Entry for the Harry Potter Monopoly

Number 12, Grimmauld Place: Write about any Black.

(250 Words)


Lost Son

Walburga Black paced from one side of the Sitting Room of Grimmauld Place to the other, her hands clenched to fists as she tried to stay calm.

Only minutes ago, her elder son Sirius had left the house, with a big trunk and hateful words as his farewell. She still couldn't believe that this had happened, that he had really betrayed his family, again.

Walburga was torn between sorrow and rage, and as she couldn't decide which feeling to give in to, she just paced, her thoughts racing in her head. He was gone. Her boy was gone, had left her house, had finally turned his back on his family...

But if she was honest with herself, she had lost him long ago, on the very day he had been sorted into Gryffindor. Back then, she had been disappointed, but she hadn't completely given up on him. After all, he was her son, her flesh and blood, and her ways of upbringing her sons surely made them good members of the Black family...

But over the years, she had left her hope, as it became more and more evident that he wasn't like her or his father.

And now, he had finally left the house, thus proving that he had never been part of their family.

She didn't know how this happened, but suddenly, she stood in front of the family tree, and with an angry scream, she burned Sirius' name from the tapestry.