"After knowing how important a role Andromeda Tonks had played in you life, I don't think anyone would blame you for what you did." I don't think anyone would deny how remarkable a woman Andromeda Tonks is. Knowing what she has done for Harry I don't think even I would be able to ignore any rude comments or remarks about her. "Does Draco's mother know about your relationship with her sister?"
"Yah, Aunt Cissy does. I wonder who saved Draco from his fathers wrath for his childish behavior. I can guarantee she would not take insulting her sister lightly."
"You call Draco's mom Aunt Cissy. Since when?" Potter stop dropping such huge news with such causality. I think he does this in purpose just to break my Ice queen façade and make me gap like a fish. I seem to be doing that quite often when I am around him.
"Since the first month of being at the Tonks house. Contrary to popular belief, all the three Black sisters are quite close and still love each other. Aunt Andy may have been disowned from the family but Aunt Cissy is still in contact with Aunt Andy. She even comes to our home once a month to get away from all the responsibilities that come from being Lucius Malfoy's trophy wife."
"I have a lot of fun when she comes over to stay the night. We generally go to a these huge parks that the muggles called theme parks or the muggle beaches during the summer and have a blast. During the winter she takes would take me ice skating or some other snow filled activity. Once we even went to Japan to their famous hot springs. Now that I think about it she spoils me a lot. She always wished she could bring Draco along but she knows that he would tell his father so we had to leave him home.
"Oh Merlin. I can't believe the perfect pure-blood wife that we know as Narcissia Malfoy actually knows how to enjoy herself in the muggle world. I think the older pure bloods might have a heart attack if they knew about this."
"Alright that explains Malfoy but why do you tolerate Longbottom so much."
"The reason I tolerate Longbottom so much is because his mother is my Godmother. I know that she abandoned her duties by leaving me at the Dursleys but she proved to me that she wanted to make up for her mistakes. I didn't forgive her for a year till my 11th birthday. For that whole year Mrs. Longbottom made it her goal to get to know me better. She would come over every weekend after breakfast and would stay over till lunch just so she could talk to me."
"At first I didn't even talk to her. I would lock myself in my room whenever she came over and wait till she left. It was only after Aunt Andy told me to give her a chance that I allowed her to get close me. It was her stubbornness of trying to be a part of my life that let me forgive her. Once we started to know each other, we discovered that we had a lot to talk about."
"She like me is very inquisitive in nature. Many times in the past 3 years we have sat together and speculated about magic and many of its theories. She say's that it reminds her of the days she would spend with my mother trying to discover new about magic. She was also the only link that I had to my mother and would tell me lots of stories about my mother when they were in Hogwarts. She was also the person who introduced me to your mother and other knowledgeable personalities in magic."
"Why did she wait so long to meet you?"
"She had her reasons. And its her story to tell."
"so will you tell me your version of the story"
"I will but first I need to tell the reason why my magical core was so depleted when I was a kid."
"The reason that I had a severely low magical core was because of the magical binders that were placed on me by my godfather Sirius Black. When I was a baby I had a lot of bouts of Accidental magic which were not safe by a child's standards. I don't know what they were so don't ask me. Now seeing that my accidental magic could be harmful to me my parents decided to bind my magic. However the binding spells in the potter library were not able to bind my magic completely therefor my parents had to use the black family binders."
"Now the thing about the black family binder is that it is a borderline dark spell. It binds the magic of the child completely with a lot of seals. These seals are then released in intervals so that the body can get adjusted to the feel of magic. This type of binder is also helpful to teach a child better understand and control the flow of magic in your body. Now because this binding magic could literally turn the child into a squib there is a failsafe too. On the child's 10th birthday some of the seals are automatically disabled allowing 50% of the magic from the core is released from the confinement."
"As these binders was borderline dark magic, the only people who knew about these binders were my parents and Sirius Black. As the binders were a branch of the Black family magic, the healers in St. Mungo's were not able to identify the binders when I was a kid as their diagnostic spells couldn't read the unidentifiable magic signature."
"So due to obvious circumstances nobody removed the binders while I was growing up and when the failsafe was activated on my 10th birthday my magic came to bite me like a bitch. It felt like a dam that was stopping molten Hot lava to enter my body had burst open. I was admitted at St. Mungo's for a month strait while my body tried to adjust to the foreign feel of my magic. It was a very slow and painful process. I may have been declared unconscious for a whole month but I would never forget that excruciating burning sensation inside of me while I screamed for mercy in my head. I was ready to make a bargain with death just so that the pain could go away. It was only on the last week did I fall unconscious for the whole week."
