Tonks family

**Sirius Black**: "*Any time the family produced someone halfway decent they were disowned. I see Willow isn't on here. Maybe that's why Kreacher won't take orders from her — he's supposed to do whatever anyone in the family asks him.*"
**Harry Potter**: "*You and Willow are related?*"
**Sirius Black**: "*Oh, yeah, her mother Andromeda was my favourite cousin.*"
— Discussion regarding the Tonks and Black families

**Tonks** was the surname of a family that was originally Muggle. Ted Tonks, however, was a Muggle-born wizard and he married a pure-blood witch, Andromeda Black (for which Andromeda was disowned), with whom he had one child, Willow Andromeda Tonks.

The Tonks family were related to the Goldfinch, Black, Malfoy, and Lestrange families. They were distantly related to the Potter, Weasley, Peverell, Prewett, Crabbe, Riddle, Slytherin, Crouch, and Gaunt families. They were also possibly related to the Longbottom and Abbott families. The female line continued through Maya Isabell Goldfinch. During the Second Wizarding War the family supported Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter.

## History

"*Andromeda married a Muggle-born, Ted Tonks, so —*"
— Sirius Black regarding the Tonks family
Not much is known about the early history of the Tonks family. Sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s Muggle-born Ted Tonks married Andromeda Black after they graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Because of this marriage, Andromeda was disowned by her family. In 1973 they had a daughter and their only child Willow Tonks.

### First Wizarding War

It can be assumed that during the First Wizarding War, the Tonks family supported the Order of the Phoenix. However, they were not actual members, only allies. They were happy when Lord Voldemort was defeated at the hands of Harry Potter in 1980.

### Between the wars

"*Nearly failed on stealth and tracking. I'm dead clumsy! Did you hear me break that plate downstairs?*"
— Willow talking to Harry Potter about her Auror training

In 1984, Willow began her education at Hogwarts where she was Sorted into Hufflepuff House during the Sorting ceremony. During her time at school she was not all-together the best behaved. Despite her behaviour, Tonks achieved good marks on her exams and qualified for Auror training when she left school in 1991. This means that she presumably took Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, and another subject in her sixth and seventh year. She earned 'Outstanding' or 'Exceeds Expectations' on all of her N.E.W.T.s. Being the daughter of the ostracised Andromeda Tonks, she was rejected by the supremacists of the House of Black.

Undergoing three years of Auror training under the tutelage of Alastor Moody, Willow's natural metamorphic abilities allowed her to easily pass the Concealment and Disguise portion of the training without doing any work for it at all. However, her clumsiness gave her trouble with the Stealth and Tracking portion of the course, which she almost failed. Tonks qualified fully as an Auror in 1994. It was most likely that her parents were proud when she was appointed as a full-fledged Auror.

### Second Wizarding War

The Tonks family supported the Order of the Phoenix during the Second Wizarding War, though only Willow Tonks was an actual member. Shortly after marrying Isabell Goldfinch, she became pregnant and stayed at her parents' home with her mother, while her father was forced to go on the run to avoid the Muggle-Born Registration Commission. Ted was murdered by Snatchers in March 1998 while on the run with other undesirables.

## Family members

### Main family

 Willow Goldfinch (née Tonks) | Daughter of Ted and Andromeda, wife of Isabell Goldfinch, and mother of Maya Isabell Goldfinch.