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"Dialogue"
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Chapter 37: A Cruel Family
The next two weeks passed quietly.
October arrived, and the students fell into their routines of classes, howork, and socialization.
Jas continued working at his two labs as planned.
One of the two alchemy projects he had running inside his briefcase lab was nearing completion, while the other still lacked so crucial components.
His potion business in his secondary laboratory was doing great, and he was starting to make so serious money.
This was a double-edged sword, however, because as his na gained fa, it was only a matter of ti before soone realized he was just a Hogwarts student.
So sellers wouldn't care, as long as he could produce high-quality potions, while others would certainly cut contact with him if they discovered the truth.
After all, buying potions from an unlicensed potioneer would co with serious risks if the Ministry were to find out.
The artificial draconic chira he called Primum had finished its developnt and could be considered a success.
And Bella had not visited the lab again…
Three Broomsticks, Hogsade
"What can you tell about Bellatrix's parents?" Jas asked.
Sirius turned to look at him as if he had grown a second head.
"What's with that question all of a sudden?"
"I was rely curious." Jas noted the stares of all his friends on him.
"You're curious about… Bellatrix Black?" Remus looked around to make sure no one had heard them. Luckily, their table was in a corner, and there weren't many people at the pub today.
"That girl is so scary…" Peter said. "But the people she's always with are even worse."
"Are you getting tired of chasing after Lily? I thought she was finally starting to like you back," Sirius said.
"This has nothing to do with Lily. We get along just fine," Jas responded.
It was true that he was getting along with her. They both shared a fervent passion for academic matters and had even gone to the library together a few tis.
"Did you lose interest in her?" Sirius leaned closer. "Because I can introduce you to a few nice girls if you want."
Jas frowned.
"You seem to be misinterpreting my intentions quite badly… forget my question, then."
"Don't get mad, I was just joking," Sirius said, finishing his butterbeer and placing the jar down. "But fine… if you want to know so badly about my cousin...I'll tell you about her."
"Let's see… Cygnus Black and Druella Black, née Rosier, are my 'beloved' uncle and aunt. If I had to describe them with one word, that word would be… nasty. Double that for Aunt Druella."
"I thought your parents were already bad enough," Remus comnted.
They didn't know much about Sirius's family because he never wanted to talk about them, except for the occasional comnt about his little brother, Regulus.
But they had heard a few tales about his mother, Walburga Black, and so of the punishnts she had inflicted on him.
"Hmm… my parents are extrely strict and always want and my brother to be the perfect examples of what they deem a proper wizard from an ancient family. Before I got sorted into Gryffindor and decided I wanted nothing to do with their stupid pureblood legacy… they weren't that bad as parents. Mother is usually nice to Regulus, and Father is, at the very least, sowhat polite to even now. But..."
"So your aunt and uncle are even worse?" Peter asked. He found it hard to believe. He had once heard that Sirius's mother locked him inside a tiny closet with no food or water for three days just because he refused to use a curse on the house-elf after it made a mistake.
"You could say it's mostly my aunt Druella… my uncle has a weak personality and just goes along with whatever she says, most of the ti at least," Sirius explained.
"What makes them so bad?" Remus asked.
"Well… at the very least, as long as I follow their rules, my parents leave alone. And although their punishnts were bad… they never crossed certain lines. I can't say the sa about my aunt," Sirius's voice grew grave.
"What do you an exactly?" Jas wanted to know more. He wished to understand what kind of household Bellatrix had grown up in.
"Let just say that the Cruciatus Curse was used many tis inside the walls of the Black mansion, and most of those tis, it was done by my aunt Druella's wand."
"She used one of the Unforgivables at ho? and on her own daughters?" Remus looked shocked.
A single use of one of those curses was enough to land soone a lifeti in Azkaban. To think that soone would use it to punish their own children was hard to imagine.
"Yeah… I still rember hearing the screams of my cousins from my room. But of the three sisters, my aunt seed to have a special grudge against the middle one. I don't know why, but she was always the harshest with Bella."
"That would explain a lot… like her terrible personality," Remus said.
"Yes. I'd also be angry all the ti if I had parents like that…" Peter added.
Sirius turned to look at Jas. "Well… you wanted to know what type of people my aunt and uncle were. Now you know. They're the worst you can imagine."
Jas nodded. "Thank you for sharing this. I know you don't like to talk about your family."
Sirius shrugged. "It's fine. I only have to see them during the sumrs now. But if you want to repay , you can take care of the next round of butterbeers."
"I can do that much at least," Jas said, raising his hand to make the order while his mind processed the information Sirius had given him.
He had always considered his original childhood with the Dursleys to have been terrible… and it was. But he had never stopped to think that it could have been even worse.
And it appeared that Bella had experienced one of those.
That might not excuse her actions, but at the very least, it offered so explanation for why she was so eager to join soone like Voldemort.
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