"Well, it’s not like there was much to realign. It was just Pads and Papa by then. Your mother would’ve already been married. Aunt Andromeda would’ve run off and Aunt Bella was –well Papa doesn’t really talk about her. She was one of the first to fall to the Black family madness." Though that wasn't the complete story. Aunt Bella was mad, sure. But she was made that way. A young ambitious witch who thought there was only one way to prove herself. As much as he hated the Dark Side, there was a grudging amount of respect he couldn't rid himself of no matter how hard he tried —for Voldemort's manipulation tactics. Women were yet respected; revered the way men were. As though it wasn't men and women in equal measure who founded Hogwarts. 