Basic Information
Full name: Jade Green Black
Gender: Female
Date of birth: September 10, 1978
Nationality: British-American
Blood status: Pureblood (Thinks she's a muggle-born until her second year)
Wand: Thunderbird Feather CoreRed OakWood
Appearance
Hair color: Jet Black (with a white strip in her bangs after meeting Bellatrix)
Hairstyle: Curly but ends just above her hips
Eye color:Light blue
Skin tone: pale
Clothing style: Slytherin robes after being sorted into her proper house
Other distinguishing features: Gothic make-up
Personality Traits:
At first glance, she looks intimidating. Has a sweet-sounding voice. Believes in ghosts only after attending Hogwarts. Prone to absentmindedly taking things apart when agitated or angry.She often says "Indeed" in annoyance. Jade's interests include Sweet Tea, documentaries about animals, music, foxes, and snakes, and learning any spell or curse there is to learn.
Hobbies: Drawing, card games mostly war, and singing
Fears: Heights
Ambition: Finding out who she is
Family
Father: Tom Riddle (Voldemort)
Mother: Bellatrix Lestrange (Black)
Aunts: Narcissa Black, Andromeda Tonks (Black)
Cousins: Draco Malfoy, Nymphadora Tonks
Pets: Kit (Silver Fox), Zeke (Black Python)
Other noteworthy relatives: Mr & Mrs. Green (Adopted parents)
Individual magic
Boggart: Elevators (Doesn't like tight spaces)
Patronus: Water Dragon (doesn't have one immediately)
Amortentia: Forest, a new book, and money
~~~Year 1980~~~
Dumbledore had just taken a young child from Malfoy Manor, where Bellatrix Lestrange had been living with her young daughter. She wasn't yet aware of the child's disappearance since she'd been away preparing for the girl's second birthday. He abducted Jade because he believed Bellatrix was incapable of reproducing and for some twisted reason had abducted a muggle child. As the child had not yet developed magical abilities, who the muggles were, he couldn't be sure, since he didn't have the time to test her blood and risk being discovered by a Nanny house-elf. Upon entering muggle London, he pulled out a parchment, with a few muggle names and photos on it. He had Minerva McGonagall find him a list of suitable adoption homes. He looked over the list of muggles for just over an hour before finally settling on a muggle family who was only on the list because they had a child go missing roughly two years before their application.
Dumbledore then approached the muggles' home, which was located in a middle-class area of London only a couple of blocks from a nearby park for small children and three blocks from a school. He smiled at the child in his arms. "Now, I know you don't know these people, but just know they'd take better care of you than those I've saved you from." He whispered to the sleeping child as he set her on their porch. He then looked around and made sure no muggles were around to see him cover himself with an invisibility cloak and knock on the door.
~~~Year 1990~~~
Nearly ten years had passed since the Greens adopted the tiny infant they found in a basket on their doorstep. The sun rose in their tidy front garden and lit up the brass number nine on the Green's front door; it crept into their living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the night when Mr. Green had answered the door to see his now daughter in what looked like a picnic basket covered with just a blanket to keep warm. They eventually moved from London to Arizona in the United States after she almost destroyed the house in an explosion when she was seven. The photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much time had passed. Five years ago, there were lots of pictures of what looked like a happy family wearing matching outfits, but Jade Green was no longer seven years old with no sense of style anymore, and now the photographs show a tall but thin curly haired girl wearing dark clothes on a swing at a park, on a carousel at the fair, playing a computer game with her 'father', being hugged by her 'mother'.
She grew up in a comfortable home, not rich but also not poor. She'd been invited to several parties held by Mrs. and Mr. Green's friends and was taught how to behave around wealthy people. Mrs. Green walked up the stairs to Jade's bedroom and gently knocked.
"Jade, it's time to wake up!" She said in a soft voice that Jade barely heard.
"You know you should be louder. I'm quite sure if it wasn't for me being a light-sleeping insomniac I'd of never woken up." Jade said with a yawn as she got dressed for the day and walked downstairs.
She wore a black mesh-sleeved tee shirt, plain black pants with intentional holes cut into them, and black boots with emerald green laces. Mrs. Green looked up from her plate of eggs and bacon.
"Why do you insist on dressing like that? You're not an awful kid, but people will think so about you wearing that." She asked.
'Why won't she give up on the pink and frilly outfit she wants me to wear?' Jade wondered as she rolled her eyes and sat down at the table.
"Because I like it, and who cares what others think? If that's all they care about then they aren't worth my time trying to get to know them either!" She said as she piled some hot cakes on her plate.
