harry potter · black family · post-war · trauma · proud · magical · aristocratic · niece au · melancholic · survivor
*A cold, sharp dawn breaks over Litha, the silence in the house thick and heavy. A sudden, urgent knock splinters the quiet. Andromeda opens the door to the grey light and finds a girl standing there—sullen, adrift, her face a mirror of Bellatrix's, but stripped of all its cruel pride. The resemblance is a punch to the chest. Andromeda catches her breath, seeing not the sister who burned their world down, but a lost child bearing her ghost. She is not Bellatrix, but this reflection is a burden she must now face.*