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WHEN Adeline was a child she hadn't realised the importance of her family. It was not strange to her that she lived in a large house filled with big empty rooms, catered by house-elves and constantly being hosted by other families with silver spoons and expensive silk dining wear.
At her young age, when her only problems consisted of running after a boy with mischief in his eyes through her expansive fielded back yard, Adeline couldn't comprehend that the Wizarding World didn't talk of everyone else's family the way they spoke of hers.
Her parents never explained it to her, never allowed Adeline to explore the realms of the real world so she could grasp any shred of reality. Elias and Lillian Levier confined their daughter into the tall, brick walls of their old family estate, grooming and prepping, never allowing her to stray too far away when her terrible curiosity got the better of her.
Adeline's desire to learn more, her own innate interest in the things around her was not something her family shared. They never understood why Adeline took it upon herself to wander from them when they went out, or why they would always find her in the hidden rooms of other people's homes.
Her parents didn't like it when she did that, Adeline knew. They would get very angry, abundantly so. She could never understand why though, not when her own intentions bred only from the desire of wanting to know more.
Innocent curiosity was all it was, she knew. Yet Elias and Lillian would look at their daughter with such rage, such contempt and honest disappointment, and all they saw was defiance and the little girl who shouldn't be there.
By the time Adeline started her first year at Hogwarts, she was relieved to be away from her parents. It didn't take her very long to realise, despite the close attention they pay her, Adeline's parents didn't like her very much, if at all.
It was difficult to grow up with their constant inquisitical stares, pushing her into the hands of other families with keen interest in her. They would look so proud for the briefest of moments, right when other wizards and witches would look down at her with wonder and misplaced glee.
To them, Adeline was a very wonderful prize, a family jewel that everyone wanted but only the Levier bloodline pertained.
She hadn't realised it had been happening, not until the only remnants of the Levier family was tragedy and silent chaos. Not until she was alone and everything started to move too fast around her.
With grief in their hearts and the wrong child in their hands, Elias and Lillian produced Adeline to the world more frequently. If not only to distract the rest of their world from pitying them, as the Levier's hated to be pitied more than nearly anything else, but also to get their timeline going a little sooner.
See, if they couldn't get exactly what they wanted, there was no use in being careful with their second choice.
It was in the throngs of old families, right in the centre of almost every Slytherin graduate, that Adeline found herself completely away from home.
