom to find a hooting snowy white owl hooting for him.

"Hey girl, got something for me?" Hedwig hooted happily and stuck out her scaly leg for Harry to remove the letter from her. Harry stroked Hedwig a few times before plopping onto his bed and opening the letter

Harry

I know you are feeling rather lonely and depressed right now but I must insist that stay inside your wards at all times now that Voldemort is back in the open I am sure that he will not hesitate to try and attack you again. They're will be a guard on you much like last summer. Stay safe Harry we will try and move you to the Burrow as soon as we feel its safe.

Albus Dumbledore

Harry couldn't help but crumple up the letter and throw it in his trash bin. Who does he think he is? Ordering me around like this, I'm a person not a fucking animal that needs to be watched. And with this new found defiance Harry leapt of his bed tucked his wand in his belt loop and opened his door.

He was just descending the staircase when his aunt stopped him.

"And where are you going?"

"Out" Harry replied through gritted teeth and shot his aunt terrifying glare."For a walk"

"Yes…Um…Of course." His aunt stepped aside and let him pass. 'What is wrong with that boy?' His aunt thought to herself. 'Five minutes ago he looked so miserable now he looks ready to murder someone'." I always knew he wasn't all there". She said out loud

Harry shoved open the door and began walking at a furious pace down Privet Drive towards the playground to try and clear his head. Harry couldn't help but notice the shiver that went down his spine when he noticed the clearing where he and his cousin were attacked by Dementor's. But who cares Harry thought Dumbledore just told him he was being watched so no need to worry about that. Harry sat on the only not broken swing left thanks to Dudley and his gang and kicked off, swinging higher and higher trying to clear his mind. And if he had to admit it, it was actually helping to cool summer breeze against his face was refreshing and cooling helping to clear his mind of everything but the wind. That was until he heard a rustle in the bush behind him, Harry tensed up on the swing but didn't want to let who was there knew that he had been found so harry slowly drew his wand launched himself off the swing and spun in mid air landing hard on the ground facing the distutbance.

"Who's there?" Harry shouted at the bush but it seemed that no one was there. "I know you're there you're not the only person with an Invisibility Cloak. Show yourself before I started shooting off curse's"

"All right, all right calm yourself". Came a familiar female voice."Removing cloak. Don't kill me." And as the cloak was removed where seconds before was no one now stood a witch with what Harry thought were rather tight form fitting jeans with a hole at the knees, a purple also rather small tee shirt with violet colored eyes a heart shaped face and bubble gum pink hair.

"Wotcher Harry. A little jumpy are we?" Said the witch Nymphadora Tonks before him

"Yea sorry if I'm a little jumpy Nymphadora" Harry put a little extra emphasis on the final word.

"Watch it. I know I'm supposed to guard you but don't think I won't stun your ass and throw you onto your bed and leave you there."

"Try me." Harry said raising his wand ready to strike.

A grin broke out across the pink haired witches face. And Harry could just only stand there utterly confused. One minute she seemed ready for a fight now she standing in front of him roaring with laughter."Your should see how serious you look right now." She said while gasping for breath." Your really thought I was going to stun you."

"Well yeah." Harry mumbled under his breath.

"Your are too funny Harry"

"I'm glad I amuse you Tonks. Why are you hear? Don't you have anything better to do?I mean you are an Auror right?" Harry replied sharply.

"For the order. No. Yes." Tonks replied with a smile." Now if you're done sulking do you want to go and get something to eat?"

"That's what I thought Dumbledores orde…get what?" Harry asked confusedly.

"Do you Harry Potter wish to accompany me Nym…er Tonks to get food?"

"Er..Um yea ?"

"Well I don't know, you're the one who lives here don't you know any food places around here?"

"The Dursley's never really taken me anywhere. Hence the not knowing any places."

