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Prologue
Narcissa never told Lucius but the day her father kicked Andromeda out of the house was one of the worst in her life, topping it was the day Lucius told her he was going muggle hunting for the first time. Narcissa loved her older sister. Andromeda was the perfect daughter, the perfect sister, and the perfect slytherin. To wake up one morning hearing their father, Cygnus, yelling at Andromeda with his wand out while their mother, Druella, stood by doing nothing, seemed so out of place. It was Bella or herself that got yelled at, but never perfect Andromeda.
Narcissa crept down the stairs, trying to hear what was happening. Cygnus was screaming bloody murder about a boy, Edward.
“You have no business associating yourself with that boy. You are a daughter of the House of Black. YOU WILL NOT ALLOW A MUDBLOOD TO COURT YOU.”
“I don’t care.” Andromeda said back calmly. “I love him and he has asked me to marry him.”
Narcissa was frozen in shock, how could Andromeda do this. She heard a creak and quickly turned her head, Bellatrix was rushing down the stairs looking ready to kill.
“Bella, no, stay here.” Narcissa whispered.
Bellatrix didn’t listen and ran the rest of the way down the stairs.
“How can you do this to us?” Bella asked Andromeda, “We were going to marry the Lestrange brothers and be so happy.”
“I am happy Bella, can’t you see that I want to marry Ted?”
Cygnus looked at two of his girls and realized that this couldn’t happen, he wouldn’t allow for this to happen.
“If you go through with this, you are done, burned off the tree. Don’t expect to see us, don’t expect us to acknowledge you if we happen to see you. You are done with this family.”
Andromeda looked at her father, lifted her wand, and yelled, “Accio trunk.”
Her trunk came flying down the stairs, causing Narcissa to dunk.
Narcissa, seeing what was about to happen, finally ran down the stairs, “Don’t do this Andromeda, please!” she begged.
Andromeda gave Narcissa a hug and whispered, “You can be whoever you want to be, never forget that just because I’m burned from the tree, doesn’t mean you can’t come see me.”
Andromeda took one last look around before going to the floo calling out “The Leaky Cauldron” and she was gone.
Druella burst into tears and Cygnus finally raised his wand and pointed it to the tapestry of the family tree that hangs next to their fireplace, “incendio,” and Andromeda Black was no more.
This was the memory going through Narcissa's head and she held her four year old boy, Draco in her arms and apparated to a small cottage on the edge of a forest.
“Mama, where are we?”
“We are going to meet your cousin, Nymphadora.”
“Kay….. Mama, what’s a cousin?”
Narcissa smiled as she put Draco down and took his hand to walk up the path to the house in the distance.
“A cousin is the child of either your mother or father’s brother or sister, in this case Nymphadora is the daughter of my sister Andromeda.”
“I have an aunt Andr.. Andro…. Meda?” Draco asked, struggling to pronounce the name.
“You will meet her in a few minutes.”
As Narcissa walked with Draco closer to the house, they clearly heard music playing, but it wasn’t like any of the music Draco had heard before.
“Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for a place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come to look for a king”
Draco's eyes widened as he heard the lyrics. “What type of music is this Mama?”
“I don’t know.” Narcissa answered. “Let’s knock on the door and find out.”
Narcissa knocked on the door and a young girl about 12 answered the door.
“Aunt Cissy’s at the door,” She screamed back into the house.
“Nymphadora!” A voice called from inside, “that is not the way we answer the door!”
A man came to the door, “Wotcher, hi Cissy, come on in, and you must be Draco”
Draco was peeking out from behind his mother’s skirt.
“Hi” he said and then hid again.
“Hi Draco,” Nymphadora said, “I’m your amazing cousin and I’m starting Hogwarts this year! Come and look at my wand and books!”
Draco thought Nymphadora was very excited but he also wanted to see her Hogwarts things and he could still hear the sounds of music coming from the house and he was curious.
“Okay,” Draco said as he grabbed Nymphadora’s hand and followed her into the house.
“Andy should be back any second,” Ted said to Cissy, “She just went to grab some pizza take out for lunch.”
“That should be quite the surprise for Draco,” Narcissa replied.
The sound of an apparition pop was heard before Ted could say anything else and a tall, elegant looking woman came walking up the path towards them.
“Hi Cissy,” Andy said, as she handed the pizza boxes to Ted and gave her a hug, “did you bring Draco with you”
“Yes, Lucius was called in for a Board of Governors meeting at Hogwarts.”
“Great! I’m happy he’s able to come and see Dora before she goes off to Hogwarts in 2 weeks.” Andy said.
“He seems very curious about this whole meeting. I felt he was finally old enough to keep it quiet from Lucius. Salazar knows that the two of them keep their ‘secrets’ from me.”
“Well you are both welcome here, even if Dora isn’t here, you know that,” Ted said, leading the ladies into the house.
“You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine
Oh, yeah”
“Which song is this one?” Cissy asked.
“It’s a little bit of an older one, but still great,” Ted answered, “Dora loves to dance around the room to it.”
“I know Draco was curious about it.”
“He doesn’t have to worry, I will introduce him to plenty of muggle songs and styles of music as time goes on.”
Narcissa smiled. This was the reason she stayed in touch with Andy and Ted after Andy was kicked out of the Black House. She wasn’t like her husband. She believed that muggleborns should be integrated into society earlier than 11, but not eradicated completely like he did. Draco would get both sides of it. The “don’t associate with mudbloods” from Lucius, but he would also learn all about muggle culture from Ted and Andy.
Draco and Dora came back in, Dora talking a mile a minute with Draco smiling next to her.
This was what Narcissa wanted.
“You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen”