Easter Eggs, Part 3

[gehayi]

Six down, twelve to go--no, that's not a miscount. I got another request for a drabble, so now I have twelve stories to do. So I have a third done. That's good.

Also, much yayness! "Being James" and "Memory, Awake" were added to Jetamors' Page o' Gen Recs. ("Dazzle" and "Pro Bono Publico" were already there.) So I am a very, very pleased person.

Comments

[runespoor7]

Aww. This is so cute. I love ickle Ted with his graphic imagination and his you-may-say-what-you-like-but-it's-not-sensible approach to things. And little better-than-thou Andromeda, with her I-am-in-no-way-enjoying-this-I-am-not behaviour. (Oh, how your A/N fits my characterisation of them.)

Ted had a sudden vision of hundreds of Blacks crowded into decrepit Gothic mansion, all dragging their ghastly names behind them like the ponderous chains of Matley's ghost. The imagery is priceless. And this is from the man who will grow up to let his daughter be named Nymphadora.

And the last lines are really powerful. Thank you!

[gehayi]

Glad you liked it. That's the first time I've written Ted or Andromeda; I enjoyed meeting them.

I have a feeling that the "Nymphadora" thing was Andromeda's way of saying to her family, "You can disown me if you like, but I'm STILL naming my daughter after one of her ancestors because she's STILL a Black, even if she IS a halfblood." (I bet that Ted still calls Tonks "Dora," despite Andromeda. Come to that, I bet that Tonks' Marauder babysitters did too.)

[runespoor7]

Oh, how I agree about Andromeda's motivations. (Well, that, and the "let's give her a nice pureblood name in case Lord Thingie wins and we need to turn our coats, shall we?" I'm rather fond of.)

But about other people calling her Dora, I find it strange, if it's her nickname, that she doesn't give it as an alternative for Nymphadora, rather than Tonks.

[gehayi]

But about other people calling her Dora, I find it strange, if it's her nickname, that she doesn't give it as an alternative for Nymphadora, rather than Tonks.No, I don't think it's that strange, especially if her cousin Sirius and her Marauder "uncles" called her that. Tonks was born in 1973. When she was eight, Sirius--as far as she knew--betrayed "Uncle" James and his wife to their death and murdered "Uncle" Peter on the open street. She would have almost certainly been confused and angered by this. I can see her wanting to erase any links that she had to her treacherous and murderous cousin, even dropping the nickname of "Dora" that he and her uncles used to use and adopting the name of "Tonks" in its place. "Tonks" is almost as short as "Dora"; it's quick and easy to say; and it has NO connection whatsoever to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

[alliterator]

Hee. Okay, this is funny and nice at the same time. I especially liked:
"That's a horrible name," he said with complete candor. "Andromeda is bad enough, but Vulpecula? Your parents must hate kids."
Heh. Because making fun of Mary Sue-ish names? Never not funny.

[gehayi]

Hee. Okay, this is funny and nice at the same time.

Thank you!

Because making fun of Mary Sue-ish names? Never not funny.

I think that Ted must be quite the puncturer of pretentiousness. Somehow, I think he was always more than a match for the Blacks.

[a_t_rain]

Aww. Little!Ted is awesome.

[gehayi]

Thank you! Glad you liked it.

[underlucius]

This is so nice - Ted is so matter of fact, and you can really tell he's a normal little boy, and so unlike someone who has been raised as a wizard. There's not enough of this pairing written in my opinion - well done!

[gehayi]

I get the feeling that Ted thinks that the whole bloodist business is enormously silly. I don't think he's going to change his opinion, either.

And thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

[lareinenoire]

So cute. And Vulpecula? Just fabulous.

[gehayi]

It really is a constellation, by the way:

Vulpecula

I can just picture the Blacks giving Andromeda and her sisters awful middle names like that.

And I'm glad you thought it was cute. Thank you.