"Well let's go exploring then" Tonks said

Tonks and Harry kept walking for a few minutes making small talk about Quiditch and the upcoming classes Harry would be taking while they walked towards a shopping center looking for food. Harry couldn't help but look over at the witch next to him although she was older then Harry by a few years he couldn't help notice she was quite pretty, the moment this thought entered his mind Tonks looked over and caught him staring at her, which made him blush furiously. Tonks couldn't help look back at the tall, skinny, black haired boy with a lighting shaped scar standing next to her, The-Boy-Who-Lived she had always thought he was rather cute and those eyes of his I mean come on just look at them they're so strikingly green it's like they're staring straight into your soul when he looks at you. Tonks now found herself staring at him and tried to change the subject.

"Itchy Harry? You've been scratching your hand almost the whole time."

"Er…No I scraped it and it just itches now it's no big deal" he said sticking his hand in his pocket." Harry didn't want to draw any more attention to the scar on the back of his hand thanks to Dolores Umbridge, he would just have to deal with the annoyance for now.

"Let me see Harry. I know a few spells being an Auror and all." She reached for his hand. But Harry with the reflexes that made him an amazing seeker caught her hand.

" I'd rather you not see it." He said lowering his head

"Harry just let me see it you know I will sooner or later."Fine. Harry mumbled under his breath letting go her hand. Tonks slowly raised his to her eye level and gasped at what she saw. Carved into the back of his hand were the words 'I must not tell lies',

"Yea. Don't like whatcha found did you."

"Harry who made you do this?" She asked horrified

"Umbridge last year, every time she gave me detention she would make me write with this quill of hers. At first it just stung and went away but after a while the words stuck and now I'm guessing theyre permanent, fancy thing that magic eh?"

" How many times and how long did she make you do this for?" she asked almost not wanting to know for how long he was put through that torturous treatment.

"Well let's see first week I got into an argument and got a week's detention. When I did the interview with the Quibbler I got another week. And a few more here and there. Oh and for the time, she decided that saying that however long it took the message to 'sink in'." Tonks brough his hand to her lips and brushed them gently against his hand, sending shivers down his spine.

"I'm sorry for what she did to you. You were very brave you know that." She said staring into those piercingly green eyes. Harry looked back into hers and thought to himself 'she is rather pretty' 'snap out of it Potter she's only here because she has to be.

"Yea very brave. Too bad I wasn't brave enough to save the only person who cared about me."

"It's not your fault Harry, if I didn't lose my duel against Sirius would still be here."

"And if I wasn't a moron and listened to Hermoine none of this wouldn't have happened. Or if I didn't look into to Snape's pensive and get booted out of his Occlumency classes. So thanks for trying Tonks but this is my fault."

Tonks just stared at him open mouthed at how much blame he put on himself and thinking to herself she had been thinking the whole time it was her fault because she got beat and he knew exactly the guilt he was feeling. She felt the tears burning the back of her eyes right before she threw her arms around his neck and pulled him into a fierce hug. Harry just stood there in the middle of the street very, very confused at the situation he gotten himself into, if only he had stayed on the swing and acted like he didn't notice the movement. Then an afterthought popped into his mind she felt warm and soft in his arms not to mention her hair smelled rather nice. 'What is that?' Harry thought it smells kind of like Winterfresh gum, Harry inhaled the scent deeply before he chuckled out loud thinking of the coincidence.

Tonks had flung her arms around him fiercely trying to hide the fact that she was crying in front of him. 'Now now Tonks this is Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived, the one who took down You-Know-Who and you're just some clumsy moron who got his godfather not to mention your cousin killed he doesn't want anything to do with you, not to mention your much older than him.' 'Hmm then why are his hands on my waist, oh they feel nice. Strong, must be from Quiditch.' She thought to herself before she heard him laughing

"Something funny?" She said pulling out of the hug and wiping her eyes.

"Oh…No its just when you hugged me I smelled your hair, and I couldn't but help notice it smelled like this gum I've had before and then I realized your hair was bubble gum pink." He said not noticing his hands were still on her waist.

"Oh," She said "erm…do you like it?" she said regretting it right away ' what are you dumb of course he doesn't what kind of moron are you your hair is pink for Merlins sake'.

"Yea actually I do" he said twirling a piece with his finger, while smiling down at her he couldn't help the strange feeling he got in his stomach every time he looked at her. It was weird it was sort of like nothing could go wrong like she just wreaked of happiness like nothing could ruin her day. She was just….Tonks.

