Andromeda Tonks

## Andromeda Tonks (née Black)

(Great)

* Archie Lupin
* Summer Lupin
* Porter Lupin

* Addom Lestrange

(Great)

* Scorpius Malfoy
* Cassiopeia Malfoy
* Gemini Malfoy-Lestrange
* Ivan Lestrange

(Great x 2)

* Castor Malfoy
* Margaretta Malfoy

* Chief of Staff

(Oct 2037 – present)

* Healer:

(Aug 1970 – Apr 1998)
(Jan 2019 – Oct 2037)

St. Albus’s

* Healer:

(Sep 2009 – Jan 2019)

Andromeda Irma Tonks (née Black) (b. 17 August 1952) is an English pure-blood witch. The daughter of Cygnus and Druella (née Rosier) Black. Andromeda has two sisters.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Andromeda Irma Tonks (née Black) was born on August 17, 1952 to Cygnus and Druella (née Rosier) Black. The middle child she; has two sisters, Bellatrix Lestrange (Jul 1951-Jan 2019) and Narcissa Malfoy (Feb 1955).

Andromeda was raised with her sisters to view pure-bloods as the elite, and everyone else was beneath them. Muggles and Muggle-borns were the worst of the worst, and they weren’t to associate with them at all. Though she was raised to be a pure-blood supremacist like most of her family, she did not hold those beliefs or values.

#### Hogwarts (1963-1970)

Andromeda attended Hogwarts from 1963 to 1970, and like every Black before her; she was sorted into Slytherin House.

In her sixth year, she fell for muggle-born Edward (Ted) Tonks. Ted was a member of her class though he was in Hufflepuff House. Though she knew her parents wanted her to marry a respectable pure-blood wizard like her elder sister Bellatrix had married Rodolphus Lestrange, and her younger sister Narcissa was courting Lucius Malfoy. But she didn’t want a pure-blood wizard; she wanted Ted; she loved him regardless that he was a muggle-born.

On June 29, 1970, after they graduated Hogwarts, they eloped; the only ones at the wedding were Ted’s brother and her best friend.

Andromeda didn’t tell her parents because she knew what they would say to her family muggle-borns and muggles were the same filth. After being married, she went to her childhood home and told her parents she was married; her parents took it like she knew they would; they berated her and disowned her. They told her that she was dead to them and that they never wanted to see her again. Her mother blasted her off of the Black family tree. That was the last time she saw her parents.

A few days later, she received Howlers from her sisters saying much of what their parents had told her.

#### Moving On

In August 1970, she started training at St. Mungos. In June 1972, nearly two years into her training, she found out she was pregnant; she and Ted were thrilled and looking forward to becoming parents. On January 23, 1973, she gave birth to their daughter Nymphadora.

In August 1973, when Nymphadora was eight months old, she completed her training and started working full time as a Healer. For years she and her small family were happy. Though she and Ted had discussed trying for another child, they eventually decided one was enough for them.

Years passed rapidly; in September 1984, Nymphadora started Hogwarts and got sorted into Hufflepuff like Ted. Andromeda was so proud when in July 1991, after graduating, Nymphadora was accepted into Auror training. The first to be accepted into the program in three years.

## The Second Wizarding War

#### Losing Ted

In March 1998, Ted, who had been on the run since October 1997, was killed by Snatchers. About a month later, on April 15, 1998, Nymphadora gave birth to her baby Edward Remus (Teddy) Lupin.

#### Losing Nymphadora

On May 2, 1998, her daughter and son-in-law (Remus Lupin) were killed at the Battle of Hogwarts. It devested her to have lost her only child, and so soon after, she had lost her beloved Ted. When she learned that her daughter had been killed by her sister Bellatrix it tore at her heart.

#### The Rebel Underground (1998-2019)

Andromeda became the sole guardian of her weeks-old orphan grandson Teddy. Since Voldemort was now in power and had control of the country, she knew that she had to keep Teddy safe, so she took him to the Rebel Underground. For the first eleven years living in the underground, her whole world revolved around Teddy. In September 2009, after Teddy started Phoenicia, she worked at St. Albus’s the Rebels Hospital.

## A New Day

On January 5, 2019, the rebels won the war against Lord Voldemort. After nearly twenty years living in the underground, she moved back to the home she had shared with her late husband, Ted. St. Albus’s was closed down, so she returned to work at St. Mungo’s. In October 2037, she got promoted to Chief of Staff.

## Relationships

#### Teddy Lupin

Teddy is her beloved grandson. After his parents died in the battle of Hogwarts and his godfather Harry Potter was carted off to Azkaban Prison, she became his sole guardian. From May 2, 1998, her entire world revolved around him. Besides memories, he was all she had left of her daughter.

Andromeda is immensely proud of the man that Teddy became and the family he created with his wife, Victoire Weasley-Lupin.

## Etymology

**Andromeda**, pronounced an-DRAH-ma-dah, is of Greek origin and means leader of men. In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. It is also the name of a constellation and galaxy.

**Irma** is of Old German origin and means universal complete. It derives from the Old German word irmin.