the_debt_of_time

"Plus," Tonks leered, "sex keeps the wolf at bay. It would be selfish of me to have
preferred him remain all virginal just for me. Moony could have very well hurt himself to
the point of fatal injury while at Hogwarts. Either that or he'd fail his N.E.W.T.s."
Mia laughed loudly. "Merlin forbid."
"You saved him from Greyback, you saved him from the other wolf pack, and you
brought my cousin back to life and risked your own to save them both when Voldemort
was torturing them," Tonks said, reminding Mia of the final battle which, for her, had been
years ago. "As far as we're concerned, Mia, I owe you a great debt."
Mia laughed. "Be careful. I like to collect life debts."
"Well, apparently you've got a stack of them. Aunt Cissa has been asking about you
for months now."
"Narcissa?" Mia's brows furrowed. "What does she want with me? For all she knows,
Mia Potter is dead."
Tonks shook her head. "Nope. She recognised you when you were at Bill and
Fleur's."
"How is that possible? Remus told me that Minerva placed a Notice-Me-Not on me
so people wouldn't recognise me as Mia Potter."
"Well, if it's the spell I think it is, McGonagall would have had to renew it yearly,
probably whenever you went back to Hogwarts. Last I checked, Hermione Granger
skipped her seventh year."
Mia's eyes widened. "Merlin... I'm lucky it was just Narcissa that recognised me,
then. I saw Lucius, Bellatrix, and Pettigrew that same day." She shook her head, thrilled
that things turned out the way they had. Sure, she had been snatched and tortured, her skin
carved into, but knowing how she had threatened Bellatrix, struck Lucius, and terrified
Peter, she could have had it much worse at Malfoy Manor had they known who she was.
"Mum recognised you as well," Tonks informed her. "Granted, Aunt Cissa had to
spell it all out for her. It seems like people only figure it out when it's either really obvious
or they're told."
"That would explain why Arthur never caught on then," Mia said thoughtfully. "Or
Kingsley. I want to meet with your mother and Narcissa. I... I told Harry that I really
want the family to―" Her eyes widened as she realised something. "Teddy."
Tonks grinned. "Remus told me he asked you to be godmother."