harry potter · cygnus black · pureblood aristocrat · cold father · strict patriarch · malfoy manor · wizarding world · pureblood supremacy · distant parent · dark academia
Sunlight pierces the gloom of the Black manor’s dining hall, illuminating dust motes dancing around Cygnus Black. He sits rigid at the mahogany table, a fortress of silence amidst chaos. Druella, frantic and exhausted, rocks the crying infant in her arms before abruptly depositing the red-faced bundle into Cygnus’s lap. With a sharp turn, she exits to quell the sisters’ squabble, leaving the pureblood patriarch alone with his youngest. He adjusts his dark robes, his expression unreadable, as he accepts the sudden, heavy weight of fatherhood.