"For a while everyone was in a state of panic nobody was able to understand what was happening to me. The healers tried everything they could to make my pain go away. My first week had caused utter chaos at St. Mungo's. It would have gone longer had Aunt Andromeda not connected the dots. Every member of the Black family that carry's the black name is taught all the branches of the Black family magic. Had there been a head of house at that time I think Aunt Andromeda would have begged him or her to be reinstated into the black family just so she could have eased my pain. But she was as helpless as the rest of the St. Mungo's staff."
"With her being disowned, she didn't have any access to the Black family library where she could find the required spells to filter the flow of magic in my body. She sat beside me the whole time till I was discharged. Didn't even leave my room even for one second. That year she didn't even go to drop Nymphadora off to the platform and it was Nymphadora's last year too."
"Alright, so what does this have to do with Alice Longbottom?"
"Okay now to go back a few years into the past, When I was at the Dursley's there was a park that I would close by where we would go and play during the weekends. Now at the park I wasn't allowed to play with anyone so I would always sit on the bench and read a story book or color or something by myself to pass the time."
"Now on one such evening I met this very nice Lady who introduced herself as Alice. No don't interrupt this part, just listen to the whole thing."
"Since that particular weekend the two of us would always meet at the park on every weekend till the Tonks took me away. we would start the conversation by tell each other about our week while I also had to tell her about everything I learnt at school and from the books that I was reading. If I would have finished a book she would give me recommendations about which book to read next too. It was the one thing that I would always look forward to when I was staying at the Dursleys."
"The week after the Tonks had taken me away I went to go find her at the park and she was waiting for me at our usual bench and had tears in her eyes but was smiling at the same time. When I told her about the Tonks and introduced to Aunt Andy she was really glad that I was able to find a loving family to take me in. She wished me luck and prayed for a bright future. Then she told me that she was moving away to a far away land and told me that we couldn't meet anymore."
"And that was the last time I met Ms. Alice for two and a half years. The next time I saw Ms. Alice was when I found her sleeping on the couch of my room in St. Mungo's."
"I knew it"
"Yah, yah I know, Ms. Alice was actually Alice Longbottom. Once I had been declared fit and discharged Mrs. Longbottom explained everything to me about why she did what she did. She was scared of losing me when my magic was released. She says that it was the fear of loosing me, the last link of Lily that she had, that made her to take a more active part in my life."
"So she was their in your childhood but it still doesn't explain why you tolerate Longbottom."
"I tolerate Longbottom because he only makes jabs at me while Malfoy insulted Andromeda. Plus it's not that I haven't done anything a out it. I already told his mother about what Neville is doing."
"And she hasn't done anything about it because?"
"There is a betting pool going on about how long Neville can act like a child."
"What!" I screemed
"Oh we want to see how long it will take for everyone to get bored of Neville's antiques or for him to cross the lone."
"And Neville's own mother is in on it."
"Well she isn't exactly in on it. Its just that she doesn't have a say on it. The people who have made their bets are Sirius, Nymphadora, uncle Eddy, aunt Cissy. I am not allowed to bet cause I am directly involved. The betting pool is quite high too."
"Explain why Mrs. Longbottom hasn't done anything about it."
"Well the whole bet thing is actually because of an argument that aunt Cissy and Ms. Alice had. You know how the rivalry between Longbottom and Malfoy is at school. You see aunt Cissy knows how arrogant Draco is but Ms. Alice would not agree that Neville is as arrogant as Draco. So aunt Cissy is using this opportunity to prove that Neville is as arrogant and big headed as Draco claims to be."
"Are you crazy. What if Neville or anyone of his cronies steps out of line. What if he hurts someone in the process."
"Took care of that too. Peeves and some of the Hogwarts ghost are following Neville and his gang all the time. When it seems like they are about to cross a line the ghost either inform me or cause a scene so that Neville doesn't do something stupid. For now the Gryffindors are keeping it clean and have not crossed the line."
"And what do you get out of this?" There is no way he is doing this for free.
"Well lets just say that I get an extra special Christmas gift from aunt Cissy."
A/N: Sorry about the earlier post and thanks for the quick response. It showed me how much u guys cared for my story so Thank you.
