Soul Bound 37

“I can’t believe she gets a private box all to herself that is decked out in luxury decor with a fucking fireplace. It’s even carpeted.”Andromeda said. She was sitting in-between her sisters at the staff table eating dinner. The sisters had given Hermione a tour of the castle and grounds and only found one new thing. That being a private viewing box for Hermione in the stands on the quidditch field. The inside of the box was elaborate and very comfortable. It was the perfect space for someone as important as the heir to watch the games in. Andromeda of course was going to watch all the games in there as well. There was no way she was sitting in the stands packed in with all the students when she could be lounging on a couch with Hermione invisible to everyone due to the tinted windows. Andromeda already had fantasies of bringing food and having a little picnic while she and Hermione watched the games together.

“I think it’s brilliant.”Bellatrix was extremely happy that Hermione got a private box. It meant she could watch the games in style privately with her soulmate.

“It’s going to make watching the games more enjoyable. Especially when the weather turns cold.”Narcissa was planning on securing some marshmallows to roast in the fireplace.

“Yes it will.”Andromeda hated the cold. 

“Who said you two were invited?”Bellatrix didn’t want her sisters there.

“Who said you were invited?”Andromeda challenged.

“I’m the oldest I should get to enjoy such fine accommodations with Hermione by myself.”Bellatrix thought this was a privilege that only the oldest sister should get.

“Nice try. You know as well as I do she will want all three of us with her.”Narcissa would bet the contents of Andromeda’s vault that Hermione would ask all three of them to join her.

Bellatrix sighed dramatically.”Why does she have to be so thoughtful all the time? Why can’t she just finally admit to you two that I’m her favorite sister?”

“There is no way you are her favorite.”If anyone was Hermione’s favorite it was Andromeda. 

“It’s obvious that I’m her favorite.”Narcissa was hands down Hermione’s favorite.

“What are you three arguing about now?”Minerva asked.

“These two losers are upset because I’m Hermione’s favorite sister.”Bellatrix told her.

Minerva chuckled.”I really have get to know Hermione. She must be an incredible person to have such an effect on all three of you.”

“She is an incredible person.”Narcissa agreed.

“How did she do in your class?”Andromeda had forgotten to ask Hermione about it.

“She sat in the front of the class with Neville Longbottom. No one other than him spoke to her but she was getting a lot of people staring at her. Gerold glared at her most of the class. I do agree with you after seeing the way boy reacts to her that he will be a problem.”Minerva could feel the hatred Gerold had for Hermione coming off him in waves.

“She sat next to Neville in my class as well.”Narcissa thought Neville was a good friend for Hermione to have.

“He’s a good boy.”Bellatrix had hoped the pair would be friends.

“As for Gerold there is nothing we can really do until he acts out.”Andromeda wished they could.

“I have Draco in the morning and Hermione and Gerold in the afternoon. I expect both boys to act out.”Bellatrix was looking forward to it because that meant she could punish them.

“Here come the owls.”Andromeda said.

Narcissa’s eyes went immediately to Hermione who was receiving at least a dozen letters. Narcissa couldn’t keep track there was so many.”I’m going to get those from her.”

“Good idea.”Bellatrix stood from her seat and along with her sisters made her way to Hermione’s table. She smiled at Hermione when the girl gave her a relieved smile. Bellatrix loved being able to save Hermione even from small things like her mail. She held out her hand.”Hand them over pet.”

“Thank you.”Hermione happily handed the large pile of letters to Bellatrix.

“Are you done eating?”Andromeda noticed that Hermione’s plate was empty.

Hermione nodded.”I was just waiting for you guys to finish.”

“I’m done as well.”Narcissa hadn’t finished but she would just a get a snack from the kitchen later.

“Me too.”Bellatrix hadn’t finished either but she had sweets she could eat if she got hungry.

“I’m done too.”Andromeda like her sisters hadn’t finished but she would do as Narcissa was planning and get a snack from the kitchen later.

“Cool. Let’s go to my room then.”Hermione turned her attention to Pansy.”I’ll see you tomorrow Pansy.”

“See you tomorrow.”Pansy replied. She really didn’t understand Hermione’s relationship with the sisters but one thing was for sure Pansy would be letting her mother know that they screened Hermione’s mail.