She couldn't help but smile back up at him. "Well thank you; I'm getting tired of walking you want to just take a portkey to the Three Broom Sticks? You have used a portkey before?"

"Yea sure, and yes I've used a portkey before had a rather bad experience with it maybe you've heard about it." He replied darkly, she couldn't help notice that all the happiness drained from his face.

"Oh well hold on" She tapped the ring with her wand and muttered "Portus" "Grab the ring quicly we've only got 10 seconds before it activates"

Harry grabbed the ring with a few seconds to spare before that familiar tug behind the navel. The next thing he noticed he was standing in the Three broom Sticks. They walked to the counter where Tonks ordered 4 Butter Beers and some sandwiches before they were lead to an empty tabled in a far off corner.

"So whats this bad experience you had with a portkey. I didn't think you could get splinched using a portkey, even if it couldn't have been that bad." She said smiling shyly

"So you don't think the return of Lord Voldemort" she of course flinches as if by me saying the name he's gonna appear out of thin air and strike us down with the killing curse "is a bad experience" He said trying to stay as calm as possible.

"Wait…what happened?" she asked hesitantly almost not wanting to know what happened.

"Alright well here goes nothing." He said leaning back in his chair. " You of course known imposter Moody entered me into the Tri-Wizard Tournament" at her nod he continued " well I'll start this tale from about the time at the end of the maze, I had just been attacked by a giant freaking spider and it had broken my leg" She gasped covering her mouth " yeah so Cedric came back to help me because I had warned him about the spider before it could attack him and saved him from Krum earlier in the maze, he was put under the Imperius curse to make sure I was the only person to make it to the cup."

"But why?"

He sighed then continued. " The cup was a portkey and upon touching it me and Cedric we were transported to a graveyard. Where…where he told Pettigrew to kill Cedric" Harry choked out trying not to breakdown.

"Shh…shh you don't have to keep going." She said reaching out and putting her small hand in his. Harry noticed once more that fluttering inside his stomach he got when looking into her eyes.

"No I should keep going, I'm going to let a memory break me" he said gripping her hand tighter then continuing." So then after he killed Cedric, he tied me up and prepared the ritual." Tonks eyes widened in horror of what was going to happen next. "Yea, so then he made this potion from my blood, his father's bone, Pettigrew's hand, yea he chopped his own hand off and then Pettigrew tossed Voldemort in only it wasn't quite Voldemort" Harry trailed off wondering what exactly was what he saw before continuing. "So then full size Voldemort hops out the cauldron and gets his wand from Pettigrew and summons his Death Eaters, they're was about 30 of them. Then he went on for a good 20 minutes givning his Death Eaters his piece of mind, a few of them got tortured, nice guy huh." Harry took a swig of his butter beer then continued. " then he turned the attention towards me, he gave me back my wand so we he could kill me the proper way in a duel" Harry noticed the tears forming in Tonk's pretty violet eyes " oh don't worry I survived" he said chuckling " so yea I new all of about 5 spells usable in a duel he of course wanted to have fun so first he used the cruciatis curse for a few minutes" Tonks yelped at this " oh it wasn't that bad" she shot him a glare saying she knew was lying his arse off " ok it was the most pain I've ever been in, but I digress so then he let me get back up used the Imerius Curse on me but I was able to break free, this really pissed him off"

You broke free of his Imperius Curse?" she said in awe

"Yea, imposter Moody used it on use earlier in the year and I was able to shake it off I don't know it's just a talent of mine I guess, so back to the story, then he tried to used the Cruciatus again and I dove behind a grave and hid like a coward" he closed his eyes willing to tell the next part " I knew right then and there I was going to die" Tonks couldn't hold back the silent tears streaming down her face at this comment " It's alright really, at that moment I lost all fear of him I mean it was probably the best in a weird way of course moment in my life" he forced a smile to get Tonks to stop crying.

"So..So..Then wh…what happened" She asked wiping her eyes again

"Well then I walked back to face him, I used the first spell that came to mind….Expelliarmus."

