A/N: This is the second letter to Andromeda. An entry for multiple challenges in the Hogwarts Houses Challenges for team Ravenclaw. If you would like to see the responses, written by the wonderful Uni, go here: s/11389866/1/Dear-Ted
1) The Owlery: Ted Tonks writing to Andromeda Black
2) The Drabble Club: Rage, unadulterated rage, consumed my every thought!
3) The Quidditch Pitch: insanity
4) The Marauder's Era challenge
Final word count: 510
Dearest Dromeda,
When school starts up again, I might get expelled if I so much as get a glimpse of Lucius Malfoy! I do not understand why pureblood families are still so stuck in the past, it's pure insanity! He is dead to me! Rage, unadulterated rage, consumed my every thought!
I do not care that you aren't "pure", as you put it, for any reason other than the fact that it was not your choice. And I have their decided that you are joining me, and I will not take no for an answer. You deserve to have an experience with a man that makes you smile, and I will do everything in my power to do that for you. You have the prettiest smile I have ever seen, honest.
Now, in order to help convince you that I will not take no for an answer, I shall tell you amazing things. Or at least, what I hope you'll find funny do that someone might hear your beautiful laugh.
If you think my parents are funny for focusing on literature, you should have seen their reaction when your owl arrived. They kind of forget that that's how the wizarding world sends their mail, and I so rarely get any, that they only redirect it when it's time for school.
My parents are both English professors at Oxford and Cambridge, which in the muggle world would be like Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor falling in love and getting married. They have me take arithmancy in school and I do have some classes in math, but because they teach English, they care a lot about literature. In fact, they tend to only give books as gifts.
Muggles can fly, just not in the way we do. They fly in giant contraptions that are called airplanes. They were invented a long time ago by two brothers, The Wright brothers. And it escalated from there. Amelia Earheart was a feisty woman, who became one of the first female pilots, that's what they call muggles who fly, and she decided that she wanted to fly around the world. And she did. Except that one day, she went missing over the Bermuda Triangle. It's a part of the ocean, and ships and planes suddenly disappear.
I don't think we're that opposite, Dromeda. Yes, we come from different worlds, and we might have a very Romeo and Juliet like story, but I want to be with you. And we can't find out if it's meant to be unless you join me.
So in order to prepare for this date that I am no longer accepting a no to, I have a few things to say and ask. First, what is your favorite food? Have you ever been in a car? Or in central London? The dress code for the evening well be...formal-ish. I'm not sure how to describe it. A dress would definitely work perfectly, you look lovely when you wear dresses. You always seem to shine brighter. I can't wait to see you.
Yours,
Ted