Andi,
Mother is gone and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I loved her, she is my mother but yet I feel relief at no longer having her pressure me about how I'm raising my son. How did you feel when you knew she was out of your life? I know it's not the same, you knew she was still alive. Did you have any hope that something might someday change her mind and she'd talk to you again? Were you just so mad at her and Father for disowning you that you moved past it? Did you make a new family? Did Ted's family take you in?
A,
So it seems Lucius has been spending his spare time trying to find the Potter boy. He and some of his...well the word friends doesn't seem quite right for them, cronies? Followers? Not quite right either. Anyway he, Nott, Crabbe, and Goyle have a theory that the child was able to defeat the Dark Lord because he's destined to be an even greater Dark Wizard. Seems absolutely ridiculous considering his parentage but time will tell in the end. In the meantime he's instructing Draco in potions. Severus comes over on breaks to help. Draco is also learning the history of the wizarding world and our separation from the Muggles.
Andi,
And now Father has died, I am in essence an orphan, and very lonely orphan as both of my parents are deceased as are all aunts and uncles, and while both of my sisters are living I can contact neither. Oh I've thought a hundred time over the past several months about how I might talk to you, how I might reach you. Now that both parents are gone it should be easier and yet I know that my husband would never approve. It's not that I've grown to love him, he is a companion, and most of the time an enjoyable companion. However if I tried to contact you, reestablish our relationship, should you even be willing to do so, I fear he would divorce me and keep me from Draco, so much as I love you dear sister I will do nothing. I would not be able to live without my son in my life. I hope that you can understand that being a mother yourself. Rather I hope that in the future should I ever be able to get this to you that you will understand my reasoning.
Andromeda closed the book, laid her head back, and closed her eyes. She and Cissy had missed out on so much of each other's lives. "Our parents are dead, do I care? Did I when I read their obituaries in the Prophet? No, by then they were long out of my life."
She stood and went for a piece of parchment. She wrote a short note.
Cissy,
I'm reading your journal. I wish I could have been with you when Draco was born. I wish you could have been with me when Nymphadora was born. I do understand why you chose your child over your sister. If I had had to make the choice between being married to someone I didn't love or losing my daughter there would have been no choice to make. I'm not saying I'm going to forgive you or try to have a relationship with you but I will keep reading.
Andi
Finished writing she called out, "Tippy!"
Moments later the elf popped into the kitchen.
"Yes Mistress Andromeda?"
"Please take this to my sister."
"Yes, ma'am, right away."
"Thank you Tippy."
"Mistress Andromeda is not needing to thank Tippy, this is Tippy's job."
"I always thank those who do a job for me, especially when they do it well."
"Mistress Narcissa says thank you too though she is not needing to either," with that the elf popped away again.
Andromeda smiled thinking of both she and her sister being kind to house elves, then laughing aloud at what their Mother would have said. Casting a quick Tempus she knew she had a little time until Teddy awoke from his nap, she'd have to read more of the journal later. With a quick flick of her wand she transformed the journal into a bobby pin, and tucked it into her hair.