After a heart warming greeting with Ted and Andromeda the Tonks family took Harry home, though the conversation on the way back was very interesting.
"Tell me about the girls." Tonks begged with a hopeful look.
"No." Harry replied in a bored voice.
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me."
"Yes."
"Tell...wait...really?"
"No!" Harry said just as they entered the house.
"So, forgive me for stating the obvious, but there is something that you want Harry to talk about that involves girls." Ted said as they all sat down in the living room.
"Yes," Tonks grinned. "I saw little Harry..."
"I'm not little!" Harry protested.
"You are by adult human standards." Jet pointed out.
"Get kissed by three girls." Tonks continued with a wide smile. "One of them was about to kiss him on the lips but then she chickened out and kissed him on the cheek."
"I..." Harry tried to interrupt but Tonks quickly talked over him.
"The one after her started walking around for a few moments like she was trying to work out what to do and then she kissed his other cheek. But the first one, that older girl Angela, she gave him a full on kiss on the lips!" Tonks said as if she was finally allowed to reveal a top secret government secret. "And he kissed her back!" Tonks cheered.
"Now hold on a second, I did not kiss her back." Harry interrupted before anymore could be said.
"Did you not?" Andromeda asked.
"No...I kissed her lips." Harry replied.
"Wow, I was in my fifth year when I got my first kiss." Ted said. "Her name was Elizabeth."
"Eliza-bitch." Andromeda said under her breath.
"Wasn't my first kiss." Harry replied. "And before you ask, yes Angela was my first kiss, but we've been kissing a lot."
"Practicing, attaboy Harry." Tonks said in an approving voice. "So...what number kiss was that?" She asked with a smirk.
"The kiss you saw was our tenth time kissing." Harry answered. "I think." Harry added uncertainly.
"You think?" Andromeda asked.
"She insisted we practice a lot." Harry said with a shrug and a small blush on his face.
"Harry!" Tonks squealed as she pulled him into a hug. "I'm so proud of you! My little brother is going to get a harem!" She said proudly.
"Nymphadora." Andromeda said in a tired voice before she turned to Harry. "So, you and this girl - 'Angela' - are you two boyfriend and girlfriend now?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Um...not really." Harry said with a shake of his head. "Our relationship is pretty much just master and vassal and friends. Friends that just really like kissing each other." Harry added.
"Ah, and will it ever go beyond that?" Andromeda asked.
"That is an answer that will be answered by future Harry." Harry shrugged. "But first, what's a harem?" Harry asked Tonks who gladly began explaining.
Tracey Davis was currently sat in her room, finishing off the last remaining bits of her homework. She didn't enjoy homework, in fact the only person she knew who would probably enjoy homework was Hermione Granger and Tracey had no desire to be like her, but with that being said homework did help calm her mind. And she needed it because her mind was racing with tons of thoughts, all centered around one person, Harry Potter.
Tracey remembered their first meeting like it was yesterday, she and Daphne had simply been looking for a place to sit when they found a mostly empty compartment. They entered and then they met Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived. But he wasn't at all like what anyone had been expecting. Some had expected an arrogant git, someone who had been pampered and spoilt all of his life. Some were expecting a magical genius, possibly capable of wandless magic. The majority were expecting a kind hearted and noble Gryffindor.
Tracey didn't really think that Harry was arrogant, at least not overly so, Harry was incredibly confident in his abilities but he had earned the right to be so through hard work and he didn't go around acting like he was invincible. In Tracey's opinion what Harry had was just the right amount of confidence. Harry certainly hadn't been pampered or spoilt all of his life, Tracey wasn't the biggest fan of violence but she would be more than willing to show Harry's relatives what she thought of them.
She supposed that Harry was a magical genius, he might even learn wandless magic in the future, but she also knew that he worked hard to get where he was. Sure he had natural talent but that only took him so far, the rest was through pure hard work and determination. Was Harry kind hearted? Tracey liked to think so, Harry never really went out of his way to be mean to anyone. In fact he was the only one who stood up for that Lestrange boy.
