Marauders, apriki: Some souls are darker than others. ...

apriki:

Some souls are darker than others.

Something is coming. In the chambers of the Ministry and the secret rooms of the wizarding world there are whispers of a man - a man who is not a man at all. A man who would be king…. The pureblooded families of England keep to themselves. Wealthy and intrinsic, they marry within their own small circles and rarely admit outsiders - though it has become more and more common to cast off family members who assosciate with those deemed unworthy. Tradition, purity and family obligation has long been the creed of this small world - a world that extends even as far as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Three sisters are born into the Black family, one of England’s oldest - and purest. Firstborn Bellatrix, headstrong Andromeda, and their younger sister Narcissa return home from school to their mother, Druella, and the prospect of the parties and cotillions that make up the pureblood season. Bellatrix, just graduated, is feverish for news of the enigmatic figure called only the “Dark Lord” - the summer marks the last she will have to spend in the trappings of childhood, and it soon becomes clear that she is unable to hide the cruelty and power she possesses from those closest to her. Feeling more alienated from her home each passing day, Andromeda suffers under the pressure of her mother’s insistence of an arranged marriage to a schoolmate she loathes. The only one of her family to maintain contact with her estranged cousin Sirius, Andromeda seeks escape from the pureblood circle with him in the Muggle world, and is surprised to meet a familiar face along the way. Narcissa, alone of the three sisters, has been waiting for this summer for years: it is finally her year to be presented to society, and she will let nothing ruin it - especially her sisters. She volunteers the manor for an end of summer ball and finds herself engaged in a battle with both the house and her parents in an attempt to make it presentable. And it is soon clear that she is not the only one unprepared to face the many secrets and lies that live within the House of Black. The three sisters navigate the wizarding world as they were raised to; with the full knowledge that they are the highest of the high. Their lives at once begin to unravel and draw closer to one another as the cloud of war begins to descend over their world. This is not where the battles are fought, but rather where the seeds of their making are grown - and willing or not, the sisters Black are caught in the center of it.

Some souls are darker than others.

Something is coming. In the chambers of the Ministry and the secret rooms of the wizarding world there are whispers of a man - a man who is not a man at all. A man who would be king….

The pureblooded families of England keep to themselves. Wealthy and intrinsic, they marry within their own small circles and rarely admit outsiders - though it has become more and more common to cast off family members who assosciate with those deemed unworthy. Tradition, purity and family obligation has long been the creed of this small world - a world that extends even as far as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Three sisters are born into the Black family, one of England’s oldest - and purest. Firstborn Bellatrix, headstrong Andromeda, and their younger sister Narcissa return home from school to their mother, Druella, and the prospect of the parties and cotillions that make up the pureblood season.

Bellatrix, just graduated, is feverish for news of the enigmatic figure called only the “Dark Lord” - the summer marks the last she will have to spend in the trappings of childhood, and it soon becomes clear that she is unable to hide the cruelty and power she possesses from those closest to her.

Feeling more alienated from her home each passing day, Andromeda suffers under the pressure of her mother’s insistence of an arranged marriage to a schoolmate she loathes. The only one of her family to maintain contact with her estranged cousin Sirius, Andromeda seeks escape from the pureblood circle with him in the Muggle world, and is surprised to meet a familiar face along the way.

Narcissa, alone of the three sisters, has been waiting for this summer for years: it is finally her year to be presented to society, and she will let nothing ruin it - especially her sisters. She volunteers the manor for an end of summer ball and finds herself engaged in a battle with both the house and her parents in an attempt to make it presentable. And it is soon clear that she is not the only one unprepared to face the many secrets and lies that live within the House of Black.

The three sisters navigate the wizarding world as they were raised to; with the full knowledge that they are the highest of the high. Their lives at once begin to unravel and draw closer to one another as the cloud of war begins to descend over their world. This is not where the battles are fought, but rather where the seeds of their making are grown - and willing or not, the sisters Black are caught in the center of it.