Chapter 6
After another two-family therapy sessions, the trio have defiantly made a routine. Sirius is always late, Regulus always gets defensive, and Estelle always must calm the two down. Estelle is happy to admit that she is getting to know her brothers as well. Starting to understand their likes and dislikes and is truly starting to feel like their sister and not just a random person their meant to love. Sirius could not do next Thursday so they had to change it to next Wednesday much to her displeasure. Although, Regulus had a knowing glint in his eyes and calmed her down for the first time so, she ended up relenting. Today they have been focusing on their extended family members and have honestly just been gossiping the entire time.
‘Bella is defiantly powerful, a crazy level of power. I feel like you would like her Estelle.’ Regulus says
‘Personally, Andy is my favourite’
‘Yeah, Sirius we know it’s quite obvious’
‘Whatever not like Cissy being your favourite isn’t obvious’
‘Bellatrix and Narcissa are married right?’
‘Bella is but don’t remind her she hates her husband, and Cissy is engaged to Malfoy who is just a disgusting toad.’
‘Whenever he comes to functions with us, we have a game of who can annoy Malfoy the most, you’ll love it.’ Regulus laminates making Sirius laugh in memory
‘Bella would always win though.’
‘And what are their parents like?’
There is a tense silence after her question the boys trying to find the correct wording.
‘Their less cruel than mother but defiantly still evil, both blood purists.’ Sirius states with disgust lamented on his face.
‘So only Andy is in a happy marriage then?’
‘Seems so, the Blacks really know how to ruin the idea of marriage.’
‘And only Bella is a blood purist out of the cousins.’
‘Well, that’s complicated, I think the only reason she is a blood purist is because she needs to have something to believe in to distract her from her husband. That’s why she loves the Dark Lord so much.’ Regulus states making Sirius raise an eyebrow in surprise.
‘Dam Reggie that was a character analysis.’ Regulus just shrugs in response.
‘What’s Grandma like?’ diverging the conversation
‘Well, she is defiantly a Black but not really a blood purist she just believes that our family are stronger than everyone else. Which is kind of true honestly, we are all very strong witches and wizards. She hates our mother…
‘I like her already’ Sirius jokes making Estelle and Regulus smile
'She also hates the dark lord as she doesn’t think any Black should have to bow down to another wizard however powerful.’
‘That makes sense actually’ Regulus nods
‘It did surprise me slightly that mother allowed us to be basically controlled by a stranger’
Sirius stays quite just nodding in agreement.
‘Maybe if we found something out about the dark lord that mother would not approve of then we can convince her that I shouldn’t get the dark mark.’ Regulus continues with some hope in his eyes. Jumping up in joy like an overexcited puppy Sirius seems to love this new idea.
‘That’s brilliant Reggie!’
‘That is really smart, but it would have to be something groundbreaking.’
‘True, True let’s just start trying to find out more about the man because his name cannot actually be The Dark Lord or Voldemort.’
‘On Wednesday bring any books you think are useful and we will do some research’ She suggests bringing the family meeting to a close.
Regulus and her walk back to the dungeons making sure to stay quite as possible to not get caught allowing her to think back on their conversation. It was nice to find out about her cousins as her family repairing mission does also extend to them. Bellatrix will probably be the hardest but if they succeed with finding out something about Voldemort it could be easier to get her to leave his ranks. Plus, with Regulus being the future head of house he could promise a divorce. All in all, a successful night.
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Who in their right mind would let a ghost be a teacher. She understands that him being a ghost is good for history, but the poor man is already dead why would you make him still work. Maybe that’s why his class is so boring he is punishing the living. Estelle has been more focused on Pandora than the actual teacher as the girl keeps folding this piece of paper over and over again and writing small words in the corners. Her curiosity getting the best of her Estelle finally decides to ask what she is doing.
‘Oh, it’s a chatterbox, a muggle invention but I find it quite useful.’
‘Never steers me wrong’
‘What do you do?’
The girl excitedly turns around holding the chatterbox in front of Estelle. Estelle noticing four numbers (3,4,5 and 6) on each corner of the folded piece of paper.
‘Pick a number’ She instructs
‘Ok, five’
Pandora does a strange movement of opening the paper contraption and moving it length and width ways five times.
‘Great now pick another number’
‘six’
She repeats the movement now six times and keeps the contraption open length wise displaying four colours (Green, Black, Gold and Blue).
‘Pick a colour’
Taking a little bit longer to decide she finally settles on green. Pandora starts to open the flap but then her head whips up eyes clouded but still somehow staring into her sole.
‘You will feel half empty and half full
The ground will try and swallow you whole,
The ones you love are also the ones you fear,
You will think you are done but you have only just begun
As even though you share the same tongue trust cannot be won’
Pandora seems to deflate slightly after the prophecy she has just created using Estelle as support to hold her up. Estelle is in shock though not about Pandora being a seer that makes sense honestly but about the prophecy itself. ‘The ones you love are also the ones you fear’ keeps replaying in her head. Luckily no one has noticed the pair in the back corner of the classroom as most of the students are fast asleep. So, Estelle just focuses on Pandora’s health trying to ignore the confusing and life altering lines.
‘Are you ok?’
Pandora sits up a bit pale but other than that seeming fine and gives Estelle a small smile.
‘Yes, im ok I will have a nap later and be right as rain’ she laughs off
‘Do they know you’re a seer?’ is whispered
‘Only my friends or people that must know.’
