For ElizabethAnneSoph, who kept begging me to do Tonks.
Vernal - 1. Appearing or occurring in spring. 2. Of or pertaining to spring. 3. Appropriate to or suggesting spring; springlike. 4. Belonging to or characteristic of youth.
Ted and Andromeda could always tell the seasons by the colour of their daughter's hair. If Nymphadora, or Dora, as she preferred to be called, came downstairs with her natural mousy-brown hair, then it was Autumn.
When winter came, she went snow-white, or else the palest of blondes.
(A blonde that could always make her mother cry)
For summer, she preferred cornflower blue, or else ruby red. Anything strong or bright or vibrant. Just like the heat of the sun's rays.
And if she came downstairs boasting jade green or Hufflepuff yellow hair, then Spring had well and truly arrived.