In the Tonks household Harry and Tonks were both sat cross legged on Harry's bed with Jet curled up and resting on the floor next to the bed. The two were wearing muggle clothes with Tonks wearing a simple pair of white knee length shorts, a dark grey shirt and had her pink hair in a pony tail. Harry on the other hand also wore a pair of knee length white shorts, but also wore a dark blue tank top, he would usually keep his hair black but today he decided to be a bit different and gave himself white highlights.
Harry's room was much nicer than before, the bed was big enough to easily fit two people. He had a rather elegant looking desk, several shelves full of books, a cupboard that was half full with muggle clothes and half filled with wizarding clothes. His window offered a nice view of the street outside, Harry hadn't really cared much about decorating the walls but the one thing he did want was the charm that was placed on the ceiling. The ceiling, instead of being a simple ceiling, would now show the outside sky and would only activate at night so Harry didn't get blasted with sunlight if it was too bright.
"Alright, say 'ah'." Tonks said as she lifted a mandrake leaf in one hand and held her wand in the other.
"Ah." Harry said as he opened his mouth, holding it as wide open as possible.
"Alright, just stay still." Tonks said before she placed the mandrake in his mouth, pushing it onto the roof of his mouth. Tonks aimed her wand and cast a sticking charm on it so it stuck to the roof. "Okay," Tonks said as she removed her hand from Harry's mouth, she cast a cleaning spell on her hand. "So, it should be stuck now but we'll make sure to reapply the sticking charms every day. How does it taste?" She asked in a curious voice.
"Wawa land." Harry replied.
"What?" Tonks blinked. Harry coughed and cleared his throat.
"Sorry, I meant to say rather bland." Harry said. "So...I have to keep this in my mouth for a month, right?" Harry asked.
"Yep." Tonks nodded before she turned to the book on how to become an animagus and began reading part of it out loud. "it says that 'Part of the process by which one became an Animagus is holding the leaf of a mandrake in their mouth for an entire month, using the leaf for the creation of a potion, reciting the incantation 'Amato Animo Animato Animagus' on a daily basis, and drinking the Animagus potion during a lightning storm.', so yeah. One month." Tonks shrugged. "Mum will help you without the potion but most of it you can do yourself. Dad's worked out when the next lightning storm will be and we should be able to do it fairly soon, unless you spit the leaf out or swallow it. Because if you do then we got to start again." Tonks said, adding the last part as a warning.
"Got it." Harry nodded, though Tonks didn't need to explain that part to him, he had read the book and knew that it was a very difficult process.
"Good, now let's what's next after waiting for a month...ah this is about the potion...'the wizard or witch has to spit the leaf in a phial within range of the moon's pure rays. To the moon-struck phial, the wizard or witch must add one of their own hairs, a silver teaspoon of dew that had not seen sunlight or been touched by human feet for seven days, and the chrysalis of a Death's-head Hawk Moth. The mixture had to then be put in a quiet, dark place, and could not be in any way disturbed.
The next thing that had to happen was for the wizard or witch to wait for an electrical storm, whenever that might be.' Tonks finished.
"Sound tasty," Harry said in a dry voice before a thought occurred to him. "hey, can you put like a spell on the leaf so that food and drinks don't damage it?" Harry asked. "That sounds much better than just being careful and it's less likely to damage the leaf and reduces the risk of us starting over again."
"You just want to eat my mum's food." Tonks said knowingly.
"I'm sorry but if she makes that stuff then that woman is an angel."
"I'll tell her you said that." Tonks smirked. "As for the spell, I could but I don't really know if the leaf needs to just stay in your mouth or if it constantly needs your saliva - or whatever you're supposed to call the liquid in your mouth - as well, so if I block the food I could end up blocking the saliva. With that being said I think temporarily putting it up before you eat would be fine, but we'll ask mum just in case." Tonks replied.
"Cool, so what animal do you think I'll be?" Harry asked in an excited voice.
"With cheeks like yours," Tonks said in a thoughtful voice as she leaned over and pinched Harry's cheeks. "a hamster, definitely." She grinned, he was so adorable.
"Shove off." Harry laughed as he slapped her hands away. "No, but come on, seriously, what do you think?"
"I dunno," Tonks frowned thoughtfully. "I would say you'd be a snake but that would be kind of...predicable."
"Little bit but I wouldn't complain." Harry shrugged.
"I bet you wouldn't." Tonks snorted in amusement. "Maybe a big animal like a wolf or a tiger. I hope it's a big animal."
"Why?" Harry asked.
