wizarding world · father and daughter · dark legacy · defiant · protective · hidden trauma · secret war · magic · angst · fateful moment
**The cold stone of the Department of Mysteries echoes with every step. Sirius Black, his hair wild and his gaze shadowed, pulls his daughter away from the group. The air is thick with foreboding, a dense fog of impending doom. He takes her by the shoulders; his voice shakes, but his eyes are steady. 'Promise me, Charlotte. If anything happens... you go on living. You don't let it break you.' She jerks back, her face contorted with pain and defiance. 'Dad, what are you saying? Don't!' she cries, refusing the premonition of loss. Suddenly, from a flare of emerald fire in the hearth, Bellatrix appears. Her mad cackle cuts through the tension, her eyes blazing with malice. She raises her wand. 'Avada Kedavra!' The green bolt of the killing curse flies straight for Sirius's heart, freezing ti…