Talk:Andromeda Tonks

why have I never heard of andromeda

Family
Is Andromeda realy related to the Crabbes, Rosier and Pansy? --Rodolphus 18:58, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * No. This is speculation from an anon editor.  I have removed it. -  Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 22:54, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Only One Child

 * When is it stated in the series that Nymphadora is their only child? She is the only child introduced, but there could be other unmentioned children.


 * Speculation is unacceptable here i think, for more information about their family genelogy see the Black Family Tree which is officially published by the Author. --ÈnŔîčö (Send me an Owl) 16:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * There is no mention of any other children, it seems to be implied that there are no others at various points (e.g. Sirius only mentions Tonks when discussing his family, when he easily could have said "I see Tonks and her brother/sister(s) aren't on here"; the only people who lived in the Tonks house when Harry and Hagrid got there were Andromeda and Ted; "her family" and "her parents" are often used interchangably in the text, etc.), and multiple sources state that Tonks is an only child. But no canon source confirms it, so it does seem to be speculative. If someone can't find a source soon, then it should be corrected. Oread 22:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I think that Tonks was almost certainly Andromeda's only child. As Andromeda was in her mid-to-late forties when she lost Ted, I suppose it isn't impossible, biologically speaking, that she remarried and had another child soon after the war. I really don't see her doing this, though, as she would have already had Teddy to raise and probably would've been too grief-stricken to fall in love again so quickly.


 * The second possibility is that Ted and Andromeda had another child after Tonks. But why wasn't this person mentioned anywhere in the books? I'm sure someone would've said something if Tonks had a younger sibling who died at a young age, ran away, or was disowned for joining the Death Eaters (Sirius probably would've drawn a parallel between Regulus and the younger Tonks sibling if the latter were the case).


 * The third possibility is that Ted and Andromeda had another child before Tonks. However, this is extremely unlikely, given that Andromeda (born c. 1952-1954) was either in her late teens or early twenties when had she Tonks in 1973. Any child before Tonks would've been born when Andromeda was only in her mid-to-late teens.


 * Of course, it's never been confirmed in canon that Tonks was an only child, so, if we want to err on the side of caution, I guess we shouldn't state she was in this article. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f (Owl me!) 03:41, 24 January 2009 (UTC)