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saintchaser · 1 year
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regulus black had a lonely funeral; carnations scattered around a black coffin. orion and cygnus were carrying it, and in their eyes, there was a strange sorrow, a strange regret.
walburga and druella were trailing behind. walburga, solemn as always, mourned the spare son. druella mourned the lesser of the two brothers, the weak, the meek.
bellatrix was walking in front of them, her head high, her face dry. she was not going to mourn a traitor, she was not going to cry over a man that had ruined their master. she, however, allowed herself to grieve the young man that her cousin had been, aside anything else.
narcissa stood beside her, and her eyes glistened with tears. she clung to lucius' arm, as if it was the only thing that could keep her away from falling apart, from spilling away. she had loved regulus, she really had. she had seen deep within him. she had seen the boy he hadn't been allowed to be. she had seen deeper than the façade, deeper than the skull mask, deeper than the dark mark, etched into his skin, forever black ink, now, white.
maybe that was forgiveness. in death, there are no sinners. the dead are pure, the dead are forgiven. the dead would soon be forgotten. was the change of color something meaningful, or was it a mere coincidence?
was it death that united a family so distant?
regulus black had died in a cold, empty cave. the crisp air of december was biting at their cheeks, leaving them rosy and cold, the same way their hearts were. their hearts were red and alive, and regulus' was deep within the carcass that his body was; his soul, however, had ascended (had it? or had he been such a despicable person that no one would forgive him?)
it snowed on the night of regulus black's funeral. his headstone was simple, and it read the same thing that ot read for everyone else in the black family.
regulus arcturus black
1961-1978
he hadn't been special, of course. the noble and most ancient house of black knows no exceptions, even for those they were supposed to love.
regulus black died a lonely death. regulus black had a lonely funeral; however, in the dead of the night, a slender dog knelt beside the gravestone, white tulips in his mouth. a wolf howled in the distance, pained, a wail of grief and madness. the dog's body was pressed against the cold stone.
there was something holding him there, a pulse of the earth that kept him close to a boy he had once loved, to a man he had resented.
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regheart · 6 months
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i'm thinking about how the characterisation of the black family tends to be really difficult to get right and one of the reasons that i can think of is that we don't know enough of wizarding culture, so we try to convey the atmosphere and the dynamics through codes that are familiar to us
that's why they are so victorian in so many fics. they act and speak like they're inside a victorian novel, they only ever wear black and dark green, the high society/pure blood circle is also composed by meeting for tea, and having balls, and discussing politics, and arranged marriages
and that's not bad!!! i read and love some fics like that, but i think this is an aesthetic that completely ignores some of the things we know about wizards and about the blacks
first of all, the clothes. wizards wear robes. not late 19th century clothes, robes. and they're most often dramatic and colorful. this is something easily observed in the very first chapter of PS. so i think the blacks should wear deep purple and emerald green and silver and burgundy and turquoise, make outfits fun!!!
second, grimmauld place tells us some things about its inhabitants. the fact that it's a muggle house in a muggle neighborhood shows that they must have some level of cognitive dissonance in terms of what elements of muggle culture and lifestyle they hold (but i don't think that applies to holding the same patterns of views and behaviors of high society, again, it's about how the writers tries to convey "rich and uptight" with codes that are familiar to them). the decoration choices for the house are also very telling, family heirlooms, big clocks, tapestry... troll leg and house elf heads??? that's morbid. that's camp.
and my point is, black family characterisation lacks on campiness. wizards are inherently weird. anything in which they're overly polite and too aristocratic is inaccurate. they are bigots and lobbyists and one of them was literally headmaster of hogwarts. they are into the dark arts but they don't torture their children. make them funnier and messier and weirder and more like real people instead of a bunch of lines from downton abbey glued together
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swiftiereg · 7 months
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Knives and the House of Black
You know who loves knives? Members of the Black family, that's who. In my newer writings, I've been exploring knives and what they can do for the Black family. This is based in canon - Bellatrix has her handy dagger, which kills Dobby and wounds Hermione (and who knows who else), and Sirius gifts Harry a knife that can open doors (until the blade is destroyed). Personally I love the idea of the Black family having a love affair with knives.
In my micro fic for the @ladiesofhpfest's mini yesterday in honor of Bellatrix Black Lestrange, I introduced a tradition of Black family witches and wizards getting knives on their 13th birthdays. This tradition came out of the world building I'm doing in my Tedromeda/Remadora AU, Supernova. I've pre-written a good bit of the work, which includes some knife head canons. I'm happy to share them here, and if you're reading Supernova, you'll see how they all fit into the story as it goes on.
