I looked solemnly around my bedroom, my usual raven black wavy hair pinned back into a tight bun. I courageously took a step forward hoping to see perfection, as I glanced into the big silver mirror. I looked myself up and down a frown becoming increasingly prominent on my face, I turned from left to right to make sure everything looked perfect and it did. But that was just the problem, there is no such thing as perfect in my family at least not anything perfect about me! I turned slowly on my heel leaving the safe protection of my cosy bedroom. My breaths began to become ragged, the beat of my heart becoming franticly faster, I took a few deep breathes calming my nerves as I came to a holt at the dining room entrance. I knocked on the door whilst smoothing down my long black dress. "Come in," the haughty voice of my mother called I inwardly shivered at the sound of my mother's cruel cold voice. I slowly placed my small hand on the brown oak door knob twisting it carefully, a blank emotionless look on my face as I slowly began to bring the big oak door towards me, trying not to show fear, I looked up at the big dining room table it was decorated with the finest silver ware everything shining looking very elegant, I saw the crystal chandelier decorated with thousands of candles sending a soft orange glow onto the table which had a blue table cloth draped across it, of course typically blue just like the maniac ravenclaws my family are! Yes my name is Marlene McKinnon, Im a witch and in Gryffindor, the best house ever! In my opinion anyway. My family have all been placed in ravenclaw, well everyone except me, of course the little Gryffindor accident didn't go unpunished. Now don't see this the wrong way I don't really get physically punished well except the odd hex, but you see im more like sort of ignored and when I say ignored I mean ignored im not allowed out of my room, well apart from to go to the toilet. I don't get fed so when I go to the bathroom I have to sneak food back to my room, the only thing I do get is a dog bowl full of water, I swear sometimes I think my family think im a dog maybe they're that crazy that they have mistaken me for that dog in the muggle film, you know Marley and me; I watched that with my best friend Lily when I sneaked out of this hell hole and went to Lily's sleep over, it was a good film actually "Marlene are you listening to me I said sit down!" I jumped as I looked at my mother her eyes piercing mine, a sneer very prominent on her face. I quickly sat down trying to hide how scared I was with my emotionless barrier, I briefly glanced around the room taking in everyone's faces of course I knew my brother sitting opposite me his normal spikey brown hair combed down to sit neatly on top of his head ending at his eyebrows, he looked exactly the same as usual except his jaw line seemed to be more defined, I looked in to eyes noticing they had lost quite a lot of spark which was usually present within them my brother has bright blue eyes that no one could ever forget they're like big blue sapphires that shine and look deep into your soul causing anyone's heart to melt well anyone's except a slytherin, his eyes are definitely his best feature I took in the scowl that seemed to look somewhat forced onto his face, of course I knew that it was forced as me and my brother share quite a bond. I know that he doesn't like all the pureblood things my family come up with because he has secretly fallen in love with a muggle and im the only person who knows, he used to come up to my room with smuggled food, that is until my mom found out that's when he stopped and I had to start fending for myself. I looked and saw a few people I didn't recognize one women with long blonde hair and next to her a man with long blond hair too, they didn't look to much older than me maybe about two or three years older. No doubt probably slytherins if they went to Hogwarts as they had big scowls plastered on their faces, definitely not the friendliest of people. Next to them sat who I knew to be Walgburna and Orion Black and next to them sat Regulus Black. I knew this because I have I guess what you could call a friendship with their eldest son, Sirius Black it's kind of a love hate friendship, one day I want to hug him and tell him everything's ok, well I guess im not that close to him but you get what I mean and you see other days I want to rip his head off. For multiple reasons whether it's pranking, me laughing at my expense from the prank or snoging another air head in a cramped broom closet. Most of us try to avoid broom closets now. I guess now you know why, yep I've had a few horrible experiences with broom closets uhh im never opening one of them again. I still can't get that image out of my head. "Marlene we were just speaking to Walgburna and Orion about their lovely son Regulus, im sure you've met Regulus before haven't you?" I looked over at Regulus he seemed so similar to Sirius it was scary! His hair seemed shorter than Sirius's. His pitch black hair ended at his ears although one other difference I did see in Regulus from his brother is that his eyes didn't seem as joyful as Sirius's usually were they were still a deep grey but had no life inside them. None of the happiness Sirius's eyes held within them. Wait hang on why am I even thinking of Sirius right now I mean I know that his brothers here but im supposed to hate Sirius but here I am comparing him to his brother err! Why am I so infuriating? No wait why is he so infuriating I can never get that smirk out of my bloody head it's so annoying! "yes I know Regulus mother," I implied trying to sound calm, I saw him smirk my way, so I raised an eyebrow at him as if to say why was he smirking, he cocked his head to the side to try and tell me to pay attention to the conversation. I looked over at my mother as she said "good because you two will be married as soon as you two graduate!"