“Bye.”Hermione stood from her seat and was pulled into a hug right away by Bellatrix.

“I missed you.”Bellatrix told her.

“Bella we have only been apart for twenty minutes and we were still in the same room.”Hermione pointed out.

“Doesn’t matter. I still missed you. Now come on let’s go deal with all these letter.”Bellatrix released Hermione and draped her arm around the girl’s shoulders leading her out of the Great Hall. As always she ignored the looks they got when together.

“Did you see who any of them were from?”Andromeda asked.

“No, I didn’t bother looking. I just put them in a pile. I did note that none of them were howlers.”Hermione was happy that none of them were.

“If you had gotten one the sender would have received a lot worse as a reply.”Narcissa wouldn’t stand for anyone harassing Hermione.

“I have no doubt Cissa.”Hermione knew that the sisters would make someone who sent a howler regret the day they were born.

Bellatrix weaved her way through the students in the hall walking with Hermione beside her stopping when the came to the Slytherin dormitory entrance.”Chipmunk.”

“That will never get old.”Hermione said as she watched the door open.

“It really doesn’t.”Andromeda still felt awestruck by the door.

“I was thinking. Do you think that as I get older that the castle will reveal more stuff to me? Like what if I can’t have access to certain things because the castle doesn’t think I’m mature enough?”Hermione thought she would find new stuff every year.

“It would awesome if that were true.”Bellatrix would love having access to more of Salazar’s personal rooms.

Hermione opened the door to her room and held it open for sister then followed them in securing the door behind her. Taking a seat on the couch she kicked off her shoes and tucked her feet under herself.”I think it would be awesome too.”

“Alright how should we sort these letters?”Bellatrix took a seat on the couch next to Hermione.

Andromeda took the seat on the other side of Hermione.”Put them on the coffee table and we just read all of them until we are done.”

“That’s a good plan.”Narcissa was not pleased that she was sitting on the love seat across from the couch by herself.

“Here we go.”Bellatrix set the pile on the coffee table and grabbed the first envelope. It was from Lady Greengrass. Reading the letter she laughed.

“Who is it from?”Hermione asked.

“Lady Greengrass asked if you would get permission to leave school so that you can go to her manor to have tea with her.”Bellatrix would never let that happen.

“She would probably try to poison your tea while you were there.”Andromeda could easily see Lady Greengrass try to murder Hermione.

“I’m immune to most poisons and the ones I’m not Cissa made many bottles of antidote for each one. So unless she can get hands on some rare poison she can’t hurt me.”Hermione was trained by the sisters when she was just a child to become immune to truth potions and most poisons.

“As your legal guardian I will reply to Lady Greengrass for you.”Narcissa’s only regret was she wouldn’t be able to see the woman’s face when she found out that Narcissa was Hermione’s guardian. Something that only Minerva and Dumbledore knew as they dealt with new students.

“I bet she was planning on having Hermione pay her back for all of Draco’s expenses she paid since she adopted him.”Bellatrix said.

“I’ve got a good letter from the Prewett brothers. They wrote to welcome Hermione into the family and expressed their regret they didn’t know about her sooner so that they could have properly claimed her. They asked her to write them back and tell them about herself and told her if there was anything she needed or wanted to know anything about the Prewett family to let them know and they would happily help her. As I thought they were excited for a new family member.”Andromeda was glad that the brothers seemed to accept Hermione.

“I will write them back.”Hermione would like to get to know the brothers better. She only heard good things about them.”Who was your letter from Cissa?”

“This one is from a random person that is sending you a warning not to trust us because we were actually Death Eaters. They claim they have proof of our guilt.”Narcissa rolled her eyes at the contents.

“What is their proof?”Andromeda wanted to know what this mystery person had as evidence.

“That’s the catch. If Hermione wants to see this proof she has to transfer them a large amount of gold into their vault.”Narcissa could easily see the scam.

“They think because I’m young I would be stupid enough to fall for that trick.”Hermione would never believe a random person over the sisters.

“Do you have name of the person?”Bellatrix was going to respond if Narcissa did.

“No they didn’t sign it and the vault is just the number of the account not the account holder’s name.”Narcissa also wanted to respond.

