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Chapter 4

"Ugh!" Andromeda cried frustratedly. It had been three days, and still there was little progress with Narcissa. She had convinced her not to call them Mudbloods, but there was nothing she could do to stop her point of view about the superiority of pure-bloods. That had been too far engraved into her brain, since her whole family supported this concept, not just Bellatrix.

"What's wrong Andi?" asked Narcissa innocently. She still didn't understand why Andromeda was so upset about all this stuff. Didn't she want to be better then everyonelse? Bellatrix loved being better then everyone! Narcissa just came to the same conclusion that she always did, Andromeda was very weird.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? This foolishness that Bellatrix and mother and father have put in you head is what's wrong! Just because there is no non-magical blood doesn't mean that we are better then anyone and that we should have special privileges!" yelled Andromeda, completely fed up by now.

'Yup!' thought Narcissa, "definitely weird!' then she said to Andromeda, "Andi, why aren't we better then them? Our blood is better so shouldn't we be all better?"

"AAAAAAAA!" screamed Andromeda, "I GIVE UP!" and promptly left the room.

"Wait! Andi! Come back! What did I do?" cried Narcissa. Now she was upset, Andromeda hardly ever yelled at her, she always yelled at Bellatrix. When Andromeda didn't come back, Narcissa ran to find Bellatrix, who was to be found in her room working on a paper.

"What're you doing?" Narcissa asked, looking over Bellatrix's shoulder.

"I'm writing a paper for Charms class, now be quite and leave me alone." Bellatrix snapped. Narcissa looked hurt, she hadn't done anything and Bellatrix was mad at her!

"But I wanted to talk to you!" she whined.

"Go talk to Andi, she has nothing else to be doing," was the curt reply.

"But Andi's mad at me!" Bellatrix sighed and set down her quill and swiveled around in her chair to stare at her little sister.

"What did you do?" she asked matter-o-factly. Narcissa didn't like it being assumed that she was at fault.

"I didn't do anything Bella! Andi got mad because I think that pure-bloods are better then mudbloods," said Narcissa, pleading with her eyes for her sister to comfort her and tell her that she did nothing wrong and then come and play with her. This was a far-fetched fantasy to have about Bellatrix, there would be no soppy cuddling reassurance coming from her. Instead she laughed and said,

"Its not you she's mad at Cissy, just go find her and ask her to play a game," and with that she turned back to her work and ignored Narcissa's protests that she didn't want to play with Andromeda anymore and her begging for Bellatrix to come and play with her instead. Eventually Narcissa gave up and went to sulk in her room.

'Why on earth would Father have given me this as a punishment?' Bellatrix asked herself, puzzled. It didn't make any sense. She expected to at least be smacked a little. Not that they were abused at all, just a normal smack in the face would have done. 'Odd,' she thought as she finished the last word in her Charms essay. Since it was only the third day and she had one assignment left already, she decided to take a small break. Honestly, how stupid did they think she was? It was only busy work. She doubted that teachers even read the papers, and instead just handed out grades after the first few paragraphs. Thinking more and more about her punishment, though, Bellatrix realized that her and Andromeda's punishments were barely punishments at all. Sure they seemed bad at the moment, but looking in hindsight, they had embarrassed them in front of someone of very high standing for their parents. Surely that would have called for a greater and harsher punishment?

"Andi, Cissy, get in here!" Bellatrix called.

"What do you want?" Andromeda asked as she walked into her room, followed by Narcissa tugging on her robes excitedly.

"Cissy, what was Lord Voldemort's reaction to our fight?" Bellatrix asked quickly.

"Um… I think he said that it 'amused' him… Why?" Narcissa asked curiously.

"That's why we're hardly being punished!" Bellatrix said, feeling proud of herself.

"Hardly being punished?! I'm miserable!" Andromeda said exasperatedly.

"Heh, that's because you're easy to punish. If you don't show much interest in stuff, then it's hard to take stuff away from you because they don't know if it'll really be a punishment," Bellatrix retorted.

"… You'll do anything to get rid of weakness, won't you?" Andromeda asked exasperatedly. "Pretty much," Bellatrix responded with a nod.

"Um, Bella?" Narcissa interrupted timidly.

"Yes, Cissy?" Bellatrix asked her. "How come you asked the same question that Andi did yesterday?"

"… Andi, this already occurred to you?" Bellatrix asked, slightly peeved. "Well, yeah. I mean, what kind of punishment is to do homework?" she asked, shrugging her shoulders.

"Well, it's punishment enough for me," Bellatrix muttered darkly. "And why didn't you just say something when you came in here?"

"I decided to be nice and let you have your moment, I guess," Andromeda said shrugging. Bellatrix just looked at her suspiciously before dropping the subject.

"So, we'll leave you to do your homework, I suppose."

"No!" Bellatrix said suddenly, the terror of boredom gripping her brain.

