Dante Black

Backstory

My name is Dante Black. I have brown eyes, short brown hair, and a serious look. I’m the daughter of Sirius Black, but really I’m his niece, I call him father because he took care of me when I didn’t have a father. I was with him for a while until he got sent to Azkaban, then I just stayed with a nice nanny where she homeschooled me on magic and the wizarding world. But when she died on my 15th birthday I was sent to leave with the Weasley family, they were the kind of family that made me nostalgic. It was Ron, and his friend Harry,’s third year I think, and the twins were my same age. I didn’t meet the Weasley children till I got to school because they were already on the train to Hogwarts by the time I had arrived at the Burrow. Since I was never sorted during my homeschooling, I had a private sorting in Dumbledore’s office where I was sorted, the hat took a while to decide between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw but in the end just gave up and said Ravenclaw which is fine by me. During that school year Sirius Black was wandering about the castle, I never told anyone my real surname because I didn’t want my father to get into anymore trouble because someone would think I was his “spy”. I also never told anyone about me being an animagus dog because I didn’t think it was anyone’s business but my own. I used to sit by the whomping willow a lot and just look out to the sky, maybe sleep or something, Willow was not aggressive with me so I found out about the shrieking shack a long time ago along with all the secret entrances and exits. I helped Harry to sneak into Hogsmead too, along with the twins, they had the Marauders’ map which I knew once belong to my father as well as my uncles. I also took a bit of a liking to George Weasley, and yes there is a difference between him and his brother, and I can always tell who’s who because of their personalities and their voices. So when I saw Lupin go into the shrieking shack and Snape following behind, I knew something was wrong and I could smell blood being spilt. I used my animagus form to knock out Snape, I quickly ran to my father’s arms, so the secret was out about my surname and my family, at least to Harry and his friends. Then before I knew it, outside of the shrieking shack, there was a full moon, Lupin was changing by the minute, father tried to stop it while I guarded the children. So after that night I remember saying goodbye to my father as he flew away on Buckbeak. Then that year ended with Harry on his new broomstick from my father. Fast forward to a little before the beginning of sixth year, the Weasley’s, Harry, Hermione, and I went to a Quidditch game, I’ve never been much into Quidditch but George asked me personally if I wanted to go so of course I said yes. Soon after the match, there was an attack I don’t remember much of it because I was hit on the head, I do remember George carrying me out and someone yelling for Harry though. Then I remember us going on the train to Hogwarts. When we got there Dumbledore told us about this Triwizard tournament, I truly didn’t want to compete in something that could possibly cost me my life! Anyway, Fred and George, being them, tried to trick the goblet of fire, which of course didn't work but it was fun to watch. Then came the time of the ball, when McGonagall was teaching us how to waltz, I just kept looking at my book of drawings, completely unaware that McGonagall was even talking so initially she called me down to use me as an example for how to waltz correctly after she called Ron, she then called George to come down because he was laughing at Ron still, we both then had to dance together. I kept looking away from him but he just kept staring at me in the cutest way which made me even more nervous. Anyways, when the ball was only a few short days away, Hermione kept pestering me about asking George to go with me and about her wanting to help make my dress, in the end I ended up giving in to all her noise, she took a peak into my drawing book and saw I had already made a dress design and not only that but it was with me in it, dancing with George, it was a bit embarrassing but she just laughed and went off to make the dress. I was sitting in the courtyard, watching as everyone was being asked in packs, it made me laugh how nervous people were after they asked people and they agreed, why were they nervous if that person said yes? But as I was thinking on it, I felt a tap on my shoulder, it was George, he sat next to me, I noticed that he was sweating lots too, he asked if I was going to the ball, I told him that I might not be since everyone is going with a date and I don’t have anyone to go with. He stared straightforward and asked me if I wanted to go with him, but before I could answer I could hear that Hermione was a few feet away smiling, she looked more nervous then I was. So I quickly turned away from her and said yes way too loud and fast, everyone was looking at us now, I have never really been nervous as much but just the thought of George Weasley makes me anxious, among the crowd of people now gathering us was Fred, he started a cheer amongst the crowd just to embarrass George, but I think he sincerely meant it not just to embarrass him but also to support him as well, which I found sweet, so before anyone could ask what happened we both slipped away from the crowd, George apologized for his brother, I just stood in silence and out of nowhere I kissed him on the cheek, I ran away before he could say anything but I did see his face afterwards, it was bright red. Hermione kept laughing the whole time she was showing me the dress. It was the day of the ball and I had put on my custom made black, purple, and blue starry dress. After Hermione went down the steps I trailed afterwards in a normal manner, holding my dress up to make sure I didn’t fall, George was with Fred and his date talking, he quickly stopped to stare at me in my dress, I wasn’t wearing heels though because I can never walk in them. He took me by the hand and we went in with the rest. We put our dance lessons into motion during the ball, this time I couldn’t help but look at George, I took a break after 5 dances, then came the slowest dance, George got close to me in this one, closer then normal, at this point our noses were touching, then he quickly went in for the kiss, It was my first kiss and I’m not going to describe it because it’s something you’d have to experience. I could hear Fred cheering from a table which made everyone look to what he was cheering about which made everyone cheer, this time I didn’t even care because we were too busy having our first, second, and third kiss as well. Afterwards, we left the ballroom and headed