"Usually, no but today we're heading to the zoo for your birthday." Mr. Green responded as he finally put his newspaper down and smiled at her. "But she's right. You shouldn't let what others think or say bother you. She's still our daughter." He added, turning to his wife.
"Oh fine!" Mrs. Green said with a loud sigh.
~Time skip~
After opening her gifts, they left for the zoo. It was a sunny Saturday morning and the zoo was crowded with families. Mr. and Mrs. Green bought Jade a large chocolate ice cream at the entrance even though they knew she'd only finish half of it. But today was one of the few days in the year they'd give her anything she asked for no matter the reason. By noon they'd seen all the big cats and some monkeys. Jade was bored and hungry, so the Greens took her to a restaurant within the zoo. They were delighted when they saw the variety of dishes on the menu. To their surprise, they found that the restaurant was offering a wide range of exotic dishes, much to the delight of Jade. After lunch, they took her to look at the birds, the first of which were flamingos, and she practically ran past them to avoid them. Having seen the birds, they realized she did not seem interested in anything so far. She looked bored and ready to leave.
'If cute animals bore her, what do we do to get her interest here?' Mrs. Green whispered softly to her husband.
He mulled over this for a moment as Jade walked up to the wolves' area. Then it hit him like a brick falling on his head. She likes dark clothing, make-up, and horror films.
'What's the creepiest creature here?' He asked his wife in a whisper as she looked at a zoo map.
'If I had to guess... probably the reptiles, why?' She asked.
"Jade, dear?" He called with an apologetic smirk to his wife.
Mrs. Green's eyes widened as she realized what he was about to do.
"Yeah?" Jade asked, noticing her mother looked like a ghost.
"Would you like to visit the reptiles?" He asked placing a hand on his wife's shoulders to try to calm her fear.
Jade's eyes lit up.
"Really?" She swore at this point that if she were a dog her tail would wag so hard that she'd knock the person standing behind her down.
She then hugged her parents excitedly and looked at the map with her mother. As soon as she read the words 'reptile house' on the map she left. Once there, all three noticed it was cool and dark in here. Only lit by windows along the walls. Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes crawled and slithered over bits of wood and stone. Jade found the largest and most poisonous snake in the place in no time at all. If the viper got out, it wouldn't take long to coil around the rather fat man and his kid. They tapped on the glass to wake it up. The fat boy stood with his nose pressed against the glass, staring at its glistening brown and green coils.
"Make it move," the boy yelled to his father.
The fat man standing next to him tapped hard on the glass, but the snake didn't budge.
"Do it again," the boy demanded.
The man then tapped the glass harder with his knuckles, but the snake just snoozed on. Jade glared at them as she walked up to them.
"Stop tapping on the glass! Don't you realize that's harmful to the snake?" She said in defense of the snake glaring at them.
"And you are?" asked the man with an arched brow.
"It doesn't matter who I am. Don't poke the glass it gives them headaches." She said sneering at him before realizing she didn't know how she knew that.
The man simply glared at her and walked away. However, not before she saw a boy with them with a scar on his forehead.
'If I ever meet him again, I'm asking him how he got it.' As she turned to the viper, she stopped the man from annoying it.
The snake suddenly opened its bright golden eyes. Slowly, very slowly, it raised its head until its eyes were level with Jades. It winked. Jade stared confusedly at it. Then she looked around to see if anyone was watching. They weren't. She looked back at the snake and winked back at it. The snake jerked its head toward the fat man and round boy that had just tapped on the glass. It then raised its eyes to the ceiling. It gave Jade a look that said "I get that all the time."
"I know," Jade murmured through the glass, though she wasn't sure the snake could hear her or understand what she'd said to it. "It must be annoying."
The snake nodded vigorously. Soon Jade heard a deafening shout from behind her that made both of them jump.
"DUDLEY! MR. DURSLEY! LOOK AT THIS SNAKE! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT IT'S DOING!" Someone yelled as the fat boy she now assumed was Dudley waddled toward them as fast as he could.
"Out of the way, stupid girl!" he said, pushing Jade hard to the floor.
Jade glared daggers at his back. However, what happened next stopped her from punching the boy for his rudeness. It happened so fast no one saw how it transpired. One second, a thin boy with straight black hair and Dudley leaned up to the glass, the next, they leapt back with howls of horror. Jade sat up and smirked. The glass on the tank of a boa constrictor had vanished. The massive snake uncoils rapidly, slithering out onto the floor. People throughout the reptile house screamed and ran for the exit. As the snake slid swiftly past her, Jade could have sworn a low, hissing voice said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome... I guess..." Jade muttered as she began to think of something to ask just to check if she was right in hearing the snake. "What's your name? I'm Jade Green." She replied, introducing herself to the snake.