"Because then I could ride you and use you as a teddy bear." Tonks said without a hint of embarrassment. "What animal do you think I would be if I did it?" She asked.
"A pig." Harry answered immediately.
"You what?!"
"You like pink." Harry shrugged before he laughed a little, unable to stop himself.
"Oh, you cheeky little..." Tonks lunged at him and began tickling him mercilessly.
"No! Stop!" Harry laughed as he tried and failed to fight her off. "Auror brutality!" Harry screamed but that did little to stop Tonks.
"I'll show you pig in a second." Tonks said under her breath before she continued tickling him. "Whose the pig? Who is the pig?"
"Not you...not you!" Harry gasped out as she tickled him.
"Good." Tonks said in a satisfied voice as she let go of him.
"That was not fair." Harry chuckled as he sat up.
"Fair shmair." Tonks said dismissively.
"But you did make one mistake." Harry said as he began stretching.
"What's that?" Tonks asked.
"You forgot that you're more ticklish than I am." Harry commented before he lunged at her and began tickling her.
"Harry! Harry!" Tonks screamed as she Harry began tickling her.
"Taste of your own medicine, Tonks." Harry grinned.
"No...stop that!" She tried in vain to escape.
"Choke on my vengeance...how does it taste?" Harry said in a low and dramatic voice as he continued to tickle her.
"I will...get you back for this." Tonks gasped out between laughing.
"I do not doubt that, so better make this worth it." Harry said before he continued to tickle her.
"Harry," Ted said when Harry and Tonks arrived for lunch later just as he and Andromeda set the table. "you've got a couple of letters from Hogwarts." He said as he placed them in front of seat.
"Oh, thanks." Harry said as he sat down.
"Wait a sec," Andromeda said before Harry could reach for the letters, she walked over to him and placed her hands on either side of his face. "now open your mouth and say 'ah'." She said.
"Ah." Harry said as he opened his mouth.
"Hmm, good, it's stuck on nice and properly." Andromeda commented.
"Mum," Tonks spoke. "Harry was wondering if it was alright to put a spell on the leaf so that food and drinks don't damage it."
"Hmm, temporarily should be fine." Andromeda said as she waved her wand and cast a spell over Harry's lead. "There, I'll remove it after you've eaten, we don't want to leave it on for too long, it could affect the transformation." She said just as Harry closed his mouth.
"Thank you." Harry smiled as he leaned up and kissed her cheek.
"You're welcome dear." Andromeda smiled brightly.
Ted watched the whole thing with a smile on his face, he knew his wife loved having Harry around, in fact so did he. Harry, say what you want about him, was a good kid, at least in the opinion of the Tonks family. Sometimes Ted felt like Harry acted older than his years, he could see a bit of Arcturus in the boy, but he liked the fact that Harry acted like a regular kid when it came to his wife and daughter.
Eventually Harry's birthday came, it was an enjoyable day with the Tonks family taking him out all day to celebrate and he received a lot of presents from all of his friends, he even received some chocolates from Draco. Harry had gotten Tonks and Jet to inspect the chocolates and both said that there was nothing wrong with them, that made Harry thoughtful, perhaps Malfoy senior had not told Draco what had happened between them, or maybe he had and Draco was simply just acting the part of a good friend, time would eventually show the truth.
But the good mood of the day didn't last long as the next day it was revealed in the daily prophet that the mass murder Sirius Black had escaped. That sent many people into a panic as Sirius Black not only betrayed to Potters to Voldemort (or you-know-who as the public called him) but he was also responsible for the deaths of many muggles and was considered to be you-know-who's right hand man. If that wasn't enough then add in the fact that he is the first and so far only person to have ever escaped from Azkaban prison, a supposedly unescapable place guarded by dementors which were basically soul sucking demons.
Ted never really knew Sirius Black beyond a few meetings and the man had seemed like a decent fellow during those meetings, but Ted didn't know him well enough to form any opinions on the man. The same could not be said for the female members of the family. Tonks had met Sirius a few times when she was a kid and had good memories of him, it had broke her heart when she heard that he had become a mass murderer and went to Azkaban. In fact that was a large reason behind why she wanted to become an auror, she wanted to stop people like Sirius from hurting others.
Andromeda probably knew Sirius the best out of all of the family, the two were cousins and got along well when they younger. Plus Andromeda was connected to Sirius in a way that she wasn't with the rest of the family, she and Sirius were the rebels of the family. While Andromeda had run off to marry a muggleborn, Sirius had been the one who dared to get sorted into Gryffindor and ran off to the Potters, if that was not enough then he had also sided with Albus Dumbledore during the war.