The bell rings and Pandora quickly disappears into the crowd of students leaving Estelle utterly confused. While looking for the Ravenclaw in the crowd she instead finds a boy with messy curly hair and round glasses and decides an interrogation is long overdue. Being a subtle as she can she pulls Potter into an empty alcove immediately shushing him with a silencing spell and a wand to his neck.
‘You will not speak or scream or utter a single sound unless I allow you to, nod if you understand’ The boy does, and she cancels the silencing charm but keeps her wand in place.
‘You James Potter are not only one of my brothers’ best friends but turns out my other brother’s boyfriend.’ His eyebrows rise in surprise, but he keeps quiet.
‘Therefore, we need to talk, as if you dare to hurt either one of them’ she threatens pushing her wand harder into his throat ‘I will end you, understood’ he nods so she steps back allowing the boy to breath.
‘I won’t I promise’
‘I do not care about your words I need action’
‘Ok but you can trust me’
‘Trust you, no’ she laughs
‘You might have convinced my brothers to trust and love you, but I am not that easy, you will have to prove to me that I can even tolerate you. So, you better be the perfect best friend and boyfriend for as long as they have you!’ He gulps at her words, but she doesn’t give him a chance to reply and instead leaves the alcove. At piece with the conversation.
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It is the first quidditch game of the year Slytherin vs Gryffindor and Estelle is excited to watch her brothers play. Obviously, she is supporting the Slytherin team but still hopes Sirius does well. Sitting between Evan and Pandora she waits for the players to enter the court.
‘Dorcas says you are a really good flyer, why didn’t you try out?’
‘Didn’t you know Evan ladies are not allowed to play quidditch according to my mother.’
‘Plus, I would rather watch anyways and fly for fun’
‘Ha right our mother thinks the same, but I would rather die than go on a broom and honestly I don’t really like watching either, but Barty likes it when I watch so oh well.’
His response makes her smile as Barty and Evan are a cute couple indeed. Evan seems to be able to calm Barty’s craziness and Barty seems to make sure Evan is having fun from day to day. The players finally enter the court, and the crowd goes wild especially for the Gryffindor team. Although the trio stays quite not wanting to draw any attention to themselves. The game is quite ruthless honestly which is probably why there are so many people in the stands watching. Everyone enjoying the natural rivalry between the two houses. After half an hour Gryffindor is sadly winning by 50 points thanks to James Potter and his ability to never miss. Although she soon notices Regulus’s diving down for the snitch with the much younger and less skilled Gryffindor seeker following behind.
The crowd don’t seem to notice though cheering and booing at Potter who has scored another goal worth 20points. She holds her breath as he gets closer and closer to the ground.
'He is going to die’ Evan mutters also noticing Regulus’s position
Not stopping his alarmingly fast speed Regulus swings up just in time to miss the grass. The Gryffindor seeker is not so lucky though as she pummels to the ground falling off her broom. The game is not over though as Regulus is still reaching for the snitch a hair away from it. His skill is truly breathtaking and terrifying as he attempts to basically stand on the broom so he can reach the golden ball. The crowd finally notices Regulus’s position and seem to be holding their breath in anticipation. Seconds feel like minutes and minutes feel like hours until Regulus finally wraps his hand around the snitch while practically half off his broom. He raises the ball in victory while the announcer declares his team’s win. The Slytherin’s go wild the sounds of cheering almost deafening to her ears. Joining her friends at the bottom of the court she enjoys the moment of celebration. Allowing herself to smile with the rest of them. She doesn’t even get mad when all she hears for the rest of the day is the quidditch match and how amazing their team is.
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Now most teens on the weekend would be having fun and ignoring all their schoolwork but Estelle finds herself in McGonagall’s office once again. She is so close to a full patronous she can taste it and she can tell McGonagall thinks so to. Even though a patronous is not a necessary step into becoming an animagus the professor found importance in doing it. Probably to test her drive as the spell takes a lot of work and practise. Thinking of her happiest memory she tries one more time.
She is in the garden back in France watering the array of flowers she loves to grow. Humming to a song that her grandmother sings to her when she cannot fall asleep.
It’s a beautiful day the sun is bright the birds are chirping, and it just makes her smile.
But then she hears a sound distracting her from her gardening. Crouching down she comes face to face with a baby snake. The snake doesn’t attach or move so they just stare at each other for a little while. Until the snakes utters ‘I won’t hurt you girl don’t worry’.
Jumping back slightly in surprise she gawks at the fact that the snake just talked.
‘How can you speak?’. The snake turns back around by her question and slithers back to her.
‘I cannot speak child you can just listen.’ The words confuse her as she watches the snake slither away until she realises what this means.
Running back into the house in excitement she interrupts her grandmother’s reading.
‘What is it you want child?’
‘Grandmother I just spoke to a snake I am a parsletounge just like you’ She yells jumping up and down in pure glee.
The memory fades away as she comes back to reality opening her eyes to see her full formed patronous. And to no one’s surprise she sees a cobra slithering in the air. Turning to see McGonagall’s reaction worried if the teacher will react badly, she is relieved to see only happiness in her expression.
‘Congratulations Estelle this is wonderful. Now I can give you the mandrake leaf that has to be in your mouth for an entire month. It’s quite simple just use a sticking charm and you should be ok.’ Still in awe at her patronous she takes the mandrake leaf and follows her mentors’ instructions wordlessly. Excited to actually start the process.