HCs for Black family knives:
Knives are goblin-wrought and imbued with a ton of familial magic. Droplets of Black family blood are folded into the silver to create a particular blood magic that prevents Black family members from harming each other with their knives. The blade dulls if it touches another family member.
How related do you have to be? The magic holds with concentration, so once you get past grandparents, it's lethal. E.g. Scorpius Malfoy and Teddy Lupin couldn't hurt each other because their grandmothers were Blacks, but their children could hack each other apart if they wanted to. This also means that Black family members' spouses are fair game - e.g. Bellatrix can play with Rodolphus as much as she likes (and she really likes).
The knives have magic of their own: when they're 13, the knives have the basic Black family magic, but when they turn 17, the knives have gotten to know their owner enough that a new, unique type of magic is revealed. (See below for each of their magics!)
The knife *always* returns to its owner unless its magic is modified or the owner is deceased. If the knife is stolen or lost, it'll come back the next day.
Black family witches wear their knives around their thighs. The holsters are lightweight and barely noticeable. The holster is made of leather and the blade cleans itself within. Black family wizards keep them on their arms or in their pockets. The witches usually get daggers and the wizards usually get pocketknives. Either way, they're self-cleaning so they don't have to worry about dirty blood on their bodies.
The Black family magic can't be taken away, even if someone is disowned.
The knives are long enough to pierce the heart, or can be extended to do so.
The witches' daggers tend to be very ornate looking, with flowers, stars, or other patterns engraved in the handles. They're innocent looking until you're being stabbed and losing consciousness. Yay!
The wizards' knives are handsome and practical-looking. They look like ordinary pocketknives most of the time until you realize that they're about to shank you.
Now, for specific HCs on what the knives can do for each family member when they turn 17 (this is an incomplete list - it's what I have so far for Supernova, which is mostly centered on the Black family witches):
Walburga: her knife BURNS. If she's stabbing you with her dagger, it's going to scorch your skin and make your blood boil. Ouch.
Orion: his pocketknife is Walburga's opposite. It freezes, so imagine getting stabbed in the heart and then having your heart grow cold at the same time. Goodbye life.
Alphard: his pocketknife is a dual-purpose compass. It can give him directions as needed, but also points to what he most desires (think Jack Sparrow's special compass).
Cygnus: his knife temporarily blinds its victim. Not only can he stab you, but you'll be blinded for a hot minute, which makes it hard to escape.
Bellatrix: her knife ALWAYS leaves a mark. She can carve whatever she wants into whoever she wants. That scar is never going away.
Andromeda: her knife doubles as an escape. She can swish it around and create a quick bubble with which she can Apparate away as needed.
Narcissa: her knife changes shape according to her wish. This is useful with potions, but extra useful if she wants to inflict maximum damage on someone by using a serrated blade.
Sirius: his knife is the pocketknife that opens any door. He's clever enough to change the magic on it so he can gift it to Harry, because he's had enough of his family and Harry has more use for it now.
Regulus: his knife becomes invisible to anyone but him. It's an excellent way of being able to sneakily attack someone. You think he's going in for a hug or a handshake and boom, bye-bye life.
Nymphadora/Dora: this is particular to Supernova, my story, as she's being raised under different circumstances. Her dagger will heal her. When she runs her blade against a wound on her body (and her body alone) it will seal itself.
It's all fun, games, and knives, until one of them is fucking you up with their knife and having a fabulous time doing so.
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lurveinn · 15 days
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So I was thinking about the different reasons Narcissa has a non-star name, and for the longest time I headcanoned it was because Cygnus didn’t give a fuck and was mad about having another girl, so he let Druella name her. Today though, I was reading up on the Narcissus plant, specifically Narcissus poeticus, which among other things is my favourite flower (in my country it’s called nargis) and thought to be the specific flower from the story of Narcissus.
An interesting fact about Narcissus poeticus- ‘the plant blooms late, after the setting of Arcturus about the equinox’.
In HP, names have power, so I propose- Cygnus gave Narcissa her name, and he did it because he was superstitious; he was himself annoyed at having another daughter, but also so annoyed at the rest of the family’s jabs at him- specifically Arcturus’- that he named his daughter Narcissa to tempt fate, so that her ‘bloom’, ie. coming of age, would coincide with Arcturus’ death.
