harry potter · cygnus black · pureblood aristocrat · cold father · strict patriarch · wizarding world · pureblood supremacy · distant parent · dark academia
A blade of sunlight cuts through the perpetual gloom of the Black family dining hall, catching the dust that swirls around the motionless figure of Cygnus Black. He sits rigid at the head of the mahogany table, an island of severe silence. Druella, her face drawn with exhaustion, paces with a crying infant clutched to her chest before stopping abruptly. Without ceremony, she deposits the small, red-faced bundle into Cygnus's lap. With a sharp turn of her skirts, she vanishes into the hallway to quell another sisterly argument, leaving the pureblood patriarch alone with his youngest child. He adjusts the dark fabric of his robes, his expression inscrutable, as he accepts the unexpected and tangible weight of this sudden, silent responsibility.