1Madison stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror at the Tonks house. This had been her family for such a short time and she loved them more than she could imagine loving anyone. Her light gray eyes stared back at her, they are her father eyes and her dark golden brown hair was cut short just above her chin in a choppy fashion that showed off her high cheek bones and heart shaped face. It had been an interesting year. Her aunt and uncle who had raised her with their three kids had kicked her out after a major blow up. They had banished her to Hogwarts, the first magic school she had ever attended and ended up being living hell after discovering her father was an infamous mass murderer. Who had been charged and sent to prison for the deaths of his best friends who's son was a lower classmate of hers.
She met and was adopted by her fathers cousin Andromeda Tonks and her amazing husband Ted and their metamorphmagus daughter Nymphadora. Dora had soon become her best friend and sister that she could tell anything to. Madison thought she loved her most of all. Then there was also her foster Uncle, Remus Lupin. At times she felt he was more of a father than her own was. He had taken care of her when she was sick, held her hand when she was scared and alone. He never once doubted her character. And then there was her father, the first time he had met her was when she was attempting to drown herself in alchohol in the lake. The man had pulled his dead drunk daughter to safety not knowing who she was until she blurted it out. Lupin had found her and covered for her afterwards. Lupin has also been her protector, guardian angel from her mother.
That said mother tried to manipulate Madison through a series of loving sob stories that Madison believed but ended up being lies. After that Christmas ,Madison was attacked by Draco Malfoy after refusing to enter into an arranged marriage between them. The charming Weasley twins then rescued her and the three of them became inseparable. Willow, her mother, later on showed up at the school and attempted to convince Madison that she was to come with her back to the U.S. where they could b a real family. Madison and her mother got into a huge fight and Madison had come to her true powers. Her father, obsessed with catching Pettigrew, had convinced his daughter to help him into the castle and later she was almost expelled for helping him escape.
After that failure he had attacked Ron Weasley woke up later after being hit by that stupid willow tree by her father when Lupin was loosing his ability to stay human under the full moon. Pettigrew tried to escape and Madison chased after him and learned that she was an animagus and that her partial metamorphmagus abilities were the result of her body not choosing an animal. But after being struck by her uncle Lupin in werewolf form her body chose as the lycanthrope virus infected her body and she was saved from the life of a werewolf by this one small factor that her body couldn't make up its mind. She manages to catch the rat and dragged him back to the castle where he was interrogated mercilessly and her father was proven innocent and received a public apology from the ministry of magic. Which later provided him with a house and a job in the ministry working for the Defense branch. He was to begin his new job in October after a very well deserved vacation. After she got out of school her father took her on a magical tour of Europe for two weeks while they became acquainted with each other. After returning to the Tonks house Madison began packing up her belongings to move into her fathers new house which she has yet to see.
She felt so different and she looked different, she was fifteen now. Madison turned to the side, she had gained and lost ten pounds since starting Hogwarts. Maybe she would try out for the quidditch team this year she thought to herself. It was almost July, on July twenty first they were to go pick up Harry in the normal way from the Dursleys and he would spend the rest of the summer with them at the new house. The new house, she understood, was only an hour's walk from the Weasleys house but by broom it could be five to ten minutes. It was a small cottage with a sunshine yellow exterior and a beautiful garden, Madison glanced down at the picture sitting next to the sink.
"Madison are you ready to go?" her father was standing in the door frame and looking at her in a way that she had always imagined he would look at her. He loved her and she knew it.
Madison cleared her throat and stuffed the picture into her pocket, "Yeah, I'm ready." Her bedroom was empty of everything hers. She was going to miss it. The Tonks were already at the new house when she arrived with Sirius by floo.
Dora grabbed Madisons arm before she was even out of the fireplace and dragged her through the living room, into the kitchen and up the stairs. Upstairs there were four spacious bedrooms. One for Harry, one for Sirius, one for Madison and one for any guests but was currently acting as a storage room. There was also a large room at the end of the house that spanned both floors and acted as a large library and office. Sirius had returned to his childhood residence and collected a small amount of items that they would need and the rest of them they had shopped for.
Madison had taken him shopping at a muggle kitchen store, that was interesting. They had purchased a fridge, blender, mixer and microwave, a set of knives, spatulas, pot holder with matching towels with small dasies all over them. Sirius was amazed how much it cost to purchase the basics. Then Madison took him food shopping, that was interesting. Eventually they had settled on only one bag of potato chips and she had given on the four cartons of ice cream. With two large carts laden down Sirius apparated back to the apartment with the groceries and then shortly returned for Madison. Then came the furniture shopping, that was a nightmare. They had both agreed on matching leather couches and chairs for the living room, black leather but in the end Sirius handed Madison and Dora a bag of gold and told them to knock themselves out. He went home for a warm bath in the giant bathtub in the master suite while he finished off a carton of rocky road ice cream.
