the lion and the badger | n. tonks

༄ food and work

Dear Lyra,

A woman named Umbridge has been teaching for about two months, and I already want her to disappear.

I am very happy about you and Tonks having a child, though.

By the way, Angelina is Quidditch captain now and I think she might have ripped a few pages out of Oliver his handbook.

I assume I am going to see you guys again during winter break, and I really hope I do.

See you soon!

Lots of love I suppose,
Harry.

"Umbridge? I hate her, she's so annoying." said Tonks, reading over Lyra her shoulder.

"The pink woman?" asked Lyra, and Tonks nodded.

Lyra had heard a bunch of things about Umbridge from Tonks, but Tonks had called Umbridge 'the annoying pink lady' every time she talked about her so Lyra hadn't known her name till now.

"You need to rest." said Lyra, placing the letter down on the kitchen counter.

"I'm fine." said Tonks, walking towards the kitchen.

"No food; we need to go to 12 Grimmauld Place, where you're going to rest." said Lyra, getting up and dragging Tonks out of the kitchen.

Tonks complained about food the entire way there, and Lyra was very happy when they arrived at Grimmauld Place and they entered the house.

"Tonks, please stop complaining about food." said Lyra, sitting down.

"There's a kitchen here, in case you didn't know." said Sirius, and Tonks walked off.

"There's a kitchen here? I didn't know that." said Lyra, and Sirius rolled his eyes.

They heard a crash and Molly sighed and made her way towards the kitchen.

"That was the crash of a pan, so what the fuck do you keep behind the pans?" asked Lyra, turning to look at Sirius.

"The butter toffees." said Sirius.

"Also, language." said Remus.

"English." said Lyra, smiling at Remus.

"Remus, I don't think you should be the one to call someone out for their language." said Sirius, and Remus rolled his eyes.

Tonks entered again, Molly walking behind her. Tonks held a pack of butter toffees in her hand and sat down next to Lyra while Molly sat down next to Arthur.

"Why did you put the butter toffees behind the pans?" askes Molly, looking at Sirius.

"Because, that was my secret stash and now I need to find a different place to hide them." said Sirius.

Lyra took a few butter toffees out of the bag and Tonks glared at her, before focusing back on the toffees.

"I think I drank too much apple juice last night." said Sirius, resting his head on Remus his shoulder.

"At least it wasn't champagne." said Bill.

Yesterday had been Sirius' thirty-sixth birthday, and Andromeda had only allowed everyone who wanted alcohol to only have two glasses.