“I predict you are going to get a lot of those kind of letters.”Andromeda said.

“On to the next ones.”Bella grab another letter from the pile. Opening it up she was met with familiar handwriting.”This one is from your parents pet.”

“Thanks.”Hermione was excited to hear what they had to say.

“I think you all will get a kick out of this one. It’s from Gerold’s mother. She is demanding Hermione disinherit herself but before she does that she has to disinherit Sirius as well so that Gerold will be the Head of Household for the Black family. If Hermione doesn’t she promises that she will make Hermione regret the day she was born.”Andromeda was interested in what the boy’s mother would do to complete her goals.

“So her plan is to bully a preteen girl into handing over her birthright.”Narcissa expected no less from the woman.

“We will keep her letters because I have no doubt her threats will escalate and when they do we will take the letters to the ministry to file a restraining order against her and her son.”Bellatrix couldn’t kill either of them but she could ruin their lives in other ways.

“If we succeed it would ruin the woman’s reputation. As matter of fact we should not only file a restraining order we should release the letters to the press.”Andromeda suggested.

“I like that idea.”Narcissa was more than happy to expose the woman.

“My parents are really excited about me being the heir. My dad said he is extremely jealous we go to talk to Salazar and have been given access to secret rooms in the castle. My mom says that she is pleased with what happened with Dumbledore and likes that I have my own room.”Hermione liked having her own room as well.

“I knew Denis would like hearing about you being the heir.”Bellatrix knew with Denis’ love of the castle that he would be excited that Hermione was linked to one of its founders.

“As to Gerold’s mother I think we should ignore her like we have been doing all these years.”Narcissa didn’t think the woman deserved a reply.”My letter is from another random man. This one doesn’t even bother to hide their intensions and asks directly for the contents of Lestrange vault. Their reason for asking is Hermione has so much gold she won’t be able to spend it in her lifetime so she should give it to them. They don’t say why she should give it to them just that she should.”

“I want that letter.”Bellatrix told her.

“Can I have the Prewett brothers’ letter I want to write them back while you guys deal with the rest.”Hermione wasn’t interested in hearing about people trying to take advantage of her.

“Here sweetheart.”Andromeda handed Hermione the letter.

“Thanks Andy.”Hermione stood and made her way over to the desk.

“This letter is from someone claiming to be a historian asking for access to the many family libraries Hermione is going to inherit. I am skeptical about them being a historian because numerous words in the letter were misspelled and the handwriting is horrible.”Bellatrix didn’t think an academic wrote the letter.

“They are probably just trying to get access to the estates so they could rob us blind.”Narcissa said.

“We would never give someone access to the family libraries anyway.”Andromeda wouldn’t even consider giving someone access no matter what their reason for needing it was.

“Next one.”Bellatrix grabbed another letter. Opening it she laughed.”We have a Molly Prewett letter!!”

“What does she have to say?”Narcissa asked.

“It’s actually a very polite letter introducing herself. She claims that she would like to get to know a family member after an as she wrote unfortunate falling out with my brothers. She goes on to say that she would like to exchange letters and encourages Hermione to get to know her cousins Percy, the twins and her youngest Ronald. She doesn’t mention us at all which I am surprised about nor are there any threats.”Bellatrix had expected a lot of threats.

“Now we know why she didn’t say anything to us at the train station. Her plan is to pretend to be a nice normal person who just wants to be connected to her family again.”It was a pitiful plan but Andromeda wasn’t surprised by it.

“She doesn’t think Hermione would tell us she wrote her because she didn’t mention us.”Narcissa could easily see what Molly was trying to do.

“How do we handle it?”Bellatrix knew what she wanted to do but didn’t think her sisters would go for it.

“I say we just ignore it.”Andromeda didn’t want to deal with any Molly drama.

“I agree. I don’t want to be involved with anything Molly related.”Narcissa liked her life Molly free.

“The letter I got is from a woman claiming that she is the mother of Rodolphus’ son and is demanding Hermione give her access to the Lestrange family vault to pay for the child’s expenses. It’s obviously untrue because if it wasn’t the child would have shown up at Hogwarts by now.”Andromeda did the math and going from the time Rodolphus was arrested there was no way a child would have been born that hadn’t enrolled in Hogwarts.

