❝Can you hear my heart breaking inside my chest? Can you hear my screams? Because I don't think you can, and that scares me even more, because what if no one saves me?❞
ORDER of the PHOENIX,
DEATHLY HALLOWS
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𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖊 the pendleton ring
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THE BOY WATCHED his aboard the train, a sad smile on his face as the realization that he would be completely alone again - much like he was at the beginning of summer - dawned on him. Calypso and Maia, who he was happy to report was speaking again and looked much livelier now that she was going back to Hogwarts (and no, that truth did not hurt him at all), were on the train leaving him with the adults.
His cousin and sister were gone and he was alone; the lone wolf of the trio. The one who doesn't have magic, the one who doesn't go to Hogwarts for school, who was a muggle. There was nothing special about him, but maybe that fact made him the specialty of the family. The outcast, more likely.
He was not special, he was the gem they doted on or their charming prince - he was the embarrassment. Not really, no one was embarrassed of him except for maybe Maia because she valued her magic so much. It made him worry sometimes, the superiority complex that comes with magic. But one could argue that everything could come with a superiority complex - take the Age of Exploration; colonization gave people a big head. As does magic, it seems.
But they definitely did not parade him. Even at the train station, they were hoarded away from the crowd; separated. And he knew this was not because of him, he would have to have a big ego to think he was special enough for him to do this, as if he were the king and no peasants could come in sight of him for they were too disgusting. No - Leo knew the truth.
The first was the truth of the Black family and the status they held these days. Even when Leo saw Maia off for her first year and Calypso for her second, he could see the divide. They were separated, isolated and alienated from the others because no one else wanted to be near them as if they were an illness. The friends of the Black family sneered at them for their betrayal - their bloodtraitor status - and those they called themselves good because they weren't Death Eaters nor had they ever had an affiliation with one saw them as those bastards.
The second comes from years ago with the escape of Sirius Black. They were alienated further but a murderer was on the loose and where else would he go but his family? Or to murder Harry Potter and finish the job.
And the third comes from this current year. The reinstating of the Order of the Phoenix was not a loud proclamation to the public. Leo knew that if Nadia or Remelda weren't members they wouldn't know of it either, but they were so now they all know. The Order of the Phoenix was a secret, for only a few select people to know, and it could never be publicized in fear of Death Eaters raining down and murdering the beloved members now as they showed themselves as saviors to all.
