The noble and ancestral house of Black

Disclaimer: Some characters and the Harry Potter world belong to the queen J.K Rowling, I only own this story and it´s OC.

Andromeda:

For Andromeda Black her whole life had already been planned. She was part of the important Black family, crowds temble at the sound of her name, she had as much money that she would never be able to count it during her lifetime and the prestige that came with it to ensure her a comfortable life.

Since she was a little girl her parents had taught her how fortune she was for being born a Black. She wasn´t only a pure blood witch, she was better than the rest. She was part of the holly twenty eight and her blood would never mixed with those impure wizards and witches who thought muggles were just like them.

Because she also understood that difference. Muggles were nothing more than just a dirty nastiness of society that shouldn´t even be named. But worst than them were the rottening and disgraceful Mudbloods.

Andromeda heard her mother twice a day complaining about them, of how they were an aberration that should have never been created and how she couldn´t understand why they were allowed to study magic. Druella´s Black stomach twirl at the simple though of seeing her lovely daughters interacting with them when they enter at Hogwarts.

And that was the breaking point for Andromeda, something that forzed her ´till tiredness just to make her parents proud. She had to be better than her sisters.

Andromeda never wished to overcome Narcissa, but that was just too easy. She was a weeping and coward little girl who allied with those who had the power at the convenient time. Normally their father used to said that she was only usefull for marrige proposals from wealthy wizards families, because Narcissa was undeniably pretty.

Even tought her mother always told them love was a weakness, Andromeda felt an special love for her younger sister even when she rarely showed it. Sometimes it was by hiding the disasters she made just to prevent terrible punishments from their parents, or by helping her with secret clases of writing during night time only for avoiding seeing her mother using those quills that make you write with your own blood. Others where by comforting her during nightmares and by not leaving her alone when they visited aunt Walburga. Andromeda felt is was her duty as an older sister to bring poor Narcissa the protection she never had.

Because Bellatrix was special. Their parents showed her off in every reunion as the clever and talented girl they hope would be the best of her class when she began her education at Hogwarts, that charming girl who could keep difficult conversations with older wizards and stole the looks wherever she went. That girl that gave Andromeda the worst head aches.

If Bellatrix was a hawk, then Andromeda was the mouse she would always haunt to slowly killed.

Her older sister never tried to hide all the mischiefs that were dedicated to her just to threatened Andromeda, to show her that it was her who commanded the house and their parents would never punished even if they wanted to. And Andromeda learned it the hard way, after her father turn off a cigarrete agaisnt her skin as a scoring when Bellatrix cried because "Her sister let fall a jar of the magical nail varnish of mom in her hair"

When Bellatrix letter arrived, Andromeda was happy because it meant that a long time would pass before she had to see her again. And when the day she arrive to Hogwarts came, she could hide from her sister all she could to avoid being molested.

During those three years when Bellatrix only wrote home to informed she was the best at everyhting she did, Andromeda was oftenly at the house of aunt Walburga and uncle Orion. Aunt Walburga was an horrible witch that shared with their mom the pleassure of insulting mudbloods and criticized the direction of "That filthy blood traitors lover" of Albus Dumbledore, which meant that those times when Andromeda and Narcissa where there, in the number twelve of Grimmauld Place, they normally played with their cousins Sirius and Regulus.

Narcissa oftenly lost herself in the kitchen to talk with the house elves, but Andromeda accepted to play and entretain her younger cousins. Especially when it meant to keep Sirius out of trouble, since the pranks the little kid made arrived with painful punishments she could barely see. Aunt Walburga was more ruthless than their mom when they talk about impossing discipline and after Andromeda saw how she commanded the house elves to whiped Sirius after she saw him putting a Drooble in Narcissa´s hair, Andromeda swore to defend him like she did with her younger sister.

"Everything would be easier if you stop making her angry" She cleaned his wounds in the kitchen, while Sirius hold his sobs "Why can´t you behave better?"

"And being just as unhappy as everyone else in this bloody house? I didn´t knew that for being part of the Black family you needed to lose your sense of humor"

"I am not telling you to be an insensible brick, Sirius. Just asking you to control yourself. Don´t provoke her and this won´t happen again."

Sirius simply snorted with anger that boiled from inside "I am not going to change just to show her that I am afraid of her, I´m not like Regulus or you. I didn´t ask to be born in this family"

"You should feel proud, don´t be ungratful" Sirius´s grey eyes met her brown ones, and she noticed they reflected anger and discord.

