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Seven meetings of Ted Tonks and Andromeda Black – Chapter one.
Ted POV -
"When I was four that was the first time I did magic" I said looking around at the other students in the train carriage, "but of course my parents just thought the other had passed me the bar of chocolate I'd been trying to reach all day."
The other students in the carriage chuckled politely and began to speak to each other, ignoring the first years in the corner. One girl kept her eyes focused on me though, she had a heart shaped face and short brown hair, tied up in a tufty ponytail at the side of her head.
"If you didn't know about magic how did you know about Hogwarts?" she asked slowly, as if every word had to be carefully thought about.
'One of the teachers came to see me' I replied, glad someone wanted to talk to me 'My dad thought they were a crazy person, at first he locked the door on them. But she just strolled in.'
'Which teacher was it?' the girl's eyes lit up
'A Professor, McGonagall, she told us everything about this world and then she did magic, like real magic.'
'bless the iccle Mudblood' said a voice a boy with white hair, who had appeared at the carriage door, he was already wearing the school robes black with streaks of a deep green inside, on them were pinned a small green badge, a black P over the shadow of a snake. A chuckle from one of the two girls behind him drew my gaze to them.
"Consorting with the lower classes are we Addy, next you'll be marrying them too" the taller of the girls her black hair curled and messy, chuckled, her laughter sounded more manic than the laughter of a girl should sound. "Come with us if you know what's good for you".
Addy stood up from opposite me "Sorry, that's my sister. Mother would kill me if she knew I'd spoken to you" she lowered her eyes and slid out of the compartment.
I felt the stares of the carriage turn towards me, one red headed boy smiled and came to sit next to me; "I guess there's another Black sibling then, my older brother warned me about her, The whole family are Slytherin Pure blood elitists" I stared at him blankly.
"What elitists?"
"Pure blood, oh it means witches and wizards who's parents also had magical powers"
"It's a load of rubbish" commented another girl from the carriage, "my dad's muggle born and he's an Auror at the ministry"
"I'm Charlie by the way" said the red head.
"Ted" I offered.
Addy's POV-
"Slytherin" declared the Sorting hat. I jumped off the seat and went to join the Slytherin table seating myself next to Cissy.
"Welcome to the club" said Bellatrix, "let's not have any more of that nonsense with muggle borns" she turned from me back to the sorting and hissed at the small boy who had just been sorted into Gryffindor.
The Sorting plodded along, and I was getting hungry.
"Tonks, Theodore" called McGonagall
The boy from the train stood up and slid past one of the few remaining people in the group, I smiled at him and he smiled back, maybe I'd be lucky, I mean it wasn't unheard of for Muggle borns to join Slytherin if they had the right attributes.
"Hufflepuff" declared the hat, it had barely touched his head, he smiled and went to join the table of Hufflepuffs, as Bella's laughter rang in my ears.