Disclaimer: Nothing in this is mine; it all belongs to JK Rowling.
A/N: This is for the "10 drabbles, 10 topics" challenge on HPCF.
Prompt: Character exploration – Andromeda Black
Word Count: 228
Andromeda Tonks lost everything.
When she was widowed, she was convinced she was going to lose it. The man that had been her rock through all of her familial struggles was no longer there. They had been through hell and back. They had both sacrificed so much simply to be together.
Her daughter was grown up, married, with a baby, and she was completely ostracized from all of her family. How could she possibly handle being alone with all of her memories?
The night the war ended was worth celebrating in most Wizarding households. But Andromeda was woken early in the morning by none other than the new Minister for Magic himself, Kingsley Shacklebolt, who carried a baby wrapped in blankets and news she couldn't bear to hear.
A mother's absolute worst nightmare is to lose her child. She fell to the floor in hysterics and it took her quite a while to be quieted down enough just to hear the news of her son-in-law's death as well.
When the Minister informed her of her the fate of the werewolf Lupin, Andromeda's immediate reaction, after a pang of remorse for treating her daughter's husband's death like surplus news, was to look at the baby in the Minister's arms.
Andromeda Tonks lost her entire world. But she was also given a new purpose. It was what kept her sane.