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gulnarsultan · 1 year
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The golden trio are shocked when they learn that you are Draco's grandmother. Because they don't understand how a good person like you can be related to Draco.
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wierdshenanigans · 10 months
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K but... What if... AU where Regulus burns his own name out of the Black family tree. Like, he only leaves a letter to Voldemort right? So what if, to explain to the world what he did in one subtle move. he secretly burnt his own name off the family tree.
It's his one final act of rebellion towards his family aside from stealing the horcrux. He uses incendio Or just straight up uses a muggle lighter.
It would also be some heavy-handed symbolism we know Reggie would've loved to leave behind. A sign, a simple but clear "I'm disowning you, not the other way around. "
So he lights his own name on the tree up in flames in the dead of the night with only Kreacher watching and leaves forever.
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therealvinelle · 5 months
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From what I can tell, in the actual books there's just one line from Sirius saying Alphard left him some gold, and not much other canon mention of him. How did Alphard become such a big character in your fics/Tom Riddle's love interest?
You know, that's a very good question.
The true and full story behind how Alphard Black became an important character in our fics is laden with a lot of spoilers and back-and-forth, though I will say it wouldn't have happened at all if @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin hadn't already used him in When Harry Met Tom. When we later then needed to add a character for The Man Who Would Be King, Alphard's name lent itself easily and on discussion we found he was the only that really fit the role we needed a character to play. He went on to become a surprisingly large part of secret fic, now we've imprinted on him like baby ducks and he's in everything.
So, what makes Alphard Black so fitting for what we need him to be?
We have little to go on from canon, but compared to some of the other characters fandom has decided on characterisation for, we at least have something to go on when we make stuff up. Oh, we have to conjecture, fabricate, and headcanon away, and for every possible Alphard Black we draft up someone could have used those same clues to create a different Alphard, but we would both be following certain constraints.
By contrast, characters like Alice Longbottom or Abraxas Malfoy have very strong fanon characterizations, a lot read into them, but I'd argue we have just as much, if not slightly more, to go on with Alphard Black.
With that said, here is the information we have on Alphard and how Muffin and I used every bit of it to make up as much as we could.
Teen pregnancy 1.0: Pollux edition
Alphard's sister was born when their father Pollux Black was twelve, and his father married her mother. Going by his young age, I assume this was so Walburga wouldn't be a bastard. Walburga, by her painting's ravings, appears to have spent all her life in 13 Grimmauld Place, she feels a connection to "the house of my fathers" and always had a strong sense of Black identity she tried to pass on to her sons: I think it's a very fair assumption that the Blacks raised the baby, and not her mother's family (as her mother would have been in Hogwarts as well or else a statutory rapist, either case spells a grim homelife for Walburga).
Now, Alphard's birthdate is unknown since he's struck off the family tree, but it was sometime between 1925 and 1938.
Muffin and I have decided that he was born the next year, since this gives Tom a dorm mate, and more importantly it gives Alphard a teen father, one who learned nothing from last year and assumed no responsibility. Tom now has a fucked up dorm mate, and we didn't have to (completely) invent a character.
You now have two kids raised by family members not their parents since their father is a literal thirteen-year-old, and the generational age gap is so narrow that when Walburga starts school her paternal aunt Dorea is canonically a fifth year. They want for nothing materially and the family does step up, but the complete parental absence in their life has an impact.
For the sake of funny, we thought Arcturus Black, who is already raising Lucretia and Orion, is our candidate for raising his cousin's spawn. Now Walburga's marriage to her second cousin is to someone who was raised alongside her, which is funny and so awful. Another feasible candidate is Cygnus Black, Pollux's father and currently raising four kids, but... not as funny.
Teen pregnancy 2.0: Cygnus edition
Cut to 1951. Alphard is a happy bachelor, his father has stopped having kids (legitimate ones anyhow), Walburga's happily married to their cousin, and then... their brother Cygnus does a booboo.
Bellatrix is born, Cygnus is thirteen. Andromeda's birthdate is unknown, but must have been while he was in Hogwarts because Narcissa is born in 1955, while he is still seventeen.
The same problem as with Pollux arises with Bellatrix: who wants baby? And, as with Walburga, I think a fair argument could be made that the Blacks took her in, not the Rosiers.
