Need Information about Andromeda Black-Tonks

[Carol]

Tonks wrote:
>
> Doing a little family research here…   What do we know about
Andromeda Black-Tonks? <snip>
> Also what does anyone know about the stars associated with her. I am 
> trying to make a costume of her and don’t know what colors or anything 
> to use. Trying to get some ideas. Especially on what house she was in, 
> and I don’t remember what if anything was in the books about her.

Carol responds:

Just to add a bit to what others have said, you can get an idea of
what Andromeda is like from "Fallen Warrior," the only chapter in
which she actually appears. Her daughter says in OoP that it was
Andromeda who chose her name, Nymphadora (literally, gift of the
nymphs). She also says that her mother is good at "householdy" spells
and can fold socks with a flick of her wand, yet her husband, Tonks's
father, is "a right old slob."

Andromeda seems to have lived with Tonks and Lupin while her husband
was on the run from the Snatchers and continued to do so after Ted was
killed and Teddy was born. Tonks left Teddy with her when she followed
Lupin to the Battle of Hogwarts. Apparently, she raised the orphaned
Teddy, who seems to have turned out just fine.

Also, she was Sirius's favorite relative, which may have been
mentioned already.

That's all I can think of that hasn't been said, but she seems to be
the closest thing we have to "the good Slytherin," as far as it goes.
I like her, anyway. BTW, she's young for a grandmother, about
forty-one at the end of DH. (IIRC, the Black Family Tree says that
Narcissa was born in 1959 and Bellatrix in 1955. Andromeda would be
somewhere between them, possibly 1957, which would make her just three
years older than Snape, Lily, and MWPP.)

Carol, who has no idea whether Andromeda would still like green but
doubts that she's fond of snakes these days