Harry Potter The Long Lost Malfoy

"Wotcher! I'm Tonks."

Harry blinked at the young woman who was standing in the middle of the classroom that Dobby had appeared to direct them to. Draco, who had walked in right behind him, frowned and shook his head a little when Harry looked at him.

Hermione and Ron—who the tutor had agreed to take on, too—stared at her outright. At least that meant Harry wasn't alone in thinking that it was strange she had bright blue hair and a pig's snout in the middle of her face.

It got worse when the pig's snout sank back into her face and her hair turned a shiny black. Tonks grinned at them and then laughed. "Merlin, your faces!"

"You're a Metamorphmagus," Draco said slowly. "I didn't think there were any of them left in Britain."

Tonks's eyes glinted a little. They were bright green right now, the way Harry's used to be, but he decided she had done that as a matter of convenience, or because she wanted to. "A Metamorphmagus, and your cousin," she said, with a quick glance at Harry. "I'm Andromeda Tonks's daughter."

Harry stared for a second before he remembered that their mother had said she'd had a sister called Andromeda. From the sad way she spoke of her, Harry had always thought she was dead. Of course, that didn't mean she couldn't have had a daughter before she died, Harry supposed.

"My Aunt Andromeda who ran off and married a Mudblood?" Draco asked.

"Draco!"

"Malfoy!"

Draco acted as if Hermione didn't exist, turning to glare at Harry. "Well, it's true! And you can't even pretend that you care about the word anymore, because your real mother wasn't one of them!"

"One of my best friends still is. Or did you forget that part?"

Draco definitely had, from the way his face flushed for a second. But he shook his head stubbornly and said, "I don't understand why we're being tutored by someone our parents can't possibly approve of!"

Tonks aimed her wand at Draco and muttered a single soft word. Draco shrieked as his own wand soared out of his pocket and across to land in Tonks's hand. Harry wondered what that spell had been. It didn't sound like Expelliarmus.

"Your parents were the ones who hired me," Tonks said, cooler than she'd been a minute before. "I was in the middle of qualifying for Auror training, but I started to question if that was what I really wanted to do, and then Aunt Narcissa reached out to me and suggested that they'd pay me a lot of money to teach my little cousins. I could get to see if I like a different career instead, and I could get to know family. Although I'm not sure that one of you is really worth knowing, come to that."

Draco stared at her. Harry supposed it was both shock at what she'd said and at the fact that their parents had actually hired her.

"So your mother named you Tonks?" Harry asked quickly.

Tonks glanced at him and snorted. "That's the name I use."

"What's your first name?" Draco demanded.

"I don't have to tell the brat who slandered my father that." Tonks deliberately turned and faced Ron and Hermione. "You must be Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. I hope that you're more interested in learning about the Patronus Charm than arguing about my name or my parents?"

Ron nodded hastily. Hermione stood up tall and straight. "Yes," she said firmly. "I hate the Dementors. I want to make sure that all of us can fend them off if it comes to that."

"That's the attitude I like!" Tonks said, and even though she didn't look at Draco, Harry saw him flush again out of the corner of his eye. "Now, the first thing we'll practice with is the incantation and wand movement." She turned around, tossing Draco's wand back to him with a small motion, and drew her own. "Watch carefully." She made the wand movement with big, exaggerated gestures, and then called, "Expecto Patronum!"

Harry hadn't really seen what happened with Lupin's Patronus on the train, and Ron and Hermione hadn't been able to describe it clearly, either. Now he watched with his mouth open as a silvery jackrabbit leaped out of the end of Tonks's wand and ran around the room, pausing to stretch its legs when it got to the middle.

"It can drive away Dementors when any Dementors are nearby, of course," Tonks said briskly. "For now, I'll have you practice on the wand movement and incantation, and then we'll move on to trying to make it work."

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