The fact that Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived, was a parslemouth with a pet snake and was in Slytherin house was probably the biggest surprise for everyone. Tracey did think that Harry had Gryffindor qualities, he was certainly brave and noble but he wasn't rash or loud like Weasley.
Tracey could admit to herself that she had a crush on Harry, she had one ever since he had saved her from dying in their first broom flying lesson. She thought he was nice before that but ever since that moment she had fallen for him. At first she was hoping that if given enough time she would eventually get over it, but it showed no signs of dying down. Harry was handsome, smart, a great wizard and a great friend.
But the problem was that Tracey didn't even know if Harry was interested in her like that, why would he be? He had Angela, a pretty older girl who would be willing to do whatever he wanted and kiss him whenever he asked. And Angela wasn't the only girl in the running, Tracey knew that Daphne - her best friend - was also interested in Harry. Daphne and Harry were far more alike, they both loved dueling and competing with each other, both were also irritatingly attractive and many other examples.
Tracey at times felt resigned to the fact that she would probably never get with Harry but when she was with him she couldn't help but be hopeful.
"Why can't life be simple?" Tracey groaned.
"Oh for fuck sakes." Tonks said under her breath. She had wanted to take Harry on a day out so the two of them could spend some time together. Unfortunately when she brought him into a burger shop they had unfortunately run into Adam, a muggle ex-boyfriend of Tonks, and his girlfriend. And now, while she wanted to spend time with Harry, she was forced to listen to Adam go on and on about how he and his new girlfriend were so happy together. It sounded like he was trying to make her jealous, 'trying' being the key word.
"Yeah, me and Jess are very happy together." Adam said in a smug voice. He reached his arm out so he could wrap it around his girlfriends waist, only to pause when he couldn't find her. "Jess?" He looked around, trying to find her.
"Ahem." Tonks cleared her throat. "I think I know where your girlfriend is gone."
"What? Where?" Adam asked.
"I believe she is over there, getting wooed by my brother." Tonks said with a smirk as she pointed to the seat where Harry was sitting. Adam frowned and looked in Harry's direction and saw his girlfriend sat opposite Harry, she was blushing wildly while he held her hand in his and kissed the knuckles. "Hmm, what does it say about you when a twelve year old treats your girlfriend better than you?" Tonks innocently asked. Adam glared at her before storming over to his girlfriend, not noticing Tonks following after him.
"But surely someone with a face as pretty as yours doesn't need make up." Tonks heard Harry say to Jess, she resisted the urge to laugh.
"Oh stop it," Jess blushed. "you're going to give me a big ego if you keep talking like that."
"I like to treat people the way they deserve to be treated," Harry smirked. "so do you..."
"What the hell is going on?!" Adam demanded as he stopped in front of them.
"Ah Jess," Tonks greeted her as if she had known her all of her life. "I see you have met my little brother, Harry."
"I have." Jess smiled.
"What happened to your face?" Adam suddenly asked as he glared at Harry.
"Adam! Don't be rude!" Jess admonished.
"It's fine," Harry waved it off, ignoring the urge to get up and kick the prat in the balls. "I um...I don't really remember, this happened to me during a terrorist attack that I unfortunately ended up in the middle of when I was younger." Harry said in a sad voice.
"Oh, you poor thing." Jess gasped before she got up and walked around before pulling Harry into a hug, Harry returned the hug, making sure to wink at Adam and Tonks as he did so.
"Riiiiighhttttt..." Adam said through gritted teeth. "we're going now!" He said before he grabbed Jess by the arm and pulled her away.
"Bye Jess, love the dress!" Harry called as he waved to Jess who managed a wave back before she was pulled out the shop, Harry and the other customers heard the two arguing outside the shop for a few moments before the noise died down, at least it did until the sound of a slap followed. Tonks frowned, wondering if she had to go out and break things up.
"What was that for?!" She heard Adam shout and saw him walk by the window with a red mark on his face.
