Hey everyone. This was written for both Psychology: Influential Psychological Experiment in History assignment, and Fortnightly Challenges Thread's Leaf Pile Challenge on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For Psychology: Influential Psychological Experiment I wrote for task 4 which was to write about someone changing their behavior to please someone else. For Leaf Pile Challenge I wrote for Orange (emotions) Ashamed. I hope you all enjoy the next chapter of Little Moments Shame.
All Narcissa felt as she turned her back on Andromeda was ashamed. She still loved her older sister very much. Andromeda was still very much the person she felt the closest to. But Bellatrix had told her that Andromeda was no longer the good pure-blood sister she was making herself out to be. She had made it seemed like Andy should no longer be considered part of the family.
"Bella," Narcissa cried, "what did Andromeda do that was so wrong?"
Bellatrix just laughed as though she couldn't believe that Cissa had just asked the question she did. She wrung her hands as though asking where she had gone wrong with the two younger sister's she had helped raise.
"Cissa, you know what mother and father think about Muggles, and Muggle-borns?" Bellatrix asked looking Narcissa in the eyes. "Do you know that this Ted Tonks "she's" dating is a Muggle-born?"
Narcissa felt more ashamed of the fact that she didn't even know that Andy had been dating someone. Let alone dating a Muggle-born. She felt even more ashamed that this new information was causing her to see Bellatrix's way more clearly.
"But how could Andy betray out family like that?" she asked shame in both herself and Andromeda coloring her voice as she asked the question.
Bellatrix held her arms open for Narcissa pulling the youngest sister into a hug. She comforted the younger girl as best she could because Bellatrix didn't understand what was happening any better than Narcissa did.
"I guess Andy was always a traitor to our family," Bellatrix sighed not knowing what else to say. "She just didn't know it until she met this Tonks boy. Now you have to make a choice, Cissa. Do you support her and this Tonks and want to break Father and Mother's heart? Or will you be loyal to your family like I am?"
She knew it was the wrong choice before she even said but it was the only choice she felt she had at the moment. "I'm always loyal to our family, Bella," she whispered. "No matter what."
Sealing her shame with those few words she followed Bellatrix to the owlery to send word of Andromeda's betrayal to their parents.
I hope you all enjoyed Shame. I've been really enjoying delving into the relationships between the three Black sisters. It's been pretty interesting and I can't wait to explore where else this story can go.