noble bloodlines & forgotten names

-ella had a rather complicated relationship with her sister, iola. she often discouraged the younger witch’s tendency to sympathize with their peers who were of lower blood status.

-the elder black sister hated how iola was so generous to the muggleborn students that she surrounded herself with. it became apparent to elladora that iola didn’t hold the same disdain for them as the rest of their family did.

-iola never openly stated her egalitarian beliefs about muggleborns and halfbloods, but it was obvious to her siblings that she was not as harsh towards them as they were.

-elladora grew to hold some contempt towards iola, and so their relationship became quite distant as they got older. their dynamic was comparable to the one between bellatrix and andromeda, before the latter’s disownment.

-when iola was discovered to be in a relationship with a muggleborn ravenclaw student, bob hitchens, elladora was furious and attempted to murder the boy her sister was courting.

-as a child, ella was known for her impatience. she expected to get what she needed/wanted when it was requested. people who disappointed black or failed to follow through with her expectations were ultimately punished.

-at the age of fourteen, elladora beheaded her first house-elf, much to the horror of her mother. of course losing the “house mongrel” was of no consequence to the family, although the act itself unveiled the truth about ella’s mental state.

-it was always known that the witch had been born sick, a psychotic creature that tore her way through the beautiful ella max’s womb to wreak havoc upon the black family name.

-elladora did not support grindelwald. she didn’t like the fact that he wasn’t using his power to its full extent in order to completely annihilate the muggle race. ella believed that the dark wizard’s inaction was a sign of weakness and act of betrayal towards wizardkind.

-black actively shamed any pureblood family who pledged loyalty to grindelwald, including families within the sacred twenty-eight. elladora insisted that any of gellert grindelwald’s followers were traitors to the magical world.

-the reason why she didn’t get married is because ella was the secret lover of locastra vlinder. the two had been in a romantic partnership with one another since they were fifteen.

-phineas nigellus knew about his sister’s romance and didn’t approve, especially as she matured. it was expected of elladora to marry a pureblood heir, specifically someone who would benefit house black in some way.