There are many options here (and can't rule out the Rosiers), but I think it's fair to assume Bellatrix went to live with close family.
Per the Black family, this gives us three options that I find feasible: Walburga, Alphard, and Pollux.
I don't think it was Walburga, I think that would inevitably have come up in canon, either as Walburga lost her shit when Andromeda eloped, handled her grief differently after Regulus died if she had surrogate daughters, or Sirius had a different dynamic with Bellatrix. The Orion-Walburga-Sirius-Regulus family unit doesn't come across at all as having had three nieces raised alongside the boys, so Walburga's a no.
Which leaves us with Alphard, Pollux, someone in the Rosier family, or extended Black family raising Bellatrix.
Pollux, per his wild youth, might not be topping the lists. One could posit that Pollux wants a second shot at parenting and would take in his granddaughter based on this, but he already has Cygnus if he wanted a second shot at parenting. Still, he's a candidate.
So is Alphard, however, who is living alone and has no wife to worry about, no children of his own, and a pile of gold. Per his choice to give Sirius gold after he ran away, one can also assume he's one to come through for family, which fits with taking in his much younger brother's daughter.
TL;DR: we can't prove Alphard Black didn't raise the Black sisters, or at least care for them in their early years, but someone must have and it might as well have been him.
Let there be no pregnancies and no marriages
We then enter the bit that had Muffin go "oh, gay. I will use him in my fic" long before any of the detective nonsense to come up with the above, which is that Alphard did not marry. Now, that could mean anything, perfectly straight people don't marry and gay people do marry.
However, from 1938 through 1960, no Black heirs are born. Which isn't necessarily a long time, on the contrary, Cygnus has been supplying the family with children for years now, luck just had it so they're all daughters who can't pass on the family name.
Still, taking a step back, Orion, Walburga, Alphard, and Lucretia (who married a Prewett) are all adults who are just not having any children. The Orion and Walburga are perhaps not even married, we don't know when they married, and it could be they married specifically because neither of them had found anyone else to marry and there were no sons. Alternatively, they married earlier but then did not have children until they were in their mid-thirties. Considering Lucretia's childless marriage, it might be some Blacks struggled with infertility.
A bit of nerding about why I think Walburga waiting so long to have children is odd
The tldr for Western European demographics is that if you can afford to have children and provide for your family, you will marry and have children early. The upper classes have historically married and had children much younger than the lower classes because of this. The mother's education will also impact when she has children - higher education means having children later.
I think we see this reflected in the wizarding world, in that education is both low (arguably nonexistent, considering the curriculum at Hogwarts) and in magic making material considerations Muggles must make obsolete. And we do see a lot of young parents - Lily and James are both 20 when they have Harry, Andromeda is maximum 24 when she has Nymphadora Tonks, Molly Weasley is 20 when she has Bill, Narcissa is 25 when she has Draco, Fleur would have been 23-25 when she had Victoire, Harry and Ginny are 26 and 25 when they have James Sirius, Hermione and Ron are 26-27 when they have Rose...
Young is the norm.
And with the Blacks, who were lineage obsessed, and where Walburga is never reported to have had a career keeping her busy, I find it very interesting that Walburga doesn't have children until she's 35.
There are three possible explanations I can see:
Walburga and Orion didn't want to have children, and waited for Alphard or Cygnus to get on with it, only for Cygnus to only have daughters and Alphard to have no children at all (bit unlikely since they had two sons, a couple who pointedly did not want children would have called it quits after the first)
They had fertility issues
Walburga and Orion did not instantly marry, but waited for years until it became clear Orion wasn't going to find anybody else, Alphard apparently not either, and Cygnus said "fuck you all, I've contributed three kids already", at which point Walburga and Orion were both single, both cared about the lineage, and went for it.
We've gone for option 2 since it's just funnier to have a pair of cousins all over each other at Hogwarts, "Aren't they-" "Yes and they're very happy together :)", but I think option 3 is pretty feasible too.
Either way, you can read into Walburga and Orion from the late births of their children and you also get free Alphard characterisation, because his choice not to marry starts to look rather pointed.
Back to Alphard
While the Blacks were not dying out at the time, they also weren't swimming in children. Only Cygnus was passing on the family name, and that was exclusively to daughters, and he went on to have no more (legitimate) children after leaving school. Pollux wasn't having any more (legitimate) children, and while there are and grandfathers uncles on the family tree who could do the deed they were quite old, many unmarried, and most importantly they canonically had no children.