"We're through! You asshole!" Jess's voice replied just before footsteps were heard. Deciding that the situation had resolved itself, Tonks sat down opposite Harry.
"So..." Tonks said with a straight face. "...did you start flirting with my ex-boyfriends girlfriend?"
"I might have." Harry said, also with a straight face.
"Hmm."
"Indeed."
"Did you do it because he was annoying me?"
"That was a factor, yes."
The two stared at each other for several seconds with neutral faced, devoid of any emotion, right before they both burst out laughing.
Daphne Greengrass sat in her room, writing out a letter that she would be sending to Tracey. As she wrote her letter she thought about someone she had been thinking about a lot recently, Harry Potter. More specifically she thought about their last meeting when he was kissed by Angela. On the one hand she understood that it made sense for Angela to kiss Harry, she was an older and good looking girl and she was his vassal, it was her job to care of him.
But with that being said Daphne could not help but wish it was herself that had kissed Harry instead. In fact she nearly did, but she chickened out at the last minute, that was probably why she wasn't sorted into Gryffindor. Daphne knew she had a crush on Harry, he was smart and kind and very easy on the eyes. He was a great wizard, not because he was born with the power of Merlin or anything, but because he worked hard for it.
Daphne would, without a doubt, say that Harry was her best male friend. The two of them got along like a house on fire, it felt like they just connected, Daphne never thought she would get along so well with a boy, she admittedly came to Hogwarts with the expectation that they were all idiots. An example would be Draco, Daphne had met Draco a couple of times before Hogwarts due to their parents attending the same balls. Draco at the time had been an arrogant and annoying git, but now he was far more behaved, mostly because it was very much clear to him that Harry would kick his ass if he went out of line.
Daphne felt like she was in a special position, she unlike most of the school knew the real Harry Potter. She knew the boy who liked to learn and have fun, she saw how his emerald eyes lit up when he was learning new magic and how he enjoyed teaching her new magic. Daphne had to admit she liked getting taught by him, his enthusiasm seemed to never waver when he taught her, even when she struggled on learning a spell.
Daphne knew that many girls were interested in Harry for various reasons, his fame and money being the two main reasons, Daphne personally thought that those girls shouldn't be given the time of day by Harry. He deserved far better than that. They just wanted stuff from him, but Daphne knew that she genuinely cared for him.
Harry was kind, charming, he had saved her best friends life for Merlin's sakes. During the dueling club with that peacock Lockhart he had let her help him, he had actually let her help! She had been worried that he would surprise her by saying something like 'I don't want a girl's help' or 'girl's can't duel'. She had wondered if he would refuse and take Angela instead, that would have made sense seeing as Angela was far more experienced, but he didn't! He gladly accepted her help, he respected her and she respected him. Heck, even Harry's familiar liked her. Jet was basically her pet too.
Daphne wondered what it would be like to kiss Harry, Angela seemed to have enjoyed it, a little too much in Daphne's opinion. It felt like the girl was just trying to show off the fact that she was the one who was kissing Harry. And that comment about somebody else taking over, was Angela implying what Daphne thought she was implying? Was she just trying to annoy her? Was she trying to get Daphne to kiss Harry?
It's not that Daphne wasn't tempted, she was, she knew that she liked Harry but what she didn't know is if Harry like her as well? And how the bloody hell was she supposed to ask him that? Blurt it out? Write a letter?
"Why can't life be simple?" Daphne groaned.
"Surprise!" Andromeda and Ted shouted when Harry and Tonks came back from the cinemas, Harry had asked her if they could stop for a bite to eat but Tonks had insisted they come straight home, now he knew why.
"What is this?" Harry asked as he saw a lot of mouthwatering food on the table.
"We figured that we would surprise you," Ted smiled. "this is our way of saying welcome back."
"I...thanks!" Breathed out just as Tonks stepped next to him and pulled him into a one armed hug.
"Glad you like it." Tonks grinned.
