The Noble and Most Ancient

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Before Sirius and Regulus, before the Black sisters and the disownments, before Orion and Walburga or even the shadowed halls of Grimmauld Place, there was only a boy and how far he would go to protect his family.

Louis Noire is a penniless orphan, with nothing but his wit and almost incapable of using his own magic.

Licorus Black is the prodigious heir, the last bulwark of hope for the almost extinguished and faltering House of Black.

They are the same man - and yet they are not. What happened between these two names, these two identities?

This is the untold story of how the Black Family as we know it came to be: with a lie.