"What!" Tonks yelled drawing nearly all the people in the bars attention." I mean Expelliarmus Harry this is You-Know-Who were talking about"

"Yea well, it's all I could think of at the moment sorry" He huffed " So I used my spell and he used Avada Kedavra" Tonks eyes grew as wide as galleons " yea, then our wands connected, you see mine and Voldemort's wand share cores they both came from the same phoenix. So when we both fired of our spells it started Prior Incatartem, then after a while I guess the best word to describe it is spirits appeared out his wand, my dad told me to break the hold and escape" He sighed one final time" then I did, and ran for it " he chuckled again" I grabbed Cedric's body and summoned the cup with Accio and wound up back at the beginning of the maze, and that is my portkey story, I hoped you enjoyed it" He took another swig from his butter beer " you know Ive never told anyone but Sirius and Dumbledore the full story besides you, no one else even knows about the Twin cores exact Olivander."

"Thank you for sharing this story with me" She gave him a weak smile before continuing "well its getting late we should get you home before Dumbledore sends a search party looking for you"

"Yea " he said reaching into his pocket and pulling out a few galleons to pay, Tonks tried to protest but Harry stopped her " hey you brought me here so the least I could do is pay, besides I'm sorta loaded"

"Harry not to be rude but if your 'loaded' then how come your clothes look like that" she said trying to not sound rude.

"Oh these, these are all Dudleys old clothes. I mean I have a load of gold in Gringotts but I only use it for Hogwarts and magic type stuff I don't really bother with muggle clothes since I don't really do much in the Muggle World" he laughed.

"Well if were going to be hanging out we need to get you some new clothes. How does tomorrow sound?"

"Were going to be hanging out?" At her nod Harry's insides erupted with joy " Oh well yea sure tomorrow great, not like I'm going anywhere but you already knew that" She shot him a mischievous grin.

Harry paid for the butter beers and food and put the rest in a bag to take home, who knows when the Dursley's would feed him next. After they paid they stepped outside and activated the port key once more taking them to Harry's front door step.

"Well thanks for this" Harry said trying not to blush

"Thank me for what" she replied smiling "you paid, and provided the story"

"No, I mean for getting me out of here and having somebody besides Hedwig to talk to" they both laughed at this comment, and without really thinking about Harry bent a little and kissed her on the cheek. She looked shocked ' now you've done it Potter she's going to get curse you so hard you won't be able to walk up the stair case good move'. What happened next Harry wasn't prepared for; she kissed him back, not on the cheek but full on the lips. Harry couldn't help notice how nice a feeling it was how soft her and plump her lips were and the taste of lingering butter beer, the kiss with Cho was nothing compared to this, they broke apart after a few more seconds.

"Wow" was all Harry was able to say

"Yea, so tomorrow ill a see you around noon how's that sound?" she asked with flushed cheeks, she couldn't help but grin at the look on his face she hadn't seen him so happy since Sirius's death.

"Sound great, I'm gonna go to bed now "he said

"And I'm not invited?" she said crossing her arms

"Wha…what?" Harry looked choked at what she had just said

"Oh Harry calm your knickers it was just a joke, now goodnight" and with that she stepped back and with a final wink and a soft crack she disappeared on the spot.

Harry stood there for another minute before entering the House, ignoring the calls of hise aunt asking where he was he walked up the stairs and into his room in a sort of trance, then without even taking off his clothes he plopped onto his bed and stared at the ceiling reliving that kiss over and over until sleep came to him.

Tonks arrived outside her flat with a soft pop and a huge smile on her face, she ran up her stairs full speed threw open the door and into her room and onto her bed where she hopped up and down reliving the moment over and over in her head, until she was interrupted by bright white light

"Meeting now" Spoke a bright shining white Phoenix with Dumbledore's voice. Tonks groaned then after spinning on her heel with another soft pop found herself outside Number 12 Grimmald Place. Tonks knocked on the door before being opened by a cheerful Molly Weasley. After exchanging hellos with everybody at the meeting Tonks walked into the kitchen and waited for the meeting to start.

