~Once the somber business of the funeral and wake are concluded, there is, of course, only one bit of business left to attended to; the reading of Cygnus' will. Though the Ministry can opt to look into the will of the deceased, there is nothing particularly troubling in Cygnus'. No questionable items need to be investigated, and Cygnus himself was ( Read more... )

~ Barty, despite the boisterous manner he carries himself around, is, in essence, quite a small, sickly boy. So it would come to absolutely no one's surprise that presently he is crippled by a mysterious stomach ache. That is, absolutely no one but Barty himself - who is quite shocked and ill-prepared to handle the twisting about of his gut ( Read more... )

~ Hogwarts looks huge and empty as Regulus returns to it after his uncle's funeral. He has fought his way through the January wind coming down off the mountains surrounding the castle, wind that has not only covered the still snowy grounds in a fog but also threatened to blow Regulus away over the Forbidden Forest several times during the course of ( Read more... )

~As is customary in most Western cultures, once Cygnus' body has been prepared, his friends and loved ones are invited to say their good-byes. Only the finest wizarding mortuary MacAbre and Sons is ever entrusted to handle the bodies of deceased Blacks, and they live up to their standard with Cygnus. He looks peaceful in his casket, as though he is ( Read more... )

( Mercury delivers a letter to Remus )

~In somber attire with a somber expression, Sirius arrives at his parent's home braced for the maelstrom that is sure to follow in his Uncle's passing. He goes up the stairs to her study where she is likely to be and pauses in the doorway.~

Mother, I'm so sorry.

( A Ministry Owl visits the rooms Druella is occupying at St. Mungo's. )

~Lucius hurries through the house, having just returned home after hearing the news. News that has come too quickly on the heels of their earlier loss, and Narcissa's already precarious emotional state.~

Narcissa? Darling, I'm home, where are you?

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~Ted apparates just a short walk from the house. It feels like the longest day of his life at the moment as he walks down the dusty path towards the cottage. He reaches the door and as he walks through doesn't take notice of Andromeda's empty expression ( Read more... )

~Sirius has only been back two days and the matters of life and death are already in full swing. He holds the pair of letters in his hands, feeling a bit shocked that a man as young as his uncle had dropped dead. With the completion of the Christmas season he had hoped to avoid his family at least for a bit, and realizes this will mean being thrust ( Read more... )