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One hour later Mum and I were occupied in the herb garden. There was lots of work to do. Without exception this was my favourite place on the estate. The smell of the different herbs always helped me to relax. Between lots of plants Mum was almost visible in her green dress. „That are mint, rosemary and sage. For the potion we need ginger , which helps to increase the effect of the potion and makes it more tastable.“, explained Mum to me, during she cut a bunch of herbs. „What do we do with the other herbs?“ „One part of them we will dry later, so that we could use them for other potions as well.

The sun shone and put the garden into a very nice atmosphere. Mum had created lots of flower beds with my help and the help of our elves. When someone would see our garden, nobody would get to the idea, that this estate belonged to the most powerful dark magician ever. Dad never went into the garden. He hated to be outside in the sun. It was like he feared the sunlight. Maybe in truth he'd be a vampire?! He'd prefer to be in dark rooms with dimly light to figure out one of the thousand new plans he had. The fact he wouldn't be there for one week, conjured up a smile on my face. Mum seemed to be also more relaxed and happier than the last months. With a swing of her wand two glasses and a bottle of cold water appeared out of nowhere. It was one of the first hot days of the year. The spring was already turning into summer. That was obvious.

Together we took place on the bank. “When do the Blacks arrive, Mum?” I asked. Mum shuddered, just like she awoke from her daydream. “What did you say, Isa?” “When do the Blacks come?” “At seven o'clock this evening. I think you need a bit of styling before, don't you think? The old is accompanied by his nephew Regulus!”, said Mum and put a wisp of my hair at the right place. “Of course!” “Maybe the both of you could play a bit after the dinner. During your father and Cygnus discuss some business matters.” “What's his name again?” “Regulus I suppose!” “Hasn't he got a brother?”, I asked curious like I was. “Yeah, it's Sirius and he is in Gryffindor. And according the opinion of Walburga a shame for the whole Black family.”, said Mum in a tone, that revealed she didn't agree with Sirius Mum. “Because he is not in Slytherin, or why then?”, I wanted to know. “Not only that. He is also in contact to blood traitors and witches/wizard, which are muggle born.” She didn't use the word “mudblood”, when we were only the both of us. We didn't like the opinion of my father about the whole “blood thing”. I experienced that muggles were just humans as we wizards. In Hogwarts Mum was in love with a muggle born called Kyle. They both seemed to be chosen for each other. But it came different as expected. Mum wanted to marry Kyle after finishing school. Her father menaced, if she was seeing him again, he would kill her. So she gave in and went into services of the Dark Lord.
And some when I stepped into her life and made it better than before.

Mum embraced me, during she was deep in her thoughts. When I was in her arms I felt safe. Safe from the attacks of Dad as well, when he was in bad mood and needed someone to put it out. For a while we enjoyed sitting in the garden and the sun, till we decided to go inside and dress for the dinner.

Together we tiptoed just to make almost no sounds as possible as we passed Dads workroom. He hated noise, despite he caused it, then it was okay. We took the marble spiral stairs and reached the first floor. At the end of the corridor laid my huge room with my own bathroom. My room was the lightest in the whole house and the only which was painted in a friendly yellow. Lots of pictures of unicorns decorated the walls. They galloped out and into the picture like they wanted to. My furniture was made out of walnut wood. I hated marble and glass, which were the most used materials in the house. Yellow and orange candles lighted the room and made it more comfortable.


Father had just shoke his head, after he'd seen my new furniture. But for some unknown reason he agreed and let me and Mum decorate the room as I wanted to. After a few weeks with my new furniture he couldn't deny, that I improved in every subject, because I could learn better in my new comfortable room. Before the decoration it was just like every other room in the house, cold and dark.

As a Christmas present Narcissa gave me a record player and a record of my favorite singer Sara Lugo. It pleased me so much. In one shop in the Diagon Alley I bought more records. I'd like to buy a muggle record, of a song with I heard at ice shop on the way to the Leaky Cauldron. Father checked not only my record collection but further my huge number of novels, which were packed on my shelves above my door.
He checked everything. I had about two hundred books, there would come a few more after the shopping trip. Maybe I could convince Mum, to make a little trip to the Muggle world. I always wanted to see it, but with bodyguards who always accompanied us, it was nearly impossible.

In my wardrobe I searched for something suitable to wear this evening. It should be chic but not to daring. I decided to wear my grey elegant dress, which was embroidered by some decorations . As accessory I put on my golden owl necklace, which Dad bought me for my eighth birthday. As I watched my face in the mirror, Mum entered the room with my little sister Claire. “Did you find something?” Mum asked and smiled. “You look really beautiful, darling!” Claire clapped once, twice in her hands for joy. She was quite a nice, lovely sister and We looked just a bit similar but not that much, because Claire had fair hair and mine was light brown. Together we stayed a while in my room, till it was time for dinner. I was very excited to see Regulus. The most people of Father treat me like a princess and it wasn't that difficult to get along with them. The only one, who was different, was Narcissa. She was a good friend of Mum.