to the Willow, we didn’t say anything at the moment, I was getting tired from all the dancing from before so we sat down and he said that he has never met anyone like me, but everyone says that so I didn’t really believe him until later on, I started to fall asleep and I rested my head on his shoulder and he took me in his arms, I could sense that he had never been this nervous before, vulnerability was cute on him. The rest of the year was mostly triwizard games, there was one with dragons, my favorite is the Ukrainian Ironbelly but I think there’d only be one or two left in the world, I’d hope to be a magizoologist and I’d made a promise to find the last one, but anyway the games took up the rest of the year, when Cedric died, everyone was devastated especially Mr Diggory. The year ended with the other schools leaving Hogwarts and us boarding the train home. Seventh year started with us visiting the order of the Phoenix, I got to see my father again which was always a treat, and now the twins and I can use magic outside of school legally ,(you can imagine how much fun they had with that), I also found out that Father would be starting a new generation of Marauders but not as a group of mischief makers like him and his friends, instead it’s a form of underground networks of animagus that don’t follow the rules of the ministry and spread about finding people to fight against the dark forces. The others all talked about something us “children” could not listen to, but of course we did anyway. Later on we boarded the train to Hogwarts, we also found to have a new Dark Arts teacher, Umbridge was her name, right away I knew she was trouble, all that pink really gave me a bad feeling not to mention the cat smell. So when she took over the school I knew that she would misuse that power but I didn’t think she’d go as far as to hurt children in such a disturbing manner, she also made the rule that no students from opposite houses may interact with one another which was really aggravating because George was in a different house as it is, my only friend in Ravenclaw was Luna Lovegood and we weren’t in the same year so we already didn’t have many classes together. When we were all taking our tests, Fred and George had already agreed to drop out of the school, it was our last year anyway, I couldn’t come though, I had to get my studies done if I wanted to be a licensed magizoologist, George was very understanding and he wished me luck before leaving. When they had their firework extravaganza he had sent little firework hearts my way, we agreed to write to one another during the year if I could somehow sneak them past Umbridge. When the others and I ended up at the ministry we had to fight off many deatheaters, we ended up at the veil when Sirius died, I was devastated, I kneeled on the floor sobbing while Harry went after Bellatrix. Afterwards, Harry fell unconscious after his fight with Voldemort. At the end of the year I had decided to take up my father’s place as head of the new Marauders, I was given the name Bloodfang. The next year was one that I didn’t have to attend school, I was licensed as a magizoologist higher then even Newt Scamander, and I was officially initiated as lead of the new Marauders, I was mostly gallivanting about trying to find fellow unregistered animagus to recruit, and spending a lot of time with George while the others went off to school, we also found out about the death of Dumbledore which made us all quite distressed. But quite a lot happened the next year. For starters, to help Harry, we all took Polyjuice potion to make ourselves look like Harry. I ended up riding a Thestral, but I got hit not very hard, I came down to a crash at the landing point later then everyone else. The first thing I asked was where George was, I saw him lying with blood coming from the side of his head, I rushed over right next to Fred and begged that he hadn’t died, then he spoke making a joke about it all, turns out that he lost an ear, I stayed by his side while the others tried to tell me that I needed to go, but I never left him. Soon after was the day before Bill’s wedding (whom I never met till then), Hermione once more tried to get me to wear a dress, I once more gave in, I had finished getting ready when I saw George outside, he looked like he was waiting for someone, I went out and he looked at me brightly, he had taken my hands as I gave him a puzzled look and asked what he was doing, with no reply he came closer to me and whispered in my ear “will you marry me?” as he handed me a small black box, inside was a ring but not a normal engagement ring, it was made to look like leaves wrapping around, I looked at it with my mouth wide open then looked up at him and locked eyes as I whispered yes, I nearly leapt into his arms as he breathed a sigh of relief, then I noticed that everyone was “secretively” watching from behind as they started cheering and hollering with excitement. When the wedding celebration for Bill and Fleur began there was another attack in which we all got separated between those whom apparated away and those who were injured. I had gotten separated from George and the others because they were helping others get to safety, it was a while of just waiting hoping I didn’t hear their names on the radio, so instead I just went ahead and started transporting people to the house and to the places of their families, I didn’t see them in any of my rounds so I made sure that I would find them and help others at the same time. Finally I had found them all, afterwards we met up at the Battle of Hogwarts to finish all of this. George and I made our vows right there and then so we were officially married even if we died. During the battle I was fighting alongside Fred, a deatheater had gotten too close and almost killed me if Fred hadn’t jumped in the middle, he told me to run and I did when I should’ve gone back to save him, it was me who got him killed and not only that but I witnessed it and kept going, but things like that happen in wars and you can’t hold onto it forever. During the hospitalizing we came across Fred’s body, I cried alongside George and I told him what I did and he didn’t even care, he was happy I didn’t die too, he told me it wasn’t my fault and held me close to his chest as I cried. The battle raged on, I met eyes with Bellatrix and I glared at her, Molly kept shooting spells at her, she let me do the honors of avenging my father. After Voldemort’s defeat we all gathered about to wrap our wounds and reunite with families and friends. In the end George and I stayed together always, I ran New Marauders and became a world renown magizoologist, George ran his shop and joined me on missions, and I did find the Ukrainian Ironbelly too.