The Black Family Legacy, admittedly, it is stained by the dark lord, and Merlin help anyone who cares to mention the other indecencies that plague the family tree, but it bears a noble end, in the girl who bears the name Cygnus Walburga Black. Warring between past and present, tradition and expectation, our little heroine finds herself a family not forged in blood but instead in friendship, and, later still, in war. ----- 11 year old Cygnus Black dons robes of emerald but forms fast friendships with her houses' supposed enemies. 15 year old Cygnus Black wears her name with pride, but secretly worries deeply about the man who tarnishes her name. 16 year old Cygnus Black suffers devastating losses, and becomes the one thing the Headmaster of Hogwarts has been trying to push her to be. The Black Family Legacy.

What happened before the Marauders? Specifically within the Black Family. Walburga, Alphard and Cygnus. As well as Orion and Lucretia. These events are for my personal headcanon. An slightly explanation to why these characters are the way they are. The ones we know or we hear about from the original series. This is not particularly a story. Just a chain of events that led these characters to be who they are and do what they do.