Willow Tonks

July 31, 1987

       A seven year old girl was being scolded by her mother in the front garden. The young girl had just played in the mud with the other kids in her neighborhood for the fifth time that week. On the other side of the street the kids were watching from the park.
   "Willow! How many times have I told you not to play in the mud." Andromeda scolded,"Go upstairs and get changed so that we can go to dinner."
"Can I go play with them for a little bit longer? Please?" The little girl whined while making puppy dog eyes with her bi-coloured eyes. Her mother softened. "Ten more minutes. Then it's upstairs for a shower."
Willow beamed with one of her front teeth missing. She ran back over to the park with her friends.  "Hey Willow." Johnny, one of the boys, greeted. She smiled back at him before running over to the swings. Those were her favourite part of the park.
     When she got there, however, there was an old man with a very long beard that she didn't recognize. He looked at her wild red hair and then looked at her eyes."Hello sir." She greeted. Her mother had always warned her about talking to strangers but this man seemed kind. She noticed how his eyes twinkled.
"You have sparkly eyes," she said to him.
"You have two different eyes." He smiled back.
"My mum says that makes me special,"
"It does indeed. Who is your mother?"
"Andromeda Tonks." Willow stated proudly.
    His expression turned curious. "But you aren't Nymphadora Tonks."

"Nope," She said popping the p."My name is Willow Tonks."

His expression once again changed. This time to wonder.
"Well Willow, could you take me to your mother?"

She nodded and started walking back over to her house.  He was trailing right behind the young girl. Willow called out to her mum,"Mum, this man wanted to see you!"
      Andromeda straighted up ready to scold Willow for talking to strangers but when she saw the man behind her daughter she smiled."Hello Dumbledore, what brings you to our home?"

"Dumbledore?" Willow inquired,"Your name is Dumbledore?"

"Indeed it is. I was just dropping by to check on you all."

"Willow go get cleaned up and then we can go to dinner." Andromeda told her adopted daughter. The seven year old nodded then ran inside.

"Come in, please."

" I didn't know you had another daughter, Andromeda."

"I adopted her when Dora was seven."

"Her name is the same as the Potter's lost daughter. Her body was never found, and her eyes. They look just like James and Lily's." The old man's eyes twinkled. He had his suspicions that this Willow and the missing Willow were the same person.

    Andromeda smiled."You caught me. Sirius brought her to my doorstep on the night they died. Naturally, I took her in and claimed her as my own. She is already studying things fourth year Hogwarts students she learns what Dora learns."
   Dumbledore was shocked that she had told him so easily, and that a seven year old was as smart as a fourth year. "I guess it's too late to take her to the Dursley's with her brother."

"Yes it is."

"Is there anything else I should know."

"Sirius wanted her to join The Order. When she is ten she will know everything that is taught at Hogwarts. I have already talked to Alastor and he is okay with training her. She will be useful for inside missions and will not need to go to Hogwarts."

"What about her being underage? Won't the ministry track her down for it?"

     Andromeda sighed,"We've told them that we are homeschooling her now and have been given a pardon to that rule."

      It was Dumbledore's turn to smile."Well done," he said,"Does she know of her background?"

"She won't know until she is ten."

  Little did they know that curiosity had gotten the better of the young girl and she had been listening to the whole conversation. She ran up the stairs to her older sister's room. The fourteen years old was used to the young girl seeking refuge in her room. She had since she was four."What's wrong, Wils?" Nymphadora inquired when she saw tears in the young girl's eyes. "I-I'm not your r-real sister am I?" Willow sobbed. Nymphadora put down her parchment and went to comfort the crying girl. "How did you find out?" Nymphadora asked while she consoled the girl.
"I h-heard mum talking to someone d-downstairs."

"That's not a great birthday surprise, is it?"

    Nymphadora picked up her sister and carried her up to her room in the attic. She then walks downstairs to the living room where the adults were conversing in low tones. "Headmaster," Nymphadora nodded in his direction when the two stopped talking."I don't mean to interrupt but Willow heard everything you guys were talking about."