Chapter One

"Nymphadora Tonks, if you do not hurry up you, will miss the train." My mother Andromeda yelled from the bottom of the stairs. I was finally old enough to attend Hogwarts. My mother told me about it when I was seven when she explained her family history. We were witches and my father was a Muggle-born wizard. My best friend Lily Evans had gotten a letter from Hogwarts too, meaning she was a witch as well. We had known each other our whole lives. Now we get to leave for school together.

"Nymphadora! Now!"

"Coming mum!" I yelled. I grabbed trunk and ran down the stairs. "Is Lily here yet?" I asked.

"She will be here any minute." My father Ted said. The fireplace roared and Lily came stumbling into the room her mother and Father close behind.

"Sorry, we are late," Lily said running over and hugging me. "I'm so excited we are going to Hogwarts!" Before I could answer her my called for us to get in the car. Lily quickly said goodbye to her parents. Who she had asked not to take her before she grabbed me and pulled me to the car. The car ride seemed to last forever before we finally pulled up to the train station.

"Wait, Aunt Dromeda my ticket says platform 9 3/4 that doesn't exist." My mother smiled at her and said.

"It does if your magic my dear." We ran to the train station and stopped in between Platforms nine and ten. My mother grabbed my hand and my father grabbed Lily's.

"Are you guys ready?" Andromeda asked.

"Ready for what?" My mother just smiled and pulled me towards a brick wall. "Mom Wait what are yo- whoa!" I exclaimed when I went right through the wall.

"Oh, my gosh," Lily said staring at the train. The whistle blew.

"Go!" My mother yelled I quickly hugged her and my father and Lily did the same. We ran quickly for the train as my father ran to put our luggage with the others. We had made it on the train just in time for it to lurch forward making me stumble and almost crash into the floor but strong arms had caught me. I looked up to see a boy with shaggy brown hair.

"I-I"m sorry," I mumbled.

"It was no problem. Are you alright?" He asked smiling at me.

"Oh, I'm fine. I'm always falling, that's me Ms. Clumsy." I rambled. Great real smooth Tonks.

"I'm Lily Evans," Lily spoke offering her hand to the boy.

"Remus Lupin." He said shaking her hand. "You are?" He asked me.

"Tonks," I said shaking his hand.

"Tonks? That's very different."

"She hates her first name so she goes by her last name," Lily explained. Remus gave me a strange look.

"If you don't mind me asking what your first name?"

"Nymphadora," I said. Remus smiled at me.

"Well, Lily, Nymphadora, would you like to come and sit with me and My friends?"

"Yes, thank you," Lily said at the same time I said.

"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus." We followed him to his compartment where three other boys sat.

"We were beginning to think that you had gotten lost, Remus." A boy with brown and glasses said looking up. "Oh, who is this?"

"This is Lily Evans and Nymphadora Tonks," Remus said pointing us out. "But she hates being called Nymphadora she goes by Tonks."

"Hey, Cus." The boy with long dark hair said. It took me a moment to recognize him.

"Sirius!" I exclaimed hugging him. "Who are you, friends?" I asked.

"Oh yes this is James Potter," He said pointing to the boy with glasses "And this is Peter Pettigrew." He pointed to the plump boy curled up in the corner.

"Um hold on a second, Cousins?" James said pointing at me and Sirius. "I thought your family was all insane killers."

"Ah, yes they are except for Andromeda's family. This is her daughter." James nodded. "Well, everyone stop standing around and sit." I sat in between Remus and Sirius leaving Lily to sit in between James and Peter.

"Are you all first years as well?" Lily asked.

"We are," Remus asked. "What houses do you guys want? We want Gryffindor"

"We want Gryffindor," I answered. "Which I'm sure Lily will get into but I'm not so sure about Sirius and me."

"Why is that?" Remus asked.

"Every Black has been in Slytherin for generations," Sirius said sadly. I looked at him with a smile and said.

