A Place More Familiar
Ted/Andromeda
For the Title Challenge.
Prologue
Andromeda had been raised as a proud, Muggle-hating, Black. She used to idolise her elder sister; as a child , Bellatrix was the one who filled their parents with pride, with her cruel ways and twisted humour - a perfect Black – and Narcissa was her parent's angel, the sweet child who knew her roots and silently accepted the family traditions. Andromeda was the middle child, the awkward one. She knew her place and she was proud but she simply couldn't use the crucio curse on the Muggles their parents brought to the house for "practise" as Bella could, and neither could she stand quietly being the angelic daughter that Narcissa was; Andromeda was clumsy and, as her parents put it, too soft for her own good. Cygnus and Druella Black, however, were able to hide their child's weakness from their fellow Death Eaters. She was merely excused as a pretty face with a slightly dim girl behind it.
Andromeda wished that she could be like the others in her family, but she simply wasn't. Her cousin Sirius Black was her favourite, he didn't ever seem disappointed by her; he simply asked her to play with him and she was the one he went crying to after his parents beat him for making friends with muggles, for he didn't understand why he shouldn't.
When Andromeda's Hogwarts letter finally came she was determined she would get into Slytherin – how could she possibly be put anywhere else?
Ted Tonks was an average boy, he went to school with his friends, he played football, then he came home. So when his Hogwarts letter, he was more than shocked; he was terrified. First he had the job of telling his friends why he wasn't going to the secondary school with them as they had always planned. He told them he was going to a selective boarding school in Scotland which his Grandparents had gone to and that it was in their will – which he had heard at their recent funeral – that they wished for him to go there too. Although his friends had readily accepted this lie Ted felt awful telling it. Ted's parents were very supportive about the whole "magic" thing and Ted couldn't help but feel the excitement building inside him and, secretly, he couldn't hide the feel of dread weighing down on him – what if nobody liked him? What if it turned out he wasn't really a wizard?
A/N – All right, I know this is extremely short but it is the prologue and I promise I am going to try and get all my next chapters about four pages long (this is about half a page). This was just a short introduction to the characters. Thank you for reading, please leave a review. XD