But now...now she knew that that was apparently an act, he was just trying to gain the light side's trust, or at least that was what everyone was saying. Andromeda hoped in her heart that everyone was wrong and that Sirius was innocent but she knew that someone like Sirius had to have had a trial, he was a member of the noble house of Black after all, so if he was found guilty then there must have been a reason for it. Even bribing people against Sirius wouldn't have affected the results of the trial to much when it was the current heir of the Black family on trial.
Harry on the other hand was conflicted on what to do about Sirius, on the one hand he wanted to go after him, punish the man who had betrayed Harry's parents, make him suffer for leading Voldemort to them. But on the other hand he recognized that Black was a dangerous wizard and if an auror caught him then Black would either go straight back to Azkaban for the rest of his miserable life or he would be subjected a dementor's kiss. Dementors were gliding, wraithlike Dark creature, widely considered to be one of the foulest to inhabit the wizarding world. Dementors feed on human happiness and thus generate feelings of depression and despair in any person in close proximity to them. Their ultimate weapon was the dementor's kiss, the kiss would remove the soul from a person, leaving the victim as an empty shell, as good as dead.
Harry wanted to catch Sirius Black himself, but he knew it was better to just stay out of the way. With that being said, if Sirius Black happened to get in his way...well...Harry was sure that he'd be forgiven if Sirius ended up having to be carried away. Plus, the fact that Harry's was finally able to remove the mandrake a day later, meant that he was closer to his animagus transformation, that would be a nice surprise for Black.
A few days later Harry and the Tonks family arrived in the leaky cauldron, they had only just got in when they were greeted by Tom, the owner and barman.
"Ah hello," Tom smiled. "how are you all today?"
"Doing just fine, Tom." Ted replied. "We're just taking Harry to buy his school supplies for the year."
"Ah, that's nice have fun." Tom called as the family left. It was roughly an hour later when the family came back in. "Ah, all done?" Tom asked.
"Yep." Ted nodded. "We'll be off now, Tom."
"Wait," Tom said quickly. "before you do go, there's somebody who wants to talk to you all, he's been waiting upstairs for you all." Tom said before he gestured to come closer. "It's the Minister of Magic." Tom whispered.
"What does he want with us?" Jet asked from his position on Harry's shoulders.
"Probably to talk to us about Black." Harry hissed just before he and the family followed Tom into a private room, Tom left them just before they entered the room. Once they were inside they found the Minister of Magic sitting in a chair behind a desk with an auror standing on either side of him.
"Ah Harry," Fudge spoke as if he had just spotted his favorite nephew, he got up and began walking to him. "it's good to see you, I..." Fudge was about to reach out to shake his hand but faltered upon seeing Jet on Harry's shoulder's, it didn't help that Jet was looking at Fudge like he was a giant mouse. "Um...take a seat." He said before he gestured to the sole seat opposite where Fudge was sat. "I hope the rest of you don't mind but I would like to talk to Mr Potter in private." He said to to the Tonk's family.
"They stay." Harry said before he began walked past him without a backward glance and stopped at the seat, Fudge looked like he wanted to argue but seemed to think better of it and walked over to his seat. The Tonks family shared a look, all of them knew that Harry could act like Arcturus when it suited him, this would probably be one of those moments.
"Please sit down." Fudge said to the Tonks family as he stood in front of the desk and looked at them, or more specifically Harry. Ted waved his wand a couple of times and summoned three more seats from across the room for them to sit in. Ted sat at the end with Andromeda sat on Harry's left and Tonks sat on Harry's right. "Now, how are you all?"
"Just dandy, now may I ask what you want?" Harry asked in a blunt manner.
"Well Mr Potter, we have a killer on the loose." Fudge replied.
"Sirius Black, I'm aware." Harry nodded before he gestured for Fudge to continue.
"You are aware of Black's history?" Fudge asked.
"I'm aware that he is a evil bastard, yes." Harry nodded.
"Harry, language." Andromeda said with a small sigh, did he really have to speak like that in front of the Minister of Magic of all people?
"Sorry." Harry said, not sounding very sorry.
"Now, I assure you that we are all doing our best to capture Black and he should hopefully be captured soon." Fudge said with a small smile. "But with that being said, there are concerns about your safety."
"I can handle myself." Harry replied.
"Perhaps Harry but Sirius Black is a mass murderer, a dangerous one, we don't want anything to happen to you." Fudge said, and it was true. It would be absolutely horrible for his career if he was unable to stop the boy-who-lived from getting murdered.
"Who is 'we'?" Harry asked in a suspicious voice.