Madison and Dora spent the next two weeks attending estate sales and antique hunting to furnish the house. They both agreed that they hated the flimsy modern furniture.
Madison was dragged upstairs by Dora and into her new bedroom. It was amazing, each room came with a large walk in closet. Next to the closet was a little nook with her desk and computer on it. Across from that was her bed, Dora had hung a canopy of dark blue gauze covered in twinkling stars above the head of her. Behind her desk was a small window that overlooked the field behind the house. Her room was on the southwest corner of the house, Harrys room was next to hers on the north west corner and across from them was the guest room and down the hall was Sirius's room which she soon discovered was bare of any decorations.
Madison sat down on the full sized bed, the comforter was dark purple crepe silk with hand stiched vines of ivy, her father had bought it for her as a surprise. There were several pictures on the wall of Hogwarts, one of her and her father with Harry at the train station, one of her with the Tonks and Lupin at Christmas and one of her with Fred and George. Fred had her in a headlock while she was struggling to get out, and George was attempting to put Fred in a headlock. Behind them was Percy yelling and Ginny laughing and Ron holding a weaponized spoon of mashed potatoes aimed at the back of Percy's head.
Next to the bed and under the other window was a large round chair with two large fluffy Gryffindor pillows and a pink penguin. On the wall next to the chair was a large bookcase already stuffed with her school books and odd items.
"Well what do you think. Dad put your bed on the ceiling, thought it would be a good joke but then mom snuck in and changed it back." Madison smiled and gave her sister/cousin/friend a hug. There was a knock on the door down stairs and the sound of Mr. Tonks answering it. It was Fred and George. She always knew their boisterous voices.
"And time, seven minutes and forty-five seconds to fly here."
"No, you started yours early, it is six minutes and twenty-two seconds."
"No I didn't you halfwit, you didn't start yours until we were flying."
"That's when we agreed to start Fred."
"No it isn't we agreed to start when we got on the brooms before leaving."
"Boys!" Ted shouted and Madison and Tonks burst into giggles.
"I leave you in their capable hands Maddy, love you." Dora gave her a tight hug then disapperated.
There was a quiet murmur then a bang and a couple of thuds on the stairs and the two of them fought their way up. Swinging her arm Madison shut the door. Her wandless magic had alwas been strong and it never occurred to her that as unusual. However it balanced out with her wand magic, which took her more practice than average to successfully complete a spell.
"That was not very nice Madison." One of them said in their sternest voice. Madison fell back on the bed with her eyes closed and her arms under her head.
"Yes it is very rude to shut your bedroom door in the faces of two very eligible young men."
"More like screaming toddlers," Madison murmured. Seconds later the door was pushed open, her eyes flew open as the two forms hurtled towards her on the bed. They shouted as they leaped up and threw themselves on her. Madison let out a loud scream as she tried to scramble out of the way.
Not long after that her father came hurtling up the stairs with Lupin right behind them. Fred was on top of her and George was on top of him. And all three of them were laughing hysterically. Then someone got the great idea to poke her lightly in the side, it tickled. Madison twitched away with a laugh. Then that hand began to mercilessly tickle her side. Madison tried to jerk away and shove them both off of her at the same time. Then it happened, some ones hand ventured to far north and grouped her chest. Madison shriek of laughter turned into a shriek of anger.
"Oi, buttheads keep the hands away from there. There better be dinner and a movie before you do that again," after Madison's comment the hand was hastily removed by Sirius and Lupin pulling the twins off of her.
"Oi mate, easy there. It's not like we haven't already slept together."
"Yeah."
"What!" the look on Sirius's and Lupin's face was pure shock and absolutely hilarious.
"No! that's not what they meant." Madison got out in between laughs. Sirius's hand was inching towards his new wand as he glared Fred into a corner and George soon joined him.
"Are we going to have to do this Remus?" Sirus turned his head to look at Lupin.
"I believe we will have to do it eventually, Madison please go down the living room."
Curios and suppressing a laugh she walked down the stairs in front of her dad who stood between her and the twins with Lupin behind them.
Madison sat on the couch and was soon joined by Fred and George. Sirius then walked over and took several pillows and stuffed them between her and Fred so they were separated by an inch of fabric and stuffing. The three of them exchanged glances as Lupin and Sirius sat down on the coffee table looking a bit smug and uncomfortable at the same time.
"You start first Sirius, she's your daughter and I have yet to reproduce." Sirius turned a bit pink and glared at the smirking Lupin.
"Alright then, Fred, George, Madison. What do you know about where babies come from?" Their jaws hit the ground and all turned multiple shades of red.
Almost simultaneously the three of them began talking/yelling in protest. Then silenced themselves at the look of hilarity on the two older men's faces.
"Oh! You, Dad!" Madison shouted throwing one of the pillows at his head.
