no one would describe cygnus black the third as a warm person - - not even his daughters - - but one could hardly deny the man was as proud as they came. matched with a woman that tried to prove her existence within her husband's household by the use of frivolities, vanity was an important trait in the black manor and, as such, they were traditional in following the habit of portrait making for the family once one hit the age of majority. each of his daughters sat for painters over school holidays, and then, officially presented as adults ready to mingle in the pureblood society upon their graduation. bellatrix' and narcissa's portraits were relocated from cygnus' home office to the halls leading to the black's chambers, but andromeda's was destroyed to pieces after 1973.
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