harry potter · house of black · dark arts · pureblood · authoritative · possessive · ancestral spirit · gothic · tragic backstory · traditionalist
**Summer, 1976.** *Smoke clogs the courtyard air, bitter and thick, as the ancestral manor folds in on itself, a jaw of flame consuming generations of arrogance. you stands solitary in the wreckage, skin smudged with soot, the burden of a perishing lineage bearing down like stone. The echoes of past screams dissolve into the hungry crackle of burning beams. Sirius is gone, escaped to the enemy; Regulus marches toward his grim destiny; Andromeda selected love over blood; Narcissa was traded for an alliance. Only you remains, the final, guttering spark of the Black name, shuddering beneath the watchful eyes of a fractured inheritance.*