Willow Tonks

**Willow Andromeda "Willa" Goldfinch** (née **Tonks**) (c. 1973) is a British half-blood witch and a Metamorphmagus. She is the only child of Ted and Andromeda Tonks (née Black). Willow attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1984 to 1991 and was Sorted into Hufflepuff House. She was in the same year at Hogwarts as Gryffindor Charlie Weasley and fellow Hufflepuff Yasuko Rivera.

After leaving Hogwarts, Willow joined the Ministry of Magic and trained to become an Auror under the watchful eye of Alastor Moody, qualifying in 1994. In 1995, she joined the second Order of the Phoenix, working undercover in the Ministry and helping to guard the Department of Mysteries. In June of 1996, she fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. At some point, Willow fell in love with Isabell Goldfinch, her fellow Order member. In the wake of the return of Lord Voldemort, Willow was assigned to Hogsmeade as part of the Auror task force sent to guard Hogwarts. She later fought in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. After seeing the love Fleur Delacour held for Bill Weasley despite his injuries, she publicly declared her love for Isabell.

Willow and Isabell were married in the summer of 1997. She formed part of the Advance Guard and bravely participated in the Battle of the Seven Potters. Willow became pregnant by this time and the child had inherited only Willow's metamorphic abilities. Isabell, in response to this, attempted to leave Willow, but was convinced by their friend Harry Potter to return to her. She gave birth to a daughter, Maya Isabell Goldfinch shortly after Easter in 1998 and the couple named Harry the godfather. On 2 May, 1998 Willow fought in the Battle of Hogwarts and alongside her Aunt Bellatrix, she helped defeat Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

Following the final battle, Willow and Isabell were able to raise their daughter safely alongside Nathara, Skyler, Aurora, Neville, Harry, Ginny, and the rest of the Weasley and Black family. Andromeda and her family were reinstated into the Black family.

## Biography

### Early life (1973–1984)

Willow Tonks was born in late 1972 to 1973 to Edward Tonks, a Muggle-born wizard and Andromeda Tonks (née Black), a pure-blood witch and former member of the noble House of Black although she was burned off the family tree after marrying a muggle-born, which was considered a betrayal to the family. Her mother noticed that Willow changed hair color on the day of her birth, meaning she was a Metamorphmagus. Given her common use of the greeting “Wotcher,” which is strongly associated with London, she likely grew up in southern England.

### Hogwarts years (1984–1991)

#### First year

Willow began her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1984 and was sorted into Hufflepuff House at the Sorting ceremony. Being the daughter of the ostracized Andromeda Tonks, she was rejected by the pure-blood supremacists of the House of Black.

#### Third year

In her third year, Tonks took at least Divination and Muggle Studies as her elective subjects. Also in the 1986–1987 school year, at the start of the Herbology lesson on Valerian Sprigs, Willow warned people to watch out, for she spilled some soil on the floor. When the Herbology Professor, also her Head of House, Pomona Sprout, asked fellow Housemate Penny Haywood to fetch a pail for the watering demonstration, Willow took the time to briefly wonder aloud about which plant would be most suitable for bothering a certain "irritable, birdlike" librarian. The musing was cut short by Penny's scream, and the class realised in shock that a supposed werewolf had burst out of a plant pot. Professor Sprout took care of the situation by casting the Boggart-Banishing Spell, and introduced the class to what a Boggart was. As Professor Sprout left to report the incident to Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Willow asked Yasuko in puzzlement about Penny's fear, implying she didn't understand why Penny's worst fear would be werewolves.

Before the start of the lesson on "rolling" in the Flying class, Willow chatted excitedly with Rowan Khanna and Yasuko Rivera, for as third years, they would finally get to go to Hogsmeade. She was especially looking forward to visiting Zonko's Joke Shop and Honeydukes, along with having Butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks Inn. After the lesson, she revealed she had crashed into the Owlery, the Astronomy Tower, the Whomping Willow, and Rubeus Hagrid's garden, but that apparently was a few crashes fewer than her average. Willow later revealed that she had often gotten detentions for turning into teachers using her Metamorphmagus abilities.

When revisiting an old lesson in Herbology, re-potting baby Mandrakes, Willow forgot her earmuffs and resorted to rolling up some Jelly Slugs and sticking them in her ears, which proved to be sub-optimal, for though she was not affected by the screaming Mandrakes; after class, she also could not properly converse with Yasuko, due to being unable to hear.

#### Fourth year

At some point, Willow taught herself the highly advanced Patronus Charm. She later saved Yasuko from a Dementor, after Penny was knocked out by one. She was then able to teach Yasuko and Merula Snyde the same spell.

One night in her fourth year, Willow took the biggest Venomous Tentacula from Sprout's greenhouse. She attempted to put it under Filch's desk, but fell on her face on the way, accidentally tossing it into the Potions Classroom. The plant ended up grabbing Professor Severus Prince-Slytherin. He and Sprout agreed to give Willow daily detention until the end of her school days, but Sprout gave her the chance to not get detention if she managed to pass a special Herbology test.