“I think that illegitimate children are going to be a running theme in letters to Hermione.”Bellatrix thought that the people who claimed it probably thought Hermione was too young to understand that she could request a blood test like Bellatrix did when people tried to sue her over the years for the same thing.

“Another one to ignore.”Andromeda said reaching for another one from the pile.

“Here’s another to ignore. A man is claiming that he is a professional vault cleaner and is offering to clean Hermione’s vaults for free. All she has to do give him access to all them and he will do the rest.”Narcissa rolled the eyes at the stupidity.

“Does it have a name?”Bellatrix would be exposing that man if it did.

Narcissa nodded.”Yes it does.”  

“Put that one to the side with the one wanting the Lestrange vault. I will personally respond to it.”Bellatrix would have to plan something good.

“This one claims they are a seer and had vision of Hermione dying if she doesn’t put all her gold into a specific vault. Crazy enough the vault it’s supposed to go into belongs to the seer.”Bellatrix was the one rolling her eyes this time. She set the letter aside to personally respond to as well.

“Mine is from a women who wishes for Hermione to invest in her business. What is her business you ask? She is a matchmaker and although her success rate is low she says with an influx of gold she would be able to match couples better.”Now it was Andromeda’s turn to roll her eyes.

“Put it in the side pile.”Narcissa was going to help Bellatrix deal with the side pile of letters.

“I think it’s funny all these people are asking Hermione for gold when she doesn’t even have access to any other than the Fawley vault. That being something no one knows about.”Bellatrix didn’t know where these people thought Hermione could get the gold to give to them.

“I bet that if they know the customs they think she has access to at least the Malfoy and Lestrange vaults due to her link to us.”Narcissa figured that’s why the man asked for the Lestrange vault specifically.

“Here’s another idiot. They claim they are a single mother who no one will give a job to. She is living with their parents in a two bedroom home and needs a place to raise her two children. Her request is for Hermione to let her and her children live at one of her family manors and give her access to her vaults so she can take care of her children.”Bellatrix put that in the respond pile.

“That was bold of her to request not only a family manor but access to all the vaults.”Andromeda wondered how many other people would be that bold.”This letter is just line after line of the person bad mouthing us. They signed it a concerned friend but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was from Molly or Lady Greengrass.”

“Let me see.”Narcissa took the letter from Andromeda and chuckled as she read it.

“What does it say?”Bellatrix asked.

“It claims everything from us being the Dark Lord’s followers to us plagiarizing our books to each of us seducing Dumbledore to get our husbands locked away for life in Azkaban.”Narcissa was very entertained by the letter.

Bellatrix held her hand out for the letter. Reading it she laughed.”I like the part about us tricking our husbands into marrying us.”

“It was kind of true with my marriage to Ted.”Andromeda had purposely sought Ted out to marry.

“So is the fact Dora isn’t his child.”Narcissa said.

“Something she is very grateful for.”Bellatrix’s niece had thanked all three sisters for not choosing him when she found out Ted wasn’t her father.

“I think we should frame that letter.”Andromeda suggested.”It’s the first attempt of someone trying to get Hermione to break up with us. It’s a monumental occasion.”

“The first of many.”Narcissa wasn’t naive enough to think that people wouldn’t go out of their way to drive a wedge between the sisters and Hermione now that Hermione’s identity was known by the public.

“It doesn’t matter what people try to do. We have a strong relationship and nothing short of an act of the gods could break us up.”Bellatrix knew that their bond to Hermione was too strong to be broken by other people’s influence.

“The fact that we have so much trust and don’t keep secrets makes our bonds even stronger.”Andromeda appreciated that they had no secrets except for the occasional positive surprise they kept from each other in their relationship.

“You do keep secrets. Like last year for my birthday neither of you would tell me what Hermione was up to.”Narcissa had been extremely annoyed with her sisters for teasing her about the thoughtful gift Hermione had got her for her birthday. Narcissa loved the watch but would have liked to know about in advance.

“Like you don’t keep her secrets either. Just last Christmas you bought all the things she needed for her to make that bookcase for my room.”Bellatrix had loved the bookcase just as much as Narcissa loved her watch. It wasn’t the most sturdy of bookcases but Bellatrix didn’t care. Hermione picked it out and assembled it herself. The fact that her soulmate had put so much effort in a gift for her brought tears to Bellatrix’s eyes and when she was by herself in her room that night she had shed tears she was so touched.