We're down to Alphard, Orion, and Cygnus having to pass on the family name, with Orion and Walburga a decade into their marriage with no sons to show for it. Sure, Cygnus could have sons, but that would be placing all their dragon eggs in one dragon basket (and indeed, he had no sons).
Why doesn't Alphard marry?
The family must have brought it up, if not pressured him. Alphard not marrying in a world where arranging a match would have been the easiest thing in the world looks to me like a deliberate refusal.
The giving of the money to the Sirius
This all brings us to the one thing we know for sure that Alphard did in his life: he willed money to Sirius after he'd been disowned.
We know Alphard was not a blood traitor prior to this, or he'd have been burned off earlier.
I frankly take this to mean Alphard most likely subscribed to pureblood supremacy, or at least he did not mind it enough to do anything else to cross his family. Giving money to Sirius isn't a political act, it's an uncle providing for a family member who has suddenly lost everything.
(And, if we assume Alphard himself is gay: it's an uncle who sees his nephew run away from home to be with his best friend, and perhaps drawing a few conclusions of his own about the strength of Sirius's friendship to James. There are many ways to interpret his choice to support Sirius financially, is what I'm saying.)
It also seems a distinct overreaction to me that Walburga would burn him off the family tapestry for something like this, and... it seems very much like one angry, mourning, woman's way of hurting a brother she can no longer confront. If she had been hoping Sirius wouldn't make it out in the wild and be forced to return, then Alphard giving him money would be a betrayal of the highest order.
Walburga putting a cigarette to her wallpaper isn't the same as the entire Black family disowning Alphard posthumously, it's an act of grief and anger.
Where we make things up wholesale
I'll go ahead and assume Alphard was gay, had a good and stable but slightly fucked up family life, and got overly attached to his dorm mate Tom Riddle as a stranger to all of this who perhaps seemed above it all. I also vote he raised Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Andromeda, because it's a more interesting option than Pollux. (In case you didn't notice, Muffin and I subscribe to the Black family being as fucked up as we can reasonably make them.)
Vinelle, what was the point of this?
My point is that we may not have any canon appearances to go on with Alphard Black, but we do have dates, biographical facts, what he did with his will, a few statements from Walburga's insane painting and other characters, and a whole lot of imagination. And an obsessive tendency.
And a willingness to say "Mm, no. Can't read. Sorry, that fact's just wrong." when we don't like things (more specifically, Sirius's phrasing making it sound like Alphard died not too long after Sirius ran away from home, which would make him dead for The Man Who Would Be King, a fic that takes place in 1982. We will assume Sirius meant "gave", not "left".)
Wee.
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themuseoftheviolets · 5 months
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the birth order for the black siblings goes: walburga, alphard, cygnus. and that alone is enough to make me Crazy
walburga is the oldest, so she should have been the heir. but she's a girl, so of course she isn't. instead, alphard is the heir, and cygnus is the spare
and i think that's so interesting when you think about how walburga married her own cousin, who was the heir of a different branch of the black family
she could never be the heir, so she settled for the next best thing: marrying the heir. but that's not really better, is it? she'll still never be the head of the family, despite being the first born. instead all she is to the family is a wife and a mother. she gets to keep her name, but it's not really hers anymore, is it?