"Well good evening everybody and thank you for joining me tonight" said Dumbledore smiling at everybody with those twinkling blue eyes." We are here tonight because as you know I am receiving all of Harry's mail to make sure nothing slips through" at their nods he continued" well this latest piece of news is of substantial importance."

"Well what is it Albus?" asked Professor McGonagall.

"It is a summon to Gringott's for the reading of the last will and testament of Sirius Orion Black 3 days from now, I believe everyone who is to be receiving something should have a gotten a letter a few days ago" at their nod he continued" well onto other news how is the watch going Tonks? You were rather eager to continue it" Dumbledore said with a mischievous grin which said he knew more than he was saying.

"It's going well I think, except he spotted me earlier" Snape shook his head " what sorry Snape if you guard him or would that a little conflicting to your current position? Well I digress I was hiding in a bush when he turned on me with his wand he knew I was their under my invisibility cloak, so I was forced to show myself it didn't go that bad we talked for a while before I returned home." Tonks thought it rather wise to leave out the 'other' bits.

"Well Severus any new news from Voldemort?" asked Dumbledore

"Well the Dark Lord is not happy he lost several of his inner circle Death Eaters during the Battle, he was rather angry at Bellatrix and myself for not being at the battle and now my loyalties are in question in his eyes, the only ones he truly trusts at the moment are Bellatrix and the Carrow Twins, I believe he is planning something at the moment because he hasn't been seen lately and is either in a meeting or being tended to by Pettigrew for a reason I know not." Snape finished with a sneer

"I believe it is because of what happened after he tried to possess Harry after his and mine duel" Dumbledore finished with a sigh which was followed by gasps

"Albus why haven't you mentioned this before?" asked Ms. Weasley which was greeted with nods from several members.

"Well I thought the matter was finished, it was unsuccessful he hoped that I would kill Harry in hopes that by killing Harry it would also mean his end." Dumbledore rubbed his eyes

"Well why didn't you?" asked Snape

"Severus!" McGonagall snapped "how can you say such a thing."

"Well Potter is clearly losing it I mean it's one thing to barge into the ministry knowing the Dark Lord is there, honestly what was Potter thinking showing up there?"

"Alas Severus, Sirius was the closest thing Harry had to family" after getting a glare from Molly he continued " Molly you know exactly what I mean, of course you treat Harry like he is your own but you don't have the connection to his parents like Sirius or Remus, which leads me to another concern he might be trying in his own way to seek revenge on Bellatrix so once again Tonks make sure to keep an eyes one him."

"What do you mean by 'seek revenge'?" asked Tonks

"Well as you well know after she killed Sirius he tore after her after breaking free from Remus and.."Dumbledore sighed after rubbing his eyes "he preformed the Cruciatus Curse on her" Several gasps escaped from the room

"He didn't" asked Remus Lupin, with a hint of pride in his voice

"Albus!" Molly shrieked "this is exactly what I mean you cannot hide these things from us, things like this we need to know he can be unstable" Molly finished.

"Yes I think he rather might be after his duel with Bellatrix, Voldemort showed up and fired a Killing Curse at him and I fear that if I hadn't stopped it he would very well have died"

"But…But what do you mean Professor" Tonks asked

"I fear, and this is not confirmed that Harry didn't care if he lived or died" several more gasps escaped "yes I know it is a horrible thing to say but I believe it to be true, as the curse was coming he simply stood there awaiting death. So this is why I am hoping you take extreme precaution when dealing with Harry Nympha…"after receiving a glare from Tonks he kept going " I apologize Tonks" and with a smile he continued again "but like I said make sure to keep a close eye on him I fear at any sign of danger he will take up arms immediately looking for a reason to duel a death eater, and with that I think we should call this meeting to a close and return to our homes, Goodbye everyone get ready for reading."

And with that the meeting came to an end and with a few goodbyes Tonks found herself lying in her bed staring at the ceiling thinking about what Dumbledore had said, he didn't care if he lived or died not to mention he used the Cruciatus on her, not saying the crazy bitch doesn't deserve it but who honestly thinks Harry able of performing that curse, with these thoughts swimming in her head Tonks drifted off into an unpleasant sleep.