“She is a great gift giver. Even when she was younger and all her gifts were handmade.”Andromeda had kept every one of the drawings and random craft projects Hermione had given her over the years. Her favorite being the one were Hermione had drawn the two of them together and wrote Andy on it. It was the first time that Hermione had written Andromeda’s name. That one was actually framed and on her desk in her office so she had a piece of Hermione with her throughout the day.

“I fear what she will be like when she can access the vaults without us.”Narcissa had no doubt Hermione’s gifts would become more extravagant once she had access to more gold than they usually allowed.

“It’s not like she will be able to spend all of it. Especially if the Shafiq and the Selwyn vaults are as big as we are expecting.”Andromeda wasn’t worried about how much Hermione was going to spend in the future.

“Don’t forget Salazar’s vault as well.”Bellatrix was very excited about visiting it.”We need to talk to Minerva about taking her to the bank on Saturday.

“I’ve been so focused on what the castle had to offer I hadn’t really thought about the vault.”Narcissa really wanted to see what the founder of her house thought important enough to secure in his vault.

“I’m going see if I can visit the library tomorrow and try to find out who the other heirs were.”Andromeda hopefully could sneak away to do some research.

“You better be apologizing to the staircase so you don’t get stuck on your way.”Bellatrix teased.

“That fucking staircase.”Andromeda was pissed that it had been proven the staircase was purposely messing with her.

“I think Hermione is going to make a special solo trip to ask it to be nice to you.”Narcissa said.

Andromeda sighed happily.”She really is perfect isn’t she.”

“We were right when we predicted she wouldn’t treat us anything like our husbands did.”Bellatrix didn’t really doubt that Hermione would be better than Rodolphus.

“Speaking of horrible husbands. Do we think Ted is going to reach out to her?”Narcissa asked.

“I think he will. He probably hasn’t yet because he is trying to come up with the perfect plan to get Hermione to give him gold and a place to live.”Andromeda knew the only reason Ted hadn’t sent a letter yet was because he needed time to make a plan.

“He’s back at his parents house so he will be definitely asking for a place to live.”Bellatrix had many laughs over the years at Ted’s expense at the many ways he tried to support himself. He initially had his parents paying for everything until they kicked him and Molly out. Then Molly supported him for a couple years until she got sick of him and kicked him out. Then he spent the next few years living with different women who all kicked him out when they got sick of him as well. For the last three years he had been living with his parents again because the novelty of dating a Black sister’s ex husband wore off and no one would give him the time of day.

“What angle is he going to use though?”Andromeda didn’t know exactly what Ted would use as an excuse for needing gold and a place to live from Hermione.

“It will be a ridiculous one like that you cheated him out of the contents of your vault and the profits from the house after the divorce. He will also probably claim that you should have paid him alimony and you kept Dora from him.”Narcissa thought that was going to be what Ted used.

“Dora who refuses to have anything to do with him after he has harassed her for years and she had to get a restraining order against him.”Bellatrix had been extremely happy when the judge granted the order while Nymphadora was still in Hogwarts after an incident with Ted verbally attacking the girl while she was at Hogsmead one Saturday because she refused to talk to him.

“The letters were easy to ignore but when he showed up in person and after what he said to her we couldn’t let that slide.”Andromeda would never let someone speak to her daughter the way Ted did.

“Here is another letter trying to get Hermione to give them gold in exchange for evidence of our wrongdoing. Something I think is going to be another common theme in the future.”Narcissa didn’t care what people tried to say about them. Like Andromeda said they had no secrets and Hermione knew all about their wrongdoings. Including Bellatrix killing their parents and how they used mind magic to manipulate their husbands. They kept nothing back from the girl incase someone did uncover what they did. That way Hermione already knew.

“I got one from a person claiming to be reporter asking for an interview. What’s the catch you ask? Hermione has to pay him a large amount of gold to have the pleasure of him asking her questions.”Bellatrix put it in the respond pile.

“I’m actually surprised that she hasn’t gotten a letter from a real reporter.”Andromeda would have thought at least one would have reached out.

