Grim, Old, Home.
1969
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"Miss Black, Miss Narcissa," Uncle Orion greeted them.
Andromeda shivered. She wouldn't have come home for Christmas as it was. She certainly preferred Christmas at Hogwarts to spending anytime with her father's brother in his house. 'Grim, old place' indeed.
Still, it was her last Christmas before she finished school and left her family for good.
"Bella," her uncle cooed.
She had always been the beloved niece.
Andromeda spied Sirius, all of ten hiding behind the door into the library and waved. He waved back tentatively.
If she couldn't bare the house for a day, what would his childhood him?