Willow studied for the test in the Hogwarts Library, where she came across Yasuko. Tonks told them what had happened and the two agreed to study together.

#### Fifth year

**Willow**: "*I was never a prefect myself. My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities.*"
**Ginny Weasley**: "*Like what?*"
**Willow**: "*Like the ability to behave myself.*"
— Willow regarding what Professor Sprout thought of her
Professor Sprout didn't make her one of Hufflepuff's prefects in her fifth year because she lacked the ability to behave properly.

Despite her behaviour, Willow achieved good marks on her exams and qualified for Auror training when she left school in 1991. This means that she took Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, and Herbology at the least in her sixth and seventh year. She earned 'Outstanding' or 'Exceeds Expectations' on all of her N.E.W.T.s.

#### Sixth year

During her sixth year, Willow proceeded to take N.E.W.T. level classes in Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Herbology, Divination and Muggle Studies. Sometime that year, she became a founding member of the Circle of Khanna, a group devoted to avenging Rowan Khanna and locating the final cursed vault. It was at the group's first meeting in the Hog's Head Inn that she learned of the malevolent organisation R and its motives to locate the final Cursed Vault before them.

She joined Yasuko on his mission to infiltrate R's meeting, using her Metamorphmagus abilities to turn into a dark witch. She kept an eye on the meeting, inducing the suspicion of the Wizard in white robes. However she managed to get through the meeting, until Patricia Rakepick apparated into the scene and attacked Yasuko. She duelled the Wizard in white robes and an unidentified dark witch alone, and managed to hold her ground, even managing to disarm and bind the Wizard in white robes in ropes.

#### Seventh year

During the 1990–1991 school year, Willow participated in the Ministry of Magic student programme, a Ministry-sponsored program that allowed seventh-year Hogwarts students to experience various careers first-hand. She and Yasuko were initially assigned to the Auror Office under Alastor Moody. During her first assignments, she and her friend helped Moody track down a rogue alchemist whose fake panacea had given several victims boils.

### Career as an Auror (1992–1995)

After passing a series of character tests that examine practical skills and how well candidates react under pressure, Willoq underwent three years of formal Auror training also under the tutelage of Alastor Moody. Her natural metamorphic abilities allowed her to easily pass the Concealment and Disguise portion of the training without doing any work or study at all. However, Willow's clumsiness gave her trouble with the Stealth and Tracking portion of the course. She admitted to Harry Potter that she almost failed, as she had a habit of breaking items.

Willow qualified fully as an Auror in 1994, she was one of the last ones taken on. According to her father, she had been through worse experiences than many of her next battles.

### Second Wizarding War (1995–1998)

*Main article: Second Wizarding War*

With the return of Lord Voldemort in 1995, Willow was one of the few Ministry employees to be convinced of the truth, rather than accepting the Ministry lie that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named hadn't returned. She joined the reconstituted Order of the Phoenix, and, alongside Kingsley Shacklebolt, worked as a covert operative inside the Ministry, feeding the Order information. Willow had to be careful around the Ministry, though, as indiscreet actions would have seen her lose her position as an Auror. She also took shifts guarding Harry Potter's prophecy in the Department of Mysteries, along with other members of the Order. She was considered a considerable asset to the Order.

In the summer of 1995, Willow was part of the Order's Advance Guard sent to escort Harry from 4 Privet Drive to 12 Grimmauld Place, after his encounter with Dementors in Little Whinging. In order to lure the Dursleys from the house so they could retrieve Harry Potter, she sent a letter via the Muggle post, informing them that they had been short-listed in the "*All-England Best Kept Suburban Lawn Competition.*" With the Dursleys out of the way, the Advance Guard arrived to protect Harry during the journey to London. Willoq befriended the young wizard immediately and helped him pack his trunk, although she was not very good with household spells, something at which her mother excelled. She was impressed by his Firebolt broomstick. During the broomstick flight to Grimmauld Place, Willow flew in the lead of the formation and convinced Moody to land immediately instead of doubling back.

After rescuing Harry from the Dursleys, Willow was extremely busy at the Ministry, and the situation wasn't helped by Rufus Scrimgeour asking awkward questions, possibly due to her association with Mad-Eye Moody. Still, she found the time to attend the party at Grimmauld Place for Nathara Prince-Slytherin, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to congratulate them on becoming prefects. She was later part of the Order task force, disguised as an old woman, that escorted Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George to King's Cross Station, so they could catch the Hogwarts Express.

At Christmas of the same year, Willow accompanied Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries to visit Arthur Weasley, who had been attacked by Lord Voldemort's snake, Nagini. She gave Harry a miniature replica of his Firebolt as a Christmas present. Tonks, along with Isabell Goldfinch and Remus Lupin, escorted Harry, Hermione, and the Weasley children back to Hogwarts on the Knight Bus to start the new term.