“I figure that the press is being careful because of Hermione’s link to us. They know that we won’t put up with any nonsense and are likely trying to come up with a way to approach this without upsetting us.”Narcissa said.

“We have made a lot of money off the press over the last decade.”Enough money that Andromeda’s vault was now on the 15th floor at the bank. That vault was really the three sisters’ because they all put any gold they earned in it.

“We really have done well for ourselves over the years. We added enough gold to Andy’s vault that it rivals the size of a medium wealthy pureblood house. If not one of the wealthiest ones based on how much gold each house gave to the Dark Lord.”Bellatrix loved visiting Andromeda’s vault and seeing all the gold the sisters had earned over the years from their various ventures.

“It’s not the size of Fawley vault by any means but I’m still proud of what we have done.”Narcissa was very proud to have contributed to Andromeda’s vault with the profits from her many patents. 

“Speaking of things we have done. Tomorrow we will see how the press covers Dumbledore’s suspension.”Andromeda was looking forward to seeing how the story would be told.

“Do you think that he will make a statement?”Bellatrix asked.

“Of course he will. It’s the only way he has of trying to control the narrative.”Narcissa expected Dumbledore to hold a press conference.”He probably made one today.”

“I just hope that he is smart enough not to attack Hermione or double down on his claims of her being the next Dark Lord.”Andromeda wouldn’t put up with anyone attacking Hermione.

“If he does we will sue him just like we sued everyone else.”Narcissa would happily sue Dumbledore.

“Well he is going to have to address her somehow because the basis of his suspension was tampering with the hat while it was on her head. Plus his statements of why he did it.”Bellatrix was looking forward to getting a copy of the paper in the morning. It was the only mail the children were allowed at breakfast. All personal mail they received at dinner time.

“It’s going to bring more attention to Hermione either way.”Andromeda didn’t like that Hermione was being dragged into a scandal during her first week at Hogwarts.

“Depending on what Dumbledore says we may have to make a statement of our own.”Bellatrix would rather they didn’t but they might not have a choice.

“After we find out Dumbledore’s response we will write our own and have our lawyer release it to the press.”Narcissa couldn’t plan what to write until she knew what the man was claiming.

“I’m done with my letter to the Prewett brothers.”Hermione said as she rejoined them in the sitting area of the room.

“What did you write them?”Andromeda asked.

“I told them the story we came up with about my background with you guys and not being sure I would have magic then being afraid of being targeted if people found out about me. I used their sister as an example with how she targeted you three over the years and tried to have you three arrested for stealing me from my parents and her trying to get custody of me. My parents which you lived with since I was a baby. I then told them some of my likes, a little about my life, the excitement of becoming Salazars heir and asked if they would send me a book on the Prewett family so that I could learn about my ancestors.”Hermione told them.

“That’s a good reply I think. One they will appreciate because you aren’t asking for access to the vault or any of the estates you’re just asking about your family.”Narcissa thought it was a good reply.

“The brothers are big on family so you showing an interest will ender you to them. Also you pointing out how Molly acted will make them easily understand why you were afraid to go public.”Andromeda also thought it was a good reply.

Seeing Hermione yawn Narcissa looked at her watch.”It’s getting late you should go to bed.”

“If I want be up in time to go running I do need to go to bed.”Hermione didn’t want to miss out.

“Do you want one of us to sleep with you tonight?”Bellatrix wanted to be the one who did.

Hermione nodded.”I hated sleeping alone.”

“Who do you want to stay?”Andromeda like Bellatrix wanted to be the one staying.

Hermione thought about it for a minute.”I think it would be best if Cissa stayed because it’s our first morning running.”

“Good idea darling.”Narcissa held back from smirking at her sisters for being the one Hermione chose.

“I’ll stay tomorrow night.”Bellatrix wanted to claim the next night before Andromeda did.

“I guess I will take the night after next.”Andromeda was not pleased having to go last.

“It’s settled. Why don’t you two take the rest of the letters and let me know if I need to read any or reply to any.”Narcissa wouldn’t have time to read them that night because she would be going to bed with Hermione.