"Myself and the people of the wizarding world," Fudge spoke as if it was glaringly obvious. "now there have been some concerns raised about your guardianship."
"I beg your pardon?" Harry and the Tonks family said at the exact same time, causing Fudge to blink before he was able to continue.
"There is no offence intended, of course, but your guardians are related to Sirius Black and while I do not intend to accuse them of anything, many are worried about their connection with Black."
"I knew they were related to him for ages." Harry pointed out.
"That may be true but it is safer if you are moved, I'm sure you understand. You'd be safer away from them." Fudge smiled as he ignored the offended looks from the family, he was about to say that Harry should move in with the Malfoy family this summer, just like Lucius had suggested to him. But before he could do so, he was interrupted by Harry.
"Say that again." Harry said in a cold and low voice.
"I beg your pardon?" Fudge asked just as Harry stood up.
"Say that again." Harry repeated as he walked towards Fudge.
"Now Mr Potter, I..." Fudge stopped talking just as Harry stopped in front of him, the aurors drew their wands but did not do anything beyond that.
"Say that...again." Harry said as he was now about an inch away from Fudge, Fudge couldn't help but gulp as he looked into Harry's green eyes, he could see the power in them, just like when he looked into Dumbledore's. That was just not fair! No thirteen year old had the right to be intimidating. If that wasn't bad enough then add in the snake who looked like he was one command away from attacking.
"Mr Potter...I meant no offence." Fudge said in a quiet voice.
"I'm sure you didn't," Harry replied as he took a step back. "I will be staying with the Tonks family, that is not up for debate."
"Mr Potter, please, this is a serious matter. Are you really willing to risk your life?"
"Seeing as that is what is at stake, yes. The Tonks family is my family, end of discussion." Harry said, if he looked back then he would see smiles on each member of the Tonks family.
"But...but would you at least consider staying in the leaky cauldron so we can have some aurors look after you all?" Fudge asked in a hopeful, Harry frowned as he remembered the potion he needed to take and the fact that the lightning storm would be happening tomorrow. Plus the house had a good amount of wards on it, including the ones that Harry had paid for and had fixed by the goblins, so Harry was fairly certain that Black wouldn't be able to get in.
And even if he somehow managed to do that then Harry doubted the guy who spent years in Azkaban would be in any state to fight off Tonks, Ted and Andromeda, three people who were more than good with a wand. Those three would be a challenge on their own, but add them in along with the wards, Black's physical health plus Harry and Jet and it was near impossible for Black to get in. Honestly Harry felt it was more likely for Black to sneak into the leaky cauldron where he could hide amongst the greater number of people.
"No, we have a prior engagement tomorrow. Goodbye Minister." Harry said before he turned and calmly walked out without a single backwards glance. Harry waited outside until the Tonks family exited the room.
"Blimey Harry, that was the Minister of Magic and you looked at him like he was a little first year." Tonks whispered in amazement as they began walking away. "Guess your inner animal is likely one that takes no bullshit from others."
"I would hope so." Harry laughed just before the group turned the corner and headed down, once they were downstairs they were about to walk to the floo when they were spotted by none other than the Weasley family.
"Harry, I think they are calling you over." Andromeda pointed out with a frown as she gestured to Mrs Weasley who was waving at Harry, gesturing him to come over.
"Damn it!" Jet hissed.
A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter. I know I gave you guys a few ideas that I wanted to use last chapter but I just want to make it clear that I'm not going to immediately start writing them. They were just a couple of ideas I had. I have more:
* A story where Harry is treated with the same level of fear and respect as John Wick and is mostly left alone until Voldemort's idiot son kills his owl.
* Harry is bit by a werewolf when he is younger but he is no ordinary werewolf, he can transform whenever he wants and transform into a regular wolf.
* A Harry Potter/uncharted crossover where Harry teams up with Nathan Drake to race an army to a secret lost treasure. Harry/Chloe Frazer pairing.
* Harry's third year changes when a black goo sticks to him, and he starts hearing voices. (Yes that is venom)
I even have some non Harry Potter related story ideas such as:
* Kratos, Mimir and Atreus get transported and suddenly find themselves in the battle of New York. God of War/Avenger crossover
* Batman suddenly realized that he was not in Gotham, where was he? On top of a flying ship apparently, and who the hell is this guy in the robotic suit. Batman/Avengers crossover.
These ideas are just meant to show that I already have plenty of ideas and I don't really need more. If people want to suggest ideas to me then fine because it's possible that I get one that I just can't ignore but I just want to make it clear that I don't promise to use any suggestions.
Thank you for reading, feel free to leave a review.