The Loyal and the Just
Diagon Alley
"Which one will I get mum" asked the eleven year old girl as she entered the small wand shop of Ollivanders. The bell tinkled a second time as another witch that could only be the girl's mother entered. The girl glanced swiftly around the shop, taking in the long thin boxes that contained wands.
"Which ever one chooses you, dear, and be patient Nymphadora!" she said as her daughter rushed up to the counter.
"Don't call me Nymphadora mum, its Tonks!" she hissed over her shoulder in her mother's direction, turning her hair a short bubble gum pink and her eyes to a blood shot red, just to annoy her mother.
"Nymphadora!!!"
"Why that's a perfect name for one such as you" said a well spoken voice from the shadows, startling both woman. An old man with a stubble for a beard swiftly took the other side of the counter, he peered carefully at Tonks as she stood there staring at him with wide eyes, taking in her shocking pink hair to her tomboyish cloths that were mostly black. "A Metamorphmagus ah" he muttered walking slowly to one of the far side shelves he pulled a small box form its resting place and came back to the eagerly awaiting girl.
"Cheast nut and Beachwood, a fine wand, good for charms, nine and a half inches" he handed the wand carefully to her. She just stood there bewildered.
"Give it a wave Nymphadora!" her mother spoke loudly, snapping Nymphadora out of her daydream. Waving the wand in a circle in the direction of the door, the wand let out an array of golden sparks which flew toward the door, blowing it off its hinges with a horrible scraping sound. A stunned look on her face made her think it was best to quickly place the wand back in its case, next to a horrified Mr. Olivander.
"Sorry" she said quickly looking down toward the decorated carpet.
"Quite the clumsy one we are now" Mr. Olivander spoke before going to the shelf and studying the boxes carefully before taking a long box from its place, handing it to her very carefully.
"Phoenix feather and Pine Wood, excellent for transfiguration, twelve and a quarter inches, give it a try."
She waved the wand near some of the boxes and one single, middle sized box zoomed out and hovered in the middle of the room before dropping to the floor with a small muffled thud.
"Not that wand I can see" he said snatching the wand from her and replacing it. He glanced curiously at the fair sized box in the middle of the room. Tonks looked at it to, but before she could walk up to it to give it to Mr. Olivander and apologize, Mr. Olivander himself swooped down and grabbed it lightly before reading the inscription on the box, his brows frowned.
"Ah, I think you may want to try this wand" he said taking a dark, smooth, slender wand from its case, "Willow wood and Eagle Feather, eleven inches, absolutely perfect for Defense Against the Dark Arts." He handed her the wand. Slowly closing her fingers around the polished handle, she felt a warm sensation spread through her body, a nice, fuzzy feeling that sent shivers down her spine. A slight breeze waffled through the small shop as Nymphadora gave the wand a good swish, sending jets of fireworks from the tip. They all exploded around the shop, creating colorful blurs of bangs and snaps.
"Perfect!" exclaimed Mr. Olivander "That didn't take as long as some of the others did, I have to say."
"Well done Dora!" exclaimed her mother "It took me two hours to find mine!"
"Oh, I remember that well!" Said Mr. Olivander taking the wand from Nymphadora, raping it up and placing it in the box "ended up taking one of my shelves down in the process. I guess, like mother like daughter" he said glancing at the shattered door with a reproachful look, taking his own wand out he mended it with a single swish.
"I guess so" Andromeda sighed as Dora watched the door mend itself with wide eyes.
"Let us see, 11 Galleons and 7 Sickles to make it simpler" Mr. Olivander turned back to Andromeda.
After paying him, the two exited the shop with a farewell from Mr. Olivandeer, onto the cobble stone street. Witches and Wizards, all sizes and shapes, wearing colorful cloaks and hats, speeding on their way to their next destination.
"What now mum?" asked Nymphadora ignoring the stares that were being cast at her pink hair.
"I thin- Nymphadora will you please turn you're hair and you're eyes to a normal colour!" he mother asked frustrated.
