Andromeda Tonks

**Andromeda Tonks**, née Black, is a canonical pure-blood witch; she married muggle-born Ted Tonks and was the mother of Nymphadora Tonks.

## Canonical information

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Andromeda was the middle sister between Bellatrix Black (born 1951) and Narcissa Malfoy née Black (born 1955), so unless she and Bellatrix were actually twins she would have graduated Hogwarts in 1970 at the earliest and had her daughter within less than three years from graduation (Tonks was born in the 1972/73 school year). As soon as they learned of her wedding with a muggle-born, her family cast her out and disowned her; Bellatrix later claimed that she and Narcissa hadn't even looked at her since (incidentially implying that the marriage happened after graduation, since it would otherwise have been hard for Narcissa to avoid contact to such a degree). Assuming the pregnancy wasn't out of wedlock, we can then say that Andromeda was most likely born during the 1951/52 or 1952/53 school years.

At Hogwarts she was sorted into Slytherin, like most of her family.

Her husband, daughter and son-in-law were all murdered during the Second Wizarding War, and she was left to raise her grandson Teddy Lupin alone.

## Non-canonical information

### Minor appearances

* In A Godfather's Promise, her cousin Sirius mentions that both she and her husband are lawyers.

### Harry Potter: Neko's Mate

In this story, Andromeda is said to be an excellent Potions Mistress. She married Ted right after graduating from Hogwarts (probably in 1971, or possibly the year before), and was then hired to teach Potions at Brighton Auror Academy; the fact that she was given this job just a few months after her own graduation from Hogwarts is impressive – as Minerva McGonagall put it, "Brighton Auror Academy doesn't just hire anyone off the street." Unfortunately, she had to resign after a single year when she got pregnant with Nymphadora and she was a stay-at-home mother for several years. When Horace Slughorn in 1981 retired from the Potions professor post at Hogwarts, she applied for it and was quite surprised when Dumbledore instead chose Severus Snape, "a known Death Eater who was barely out of Hogwarts"; instead, she became a healer at St. Mungo's. When Snape in turn lost the job during the Christmas break of 1992, she applied again and was hired.

### Isolation

Here, Andromeda (with some support from Xenophilius Lovegood and his daughter Luna) runs a safe house where a number of Slytherin students are lying low to avoid receiving the Dark Mark: Miles Bletchley, Millicent Bulstrode, Tracey Davis, Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini and, eventually, Draco Malfoy. She was especially close to Millicent, who often accompanied her on trips to get supplies. After the war, Draco lived with her for four years, keeping her company and helping to raise Teddy. She is said to be 57 at the start of the 2009/10 school year, placing her birth in 1951/52.

## References

1. ↑ A Godfather's Promise, Chapter 11
2. ↑ Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 36
3. ↑ Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 30
4. ↑ Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 23
5. ↑ Isolation, Chapter 26
6. ↑ Isolation, Chapter 28
7. ↑ Isolation, Chapter 49