and after alphard is disowned (we'll get back to that in a second), cygnus becomes the heir/head of the family
and then you have the fact that walburga had sons while cygnus only had daughters. cygnus got everything: he could keep his name no matter who he married, he eventually inherited the whole family, but what he never had was a son. someone to carry on his name, someone to inherit everything he had
his daughters would marry and take their husband's name, so he had no true heir. but walburga did. she had two sons
and she clings to that. it's the only thing she has that cygnus doesn't. she's the one who carried on the family name
it's nothing compared to what cygnus has, not really, but she holds that over him. she can never be the heir, but she can mold the next one
now. back to alphard. this is where my own characterization of alphard comes into play, since we have very little canon about him
to me alphard was never suited to being the heir, while his siblings were. and i think there was some bitterness there, with the fact that he was the heir just because he was the oldest boy, even though it should have been walburga or cygnus. to me, alphard rejects the role he was given, and i think walburga sees him in her own sons
sirius, who was also the heir, and who rebelled against the family and was disowned. and regulus, who was never suited to be the heir, who, like alphard, never had what it takes to be the head of the family
alphard leaves sirius money when he dies, despite sirius having been disowned, and because of that walburga burns his name off the family tree
this is the brother who had everything she wanted, everything that should have been hers, because she's the oldest. she's the one who has what it takes to be the heir. but she could never have that because she was born a girl. walburga could never take what she wanted, it's never going to be hers
all she has are sons who are the only heirs left in the family, and her name which is no longers her but her husband's, but now she can burn her brother's name off the tree and disown him. it gives her a small sense of revenge, even if it's meaningless, in the end
alphard's already dead. this won't change anything to him. it's not really a victory for walburga, but it's all that she has
and she clings to it
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you want a black family fic with black sister focus? here you go: this is the fic you're looking for. there is only 3 chapters out but shsisbso it's soooo good
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lenoraslament · 2 months
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Masterlist
Hello! Welcome to the masterlist for my three part Tom Riddle Fanfiction. All three parts are on my Wattpad
One shots are at the bottom
* indicates smut
^ indicates romance
+ indicates dark themes/angst
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Lenora was cold, smart and cunning. Until. Until that night. Two mudbloods stole something from her, a piece of her she couldn't get back. She finds solace and healing in the unlikely ally of her longtime acquaintance Tom Riddle.
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Chapter 9 Excerpt: Insolence +
Chapter 12 excerpt: Moment in the Library ^
Chapter 16 excerpt: Apparating ^
Chapter 20: Pleasure *^
Chapter 23 Excerpt: Malfoy Ball ^
Chapter 28 Excerpt: Good Girl ^ (*in the Wattpad chapter)
Chapters 33&34: Revenge and Satisfaction *^+
Chapter 35: Aftermath ^*
Chapter 36: Make Me Forget *
Chapter 38: Punish Me *+
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Book 2 Lenora’s Love:
Lenora was Tom Riddles everything. Until he had to Obliviate her memory. Now they are brought together for the summer, as he continues to build his dark legacy the death eaters. Their love is inevitable; even with Cygnus Black trying to intervene. Will the truth out?
This book whole chapters cross posted to Tumblr but if you want to read on Wattpad
Part 1 Summary / Say Yes to Heaven ^
Lenora arrives at the Malfoy Lakehouse and leaves Tom breathless
The Rose Garden ^
Tom watches Lenora from afar much to the chagrin of Abraxas
Why Not Tom Riddle
Lenora wonders about the change in Tom Riddle not realizing she was obliviated
Hard to Resist^
Cygnus grows closer to Lenora
Firestarter +
Lenora accidentally reminds everyone just how powerful she is
Worth It +
Tom and Cygnus duel, Abraxas confronts Lenora
Flawless ^
Tom continues to confuse Lenora, Delia appears for the first time since the Malfoy Christmas Ball
Strumpets *^
Lenora catches Tom doing something unsavory, she pushes to be a deatheater
Overprotective
Lenora tries her best to be respectful and discovers something useful
Lust Potion *^
Delia gets revenge on Lenora, Tom tries his best to resist Lenora
Despair +
After being humiliated by Delia, Lenora wants to prove herself as a deatheater no matter the cost
I Love You ^+
Tom nearly loses Lenora for good.
Pain is a Price +
The long term repercussions of Lenora’s potion are discovered
High and Mighty
Tom proves his leadership while being absolutely faded.
Flowers for a Lady ^
Lenora is made a deatheater but isn’t sure what to make of this new side of Tom.
Dowries and Dark Marks +^
Tom tries to figure out how to get Cygnus Black out of his hair as they both chase after Lenora
Pillow Fight +^
Cygnus Black wishes Lenora goodbye, making her lash out at Tom Riddle
Tawdry ^
Lenora forgives Tom and then is forced to play the temptress
Make Me ^
Tension finally comes to a head between Tom and Lenora at the lake
Cozy^
They simply can’t stay away from eachother.
Crash Into Me^
Tom and Lenora continue to push and pull, Abraxas catches them
Tom Riddle the Romantic ^
Tom Riddle goes way out of comfort zone
A Proper Date ^
Tom and Lenora finally have a real date
Anchored*
Lenora wants more from Tom than his horcrux
How it Always Should Have Been*^
Tom and Lenora make love
Time Doesn’t Bow^
A snapshot into 6 months of bliss as Tom and Lenora stay together
Lying *
Cygnus Black returns, Lenora catches Tom in a lie
Disillusionment +
Lenora learns the truth of everything that happened before Tom obliviated her
I Lost You+
Tom’s proposal goes awry, Lenora gets revenge
I Hate You+
Lenora broke Tom’s heart but he gets the last word.
