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Death Eater wigs and costumes- Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldemort, Lucius and Draco Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, and that Snatcher guy.
The ‘snatcher guy’ being Scabior..
one of the commissions i’ve done recently lol - they basically wanted something with narcissa having snape over for tea and him being awkward and gave me free reign so I made it for snape to get to know his future ~favorite student~. So Snape is hearing about how good at quidditch he is (even tho he is what like 8 lol), and probably thinking about how much this kid is going to get beat up
Exactly how I remember them from Hogwarts..
At times they managed to get the entire schools attention just by acting silly.
Who would have known then, that Remus would become the husband of my niece.
To Remus and cousin Sirius, rest in peace. I hope you continue your pranks in the afterlife.
We will all find peace eventually.
2nd May – the day we remembered the battle of Hogwarts, the day I should have done what I did today. I couldn’t’ then, I had to today.
I made a quick decision; I guess it had something to do with Lucius and I talking about ‘bucket lists’.
From the manor I apparated, at the graveyard I arrived.
Walking along a small path, in between gravestones, a strange saddening experience: So many familiar names, names of people I had known since I was a child.
I searched, and searched some more.
Finally I found what I was looking for.
A gravestone with two names, names that shouldn’t have been on it.:
Nymphadora Lupin née Tonks
John Remus Lupin
A little further away another one
Ted Tonks
My sisters husband. My brother in-law.
People who were family..people I didn’t even get to know. Oh I remember Ted from school, and Remus too, but my niece Nymphadora or Tonks as I have heard she preferred to be called: I never got to know her.
In a flashback I hear the scream. My sisters scream in the Great Hall of Hogwarts. It could have been me instead of her.
I know Dromeda is here quite often, I could have asked to go with her, but I never did. My dear poor sister, one night and she lost her entire family, but little Ted.
It could have been me. Maybe it should have been me?
A quick look over my shoulder, making sure I am alone, not wanting to be disturbed. Flicks wand, conjures a bouquet; flowers white as the dove of peace, dahlias and lilies. Slowly lowering it to lie under the two names on the gravestone.
Repeats the spell, placing a similar bouquet on my brother in-laws grave.
With a quiet ‘I am sorry’ I turn and walk away.
What I had to say should have been said when they were alive..not now.
I walk away, this time I know where to look: Another grave, not far from where my mother and father are buried.
Bellatrix Lestrange née Black.
‘Was it really worth it Bella’?
Bellatrix, Bella: the Dark Lords best lieutenant.
‘I miss you, your crazy laughter after emptying Lucius’ Fire Whiskey bottles, your jokes and sarcasm. I almost miss hearing you shout: Filthy mudblood’.
Another wand-flick, more flowers, deep red, almost black roses this time: ‘Black Jade, Bella..you will like them’.
I look up at the sky, crows circling over the treetops.
It’s so quiet here, but I see other people among the gravestones. Mothers who lost their children, wives left as widows, husbands who became widowers, children who during a few hours became orphans.
Makes me think how lucky I am, to still have both my husband and son alive and well.
This visit; I did not do this to justify anything. Nor to make myself feel better, not out of guilt, defiantly not out of self pity.
I did it out of ~respect~.
Times change, the war changed us all.
I have said my goodbye’s. Dromeda will notice the flowers, I just hope she will understand why I did it.
I didn’t dwell, I apparated back to Malfoy Manor; home.
Home to spend a quiet evening in front of the fireplace, with the one person I hope will be by my side for the rest of my life.
I own nothing but my imagination. Thank you Lucius, for supporting me
