Prologue
Looking in through the window of the house that situated within the countryside one would think that the party goers were completely normal, but it wasn't until you looked closer and began listening into their conversation that you realised they were in fact wizards and witches and they practised magic.
It wasn't just that though, no, most of the people in attendance were a part of families that were considered to be sacred, some of them were even noble.
No one that they considered lower class was in attendance either, to them the party was only with the elite of society and that's the way it should stay.
There were murmurs among them about a rising power and because of the topic of conversation everyone was oblivious to two of the younger children in room doing as they pleased instead of following their parents' wishes.
"O?" a young boy with black shaggy hair and slate grey eyes whispered as he made his way through the room filled to the brim with people, he had lost the girl, the one friend he had at party.
"Over hear," the young boy turned around and found the girl standing there with bright red hair and bright blue eyes, more so a bright turquoise in colouring.
The boy frowned, taking in her nervous behaviour. She had never been one to be comfortable around a crowd, she stayed quiet and kept to the background but he knew the truth, he knew just how loud and outspoken she could be when she was comfortable.
"Octavia I do hope you and Sirius are behaving over there." Both of the young children turned and faced the man who had addressed them.
"Yes father," she nodded at him, he returned the nod before leaving the children to their own demises.
"Tell me again why we are here O?" Sirius asked and the girl rolled her eyes.
"You know why, Sirius. They are celebrating that we have been accepted into Hogwarts."
"I just can't wait to leave, two more days."
Octavia nodded in agreement. "Yes but we have my brother and sister to deal with while we are there."
"Oh we can't forget dear Bella and Narcissa." Sirius frowned at the mention of his cousins while Octavia placed a sympathetic hand on his arm.
"That's what happens when we belong to the prestige families like the Blacks and Carrows, come on let's go see if Dinky can bring some food to my room."
The Carrows and the Blacks had always been close but it wasn't until Cygnus Black and Amycus Carrow had opened a business back in the day, that brought the families closer together, and now it was booming, it was something both families still profited from. To begin with it was just a small realtor company but these days their company is almost always responsible for a building or apartment that has been put up for sale.
Cygnus and Amycus also happened to be Sirius and Octavia's great, great, great grandparents, just enough time for the realtor business to flourish.
"O, stop! What are you doing?" Sirius hissed when the two of were in the library.
Octavia looked at him in confusion for a moment before she found the book floating in front of her.
In the end Dinky refused to bring food for them to Octavia's room, Dinky couldn't go against Master and Mistresses' rules but stated that they were allowed to eat in the library.
"I didn't realise…" she whispered slightly and the book dropped with a thud.
They both sat there in silence, watching it almost as if it would levitate on its own again. This wasn't the first that Octavia had shown a bit of accident magic, hers seem to be more prominent than anyone else's.
It wasn't until the last couple of years when her older siblings at been at Hogwarts that it had gotten worse, but her parents had yet to realise what was going on. It was only Sirius that had noticed, the onetime Sirius' younger brother Regulus had noticed it they played it off that he was losing it and needed more sleep.
Sirius was worried about his friend, he didn't know how much longer they could keep her magic a secret. They left for Hogwarts in two days, wouldn't they see that something more was going on than accidental magic? There was a part of him that had hoped as long as she always had her wand on her person than no one would question it, just assumed she was a slight air head and she had to stop waving her wand around so much.
"Tell me again what Ollivander said," Sirius demanded and Octavia narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Why does it matter, we all know that he is a loon. The only reason we went to him was because Gregorovitch was forced to close up shop while the Aurors investigated him."
"Please O…" Sirius pleaded with the young girl and she eventually relented, taking a deep breath before speaking.
"We can expect great things from you, it may not be common practise to wield wands that are made from two different types of wood they are rare and the witch or wizard themselves are generally known for great things. It's rumoured that Merlin himself had two types of wood in his wand…He then began to ramble on about how it was strange that I had such a long wand for such a small body structure, he mentioned something about large personalities tend to control that aspect while he said nothing about my core although we all know that dragonheart strings are particularly powerful."
"Bloody unicorn hair…" Sirius muttered to himself causing Octavia to giggle.
She remembered when Sirius turned up to complain about his wand, in all tense and purposes it's like a typical male wand…until he mentions it has unicorn hair as a core. Octavia tried to remind him that it doesn't matter what the core is, it's how you use it but Sirius wouldn't hear her, he just continued to mutter about having a girls' wand.
"It's not that bad, just lie if people do ask you." She shrugged in response, it was something she was hoping to do. It wasn't until you looked at her wand closely that you could note the two different woods, she was lucky the two woods were similar in colour.
"Has Alecto said anything about your wand?"
"No one knows but you and it's only because you picked it up and noticed the colouring differences, they weren't even in the shop. They were too thrilled with the idea that Alecto was Prefect and Amycus was made Quidditch Captain. They were both getting presents while I was getting my wand."
"I also know because I'm worried about you O."
"It's just accident magic, I will grow out of it."
"You should have grown out of it by now."
"Who knows, maybe once I'm at Hogwarts it will be alright." Octavia tried to sound convincing, she needed to get Sirius off her back about her magic
"How are you going to be without dear old Reggie?" Sirius teased and Octavia couldn't help it, she picked up the cushion she was leaning against and threw it at him.
"Don't start, you're just jealous. I don't know how I would be having been promised to a Rosier." Octavia shivered while Sirius glared at her.
"What I don't understand is why it's only now that our two families are merging, why did they wait until now?" he questioned and she was silent at first, unsure of how to answer herself.
"Don't you remember all of our lessons? It wasn't until now that there was both a male and female in the same generation, most of our families have been boys."
"Why couldn't we have been promised to each other?" Sirius grumbled and Octavia silently agreed, but at least she got along with Regulus, to an extent anyway.
"No idea, something to do with our births? We know it's all done the moment we are born, maybe our parents thought it would be best to pair you off instead of hoping for another girl. I'm almost a year younger than you Sirius, I only just qualify for Hogwarts this year and Regulus is only a couple of months younger than me. Your mother had to have been pregnant with Regulus when I was born, they must have made the pact that had he been a boy we would be married one day." Octavia explained, having it had explained to her before with her being a girl and all, knowing one day she will have children and have to do the same thing one day.
"I still think it's stupid."
"Yes well we still have seven years to worry about it."
"No O, you have eight. You have to wait until Regulus graduates but I bet you anything, you will spend that year planning your wedding." Octavia stuck her tongue out at him in response and they both launched into a fit of laughs until tears were rolling down their cheeks.
The both stopped laughing as the door opened interrupting their conversation.
"Octavia there you are!" an older girl that shared a similar resemblance to Octavia, except she had green eyes instead of bright blue, barged into the room startling both the young children.
"We hoped if we sat in here we wouldn't disturb any of mother and father's guests Alecto."
"And that is understandable but now you are required back in the dining hall, you too Sirius."
Neither Octavia nor Sirius said anything as they stood up and followed Alecto out of the room and back downstairs to re-join the party.