"I insist," Andromeda said, surprisingly enough the one smirking evilly at Bellatrix for once, and not the other way around.

"Come on, Cissy," she said more in the tone of a demand than a request, and ushered her out the door. Narcissa looked slightly frightened by this, and followed her after shooting Bellatrix a scared but sympathetic look.

"Well, that was unexpected," Bellatrix muttered to herself angrily, flopping down on her bed. She only had one more assignment anyways, so she figured she might as well do something else. She began to write letters to some of her friends. That way it would look like she was doing homework, at least.

"FINALLY! I CAN READ AGAIN!" was heard suddenly early in the morning four days later, successfully waking up the rest of the Black household. Their parents were expecting a reaction like this from their daughter, though, and Mr. Black rose with an evil grin on his face to see if Bellatrix had actually done all of her assignments. It wasn't that he enjoyed punishing his eldest daughter; he just wanted to get a chance to embarrass them like all parents like to do to their children. That, and she was rather lazy when it came to school, that much was already apparent.

Arriving at the door of her eldest daughter's room, he knocked and announced, "I'm coming in." He heard a groan as he opened the door, but he already knew that she was up because of her sister's joyous cry. NOTHING could sleep through that.

"It's all finished, somewhere in here," Bellatrix told him as he looked around the messy room. She had never bothered to put away any of her books or throw away rough copies of her essays. He raised an eyebrow at her as he scanned the room once again.

"What?" she asked as if this all were his imagination. "Well, if I'm going to write them, they might as well be well-written," she muttered glancing at all of the original drafts and began to pick some up and throw them away.

"Well, where are they?" he asked, looking at Bellatrix as though he expected this all to have been a joke and that she only did this to make him think she had done her summer work.

"On the desk in the corner," she replied holding back a smirk. She knew better than to seem superior to her own father. To her surprise, he sat down and began to look over some of her essays. She just stared awkwardly, not knowing what to do. She hadn't thought that he actually cared about her schoolwork – he had just wanted her to get it out of the way and punish her at the same time so that he wouldn't have to bother her about it later. Hoping that he didn't find her writing style or her essays completely stupid, she continued cleaning the poor, abused room. He grunted in approval and nodded his head, that being his entire response, as she knew it would be.

"Good, now I won't have to make you do that later and it's all out of the way," he stated, confirming her suspicions.

"Dad, can I ask a question?" Bellatrix asked, knowing that now was the best time for questions as it was too early for him to be angry at her for getting into a fight already.

"I suppose."

"Who exactly was Lord Voldemort?" Bellatrix asked, hoping that he would actually answer her question.

"You'll figure that out later," he responded and ruffled her hair as he left the room. 'Hmm… I think that means we'll be seeing him again!' she thought excitedly.

"Andi, Cissy! Come in here, quick!" she called.

"What now?" Andromeda asked, bringing her book in with her. Narcissa followed in shortly after, still in her pajamas.

"Cissy, did Lord Voldemort say that he'd come back?" she asked excitedly.

"… Why do you keep stealing Andi's questions?" Narcissa asked curiously.

Bellatrix stared moodily out the window. It was the last day of summer and it was raining, typical. Andromeda had made some comment at breakfast about the earth mourning the end of summer and preparing for the long winter. Bellatrix hadn't really paid much attention, just thrown her sister the usual 'must you always be so figurative?' look and continued eating. But Bellatrix secretly agreed with Andromeda, not that she would ever admit that out loud, it sucked that tomorrow she would have to get up early and get on a train to head back to school.

'Wish we could have found out more about the mysterious Lord Voldemort' she thought. After he had left and Narcissa confirmed that he would be coming back there really hadn't been much else to find out. Their parents were keeping extremely hush about it, at least around the girls.

Bellatrix sighed and leaned her head against the window but pulled back almost immediately as it was freezing cold. She looked around the room and almost jumped at the sight of Andromeda standing in the doorway…almost.

"What do you want Andi?" she snapped, peeved that her sister managed to startle her.

"Nothing," replied Andromeda in faraway tone, not noticing her sister's rankled tone.

"Well it must be SOMETHING, otherwise you wouldn't be standing there staring at me. What do you want?" Andromeda's eyes slowly focused and she really looked at her older sister.

"I can't believe that I'm starting Hogwarts. I really am going, finally." Bellatrix stared at Andromeda for a moment. 'That's right, Andi's coming with me this year,' a slow grin spread across her face.

"Yes you are Andi, you and me off together to Hogwarts. You better be good, prove to all those numbskulls that call themselves witches and wizards that the Blacks are the best of the best." Andromeda's gaze hardened and she met Bellatrix's eyes with a determined glare.

"Don't worry Bella, I'll be the best of the best. I promise you that, I will be the best of the best." And with that she turned and walked out of the room. Bellatrix stared after her sister. 'Was that a challenge?' she wondered. Her grin grew bigger, 'This school year was going to be very interesting…'

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