"What's the point in being a Metamorphmagus if you don't use the power to begin with!" never the less she obeyed turning her hair to a spiky, shoulder length black and her eyes to a bright green. Now she really looked like a mini Auror, with her gothic like cloths and appearance. She knew that was the job she wanted to pursue when she was older.
Rolling her eyes at her daughter's stubbornness Andromeda quickly put her arm around her daughter and guided her to 'Madam Malkins'.
Entering the shop with the door bell tinkling a voice yelled out: "Just one minute." Looking around Tonks could see different variety of dress robes and second hand Hogwarts robes. Andromeda went over to look at the new dress robes that had a marker above it that read:
Madam Malkins Special Dress Robes
Newly ordered
20 Galleons each.
Waiting for a short while, they were greeted by Madam Malkin herself and escorted to the back of the robe filled shop. Tonks was greeted with the site of a pregnant, red head woman with her son who had the same mop of bright red hair. He was standing on a stool with black clothing draped around him; pins stuck out of it a various places marking his length. He smiled at her, she smiled back.
She had no doubt of who these people were. They were the Weasley family. She had heard about them from her father who worked at the Ministry. Mrs. Weasley stood up and greeted her mother, they seemed to know each other, and started chatting off. Madam Malkin got Tonks to stand on a stool while she got a spare marking cloth.
"Hi, my name's Charlie Weasley" said the boy turning toward her.
"Wotcher, I'm Tonks" she replied looking toward him.
His brow frowned "My mother told me about the family Tonks, so you're name is Tonks Tonks?"
"No silly, my real name is embarrassing, don't know why my mother gave it to me?" she smiled through her black hair as Madam Malkin returned, and started to fit the cloak to the right size with pins.
"Ah, common what's you're name, it cant be that embarrassing!" he said peering at her, his eyes narrowed.
"No trust me its bad" she said, deciding to turn the conversation around "So Charlie, what house do you think you'll be in?"
"Humph, that's easy, all my family have been in Gryffindor, the Weasley family." He said as if it was the easiest thing to answer in the world. He nodded to his mother who was happily chatting away with Andromeda. "All her family was, and so was my dads, even my big brother, Bill's out with his friends in the 'Leaky Cauldron". What house do you think you'll be in?" he asked staring at her.
"Well, my Father was in Gryffindor" Charlie smiled at this "and my mother was in Slytherin" his face dropped.
"You're mother was in Slytherin?" he stared wide eyed at her mother who had seemed so nice.
"Yeah, I'm a descendant of one of the old wizarding families of pure-blood, my father on the other hand is Muggle Born" she was reluctant to share her darkest secret with some one she had just met.
'What Wizarding Family?" he asked looking at her curiously.
"An ancient old one, but my mother wasn't accepted into it after she married my father" she said yelping as a pin struck her on the arm.
"Oh, so uh, what house will you be in you think?" he was starting to like this girl.
"Uh, I don't know, I the world's biggest Klutz, I'm not brave, but I'm not power thirsty like my other family, I'm not the smartest person in the world, I guess I donno" she said thinking.
"Well, I hope you get into Gryffindor!" he said smiling down at her.
"Yeah, I think it would be pretty cool" she said smiling back at him.
They continued talking as Madam Malkin worked on their robes and by the time she was done they had gotten to know each other quite well already and were considered each other as friends already.
"Alright dear, that's you done" said Madam Malkin to Tonks cutting halfway through their conversation.
"Well" said Charlie looking a little disappointed "I'll see you on the Hogwarts Express then, well talk more."
"Yeah that'll be cool" said Tonks handing her mother the robes as Andromeda paid Madam Malkin and said farewell to Mrs. Weasley.
"Goodbye Andromeda dear, goodbye Nymphadora" said Mrs. Weasley as they left the shop waving. Just before she left the shop Nymphadora's hair turned a dark red, being angered at being called by her first name. Charlie gasped as he saw this and wondered how on earth she did that. He really wanted to be friends with this girl.
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