One shots
Tom Riddle
Hot Mess Part 1
Hot Mess Part 2 *
Infatuated
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irlmango · 6 months
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I think I prefer toxicingly loving overprotective black parents to abusive black parents because of where that disappointment for Andromedas “betrayal” was rooted in, rather than fearing her parents she believed what they said was good and worthy. And it wasn’t until she started feeling something for Ted did she question everything that she had been taught but she knew her family wouldn’t hurt her. They thought highly of her and had high expectations, but in her parents eyes she could almost do no wrong. And then she did the one thing that was so wrong they never gave her an ounce of love again. Of course her sisters felt betrayed, why would their middle sister run away? Why would she leave such a perfect home? There wasn’t anything bad to begin with. It’s why bellatrix is so obsessive with her love and wanting to receive the same praise constantly, not because she was never given it. Actually the opposite, that’s the only way she knows she’s appreciated. It’s why draco is so spoiled by Narcissa. Though this time she genuinely loves and adores her son, she’s still learning how to do it in a more healthy manner… unlike that of her mothers. Even Andromeda has habits that haven’t completely disappeared. She’s overprotective of Tonks and a little overbearing, But she can’t help but keep it up after having a mother who acted like that
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UDLTTOM DIALOGUE DRAFT #98
? (Holding Cygnus Black & Druella at wand point): W-Why did you just throw cold coffee at me?
Teddy Lupin (holding empty coffee pot): I thought it was hot…
Druella (being a supportive great-grandma): It’s okay, Teddy, don’t worry about it.
Cygnus (being a supportive great-grandpa): I like where your head’s at kid, that might’ve really worked out.
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leogichidaa · 4 months
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So... I initially misread the Black Men in the Bedroom question as Ballroom and therefore, I feel compelled to ask about your thoughts on the Black family men (and others, if you so desire) in the Ballroom.
Lmao 😅
Regulus - very rigid, very formal. He knows all the steps to all the standard ballroom dances and practices them religiously alone in his room at night. Without music. He's just up in his room dancing with an imaginary partner in absolute silence. He can dance passably well, but he's stiff and absolutely cannot improvise.
Sirius - really good dancer. Knows the proper ballroom dance moves, but thinks they're stuffy and boring and likes to shake things up. Intuitive and able to match his partner's energy. Likes doing borderline dangerous dance moves.
Orion - does not dance unless he absolutely has to. The last time anyone has seen him dance was at his own wedding. He can dance quite well, but he won't.
Arcturus - won awards for his ballroom dancing in his youth.
Alphard - terrible dancer. Absolutely appalling. No one wants to be his dance partner, he is always out of step. He loves dancing though and is really eager to get people to dance with him.
Cygnus - fairly good at dancing, but finds it so frustrating to watch Alphard cheerfully make a fool of himself on the dance floor, that he will avoid the ballroom altogether unless Alphard isn't around.
And just for fun: Walburga - flawless, impeccable dancer. Mesmerizing to watch. She rarely dances either but when she does it's impossible not to fall at least a little bit in love with her.
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Someone yelling: “Fuck the Black family!”
Ted Tonks, Remus Lupin, Victoire Weasley, Lucius Malfoy, Rodolphus Lestange, = “We’re trying!”
You got that right, anon! The following have all fallen victim to the allures of the Black family:
Kreacher (all of them)
Druella Rosier (Cygnus)
Rodolphus Lestrange (Bella)
Lord Voldemort (Bella)
Ted Tonks (Andromeda)
Lucius Malfoy (Narcissa)
Remus Lupin (Nymphadora)
Astoria Greengrass (Draco)
Also, allow me to paint you a picture. Suppose that Rodolphus still dies but Lord Voldemort marries Bellatrix. Suppose there's a family reunion.
Now imagine Lord Voldemort, Ted Tonks, and Lucius Malfoy having a drink--they're BROTHERS IN LAW NOW--and quietly contemplating that they have more in common than they ever wanted.
Raise your hand if you've been personally victimized by a member of the Black family
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motherfuckingmaneater · 6 months
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TOUJOURS PUR / THE MOST NOBLE AND ANCIENT HOUSE OF BLACK.
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