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author_by_nightTitle: Eternal Name
Characters: Andromeda-Black Tonks
Rating: G
Challenge: What's In A Name
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
When Andromeda married Ted, she kept her maiden name as her middle name.
People asked her why. After all, they said, your family is evil. Even Andromeda's own daughter refused to keep her long black hair, in favor of brown or red (and, later, pink). Dora did go by "Dora" as a child, but soon only let her parents and close friends call her that.
"After all," Dora would say, "I'm partly named after Dorea."
"There was Dorea Potter, she was James Potter's second cousin," Andromeda had always pointed out. "And Dorea Nott-"
"The first Dorea was known for her affiliation with troll-killing groups."
Andromeda gave up on correcting her daughter. She was, after all, a Tonks, and Andromeda loved her dearly for it.
However, as much as her family had shamed her, she could not forget her name. She even hoped someday, the Black family name would be redeemed.
Characters: Andromeda-Black Tonks
Rating: G
Challenge: What's In A Name
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
When Andromeda married Ted, she kept her maiden name as her middle name.
People asked her why. After all, they said, your family is evil. Even Andromeda's own daughter refused to keep her long black hair, in favor of brown or red (and, later, pink). Dora did go by "Dora" as a child, but soon only let her parents and close friends call her that.
"After all," Dora would say, "I'm partly named after Dorea."
"There was Dorea Potter, she was James Potter's second cousin," Andromeda had always pointed out. "And Dorea Nott-"
"The first Dorea was known for her affiliation with troll-killing groups."
Andromeda gave up on correcting her daughter. She was, after all, a Tonks, and Andromeda loved her dearly for it.
However, as much as her family had shamed her, she could not forget her name. She even hoped someday, the Black family name would be redeemed.
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Date: 2006-02-28 09:56 pm (UTC)I liked Andromeda's pride in her family (yeah, I think one can safely call it pride). She IS a Black, after all! Blood runs thicker than water blablabla etc. :) The dilemma between family-love and the common view of that family must be/have been hard for Andromeda. It isn't helped, of course, by the fact that her own husband and daughter aren't the biggest Black-fans around...
Slight nitpick: the last sentence seems a bit off to me. I'm not quite sure why, but it appears to break the flow or something... Hmm. Then again, I have no idea what to replace it with either...