After September 1991, a Sorting to remember, everyone knew Carina as timid. As shy. As Slytherin. And then after December 1994, they knew her as a bastard.

THE BLACK FAMILY'S BASTARD: CARINA ALLEN
Published December 28th, 1974

FOREVER PURE NEWS, since 1948
Liria Skeeter, Renée Fawley

EVERY FAMILY HAS THEIR SECRETS —— hidden rooms, unspoken family traditions, or possessions unheard of to the public.

The Black Family's secret is, in fact, a child.

While prominent Heads of the Sacred Twenty-Eight are known for their infidelity, their bastard children are often brought to light within the first couple years of birth. A scandalous newspaper article and many donations later, those children are forgotten, lost to the world. They enter Hogwarts and keep their parentage a secret.

Carina Allen, however, managed to stay out of the radar for fifteen years. It is almost unheard of, a bastard child being discovered this late in life. In fact, as one of the most powerful Wizarding families in the world, the Blacks are expected to have a degree of loyalty to their spouses, and to keep their familial affairs clean-cut — not have a secret vital to their power escape this quickly.

Rumours of the unruly Black heir, Sirius, have already worried the Sacred 28 — pranks, disturbance, and the dismissal of family tradition have led many families to discount his competency as future heir — along with his Hogwarts House being Gryffindor instead of the traditional Slytherin.

That is one thing. A bastard is another; a bastard with a Muggle woman is, in fact, worse.

Carina Adhara Allen is currently fifteen, attending Hogwarts with her peers. Unlike her older half-brother, she is a Slytherin. Other information is unknown, but it is expected that she was aware of her parentage, her family — and her situation may change forever, whether that means reconnecting with family or being ostracized forever.

(ALL ABOUT THE MINISTRY'S ROSIER MANOR INVESTIGATION, page 2)

PART I    ━━━    1971-1977.

NOTES.

summary | a brief part of carina allen's first six years in hogwarts.

notes | i have most of the chapters ready (only three) so they'll all probably be released in the course of 1-2 weeks as i edit the first chapter of part two!! <3

PUBLISHED ━━━ 02/08/25
Part I, What Could've Been.