"And that is not our only surprise." Andromeda added. "Now, admittedly we weren't sure about what we are about to offer you, but Nymphadora pointed out that you would probably attempt it yourself at some point and we'd rather you attempt it with us watching over you than on your own."
"Plus Arcturus came over," Ted sighed. "he had heard about the idea and insisted that we at least give you the option." Well replace 'insisted' with 'demanded'.
"I...I am really thankful but perhaps you could tell me what the option is." Harry suggested, trying to keep his eyes off the food long enough to finish this conversation, he would get that food.
"Ah, well we wanted to give you the option to learn some advanced magic." Andromeda smiled as she pulled out a book and handed it to Harry. Harry looked down at the book and read the cover with wide eyes.
"A...animagus transformation?!" Harry blurted out in shock. "You're going to help me become an animagus?!" Harry grinned cheerfully as he looked at Andromeda with bright green and hopeful eyes.
"If you want." Andromeda nodded only to find herself pulled into a strong hug from Harry.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Harry said into her shoulder repeatedly.
"You're welcome, dear." Andromeda smiled, truthfully she was still a bit concerned about letting Harry try this but she knew that Harry would likely want to do it at some point, plus when both Nymphadora and Arcturus agree on something then that says a lot. Still, she was glad it at least made Harry happy. Besides, he'd only be learning about it, she would help him with the potion but it was very unlikely for him to even transform before the age of seventeen.
"Jet!" Harry hissed happily when he let go of Andromeda and saw Jet slither into the room. "I'm going to become an animagus!" He grinned.
"Oh, that's wonderful. Are you going to be a snake?" Jet asked.
"Um...maybe...not sure though." Harry admitted.
"Tell me if it's a snake." Jet said before he continued slithering on.
A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter. This chapter has had some time devoted to Tracey and Daphne, as you can tell, the next chapter will go back to being focused more on Harry. As for Harry's animagus form, I have picked one out. I would like to surprise you guys with it, you see many wanted a cool and dangerous animal like a tiger or lion but others recommended a useful animal like a bird or a spider. I've settled on an animal that is both, I do hope you guys will like it, just bare with me.
As for the girls I've decided on some form of bird for Tracey, just trying to decide what type of bird. For Angela I'm thinking about choosing either a spider (a useful animal and a nod to her mother who is known as a 'black widow') or a wolf (because she's loyal and dangerous as fuck). As for Daphne I'm going to make her some form of big cat, just need to choose one, it could be a cheetah, could be a lion, we'll see. I've been researching a lot of animals so to find ones that are perfect matches but I've realized that they don't need to be perfect matches, I mean if Harry turned into a bird animagus then that doesn't mean that he is going to sleep standing up. So a few shared traits/similarities is enough for me.
Also Sirius will be involved soon, I've always liked Sirius and I've never bashed him before. I feel like in this story I could find a way to make it work without Sirius being a die hard Slytherin hater or a die hard Dumbledore fan like some fics make him. I don't know, I'm still deciding but I am leaning towards bashing him a little, if just to try something different. Plus I can see this Harry getting annoyed very easily with Sirius.
Also a couple of people have requested me to write different stories, I am flattered that you guys have chosen me to pitch your ideas to but I want to say that I am not accepting requests at the moment. Partly because I've already got multiple stories up, but also because I have many more ideas in my head that I want to start writing about. Down below is a few from the top of my head:
* Harry gets reborn as the son of Kratos and older brother/twin of Atreus in god of war. HP/God of war crossover.
* Harry finds himself reborn as a child in the fire nation where Princess Azula falls in love with him. HP/Avatar the last airbender crossover
* Harry gets framed and taken to Azkaban and the only one who believes he is innocent is Tonks, he is then freed and allowed back into Hogwarts with Tonks as the new DADA professor.
* You don't like Vampires? Well tough, Hogwarts, because Harry is one. Follow the story of an innocent young vampire who struggles to deal with a world that hates him but wants him to save them.
These are just a few ideas running around in my head, I've got more.
Anyway, thank you all for reading and feel free to leave a review.