"Mom used crucio on Regulus yesterday because she saw him giving it food to Kreacher. You cannot force me to be proud of being part of that" His tone was cold and sad.

Andromeda never corrected him for that again, even though she was not okey with the way he talked about their family. Regulus must had done something wrong to being punished right? They were better than other creatures, house elves were just slaves that needed to be treated like such. You could show a viper how to eat from your hand, but you might never took the ability of bitting from her nature.

Nonentheless and while those three years passed, Andromeda and Sirius became close. This seemed to disgusts Andromeda´s parents, who accused her cousin of being a revolving good for nothing brat that would bring bad reputation to the Black house, but because they never tried to kept them apart their friendship keep growing, Andromeda being the reason why Sirius never made big chaos during the families parties.

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The day her Hogwarts letter arrived, it was raining. A thunderous storm shackled the walls of the Black Mannor and the wind seemed to freeze the bones of all the occupants and her mother was specially angry.

Andromeda would turn eleven in just three days and her sister keep anoying her by calling her a Squib and singing parts of a song she created named "The dishonor of the Black family". Sometimes she forced the house elves to charmed the instruments that lay in the living room so they produce a melody that acompany her horrible singing that already provoke migrains to Andromeda but she couldn´t get out of her head.

"There she comes Andromeda the squib

The most shameful sorceress

Our parents should have never have her

She is the one who brings the shadow, who threanthed the families honor,

She is so bashfulness she shouldn´t be name a Black

Sure she only got it for shame"

Bellatrix could last hours without taking a breath, following her sister around the house with Narcissa at her ankles and clapping while making the chorus of the nasty song. One time she even gave her a parchment during dinner, just in front of their father, and smiled wickedly told her it was for her to remember the lyrics when the horrible news came upon the family and she was disinherited. If the letter didn´t arrive between these days Andromeda wasn´t sure about the torture her parents will summit her to for bringing dishonor of the most important house in the wizarding world.

It was because of it that she woke up early in the morning of july the 17th, hoping to eat something in the kitchen before her stomach close with nerves. That and her fear of imagining Bellatrix putting something in her plate to poison her just for fun.

The house elves of her house where different from the ones that belong to aunt Walburga. They always kept their eyes low, never speak and only obey at the orders that their parents and important wizards pronounce when they vissited their home during trascendental reunions, like the girls birthdays or the magnificent new years eve party that their parents always made. Entering the kitchen meant seeing them stumble and fall while they avoided touching her and being kicked for it, listen to her without saying a word and breathing so quietly that sometimes Andromeda thought they were dead.

She grabbed an Apple that was going to be used to prepare a cake and sit in the table. She hadn´t even bite it when a brown owl entered through the window and crashed against her lap, wattering her pijama. Andromeda let an amusement scream escaped from her and got to her feet inmediatly letting the bird fall into the ground while trying to clean the disaster it made of her clothes. Then she saw the seal in the letter and she run to grab it with shacking hands.

Hogwarts School of wizardry and witchcraft

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear misses Black,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Andromeda never though she would be able to screamed as loud as she did or to run as fast as she could to her parents bedroom. She never imagine herself roughly opening the door and exclaiming exited, jumping up and down, that she had been accepted to Hogwarts.

What she did imagined was the discomfort her mother would show after such disrepectful act.

"Silence! Have you believe this is a country yard? Haven´t your father and I taught you manners? Unacceptable! Imprudent!" Her mother raised her hand and slapped her so hard it made her skin burned.

"I-I´ve been accepted into Hogwarts"

Druella Black just raised an eyebrown in her perfect face that never show any emotion "And where else did you think you might get accepted? ¿Durmstrang? Sincerely Andromeda, it wasn´t necessary that you screamed because of an useless piece of parchment. Did you belive it would not arrive?"

In her mind the images of Bellatrix singing and Narcissa clapping kept on repeating, but in front of her mother she just denied it.

Her mother opened the door so she could go out and before it was close she grabbed her by the arm, her nails clawing at her skin. When Andromeda raised her eyes she knew by the look in her mother´s face that the next time she dared entered her parents room withouth permission she was going to get something bigger than a slap.

"Who would have tell? You resulted less Squib than what I expected"

Bellatrix was standing agaisnt the door of her bedroom flauting a smile that gave Andromeda chills. She limited herlsef to raised her head with pride.

