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Sometimes, when Andromeda Black reflects on her life, the one thing she regrets saying is that she was indeed more cowardly than her little cousin, Sirius. She recalled her first day of school when the Sorting Hat had whispered into her ears, telling her that she had qualities of Hufflepuff. As much as she would have liked to say she embraced it with joy, she was ashamed to say she shunted it aside. She simply refused to be sorted into Hufflepuff. It would be ultimate disgrace and she, Andromeda, might be blown off the family tree. She didn't like or want that.
So she insisted, prayed and even half begged inside her head to the Hat to sort her into Slytherin. She knew that her parents and her aunt and uncle would be proud, delighted to hear that the oldest have gotten into Slytherin. They would be celebrating back at Grimmauld Place. And she got her wish.
Fate was kind to her as they offered her a second chance, another test. She loved Ted Tonks, a mudblood as her family would call it, but she was engaged to Rodolphus Lestrange, a good ole pureblood chap. This time, however, Andy learnt her lesson. She wasn't going to give in, not after watching her brave little cousin ascend to Griffindor and rebelled strongly. He knew what was right and wrong and he embraced it.
This time, she embraced it. She left home and married to Ted Tonks, much to her mother's dismay. No doubt she was blown off the family chart but she had prepared herself. Nothing more than a single tear was shed that day but it was well hidden enough. Nobody would think that Andy actually missed her sisters and cousins and she didn't but she did miss their old much more innocent selves as she let herself be absorbed in her favourite adventure, their very first one...
That was the first year anniversary of their grandfather. The whole family was supposed to be at the grave praying and burning offerings to them but their aunt, Walburga Black insisted that she would not allow her little son, Regulus who hasn't even turn one visit a grave. She claimed it was bad luck.
Unable to send them anywhere, the family had decided to let them off, leaving seven years old Andy who could already do magic better than most second years in charge. Bella had came up with the idea that they visited the forest near their house and play around there and Andy strongly believed that it was dangerous but by saying it out loud, the sly little five years old had picked up Cissy and Sirius' interest and there was no way to argue with the two of them if they worked together despite the fact that they were both only three.
Before they set off to the woods, Andy had insisted on arrangement still. She carried baby Reg in her right arm of course, seeing the bumpy road would be too hard for unstable little Reg to walk on his own, and she had grabbed Cissy's hand with her left hand. She insisted that Bella took Sirius because Sirius was so much harder to twist than innocent little Cissy who was easily swayed. Sirius was definitely made of firmer substance.
So they stalked into the woods with Bella trying to convince Sirius that he would be the monsters first target because he was the oldest male. Everytime Bella jumped and screamed like a banshee to scare Sirius, Cissy squeezed Andy's hand a little tighter and Sirius just smacked Bella's head, or her neck because that was the highest he could reach, telling her that she was the lamest being he had the luck to come across.
Despite the fact that Bella and Sirius were bickering non-stop, Cissy had let go of Andy's hand and made a random wild grab. Only it wasn't random. Somehow, Cissy had managed to get hold of an escaping injured rabbit. Bella, seeing it, immediately wanted to try the Cruciatus Curse on it but she had gotten slapped by Andy for even suggesting such an atrocious thing.
Instead, Andy had Cissy to carry it home gently and they nursed the rabbit back to health together. Despite staying under the same roof all the time, it was rare that they enjoyed such times together. Even Bella helped to feed the rabbit a little much to Andy's pleasure. Of course she was grumbling but still, helping is an improvement.
That was Andy's favourite adventure because that was the very first and also, that was one filled with so much innocence and ignorance that Andy wished was still there but after Voldemort, the war and all that has happened, Andy doubted she would ever see such innocence in her life again.
She couldn't even give Teddy the innocence seeing that Teddy grew up knowing that he was different and that he had no parents. Teddy was a poor child affected by the war but still, she was proven wrong as her relationship with Cissy was saved. She couldn't help it but smile as she stared into the eyes of baby Scorpius. The light innocence in it that gave her the hope to continue.