“They have been pretty mild but once it’s been revealed to the public Hermione is the heir I think we will get some crazy ones.”Bellatrix predicted lots of people were going to come out of the woodwork to try to latch on to Hermione after finding Salazar appeared just to vouch for her.

“Regardless Hermione needs to go to bed. So you two need to leave.”Narcissa stood from her seat.”Hermione say your goodbyes then go get ready for bed.”

“Will you read to me?”Hermione liked when her soulmates read to her before she fell asleep.

Narcissa smiled softy at Hermione.”Of course I’ll read to you darling.”

“We can pick out a book from this library and I will read it to you tomorrow.”Bellatrix liked reading to Hermione just as much as Hermione liked being read to.

Hermione wrapped her arms around Bellatrix.”Thanks Bella you’re the best.”

“I know I am.”Bellatrix didn’t need to be told she was the best but she did like hearing Hermione say it.

“I know you have classes so I will find time to drop in and see you.”Andromeda told her.

Hermione pulled away from Bellatrix to give Andromeda a hug.”Thanks Andy. It’s torture not being able to see for so many hours.”

“I’ll figure something out to fix that.”Andromeda was already mid plan on she was going to get some alone time with Hermione.

“You really are amazing. You know that?”Hermione was so lucky to have the sisters for soulmates.

Narcissa pulled Hermione away from Andromeda.”Turn down the charm Hermione or the pair will never leave.”

“It’s to bad there isn’t enough space in here for the three of you to have your own beds and some privacy. I mean it has everything including a kitchen and if you stayed here we wouldn’t have to be apart at night.”Hermione would prefer they all stay in her rooms.

“That’s actually a good idea pet.”Bellatrix looked around.”I think we could make that work but it will have to wait until tomorrow. You need to go to bed.”

“Good night.”Hermione gave Bellatrix another hug.

“Good night my love.”Bellatrix gave Hermione a tight squeeze and let her go.

Andromeda pulled Hermione into her arms.”Good night sweetheart.”

“Night Andy.”Hermione pulled out of the hug and made her way towards the bathroom to get ready for bed.

Narcissa watched her go.”I’m going to send a letter to our lawyer tomorrow regardless of how Dumbledore responds telling her about our relationship with Hermione and our want for her to represent Hermione as well.”

“I doubt she will mind taking on Hermione as a client.”Bellatrix bet the woman would jump at the chance to represent 7 pureblood families.

“Let’s go Bella. We can talk about this tomorrow.”Andromeda was almost to point of not being able to leave so she needed to get out of there.

Bellatrix sighed dramatically.”If we must.”

“You must because Hermione is getting up early to go running after not going for the last five days. She is going to need her sleep to get through it.”Narcissa was going to go easy on Hermione of course but it would still be hard on the girl.

“Night Cissa.”Andromeda said as she made her way out of the door and waited for Bellatrix.

“The door is warded.”Bellatrix would never leave the room without placing fresh wards.

“We really need to get keys to the room.”Andromeda hated being kept out.

“Especially once we move in after I finish remodeling it.”Bellatrix told her.

“I’m happy she asked us because it would have been horrible spending the entire year living so far away from her.”Andromeda didn’t like not sleeping near Hermione. Even if she wasn’t sharing a bed with the girl Andromeda felt safer being in hearing distance incase something happened.

“Well we won’t have to now. That will let us focus on other things. Like what Dumbledore has likely told the press today that we will see in the morning.”Bellatrix said.

“I honestly don’t care what he says as long as he doesn’t attack Hermione and if he does I don’t care how powerful of wizard he is I will make him regret the day he was born.”Andromeda would bring down the full might of the Black family on the man. Bellatrix nodded her head in agreement. Andromeda knew that both her sisters would raise hell if Dumbledore targeted Hermione again. He stupidly made his intentions known and he couldn’t hide behind fake smiles and cleaver antidotes anymore. He formally challenged the most politically powerful witch in Britain and called her the next Dark Lord. Hermione being an elven year old girl just added to the insult. Andromeda was of the hope that the Prewett brothers would side with Hermione on this and it would break their allegiance to Dumbledore and the Order. After the Moody scandal it wouldn’t be that hard when the second war started to break them away from Dumbledore’s idiots. This event may make it a lot easier to get others to break away as well. Andromeda would definitely be using it to sway them.