A/N: I don't own Harry Potter

This is for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Auction Day 4 -Prompt 3 - Nymphadora Tonks

Assignment #2 Archaeology - Task 2 - Tutankhamun's Tomb - The great Tutankhamun owes his fame to Howard Carter and George Herbert's discovery of his tomb in 1922. KV62 (the Egyptian designation for the tomb) was uncovered fairly intact in the Valley of the Kings.

Prompt: Write about a character pre-Hogwarts

Word Count: 566

The first time Tonks changed her hair on purpose was on Halloween. She had wanted to be a lady bug and who had ever heard of a lady bug with brown hair. She stood in front of the mirror, on a step stool because she was short, for an hour, wrinkling her nose in concentration. Finally, her hair turned red with black spots. She screamed in joy before falling off the step stool she'd been standing on.

"Nymphadora! Are you alright?" Andromeda called from the other room. Tonks climbed to her feet, looked at her hair to make sure it was still red and spotted, and smiled.

"I'm fine, Mum! I fell down again," she answered. "I got it right though!" she added, running into the sitting room where her mother was working on solving a jigsaw puzzle.

"Got what right, Dora?"

"My hair!" Tonks exclaimed. Andromeda looked up and tried not to laugh at her daughter's hair. Ever since she'd been born, Tonks had had a habit of changing her hair color, changing her eye color, just changing something. The fact she was a metamorphmagi, a rare gift, didn't escape Andromeda's thoughts that maybe such traits skipped generations. She knew neither her nor her sisters were capable of doing anything like that.

"You look just like a lady bug," Andromeda stated.

"I know! Now I match my Halloween costume! I can't wait to go to school and show everyone!" Tonks exclaimed.

"I'm sure they'll all be impressed," she laughed. Tonks was enrolled in an elementary school for magical children. Ted had wanted to send her to a muggle school, but with her lack of control over her abilities, it was decided that it might not have been safe. Kids, both wizard and muggle, were not known for being nice to those who were different from themselves.

"I know they will be, since I did it on purpose this time," Tonks answered. "Mum?"

"Yes, honey?"

"How many more days until Halloween?"

"Two weeks, Dora."

"Wait, how many days is that?"

"Fourteen."

"I have to keep my hair like this for fourteen days?" Tonks asked, her currently green eyes wide.

"No, you don't. Now that you know how to do it, that you can do it, you can let it go whatever color you want, and change it back to lady bug on Halloween."

Tonks smiled.

"Yay," Tonks exclaimed, jumping up and down, knocking over a vase off the coffee table, and causing her hair to turn bright yellow. She caught sight of herself in the mirror above the mantle.

"Ohhh, yellow is pretty. Maybe I can do yellow and black stripes like a bee," Tonks exclaimed, running back towards her mum's room and the mirror.

Andromeda shook her head smiling as she repaired the broken vase. She knew her little girl would probably change her mind about her Halloween costume twenty more times before the actual night. So far, she'd wanted to be a princess, a knight, a thestral, and the latest idea was being a lady bug after she had seen one in the garden.

"Mum! I did it! Yellow and black stripes! I'm a bee!" Tonks yelled, falling off the step stool and running around the house yelling, "Buzz, buzz!"

Andromeda watched her, thinking about her daughter's future, how she was going to drive her professors at Hogwarts mad, and that was just perfect.