Madison was up early the next day and took Sirius to rent a car. The car that Sirius wanted to rent was a pretty red lotus that Madison convinced him wouldn't be practical. She managed to talk him down into renting a classy and roomy Caddy. Apparently Sirius couldn't drive and she naively assumed he could. So instead she got behind the wheel, this was going to be interesting. She had never driven on the opposite side of the road on the opposite side of the car, good thing they got insurance.
Madison had dressed in a pair of nice denim jeans with a pretty polished cotton black blouse over a satin red cami with black lace on the top. Her short brown hair was pulled away from her face in two very innocent pink butterfly hair clips. Sirius was wearing tan slacks and a tasteful blue polo shirt. She had forced him into wearing a nice belt with matching shoes instead of the lime green sneakers he had attempted to buy. The house on Private Drive was ordinary, plain and boring, leaving her bright pink cloth purse in the car Madison got out and took a good look at the house. It looked exactly like all of the others. She did notice, however, the curtains flutter on one of the front window and the face of a pudgy dark haired boy looking out then quickly disappearing.
"Remember dad that this is a very anti-magic muggle family so behave," she gave him a stern look. The two of them looked very ordinary as they approached the front door. Sirius knocked on it lightly and it was opened almost immediately. The man who greeted them was rather obese and had a red hued face.
"Hello there, what can I do for you?" Mr. Dursley had measured them up, already, and apparently approved of their appearances.
"Hello Vernon Dursley is it?" the cheerful and charming look on the man's face fell a bit.
"If your selling anything we are not interested." The man went to close the door but Sirius put his foot in the way.
"I apologize sir if that is the impression we give, my name is Sirius and this here is my delightful daughter Madison. We were hoping we could come in and speak to you about a certain handsome young man that lives here."
Mr. Dursley looked a little shocked then happy. "Yes, why yes of course. Petunia dear, Dudley we have some visitors. Come in please," Vernon stepped aside and let the two of them squeeze through into the narrow entry. Madison caught sight of Harry through the kitchen door and winked at him. But Harry was soon pushed out of the way by a thin and pinched looking woman carrying a tray of tea things.
The two of them followed Vernon into the living room where Dudley sat watching the television. Vernon snatched the remote out of the boys hand and switched the television off. Sirius stared at it, obviously curious, until Madison lightly cleared her voice and he moved out of the way. Madison took a seat in a chair at an angle to the couch but next to Dudley and let her father sit next to the boy while Vernon pulled up a rocker and sat it across from them while Petunia poured tea into the delicate cups. The cups were a pretty little ivy vine tea set that you could buy in almost any department store but looked nice.
"So, Sirius what brings you and your charming daughter to our home this morning?" Petunia chimed as she handed out the saucers and tea cups. Madison took the one handed to her and thanked Petunia with a matching bright smile then shot a quick look of Dudley.
"My daughter and I are of an acquaintance of a certain charming you man who resides here. Madison here goes to school with him and has taken an interest in his friendship. We have come to invite that young man to spend the remainder of the summer at our humble country estate." Madison had to cover a near choke on the tea with a giggle at Sirius's theatrics. This was almost too funny, Harry was probably listening at the door and absolutely dying of laughter.
"Oh what a thrilling compliment Dudders, to be invited to spend the summer at a country estate" Petunia was practically glowing.
Vernon also looked a little too happy, "What did you say your last name was sir?" and this was the part Madison was waiting for. He must think Sirius held a title or some such.
"I suggest you set your fine china down before I tell you, I wouldn't wish to be the cause of it breaking," The Dursleys exchanged glances and quickly set aside their cups. Madison couldn't help but notice Dudley was now staring at her, she winked at him and watched as his cheeks quickly colored.
"Black dear sir, my name is Sirius Black," it took them a moment to understand what he had just said. Sirius took a small sip of tea, "Perhaps you noted my name in the papers as of late. Terrible ordeal it was but they are paying for their hasty actions made in the past." Petunia let out a little shriek and leapt from her chair, "The mass murderer Sirius Black!"
In an instant Dudley was over the couch and against the wall Vernons light pink face turned purple and Petunia's turned several shades of gray.
"Oh do calm yourselves it was a grave mix up years ago that they are now mending. Now if you don't mind I will go help Harry pack," Madison stood setting her cup down.
An instant later Harry was in the doorway with Hedgewig and his trunk, "I'm ready."
"Harry my dear boy, it is excellent to see you again," Sirius opened his arms to give Harry a hug. Ignoring the red faced brute of a man behind him. "Let's get that trunk in the car," Sirius pulled out his wand and the trunk and birdcage floated off of the floor. There was a loud crash behind them. The Dursleys had turned the table over in attempt to get away from them. Madison's ribs ached with suppressed laughter as the three of them made their way out to the car. As they got in Madison turned and blew a kiss at the Dursleys who were scowling at them through the window.