𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬

The Black Family's Downfall

The Black Family’s Downfall

1. Walburga Black: A Mother’s Guilt

Walburga Black’s pride is her fortress, but it is also her prison. Regulus had been her shining star—the obedient son, the perfect heir to the Black name. Yet, his obedience had been her weapon, and she wielded it without mercy. After his disappearance, rumors began to swirl: whispers of his defection from Voldemort’s ranks, tales of his bravery, of his death fighting the very forces she once championed.

Walburga could not reconcile the son she molded with the man who had sacrificed himself for what was right. Her grief was silent but palpable: sleepless nights spent staring at his empty chair, her rare attempts to touch the objects he left behind. She began to crumble under the weight of her guilt, her portrait’s voice growing fainter as her regret consumed her.

The realization that she had pushed him too far—that her expectations had cost her the very thing she cherished—haunted her until she was a shadow of the domineering matriarch she had once been.

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2. Orion Black: The Quiet Collapse

Orion Black had always been the quieter of the two parents, but his silence masked a deep inner turmoil. While Walburga had enforced the family's ideals with ruthless determination, Orion had watched from the sidelines, a passive enabler.

Regulus’ death became a mirror to his own failures: as a father, as a protector, and as a man. He retreated further into himself, spending long hours in the study, pouring over family records, trying to understand where it all went wrong. Slowly, his health began to decline.

Unlike Walburga, Orion’s regret was not loud or performative—it was a quiet, crushing weight that eventually stole his life, leaving him as yet another casualty of the Black family’s toxic legacy.

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3. Bellatrix Lestrange: The Denial

Bellatrix, ever loyal to the Dark Lord, refused to believe that her cousin had turned against them. To her, Regulus was weak—an insignificant traitor who deserved his fate. Yet, as Voldemort’s war began to falter and the truth about his wrongful doings came to light, even Bellatrix could not ignore the whispers.

Her fury masked a deeper fear: if Regulus could defy Voldemort, what did that say about the strength of the Black bloodline she so proudly claimed to serve? Her madness deepened, her fanaticism consuming what little humanity remained in her. She doubled down on her loyalty to Voldemort, trying to drown the lingering doubts Regulus’ actions had planted in her mind.

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4. Narcissa Malfoy: The Quiet Reflection

Unlike Bellatrix, Narcissa took a different path. While she had always valued her family above all else, Regulus’ death made her question the cost of blind loyalty. She began to see cracks in the facade of the Black family’s values.

Regulus’ disappearance led her to re-evaluate her own choices, particularly her marriage to Lucius and their involvement with the Death Eaters. For the first time, she began to entertain the idea that survival—and the protection of her son, Draco—might matter more than loyalty to Voldemort or the Black name.