The greeting room was empty of the family having tea and laughing about their families drama and antics. Even the portraits who hung across the wall were empty instead of talking to family members and yelling at each other. The house had a ghost like feel to it already, not that they had expected it to be any different. The great Black Manor belonged to the women’s parents; Cygnus Castor Black III, and his late wife Druella Inja Rosier, but the Manor was not to be confused with Orion and Walburga’s Black home Grimmauld Place. In this home Druella gave birth to his four beautiful girls; Bellatrix Deneb* in 1951, Andromeda Albireo* in 1953, Narcissa Odette*in 1955, and finally, Cassiopeia Dorothy* in 1962. Unfortunately it seemed Druella wasn’t as happy as Cygnus with their four daughters, she had confessed to Cygnus that she hated them, because they were proof that she had failed as a pureblood to bring a male to the line. In 1971 everything went wrong; Bellatrix was twenty years old, apprenticing with Warding and Runes, she was married to twenty-one year old, Rodolphus Lestrange, a trainee within the Unspeakable Department. Andromeda was eighteen years old and just out of Hogwarts, considering a Healing course at St Mungo’s. Narcissa was sixteen, returning to her sixth year, and had just started dating a seventh year, Lucius Malfoy. Cassiopeia was nine and still at home with her parents. Andromeda gave the news that she had been in a secret relationship with a Hufflepuff since she was fourteen, and he had proposed, and she intended to accept. Cygnus had been heartbroken that his second born had hidden something so serious from him, his wife Druella had thrown a fit saying she was meant to marry a french pureblood, something Delacour. After the fight he had with his wife over their daughter’s relationship, he had gone away for a week on Wizengamot Classified work. Upon his return, his wife informed him callously that Andromeda was disowned, never to contact them again, all because her soon to be husband was a Muggleborn. Cygnus and his remaining three daughters had been devastated, but he hadn’t had the courage to go against his wife. Thankfully she died in 1974, before she had been able to corrupt young Cassiopeia. After her death Cygnus made sure, his youngest never experienced what his wife had forced on his eldest three.