"She's so cute, pink, and squishy!" A young Nymphadora Tonks exclaimed while poking at the fleshy cheek of her new baby sister.
"Yes, she is quite the cute girl. She already has a head full of dark hair." Andromeda Tonks held the sleeping 2 year in her lap, rocking her softly. For the past three hours she had cried nonstop, it was only a few minutes ago Andromeda was able to break the curse placed upon the child that made her see the Tonks family as monsters.
"Nymphadora, your mother and I need to talk. And it's really late, way past an 8 year olds bedtime. So now it is time for you to go to sleep as well." Edward Tonks spoke very quietly and with some urgency, the matter at hand was important.
"Fine. But we better be keeping her." Even at the age of 8, Nymphadora had quite the confidence and attitude.
After Edward heard the door to his daughters room slam shut he turned to his wife who still cradled the little girl in her arms.
"Can we really keep her? You know as well as I do this could mean trouble for us." Edward was racked with guilt and fear, but held himself together.
Andromeda waited a moment to respond, looking from the innocent 2 year old child to the husband she loved and left her family for. "She is in Azkaban, Edward. If she ever does manage to get out, which I strongly do not believe she will as no one has ever escaped, she won't remember her child. And no one else knew about her. Dumbledore said she kept her child a secret, she kept her Death Eater ways and her home life separate and private. The only reason she had a child was to-"
Edward cut her off, "To continue the pure-blood line. And she probably wanted a boy too, I can't imagine if this little girl even got cared for."
"She seems rather small for her age," Andromeda lost herself looking at the baby girl. So full of life and with no bad record to hold her back. "You know, Edward, she could go to muggle school even at the age of eleven. We could homeschool her for magic, that way we won't ever have to worry about her running into trouble. Or anyone who may know who she really is. She won't have any bad influences in her life, she doesn't have to turn out like her mother." Andromeda already had come to the conclusion to keep the little girl and she would do anything to convince her husband that they could change the fate of this beautiful dark haired baby.
"That doesn't sound like a bad plan." Edward said in thought, trying to imagine what it would be like.
Finally, after a moment of hopeful silence, Edward broke it, "We should give her a new name, like Dumbledore suggested. Her mother named her Ara. Ara Lestrange."
"What an unfortunate name." Andromeda sighed, even though later in life people would question why she had named her own daughter Nymphadora.
"How about we keep with tradition of your family and name her after a constellation or a star?"
"Lynx. Lynx Tonks has a nice ring." Andromeda smiled at her new baby girl.