Nymphadora who-- “Don’t call me Nymphadora!!!!”
Tonks who loved being a metamorphmagus. There wasn’t a day that went by that she didn’t change some aspect of her features. Her hair was always a favorite. It was naturally a boring, mousy brown but she could make look it any way she wanted! My, her mum had trouble picking her up from daycare...
Tonks who baffled the babysitters with her habit of changing her facial features according to her mood. It was soon obvious to the Tonks couple that little Dora couldn’t be left with a muggle babysitter without violating the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy.
Tonks whose favorite practical joke was changing every bit of her looks (all the way down to her nose) and then knocking on her parents’ door to get their reaction. (It didn’t really work more than a couple times, but her parents humored her as often as she did it.)
Tonks whose favorite holiday was Halloween as a little girl because she always had the best costumes! She loved turning her skin green, her face and hands warty, her nose long, her chin pointy (etc) and then going trick-or-treating with her school friends. They always thought it was just extremely good make-up, but of course it wasn’t.
Tonks who, despite the joy of being a metamorphmagus, never felt fully accepted when she was a child attending muggle school because she wasn’t like other kids. Not muggle kids or even other wizarding kids. She was different. She always had to make sure she looked the same as she had the day before when going to school. She could never make (unnaturally) funny faces in the lunch room. She never felt like she could be herself.
Tonks who was absolutely ecstatic when her Hogwarts letter arrived. (”Finally I can actually be me and no one will be scared of me and I can’t be whatever I want--!!”) She spent the whole day prancing around the house changing her hair from brown to red to blond to pink to orange to purple to rainbow. Her nose grew as huge as a tomato and her mum was seriously considering taking her to Saint Mungo’s (how was she to explain this?) by the time young Dora finally calmed down.
Tonks who was surprised to find that no one else in her year at Hogwarts was a metamorphmagus. So she was different. Again. Her hair was mousy brown for the sorting ceremony.
Tonks who was so happy when she was sorted into Hufflepuff and everyone was so nice and nobody made fun of her and her friends thought it was hilarious when she changed her nose or eyebrows at the dinner table.
Tonks who finally felt accepted for the first time in her life. She had never been happier.
Tonks whose face lit up mischievously when she suddenly realized that she had a whole new group of people to play her “person changing” trick on.
Tonks who became the bane of every class she entered and was sent to detention on a nearly daily basis for “disturbing the classroom with unsightly antics.”
Tonks who, as she gets older, begins to fully realize the strength of the animosity from her mother’s side of the family.
Tonks who is a rebel. Bubblegum pink becomes her favorite hair color because her mother’s family can’t stand it. And that makes it the best hair color ever.
Tonks whose ambition becomes to be an auror. Not just any auror, the best auror there is.
Tonks who studies under Mad-Eye Moody. He becomes almost a second father to her. He tries to look grim and serious, but she’d swear his lip twitched when she baffled the examiners by passing the disguise section of the auror examination before they could even blink.
Tonks who ignores social prejudices and falls in love with a handsome, kind, quiet man (who incidentally is a werewolf, but who cares?) who she is sure will never love her back. How could he when he never even looks at her?
Tonks who loves him anyway. So she tells him so. And Remus loves her, too. He doesn’t say so, but she can feel it.
Tonks who cracks through the shell of his self-loathing and is finally married to the man of her dreams. She’s floating on the highest cloud. She can do anything.
Tonks who is pregnant. She feels that small kicking from the life inside her belly and is even happier than she ever dreamed she could be. Is this life really hers? How can she be so lucky as to have a wonderful husband and a sweet baby?
Tonks who knows battle is coming and fears for her husband’s safety. She’s already lost her father. She can’t lose Remus, too.
Tonks who leaves little Teddy with her mother so she can go fight beside the man she loves.
Tonks who knows love is the strongest magic.
Tonks who learns that love isn’t always strong e n o u g h.