The snake's eyes popped open after recognizing a similar face and her first name. "I'm Nagini and thatssss, not your lasssst name."
The snake confirms her suspicion of it talking while also confusing her. She then turned to her parents, who seemed to be looking for her in fear, but still hadn't seen her yet.
'Have they lied to me my whole life? Am I really not their daughter? Am I really not Jade Green? How did the snake know?'
"What do you mean I'm not a Green?" She asked as she faced the snake again.
"My massster is your father." Jade's eyes grew wide and as she was about to ask another question, the snake disappeared into thin air leaving her with more questions than ever.
'Looks like this situation is getting even more complicated than an episode of 'Game of Thrones'!' Jade whispered to herself to change her negative mood as she walked calmly to her frantic 'parents'.
~the next day~
Although Jade was still mad at the Greens, she never asked them if what the snake said was true. How could she?
'Oh hey, I was speaking to a snake the other day and it said I wasn't your daughter?'
Yeah, no thanks! She already looked crazy without talking to snakes. When she walked down for breakfast that morning, she tried to act normal but apparently failed.
"Is something wrong?" asked Mrs. Green, but she remained silent as she ate her breakfast. "Jade?"
"Indeed something is very wrong, but I don't want to talk about it." She snapped at the two of them.
At that moment she walked out of the house to collect mail from the mailbox.
~~~July 1st of 1991~~~
Once Jade walked out of the house to collect the mail again, once she was back in the house, she flipped through the mail. Three letters to Mrs. Green, four letters and a bill for Mr. Green, and one that fell onto her head from an owl for... her? She calmly handed over the other letters to Mr. and Mrs. Green and walked back up to her room with the letter in her hands. She hardly ever got mail, and she wasn't expecting anyone to send her an invite to a party so how could this be for her? But here it was written in emerald green her name and address. Turning the envelope over, her hand trembling, Jade saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms. This seal bore a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'. Jade then tore off the seal and was about to open the letter, but paused as she heard a knock on the front door.
'Eh, whatever let "mother" get the door...' She thought as she read the letter:
Dear Miss Jade Green,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students will be required to report to the Chamber of Reception upon arrival. Please find a list of all necessary books and equipment that we've sent with a school professor or school governor to show you where to find such items. The term begins on September 1st, 1991.
'Just nine days before my thirteenth birthday...' She thought with an oddly amused smirk just before reading the rest.
We expect to receive your owl no later than July 31st. In order to avoid muggle detection, please use the portkey to get to London and back only for supplies and to get on the train.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
It seemed handwritten in emerald-green ink. She gave the letter a skeptical look as if she doubted its authenticity. She was about to yell at her parents for somehow sending it to her in the mail until she remembered they had a guest.
"Who was at the door?" she asked as she came downstairs and put the letter in her pocket while not looking away from herself.
"I was about to come and get you, but um... you have a rather odd-looking guest here to see you." Mrs. Green said, making Jade look up from her hands.
There was, in fact, a man standing in their living room looking disgusted at all the furniture in the room.
'Hmm? Maybe I'm not alone in thinking 'mothers' choice of furniture is dreadful?' She thought to herself with a small smile as she observed his appearance.
The man was quite handsome and had long pale-blond hair tied back with an emerald-green ribbon, dark odd, but expensive-looking clothes, and grey-blue eyes. His face looked like a nobleman from a romance novel she read a few years ago. She then entered the room. When he looked at her, Jade glared at him.
She expected him to say something similar to what her mother had just said. "Jade, you need to change, your guest doesn't need to see you wearing clothes for the dead."
"Pardon my rudeness ma'am, but she is fine in what she is wearing." The blonde said with a slight snarl to his lips then turned to face the young girl.
As the snarl disappeared, he introduced himself as Lucius Malfoy. He explained witches and wizards to her and her parents. He then gave her a pen and told her it was the portkey to London and a book full of beginner spells and the like. Just before he left he handed her a cage with an owl in it. Then he told her he'd return to help her buy books, a wand, and equipment for the school. After he left, she turned towards her parents with a look on her face that only her father recognized as pure excitement. Initially, he smiled until his wife spoke and apparently broke her heart.
"You're not going to that school, now give me that letter he's talking about!" Demanded Mrs. Green with her hand held out.