Voldemort is very obviously the villain
Her first year goes as you’d expect. Her relationship with her dorm mates doesn’t seem to improve much but she has Sirius and his friends and also, she has Pandora, and Pandora Lupin because even when she meets people by herself, they know her cousin. She does well in classes but that’s to be expected after the rigorous schooling her aunt put her through the only bad thing her teachers comment on is her spelling not always being accurate but that can be fixed. Then the school year is over, and she has to go back to Grimmauld's place again.
They take the train home and meet them at the train station it’s a cool affair almost business-like.
” You both got into Slytherin well done” That was one of the rare compliments they got from Walburga.
“After you’re finished packing your stuff up, you’re Cousin Bella has somebody she wants to introduce you to Aurora,” her aunt told her.
That couldn’t be good any friend of Bellatrix had to be at least slightly barmy she thought, but either way, she didn’t have a choice, so she was ready for the worst.
She put her stuff neatly back in her closet trying to take as much time as possible to avoid the inevitable but after a while, she couldn’t delay it anymore.
“I’M DONE NOW” she shouted to her aunt.
“NO SHOUTING IN THE HOUSE” Aunt Walburga yelled back.
Aurora walked down the stairs “Fine” she said. “Who does Bella want me to meet”.
“Oh, don’t you worry your little head about that Aurora you’ll see when you meet him,” she said. She took out her hand and gestured for her to take it which Aurora did with a sigh, suddenly they were transported to another entrée which Aurora recognised as that of the Lestrange ancestorial home. She’d been before at one of Lady Lestranges tea parties, but she would have known that the family was old and probably Slytherin just by the decorations these people certainly found a theme and stuck with it.
They were greeted by Bellatrix who was wearing a fancy black dress that made Aurora feel underdressed in her school uniform, she led them into a room where a handsome man probably around his thirties where sat.
Oh, he was handsome that much Aurora knew, if he had been in a boy band, she was sure her sister would have had a poster of him in her room.
The man was sprawled over one of the Lestrange dining chairs like a king on a throne petting a snake in his lab. Sitting like that the only thing Aurora could think of was of a Disney villain. Yeah, these people were definitely not the good guys.
“My lord this is my cousin Aurora” Bellatrix introduced.
He directed his attention towards her “Ah, yes I have heard much about you” he told her
“I’ve heard much about you too… my lord” she told him which was a lie she had never heard of him, but that would be rude to tell him she thought.
He smiled “Oh my reputation presides me, but I hope it’s good things,” he answered so it must have been the right thing to say Aurora concluded
“Nothing bad my lord” which wasn’t a lie she truly had heard nothing bad about him. She hadn’t heard anything good about him either but potatoes, tomatoes.
“I’m glad, Bellatrix has told me you were an intelligent young lady, we need people like that in the new world, a world free from any impure creature and where we rule like we were always meant to.
Oh, he was definitely the bad guy.
“But now let's get to the point,” he said “I would like to guide you, a mentor you could say”
“That would be an honour my lord, any knowledge you will give me I accept with open arms” Like the reason they were calling him my lord was he some kind of religious figure or what.
“Yes, yes I don’t have the whole day, but I do have a gift for you” he snapped his fingers but nothing happened, he gave Bellatrix a look and she must have realised that he meant for her to deliver it.
She left the room after which they stood there silently for a minute until she came back with a diary.
“This diary will guide you in my place when you are at Hogwarts,” he told her with a self-satisfied look.
She bowed “Thank you for this beautiful gift,” she told him
He huffed “Yes, yes you’re dismissed “
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After haven been dismissed by Walburga, she took the book to her room and began to examine it, the notebook was made of fine black leather and written on the book was inscribed, Tom Riddle. Which was weird she thought usually people didn’t just give away diaries willy-nilly. It was probably evil she thought.
Oh well in for a penny in for a pound or was it in for a nickel in for gallon in the wizarding world yeah no that didn't sound quite right. Anyways she thought and then began writing.
Dear diary…
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“Oh, hi Pan, how was your summer?” she asked her friend, it was the first time they had seen each other after a long summer with no contact.
Pandora smiled “My summer was great, we camped in Sweden and I and Remus went looking for creatures I got some real god pictures,” she said, “what about your summer did you do anything exciting?”
Aurora looked at her trunk and thought about the diary at the bottom of it “Not really” she said like a liar. “I mean we went to France, but we only really got to see the different mansions it was mostly just me and Sirius trying not to die of boredom at a bunch of formal events”
“Ah, well at least you had each other,” Pandora said
“Yeah, I guess, so are you excited for classes to begin” She changed the subject
Pandora gave her a concerned look but then seemed to let it go “I can’t wait for the third year then we get to choose extra subjects, I think I’m choosing care of magical creatures, what about you?”
“Maybe runes or archimancy they seem interesting” she answered.
“cool,” Pandora said’
……
After the first day they had already gotten an essay to write on the third goblin war after a beat where Aurora tried to overcome the temptation, she finally took the diary from the trunk and began writing in it.
When she was done the notebook sent her whole essay back but now with no spelling mistakes. Hell yeah, she thought.