29. Convincing

A few minutes after Nymphadora went in, Andromeda personally came to welcome me into the house followed by Ted and Dora,

" Harry! This is my husband Edward Tonks, and you have already met my daughter Nymphadora Tonks."

"MOM... DON'T SAY THE NAME.. Hey Harry! Just call me Tonks.." Andy introduced her family to me. Me and Ted did a handshake and Dora just waved at me.

"Ted, this is-" "Andy!!." Just as she was about to tell them about me, I stopped her.

"Andy! We live in a magical world where walls can literally have ears. You need to be more vigilant."

"Sorry Harry. I'm just not used to all this.. Alright let's talk inside." We all went inside, Andy with a determined expression, Ted with curiosity and Dora mumbling something like 'mini-moody'.

"Dear, now would you please tell me what is going on here? " Ted finally asked, wanting answers.

Andy looked at me and then at her family. Her unusual behavior even put Dora on edge.

"Ted and Dora, Please don't question me and take the vow of absolute secrecy towards Harry."

"But Mom-" Dora tried to protest but Ted raised his hand and stopped her. "Dora!!" Looking deeply at Andy and me, he continued, " Just do as your mother says."

After they took the vow I told Andy to first feed flushing draught to both them to be extra safe. This time Ted and Dora silently followed everything without any resistance. Seeing that they didn't exhibit any kind of negative response, me and Andy both breathed a sigh of relief.

Taking out my Mom's Trunk, I gestured to them to follow me inside. Everyone took their seats and then I let Andy tell them everything about the deal we made.

"Fuck!! I must have gone blind, how could I not recognise the Harry Potter." Dora cursed after learning about my identity.

"So you are telling me that the information you have is so important for us because it directly concerns our wellbeing. And to share that information, you are blackmailing my family to be your tool man for the next 10 years." Ted said with anger in his voice.

"Mr. Tonks, I'm not blackmailing you here, I'm making a deal with unequal exchange with me being the losing party. Andy has already signed the contract to work for me but she can still resign anytime. I don't fear that you will leak any information after the vow of absolute secrecy you three took.

I approached your family because of your capabilities and because according to the information I have gathered you all are nice people." I said sternly as I knew the more softly I reach to them, the more they would think its out of my guilt and desperation.

"Ted, he really did not force me or blackmail me. After thinking about all the pros and cons and listening to my instincts, I decided to accept his offer." Andy said softly trying to calm him down.

"Mom. There's no way I will agree to become his bodyguard. He may be the Harry Potter but he is still just a kid. It's my dream to become an auror and I'll not stop myself just because of his childish actions.

And you kid, do you know who mad-eye moody is.. He is personally training me to help me become an auror. I had to endure 2 extra years of that bat's torture silently to get my potion NEWTs. Just because of some hocus-pocus of yours, I am not going to ruin all my hard work." Dora said angrily.

"So Andy.. What is it? Are we going to proceed ahead or should I consider this deal to be off." I asked Andy ,completely ignoring Dora.

"YOU!!... Why are you ignoring my words, maybe because you don't have any answer at all."

"Sigh.. No miss Tonks. I ignored your words because I didn't want to argue and deal with your immature behavior.."

"What did you call me???" She gritted her teeth in outrage.

"Otherwise instead of thinking about how to best adapt to the situation you will not be going all Karen on me at this moment.

Otherwise You would have thought that I could have just simply hired your parents' services with the same amount of money I have decided to pay them.

As for you ms. Tonks, I know you are learning from moody but you just joined the training program and hiring you as a bodyguard will actually be my loss.

If you would have considered my offer carefully like any mature person, you would have thought of there being at least a possibility of me actually being a wellwisher of your family." I answered Dora, who finally realised that she lost her composure and shouted at someone who might really be there to help them. and then I turned to address Ted.

"Mr. Tonks, as I told your daughter just now, I am actually helping your family. Yes, I'm in need of a healer and a law wizard but that doesn't mean I will let anyone walk all over me." I said sternly.

"I'm sorry Mr. Potter for the behavior me and my daughter displayed in front of you. After listening to your words just now and thinking deeply about the deal and contract, I do agree with my wife's decision. After all, my wife herself would not have agreed if she thought it would harm us." Saying so he held Andy's hands softly and looked towards Dora silently who had her lips pursed at first but then sighed and slumped her shoulders.

"I'm sorry Mom and Harry. It was indeed a very immature behavior on my part. I should have tried to understand things first." She said, accepting her mistake and apologizing for it genuinely.

"It's all right. I can understand where you were coming from. You worked hard day and night, endured all kinds of hardships, you will obviously be angry hearing that it would all go to waste.

But if you had let me complete then you would have known that I'm in fact very much in favor of you becoming an auror. I will help you as much as I can, I just don't want you to join someone else after learning everything." I clarified as I too would have been angry if someone told me that all my hard work was wasted.

In fact I called her immature with the only purpose of making my position solidify a little. Andy and Ted have been in the game and have seen the world around them but Dora is still too green and would have surely not taken me seriously because of my age.