Ted Tonks

Shaking her head, she tried to lighten the mood. “What’re you doing here so early?” She asked, running her fingers through her hair and sitting back in her seat.

“That’s the problem isn’t it? They’ll never want to, Hogwarts should teach more about the differences, not that there are any.” Ted said. 

“I just finished lunch, I thought I’d come check if there was any help needed.” He continued. “Is there anything else on your mind, you look worried.” He asked.

Andy: I think I might have said something I shouldnt have

Andy: Define something happening

Andy: Can you talk right now?

Andy: I need someone to talk to right now and I know you're the only one that can listen...

Ted: I'm always ready to listen.

Clementine: singing one day more would be so hard

Clementine: psssh no i like laughing at people

Ted: And yet he pulls it off flawlessly

Ted: Even the Cosette parts.

Marlene: You haven't truly been sucked in if you haven't gotten to any conspiracy theories.

Ted: Not quite that far. I don't think that I've ever fallen that far.

Clementine: its fun going down the rabbit hole

Clementine: what are you watching?

Ted: I've somehow wandered into someone doing a one man les miserables.

Eliza: Like the one where she twitches her nose and magic happens?

Ted: No the website, it has me in it's grasp.

Ted: It's making me watch nothing but kids falling over.

Nora: Now. Turn it off

Ted: Oh God. You're a savior.

Mary had always admired the Ministry of Magic, she had studied hard and gained a position there as her father had always wanted her to. She had always believed that the Ministry was a fair and just institution that protected them all, but lately her beliefs had been faltering, tripping over themselves. Nothing seemed to make sense when it came to their newest ideas in protection, muggleborns posed no threat and at a Ministry sanctioned event she felt they could be allowed a night off from the curfew. Apparently not.

“You’re one of the smart ones Tonks” she grinned sideways at him as they moved hastily towards the exit of building. She sighed softly at his next words and patted his arm. Having been working in an office on their floor, not by choice but if she wasn’t to work on the floor in a corridor it had been her only option, she had heard enough to know that the Auror’s were not exactly shying away from the ‘cracking down’ on muggleborns breaking their curfews. Not all of them of course - but more than she cared to admit. “Some have become a little too power happy as of late” she murmured.

“The Ministry has never been known for it’s tact” she quipped. Her eyes followed his back to the rowdiness and frowned. The sooner they left the better, and the exit was only a few steps away. “I’m sorry Tonks, I wish there was something I could say to put your mind at ease, but I can assure that many of us are just as puzzled as you by the sudden attitude change” she assured him. When he asked of her evening, her mind jumped involuntarily and she felt her cheeks heat rapidly. “It was quite enjoyable actually” she answered, her voice irritatingly coming out as a whisper.

“Thanks, I hope to keep it that way and please call me Ted.” He said. “People tend to get power happy fast when a little power is granted, unfortunately.” He continued. “But then there are always people like you, well you’re not wrong about the ministry being known for it’s tact. Knowing that it’s not just me and the muggleborns being puzzled is reassuring.” he said as he strained to hear what came next. “Oh, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.” He assured her. “If you want we can talk about something else, thanks again for saving me back there I wouldn’t want to spend a night in a cell.” He said.

Usually she would not have interfered in the Ministry’s curfew business or attempted to annoy the Aurors that she had been recently forced to work around, but she hadn’t liked the look on their faces and in her book, no matter who you were, you should never be looked at that way. So instead of staying out of it as she usually would have done, she walked quickly over to Ted and looped her arm through his to show that he was no going home alone and the Aurors eyeing him could step back and bug someone else.

“I’m walking you home, of course” she said, as loudly as she could get away with without it sounding ridiculous. She was a half-blood and therefore did not have to adhere to the curfew set out for muggleborns, and as a Ministry official she hoped that meant she could ‘escort’ him home, or be seen to be doing so, without interference. Pulling out her phone as they walked, she sent a quick text to Vincent letting him know that he shouldn’t worry and she would meet up with him later, before pocketing it again.

Sighing softly, glad when they were out of earshot, she glanced around them before she spoke again. “I’m sorry Tonks, but the Aurors were eyeing you like a piece of meat and it’s getting a little bit heated in there” she said, barely glancing back though she could hear the growing sounds of discontent. “I thought you might prefer to walk out of the building with a friendly face. If I assumed wrong, then I apologise” she murmured, brushing her hair back over her shoulder. “How was your evening?”

To say Ted had been shocked that Mary had suddenly looped her arm around his had been an understatement, but hearing that she had apparently seen that the aurors were coming for him and decided to help gave him a good feeling.

“Exactly that’s why I decided to leave. But thanks, I do prefer walking out with a friendly face. I can’t believe that they were looking I was leaving wasn’t I, what does it matter to them if I’m escorted or not.” Ted asked getting angry as he didn’t often. “My evening was going very splendid until that announcement, if they had told us before maybe there wouldn’t be a riot breaking out in there.” He continued glancing back at the atrium where the sound only seemed to grow. “I just don’t get the discrimination from the Ministry all of a sudden, it’s like they want us gone. Considering there are muggleborn officials I just don’t get the point.” He sighed looking defeated. “But anyway how was your evening?” He asked trying to put on a smile and not really succeeding.

Sofia: I am sorry that I don’t really like thinking of people I am not super close to naked???

Ted: Please tell me that im not the only one who dances around in their underwear when their favorite song comes on the radio?