"I´ve been accepted into Hogwarts" She repited the same thing she told her mother "Try now to prove I am the disgrace of the Black family, Bella"

Bellatrix didn´t erased the smile off her face howewer and started to play with a string of her hair while looking at her sister with a malevolent amusement "You need more than a simple letter to bring honor to our house, Meda. Hogwarts is full of mudbloods, nasty half bloods and blood traitors that pretend to envolve everyone with their stupid costums and ideals about equality. One should have personality for showing them who really deserves to be in charge, and I´m afraid you have as much of that as Cissy has inteligence. It´s non-existent"

"You will see soon enough. I am going to bring the biggest pride to house Black"

Bellatrix let out a chuckle and imitated in the air the slapped their mother gave Andromeda, laughing louder when her sister blushed.

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It was after the dinner that Andromeda felt really scared.

"I want you to come to my office before you go to sleep"

Those were the only words that came from her father when he arrived from the Ministry and they were enough for Narcissa to look at her as if someone threw her the killing curse and for Bellatrix to probably start inventing a new song so she could mock her.

The three sisters and their mother knew that Cygnus´s Black office was not allowed and that they only had to enter there when someone needed to be punish. Andromeda´s mind was full of excuses to pray for mercy when her father started to torture her because she caused so much stir; But she knew it was useless, begging would only make him angrier because that would show weakness and a Black was never weak.

Showing herself disposed was the only way of not being hurt a lot. But while the clock tick she couldn´t help but to imagine the way her father would impose discipline that night. Would he use the cruciatus curse like that time when Narcissa broke a jar during a party? Or would he grab that horrible knife so he might cut her back for her lack of manners like the time when Bellatrix went out withouth permission? Would he be able to whip her like he did that time when she rejected a candy from her grandmother Irma? Every option was worst than the last and Adromeda was shaking while the hour came closer and closer.

Eventually she had to cope her whole bravery and knocked at the inmense door of her father´s office. The noise was deafening and it seemed to her that it sounded all around the house, filling her ears until they were plugged. Her father opened the door inmediatly and she was forced to enter into a room that was sober decorated.

Some armchairs and marble tables surrounded the room that was painted green and had a Slytherin shield being the only companions she had along her father. Cygnus Black was tall and slim and normally used an aristocratic posture that reflected his grey eyes that were signature of the Black family but that none of his daughters had inherit which showed that the Rosier genetic was stronger in that occasion. Her father asked her to sit with a nod of his head and Andromeda didn´t doubt in obeying, knowing her punishment was gonna be worst if she didn´t move as fast her father wanted her to.

"Do you know how old our family is? We have been part of the magic community for centuries, we can presumme with happiness that our blood has never been mixed with the one of those filthy mudbloods even with the fear of being extint. If it is necessary we will marry between each other to keep our pure blood, which makes us rather important and noble Andromeda. Hogwarts is not longer what it was during it´s glory times since they allowed Dumbledore to be the headmaster and he arrived with the ideals of blood equality. Do you understand why that is a lie?

"Because mudbloods are a disgrace to the magical society"

Her father gave a glimpse of a smile that reminded her of Bellatrix "Exactly. Now your chance has arrive to bring honor to your family.

"I will be the best of my class" Andromeda ventured.

"Yes that might be important too but the idea is that you show yourself. You will study with the son of Acleticus Lestrange, Rabastan, and that family is waht we need to keep feeding the Black family. You must show the others how strong you are, how capable you are of catching the glimpse of a pure blood boy that will exalt the name of our family just like Bellatrix does. Did you know she is good friends with Rodolphus Lestrange? Those are the kind of people you should round yourself with! A woman never gets far without a respectful marrige and I want you to remember that Andromeda"

Andromeda studied the words of her father while he studied her with a sick expression.

"What I want to make you understand my dear daughter is that you should have clear that as a family we expect that you follow your sister footsteps. We don´t want a simple witch that knows how to throw spells if that does not bring any proposal with you and you don´t want to disapoint us do you?"

Andromeda assent looking ready even though some part inside of her screamed at the idea of being just like Bellatrix under any circunstance. Her father looked pleased and let her out so she could go to sleep and that was when Andromeda found herself, while she climb the mahogany staircase of the big mannor to arrive to her room, promising that she would do everything that was in her hands to not become the dishonor of the noble and ancestral house of Black.