STORY: Forgive me mother, for I have sinned.
Tonks looked at her mother and shook her head in disbelief, tears where running freely down her eyes. "I never expected this from you mum. I thought you of all people would understand."
"A werewolf Dora?"
She shook her head. "And what did your mother say when you brought home dad. 'A mudblood Andromeda.' How can you now stand there and judge me?"
"You know it's not the same thing. Your father is fine, perfectly normal…"
"And Remus is normal." She whispered. "If only you could see his heart, he is a genuinely good person. He has just been dealt a bad hand. You want to punish him for that."
"I'm not punishing anyone. I just don't want him with my daughter."
Dora bit her lips in concentration then looked at her mother. "I know you think I'm making a mistake but you always told me that love is all there is… You gave up everything for love and you never regretted it. I know I'll never regret it."
"Dora, you're making a huge mistake." She said moving closer to her daughter. But she wasn't listening; she was as stubborn as she was when she was younger. Dora stepped back slowly form her and then turned on heel and seconds later she could hear the front door slamming.
She turned around and looked at Ted, who had witnessed the entire argument. "Why didn't you say something?" she asked him.
He held his hands up in protest. "Because if I said anything you would be angry."
Her jaw dropped in shock. "You're not telling me that you actually don't care that your only daughter is dating a werewolf."
He shook his head. "Oh I care alright… but there's not much I can do about it."
"You can tell her stop, she will listen to you." She took a seat next to her husband on the sofa and held his hand. She knew that Nymphadora was her father's child. She was always his little girl. She worshiped the ground he walked on.
Ted squeezed her hand in his. "I don't want her to. I don't want her to be sitting down somewhere miserable and wondering what could have been because she didn't take a chance on love."
"How can she love him, Ted?" she said leaning her head on his shoulder. She had never been so stressed in her life. She had friends who were complaining about their children getting low grades in school, they all thought they had such horrible, disobedient kids. What would they do if the had one who wanted to marry a man with no sort of prospects and who turned into an animal every full moon.
"He must be one hell of a bloke."
She sighed. "Maybe it's just a passing thing... like that time she was considering going into dragon breeding."
"Some how I think Charlie Weasley had to do with that."
"Why can't she date him again? He was a nice kid."
"No, he cheated on her, remember. She cried for two weeks straight."
"What's wrong with kids these days? Why do they fall in love so fast?"
He laughed and pulled her in tight embrace. "As opposed to at first sight."
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She was quite certain that she would make no friends. She didn't have pretty yellow hair like that girl to right or bright red hair like that girl to her left, or even brown hair like the girl in the front. No, she was plain… with plain black hair. No one would like her, she was certain. She had already been in school for a night and all the girls in her dorm got along, all except her.
She was the only one they didn't talk to. And now, she was the only one no one was sitting next to.
She was never very good at controlling her emotions. Whenever she felt sad, she would cry. Her mother would always scold her for it but she couldn't help it. The more she tried to stop, the more she cried.
She looked around the room at the chatting students and realized that they all had friends; she was the only one without a friend. No one liked her. She felt her throat begin to ache. She was going to cry. She didn't want to cry... everyone would laugh at her. And sure enough, she was crying.
"Hello," a soft voice said from next to her.
She wiped her eyes quickly and turned to see who had sat next to her. It was a boy with brown hair. He looked like a kind sort of person. "Hello," she said.
"Why are you crying?" he asked her.
She shrugged. "No one likes me here."
He shook his head. "That's not true. I like you just fine," he said and immediately after he seemed to be ashamed of it.
"You're very kind. What's you're name?" she said.
"Ted Tonks."
"I'm Andromeda Black," she said and she stuck out her hand quickly for him to take. They shook hands quickly and seconds later he pulled it away and wiped it in his wizard robes. "I don't have a best friend yet, so do you want to be my friend."
He shrugged. "Sure. I don't know anyone here. Do you."
She looked around. "Some of them I know but they don't like me or any of my sisters."
"Why?" he asked.
"They're jealous, that's what my mum says."
"Why are they jealous."
She smiled proudly. "Because I'm from the Ancient and Most Noble house of Black."
His brows knitted. "Is your family some kind of royalty then?"
She giggled. "Like muggles… no. I heard that we're sort of important… my little sister Bella likes to ask about it a lot but I don't ever really listen. She knows all the important wizarding families and she's only ten. Are you related to any of the important ones… like Lestrange, Burke, Malfoy…"
"Nah, I don't know any of them. I'm the first wizard in my family."
Her heart and jaw dropped. "You're a mudblood?"
He twisted his face. "A what… I don't like the sound that."
She turned her attention away from him and to the front of the classroom where a fat golly man who was supposed to be their potions teacher came in. She absolutely refused to look at him thereafter. If her mother found out she had made friends with a mudblood by accident she would be in so much trouble. She was already getting looks from some of the people she knew. She was certain they would tell their parents and their parents would tell her parents and then she would get a howler and she would be embarrassed in front of the entire school and she would never make a good friend.
She pulled her chair away from him. The boy called Ted looked confused and hurt, she felt like she was being mean after he was so kind to her but she didn't care. She could never be friends with him.
He was a mudblood.
A/N: A bit of a departure for me. I have never written a story without Snape but I think I'll enjoy this one.