Chapter 1

She didn't remember much about her family. Her biological family, that was. As far as she was concerned Molly and Arther were the nearest thing to parents she had.
she was adopted into the family aged 9, after her father was sent to Azkaban prison. Her mother Arabelle, who was good friends with Molly, died shortly after Arabelle was born, Leaving her in the care of her father. She did not remember her mother, she only knew her from what she had seen in photos. Arabelle had her slim frame but other than that she resembled more of her father,something she would soon grow to resent. She had dark brown hair which was long and cascaded down her back into thick curls, deep red lips and a pale complexion which in her opinion clashed with her dull grey eyes, making them look glassy and hollow. despite this she was not unattractive and would soon grow into her looks. From her pure blood Herritage she had gained impeccably good bone structure, with a well-defined jaw and cheekbones that any woman would long for. However at aged 9, high cheekbones
and darkly good looks are not the sort of things a young girl can appreciate.

Arabelle had often spent a lot of time with the Weasley's as a child, Molly offered to look after Arabelle while Sirius was at work or out doing jobs for the Order of the Pheonix. When he was sent to azkaban, much to the shock of everyone, Arabelle included, it seemed only natural to Molly that Arabelle would be left in Molly's care. Afterall she got on so well with her sons. She spent a lot of her time with Charlie who was the same age as Arabelle, and Bill her eldest. Six year old Percy spent most of his time reading but quietly appreciated the way Arabelle and Charlie together could distract the 3 year old twins Fred and George from tormenting Percy with every spare minute they could find. The twins adored Charlie and Arabelle and would toddle around after them wherever they could, leaving a trail of destruction in their path. Molly was too busy with baby Ron and looking after the house while Arther was at work,to spend as much time with her other children as she wished she could, but found the fact they all got on relatively well together reassuring.

Many chaoticly blissful years passed in the Weasley household Bill left for Hogwarts aged 11, and with his departure Charlie and Arabelle depended on each other more for company as well as to look after the younger Weasley's, and with the twins becoming more mischievous and destructive as they got older, this was becoming quite the challenge. They would wind up Percy, make Ron cry as sometimes fight with each other. They had figured out how to handle these incidents together by taking care of one twin between them. Charlie was able to calm down Fred, the more boisterous of the two, while Arabelle was naturally drawn to George, who was more calm and sensitive.

After what felt like years of waiting it was finally time for Arabelle and Charlie to leave for Hogwarts. The twins cried for hours the morning of September 1st, their crying then set Ron off and then Baby Ginny too. Mrs. Weasley was getting more and more flustered by the hour and by the time 11 o'clock came they found themselves grateful to be on the Hogwarts express speeding away from the commotion of the family on the platform.

Much to Arabelle's relief she was sorted into Griffindor house with Charlie. Although both her Mother and Father had been Griffindors, she could not forget the rest of her fathers' family; They had all been Slytherins and blood purists alike, and generally not a very nice bunch. Arabelle of course she had been disowned by them from the start, as her father had left the family many years ago.

Although Arabelle had been sorted into Griffindor, this did not seem to comfort any of the other students. Arabelle had kept her fathers last name, as Molly was careful to remind the others that Arabelle was not their sister but rather their friend, an act none of them, even Arthur truly understood. And the other students had not forgotten she was still the daughter of murderous Sirius Black, inheriting his darkly handsome features did not help her case, and for this, she found herself to be the centre of gossip for many weeks. Eyes bore into her as she walked with Charlie from class to class. People would avoid getting too close to her, as if they feared she would become crazed at any moment and renact the scene that put her father away two years ago.

Despite all this Charlie remained as loyal as ever. He went everywhere with her, sat next to her in classes, and stuck up for if anyone was to speak nastily of her, even if this resulted in him being hit by a few hexes from older wizards. Needless to say however, if it hadn't been for Charlie, Arabelle would have found herself thoroughly miserable at Hogwarts. They became inseparable as they became older. In their 3rd year Charlie had begged of Arabelle, much to her disdain, to take care of magical creatures as one of her subjects, which would result in them having all the same lessons together. However Arabelle soon found herself regretting agreeing to the subject, as she could not get on with Professor Grubly-Plank at all. She found her temper to be short and herattitude abrupt to anyone who, like Arabelle, was any less than wonderstruck with the creatures, to be personally insulting her and her subject. It wasnt that Arabelle didn't like the creatures it was more that she was just disinterested in the subject entirely. The fact that the professor had nothing short of adoration towards Charlie only made Arabelle dislike her more. He was considered a model student in the lesson.

While Charlie loved the idea of being outside all day Arabelle found it dull, and not to mention far too cold for such nonsense in the winter months; and while Charlie was always first to volunteer for tasks, she tried her best to hang back and be as little involved in it all as possible. No matter how much Charlie would try to persuade her otherwise that it was a good subject, she would have none of it, and stubbornly resisted to feel any other way.

Not that this was how she felt with her other subjects. In fact she exceeded in many, including charms, transfiguration, potions (much to professor Snape's aggravation), herbology and defence against the dark arts. In fact it was in defence against the dark arts lessons she discovered how much power she had behind her spells. Growing up she had always had a fiery temper, many things would shake, explode or fly across the room when she was angry or irritated. Bill and Charlie has teased her calling it her 'black temper' as they were all sure it came from that side of her family. However Arabelle
was now learning to control this power she had and concentrate it into her spells. A lot of what she produced seemed to generally be more powerful than what the others in her year could do. For examplewhen being taught the incendio spell in class, rather than setting just the kindling they were aiming for alight, Arablle had set the table it rested on alight too after hearing two Slytherin girls whispering about her behind her
back. Her reduco spell was more powerful than anyone elses and her curses and hexes often produced greater and more damaging effects to her unlucky targets.

As the years went on, Arabelle was known less for her infamous father and more for her own personality, looks and not to mention relationship with Charlie. Everybody loved Charlie. He was open and friendly towards everyone, girls would whisper and giggle every time he was around, which he was oblivious too. Arabelle always noticed this however his bright red hair was always scruffy and his blue eyes shone with enthusiasm which was contagious not to mention he had been chosen as the new seeker for the house team at the beginning of the year.
Although Arabelle was more reluctant to open up to people, they found her likeable enough, however she had a feeling this was more to do with being best friends with Charlie that made people want to talk to her, none the less by the end of their 3rd year they were considered to be two of the most popular students in their year. Rumours about how close Charlie and Arabelle really were, always circulated round the school ever since they got there, both had ignored it, knowing that they didn't understand their friendship. Yet something was about to happen at the beginning of their 4th year which would change their friendship forever.

a/n: I appologise if this chapter was kinda dull, I really just used this chapter to set the scene. I really want you all to love Arabelle as much as I do, so i'm going to try to make her as realistic as possible. Anyway please stay with me this story will get better I promise!