Anromeda's War
My name is Andromeda Tonks and this is the story of a family torn apart and remade by war.
My story starts in 1953 when I was born in to a pure blood family. My mother and father raised us to be good little bigots By the time my sisters and I could talk we knew that muggleborn wizards were mud bloods, that all muggles should be killed first, before they could kill you, that blood traitors were as bad as muggles and should be treated the same, that house elves were to be used until they could not serve any longer and then eliminated, and that witches were put on this earth to produce and raise pure blood wizards to rule the world.
I grew up in a house that had a dungeon. My father used it a lot. He had made it his life's mission to make sure elves and mud bloods knew their place.
My mother was a cold hard hearted bitch. Her only concern was the cost of her clothes and the envy of her peers.
My sisters were not any better. One emulated my father and one my mother. One lost her life fighting for evil and one lost her world when her husband picked the losing side of the war.
I found happiness and truth. I escaped. I married Ted Tonks, a muggle born. Ted taught me that all people are worth something. That nobility has nothing to do with your linage. That all creatures deserve dignity. He taught me love.
We had a daughter, she married a werewolf, they had a son. My husband, daughter and son-in-law died fighting evil. I survived and raised my grandson.
I'm old now, and close to my death. But before I die I want to put down on parchment our story. May it serve as a warning for future generations.
Evil has a horrible price. Bigotry is the sustenance of evil. Hate it's breeding ground.
Please join me in this journey back in time.
Andromeda Tonks
London, UK