"Come on, Siri, you never know. We are the white Lambs on the black family tree!" The train began to come to a slow stop.

"Are you guys ready?" I asked. We all stood up everyone mumbling some form of "Yes" We all filed off the train staying close to each other.

"First years! This way! Follow me to the boats!" Said a big man who had to be like 9 feet tall!

"Whoa." Said, James. We followed him to the boats.

"My 'ame is Hagrid. You need to 'ollow me is your boats. Only Six a boat." We all looked at each other before crawling into the Boats. We rode in silence until we saw the castle.

"Oh my god," I said. When we reached land we scrambled out of the boats to keep up with Hagrid. The castle was huge and even more beautiful on the inside than on the outside we went down a few hallways before we came to a set of huge double doors. An old woman in green robes Stood.

"Welcome to Hogwarts! Inside these doors is the Great hall where you will be sorted into your houses. There are four houses, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin. Keep in mind that these houses will become your home for the next Seven Years and the people in them will be your family. Follow me." The six of us stuck together as we entered the Great Hall we were in complete awe. The place was huge with tables lined up and candles floating in the air.

"This is exactly what was described in the book I read Hogwarts: A history," Lily exclaimed. I smiled at her. We all lined up as she began calling names.

"Sirius Black" He sat down and she set the house on his head, A few minutes later the hat called out "Gryffindor!" He walked towards the table clapping and Yelling the loudest

"Lily Evans." I smiled at her as she walked slowly to the stand. A few seconds later we heard. "Gryffindor!"

"Hestia Jones. Ravenclaw!"

Remus Lupin. Gryffindor!

"Peter Pettigrew. Slytherin!" I exchanged looks with James.

"James Potter. Gryffindor!"

"Nymphadora Tonks." I walked up to the stool and sat down. "Ah, another Black!" I Jumped and looked around before realizing it was in my head. "A peculiar black you are just like your cousin, you could be in Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and of course Slytherin." No! Not Slytherin! Please let me be in Gryffindor. "Gryffindor? Are you sure? If you think its best."

"Gryffindor." The hat called out a smile spread across my face and I ran to the table with my friends sitting in between Lily and Sirius. The hat continued.

"Severus Snape." Lily and I froze she and Severus were friends until a few months ago when his parents forced them apart. "Slytherin!" The hat called out. After Severus sat down. The man with the white bear stood up he could have only been Dumbledore.

"Welcome first years to Hogwarts. Welcome back to our returning students. Let's have a wonderful year and let the feast begin." Food immediately filled the table our eyes widened, We looked at each other before digging in

We followed our head of house Kingsley Shacklebolt to our house. He stopped at a portrait.

"This is the Fat Lady, say the password to her, which is "Quidditch" The portrait swung open and we walked into the common room Boy dorms on the right and Girls on the left We bid goodbye to the boys and we began to walk up the stairs I looked over my shoulder to get a glance at Remus there was something different about him and I didn't know if it was good or bad. We walked into the First year's dorms and saw our trunks at the foot of the beds.

"This is awesome. I love it here!" I said.

"Me too," Lily said.

The door opened and four girls walked in one of them was blond and the other had black hair.

"Hello, I'm Rebecca." Said the blonde. She pointed to the dark haired girl with blue eyes "This is Emmeline Vance. The other two are twins, Ella and Emma."

"It's nice to meet you. I'm Lily and this is Tonks. We can't wait to get to know you but we have to meet someone" Lily said walking over shaking their hands. I did the same and we walked out of the room.

"Well, look who it is," James said. "The pretty ladies."

"Shut up!" I said my hair turning pink along with my face.

"Oh my god. How did you do that?" James exclaimed.

"She's a metamorphmagus," Remus said with a look of awe on his face.

"What is that?" James asked still looking confused.

"It means I can change my appearance at will," I explained.

"Wicked!" James said.

"My family is just that special," Sirius said with a look of pride on his face. I looked around at my friends with a smile this was going to be an amazing seven years.