So much for a few minutes
Anyways, next chapter. I gotta admite, the chapter AFTER this one is my favourite Tonks is sooo fun to work with (you'll see )
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Sarah

Chapter 11
Dezi’s Ability

After sending Sirius to what is apparently ‘his’ room (before he was sent to the backyard of course), Harry and Ginny pulled Dezi into their room silently.
“Wha...?”
“You’re a Metamorphmagus,” Ginny said flatly.
Dezi opened her mouth to respond, but she didn’t hear what she expected. Her eyes widened, eyebrows rose, but then one fell and she looked very befuddled with one eyebrow raised.
“Huh?” Dezi was shocked.
“Dez, you’re a Metamorphmagus,” Ginny repeated.
“But it’s not possible... I...”
“You might’ve gotten it from Tonks somehow.”
“How?” Dezi exclaimed. Ginny quickly brought her finger to her lips, telling Dezi to be quieter. “How?” she whispered. “She’s not a Black, she’s a... Tonks.”
“Her mother is a Black,” Harry responded quietly as he leaned against his bed.
“Who... how... huh?”
“Andromeda Black, sister of Bellatrix and Narcissa Black. Narcissa Black turned in Narcissa Malfoy, and she’s biologically your grandmother, making her... Draco Malfoy’s mother.” He spat Draco’s name as if it was poisonous. “You might’ve gotten it from Tonks, but from what I’ve heard you don’t truly inherit Metamorphmagi abilities, you’re just... born with them,” Harry explained calmly.
“But how come I’ve never seen... oh.”
“And it’s still agreeable you’re intelligent,” Harry mumbled.
“But how... Metamorphmagi change! They can change their face, their hair... appearance altogether! I can’t do that!”
“Yes, you can,” Harry responded.
“No, I can’t!”
“Yes, you can.”
“No, I can’t!
“Yes, you can,” Harry responded simply, “and you can’t deny it!” he added before Dezi could further deny it.
“But how come I’ve looked this way for so long...”
Ginny sighed and looked at Harry. He nodded curtly.
“When Sirius... died,” she lowered her voice to barely a whisper, “Tonks suffered because she believed she should’ve been the one to die, and that he should’ve been the one living. Her Metamorphmagi abilities just... they didn’t work. Survivor’s guilt, they call it. Because of that, she couldn’t change her hair, her nose, anything.
“Now, when you were four...”
“My parents died, I know,” Dezi said flatly.
“Exactly! Because of that, you couldn’t change your eye colour, which you would do with the change in your emotions or you would change them yourself. We started noticing your hair would be shorter one day then normal the next... yet after you accepted the fact your parents weren’t... coming back... you... stopped... stopped...”
Ginny started shaking slightly. She got up and ran into the bathroom. Harry closed his eyes and continued what Ginny started.
“You didn’t change anymore. Your eyes stayed pale grey, your hair the same length, etcetera. You were affected, and at such a young age, you probably either forgot or you’re still suffering because of it.”
A sound much like an animal dying escaped the bathroom.
“Dezi, you’re a Metamorphmagi, whether you like it or not. The abilities really come to your advantage, and maybe if you could use them early on when you met Sirius this year, he wouldn’t recognize you as a... a Malfoy. As you put it, if I had the ability, I could probably not be recognized by the young Sirius.” A small, playful smile brightened Harry’s face.
“So I... if I...”
“If you feel good enough, you can change your appearance. Tonks, and Lupin of course, are coming to dinner tomorrow night, you can talk to Tonks about it then.” Harry started to get up off the bed.
“But won’t they recognize Sirius?” Dezi realized.
“I told them. Of course, Tonks was shocked but Lupin got a good laugh out of it.”
“Dad!” Dezi exclaimed.
“Apparently she already knew it would happen anyways,” he responded, shrugging.
“How?”
“You were told the story of how Sirius got to this time, right?”
“Yes...”
“Well as you’ve been told, apparently, he stole Lupin’s time-turner, and he remembered a year without Sirius, probably his time turner more so, and then Sirius returned in 7th year. Obviously he already told Tonks...”
“But...”
“Don’t worry about it.” He then walked to the bathroom and opened the door, and Dezi ran out before she could hear Ginny’s wails.