Thank you!  I'm glad you're still enjoying it.I figured that the Blacks wouldn't consider Nymphadora to be a proper grandchild.  Beyond that, according to the Black Family Tree, Cygnus was dead before Draco was born, and Walburga never had grandchildren either.I've never read The Other Boleyn Girl, but I keep meaning to.  I do think King Henry and his views of succession were in the back of my head when I was thinking about how that family functions, though.

Thank you!  My Ted is a little like another extremely likeable guy I know... the one I married.  He's the guy who's happy to have a normal job that pays the bills so that he can enjoy his life with his family.  That's the sort of person who makes the world go round.

I have to shudder myself, because I'm far better at writing Dolores than makes me comfortable.  XPI think Andromeda might have given Ted a little more notice if he wasn't a Mudblood, but she's got her whole life full of training to overcome.Thanks, again!

Wow!  You rushed right over!  Thanks for all the lovely reviews!I love different stories about these characters because although they're so unknown in the canon and we see the world they live in a little differently, we all come to similar conclusions about how they behave and interact.I don't think Andromeda was a rebel, myself.  That was Bellatrix, even if she took a path the family approved.  I also distinctly recall that Sirius implied if he didn't say it outright, that he was the first non-Slytherin Black in hundreds of years, so Andromeda must have been a Slytherin.Ted's is just so likeable that I pictured him as a Hufflepuff, and the sort of one who would fall in love at first sight at that.

When I originally wrote this, I actually started with a picture of chapter nineteen in my head.  I finally typed that up when I was working on chapters four and five, and then I worked backwards and forwards from there and met in the middle.  I'd always meant to put in a chapter or two about Sirius and what happened during the years when Harry was at school.  As I was re-reading it and editing it to post here, however, I realized it would be yet another chapter or two of sadness and I just couldn't do it.  This is all a very long way of saying that if there is something missing transitionally, that's why.I'm glad you liked this chapter, when everything is falling to pieces.  It was hard for me to write, although it was easier when I mixed it up with the earlier parts of their timeline.   Thank you so much for your support and keen eye.

What a lovely review to receive after a day that's been much too long!  I think this may be one of my favorite chapters in this story.  Ted came out so earnest and sweet.  Andromeda is suddenly thrust into a possibility she had never considered.  She doesn't know what to think, yet.   Pah on Bellatrix for ruining the moment...  Yet something else to hold against her.

Thanks, again!  I had so much fun imagining the world as it must have been before the original Order of the Phoenix, just as Dumbledore is starting to realize that the Tedious One is a deadly menace and that Fudge is blind to the problem.

Thank you!  I find Dolores a little too easy to write.  It's a bit frightening sometimes.The sister who got married in this chapter was Bellatrix.  For the purposes of this story I bought into the fanon that suggests Bellatrix's marriage was forced/arranged and Narcissa's was arranged but more of a love match.

Thank you for the review!  I admit that I love sliding things into the canon to see what might have been happening when Harry was doing his thing.  I wasn't planning to write about this pair, but I was studying some mythology last summer in the hopes of finding a plot for an original work and realized that I had stumbled across the story of Ted and Andromeda.  Chapter 19 came to mind and the rest of it sort of filled in the 25-year blank.  Thanks again!

Thank you!  It's a fun pairing!

You're right, Tim's an OC.  They seemed the sort of couple to have more than one child, and I thought I could slide him in, since he won't be going to Hogwarts.  Thanks for the review!

Thank you for the lovely review!  There is more to come!

Thanks! Andromeda took a while to get to the party, but she's there for all she's worth, now. It's always amazing to me to think just how young all those kids were.  James and Lily must have been married that young, too.  They were 20 when Harry was born.  It's not that long ago, but that generation did get married younger, on average.  Fewer went to college, for one thing.As for Tedl's house, I always see Hufflepuff, because he's such an affable fellow the couple of times we see him in DH.  However, the best Hogwarts students have attributes of all the houses.  He's bold enough when the situation calls for it, but he certainly behaved like a Slytherin when he took advantage of his one opportunity to get the girl.  ;)  Thank you, again!

Thank you!  I've had a lot of fun imagining what their lives were like.

Thank you, again!  I really "fell" for these two as I wrote, especially the fact that sometimes the least likely people can be very heroic when they need to be.  I shouldn't have been surprised; the canon is full of such people.

Thank you!  I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Thank you!  It seemed to me, while reading the parts of the canon about the Black family, that we were watching the end of an era, sort of like in Gone with the Wind, so I think it affected my style of writing.

Thank you!  These two haven't had a proper courtship, but there was at least an existing attraction, more on his side than hers.  He wants her, but she wants a pure-blood wizard like him right now.  Sirius certainly gave her something to think about on that score.We can only hope she was holding on to that planter.  I'm not a huge fan of clifhangers, but this story seemed to fall into this one and, I'm afraid, an even bigger one at the end of the next chapter.

No, she doesn't deserve him, *I* do! (falls on the floor, laughing)  I made the mistake of falling in love with him as I wrote this.  It will take her a while to get to the party, but she will.  ;)  I started this story by re-discovering the Greek myth and it occured to me that the mythical Andromeda never had a chance to fall in love with Perseus before she was married to him.  Thank you for the lovely review!

Thank you!  I had a lot of fun with this chapter, myself.  When I wrote those two paragraphs, about what she would have to give up, and what he had already given up, I really felt like I hit on something important.  I'm glad you liked it, too.I feel like this is where the story gets going in a lot of ways.  He's offered the shelter of his arms, and he almost had her... if it weren't for her older sister.  I think you'll see at least part of the answer to your question in the next chapter.  It's coming.Thanks again!

Why thank you!  This pair has a lot of serious stuff to figure out, but they have some attraction to work with.  Plus, Ted is an optimist. Thank you for all your kind assistance!

Thank you!  I put myself in Mother's position for a lot of it.We won't get to see much of their Hogwarts years, but there will be a taste and we'll definitely see more of Andromeda.