When Betty Black - a born Legilimens - arrives at Hogwarts, she soon learns that this gift reveals more than she wishes to see. While a professor disappears mysteriously one night, another one hides a dark secret, and a terrifying monster beneath the castle turns her classmates to stone. Burdened by the imprisonment of her father Sirius Black and raised by a mother who refuses to talk about him, she has to find her own way of belonging. This is part one of my trilogy Black Unbound, covering the events of Book 1 and 2; however it starts one year prior in 1990.

Sirius Black - having just escaped the suffocating walls of Grimmauld Plac - must relearn the true meaning of family, while taking delight in provoking the seemingly untouchable youngest daughter of Abraxas Malfoy, Lucinda. The Marauders call her the Ice Queen, convinced that Sirius - known for his flirtatious nature - will never win her over. But what no one sees beneath her icy, unreadable exterior is a girl secretly yearning to escape the oppressive world she was born into. The Harry Potter universe and all canon characters belong to J.K. Rowling / Warner Bros. Only the OC and original events in this story are mine.