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[re-uploaded – thank you Pink Mockingjay in Hufflepuff and Farali B for pointing out my mistakes]

Tonks babbled gleefully as she watched herself in the mirror. She squeezed her eyes shut, and a few seconds later, her hair changed from its usual brown to her favourite – bright pink. She opened her eyes, squealed in delight and clumsily clapped her hands together before looking proudly at her mother, who smiled joyfully back at her.

A knock on the door turned little Tonks' head, and her pink hair reverted back to brown as she watched her mother answer the door. Neither of them were pleased with the young woman standing at the door.

"So this is baby Nymphadora?" Aunty Bellatrix said, coming in without invitation and smiling in a not-quite-friendly way at the little girl.

"Toh," the little girl replied with a frown, and her hair turned a violent shade of red.

Aunty Bellatrix raised an eyebrow. "A metamorphmagus!" She exclaimed. "How did you explain that to dear Teddy?"

"He knew I was a witch before we got married," Nymphadora's mother replied calmly, quite used to Bellatrix and her typical House of Black beliefs. "He was at Hogwarts too, remember?"

Aunty Bellatrix just clicked her tongue apathetically before picking Nymphadora up. Her hair turned an even deeper shade of red as she kicked and screamed and struggling. Andromeda took her instantly, and the baby fell silent immediately before babbling contently to her mother.

"Stroppy little girl," Bellatrix said with a cackle. Nymphadora's grip on her mother's shirt tightened and her babbling ceased. "What's wrong, Nymphadora?"

"Tong!"

"Tong?" Bellatrix laughed. "You seem to be a very confused little girl, Nymphadora!"

The baby scrunched up her face and shouted at Bellatrix, "Tonks!"

The smirk on Bellatrix' face vanished. "No need to get so cross," she said before turning on her heel and leaving.

Andromeda chuckled and kissed her now calm baby on the forehead. "What a clever little girl you are, Tonks."