User:Phoenix Arcturus Black

"...my parents, with their pure-blood mania, convinced that to be a Black made you practically royal..."

- Sirius Black to Harry Potter on his family's values.

Phoenix Arcturus Black (b. December 15, 1977 -) is only son of Regulus Arcturus Black and thus, the sole heir of the House of Black. He was raised by his mother after the unknown death of his father and in order to protect his son from the Death Eaters, she changed his son's name. In 1998, when Lord Voldemort was defeated she told Phoenix about his true identity.

At the age of 11 he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As the rest of his family and ancestors(with the exception of his uncle Sirius Black) he was sorted into the Slytherin House.

His black hair and slim body resemble those of his relatives and also possess the same aristocratic elegance they used to have.

Family Lineage
Through his father, Phoenix is part of The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. Some of his ancestors were the most infamous Hogwarts Headmaster, Phineas Nigellus Black, Arcturus Black I, Cygnus Black II and Hesper Gamp. The Blacks are considered to be and old, wealthy family. They are related to the Potter, Malfoy, Longbottom and Lestrange families.

His mother, who had not any sibling, was member of the Warrington family, which was also a pure-blood family and through his maternal grandmother, Phoenix was related to the Macmillan family.

Pre-Birth
During his Hogwarts years, Regulus Black secretely became romantically involved with fellow Slytherin classmate Anna Warrington, a pure-blood witch related to the old Macmillan family. During their fifth year at Hogwarts, Anna became pregnant which resulted for her not returning to Hogwarts ever and on the following summer vacations they were secretely married. Four months later, on December 15, 1977, Phoenix Arcturus Black was born.

Since Anna and Regulus live very near to each other in London, they maintained a good communication after that and he often sent her "very good" amounts of money and visited them mostly during the holidays until she knew that Regulus had become a Death Eater.

She believed in blood purity but not in "the purification of the wizarding world", that is the reason why she cut off her communication with Regulus Black and in order to protect her child, she changed his name to "Cassius Warrington".

Some days before his death, Regulus knew about his wife and son's whereabouts and went on to see them. He apologize for having believed in Voldemort's ideas and told her about a dangerous mission he was going to develop without specifying what he was going to do or where. Before leaving, Regulus said that she did right in changing his son's name and also that she shall tell him about the boy's true identity until he was mature enough to understand why all of these happened.

Early Life
C. Warrington was raised by his mother herself since his maternal relatives thought he was a bastard and doubted of his blood status. Nonetheless, Regulus make sure they'd have a pleasant life by leaving them enough gold. Cassius was born and raised in Camden, London and at the age of 7, he attended Charm School for one year. Since his mother got a part-time job in Diagon Alley he often spent time there within the magical community.

In 1989, he received his Hogwarts acceptance letter and soon he went with his mother to Diagon Alley for buying all the items listed on the supply list. His first stop was at Ollivander's. Days later, when he was 11, began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and during the sorting ceremony the Sorting Hat placed him on Slytherin.

First Year
Pheonix was amused with such magic as the rest of his classmates and was very happy to know he was sorted in Slytherin, which was also his mother's House. Some of his classmates wer Fred and George Weasley, Angelina Johnson, Cedric Diggory and Alicia Spinnet.

Madam Hooch discovered his Quiditch aptitudes during the Flight lessons and told him he will be a good Chaser. In later years, he joined the Slytherin Quidditch team. His favorite subjects and the ones he did the best were Charms and Transfiguration. He went to London for the Christmas vacations

This was a very enjoying year for Pheonix since he not only did well in all of his First year exams but also his house won the House Cup.

Second Year
On 1990, Pheonix returned to Hogwarts. During his second year he took the same classes as in his first year. Before winter arrived, he starting making try-offs for the Slytherin Quidditch team, but because of his age, he was not admitted.

At the end of the year he was proud of his House because it won the House Cup again. He did well in all of his subjects but he was not satisfied with his Herbology score.

Third Year
During his third year at Hogwarts, he lived many interesting events: the famous Harry Potter began his Hogwarts career, Gringotts suffered a break out by Voldemort's followers and the events of the Philospher's Stone took place.

Since in the third year, students may take electives, Phoenix took 2 during the year: Arithmancy and Study of Ancient Runes. He obtained very good grades during this school year. The reason may be that he focused exclusively on his classes. Also he did not make try-offs for Quidditch because he decided to wait for being old enough to be taken in consideration for entering his House's Quidditch team.

Unfortunately, after 6 years of winning the House Cup, Slytherin did not won it this year. Because of Ron Weasly, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom's participation in the events concerning the Philosopher's Stone, Gryffindor won the House Cup with 10 points of difference to Slytherin.

Fourth Year
Phoenix returned to Hogwarts for the 1992-1993 school year. The events regarding the Chamber of Secrets marked Phoenix's fourth year.

The electives he took on this school year were 2, just as last year: Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies. Also he took one extra-curricular: Ghoul Studies. Many people told him to take the Divination class, but the fact is that he was never interested in that subject. He felt the fourth year exams too easy for him.

At the end of the year he was a little disappointed because once again, Gryffindor won the House Cup. During the following summer vacations he spent most of the time reading and studying since next year he was going to take the O.W.L.'s.

Fifth Year
Black's fifth year was very stressful for him due to the examinations he was going to go through at the end of the year. During this school year, Sirius Black, the famous killer, escaped from Azkaban. By this time, Phoenix did not know that Black was his paternal uncle, nor did Sirius knew that he had a nephew. He experienced the security measures Albus Dumbledore implemented in order to protect Hogwart's students from Black.

Finally, during this school year, he was made Chaser of the Slytherin Quidditch team, replacing Adrian Pucey. He was very proud of himself because he, by this time, had waited almost 3 years for this moment to happen. The first thing he did after receiving the news by Captain Marcus Flint, was writing his mother a letter. But unfortunately, this year, Slytherin lost the Quidditch Cup to the Gryffindor Quidditch team on the re-scheduled match during the final day of the season.

During this year he began to feel a romantic attraction to Isobel MacDougal but his first-studies interest did not let him create a close relationship with her, they remain only friends.

In order to do well in his O.W.L. exams, Phoenix increased the number of electives to 3 and did not take any extra-curricular subject. The three electives were: Care of Magical Creatures, Arithmancy and Ancient Runes. By this time he had already took these 3 subjects but in order to have satisfactory grades in the O.W.L.'s, he took these classes once again.

It seems that his enthusiasm for the studies brought him good results, since he did well in all of his tests except on Divination and Herbology

O.W.L. scores

 * History of Magic - E
 * Transfiguration - E
 * Astronomy - A
 * Charms - O
 * Potions - A
 * Herbology - P
 * Defense Against the Dark Arts - E
 * Divination - P
 * Care of Magical Creatures - E
 * Muggle Studies - E
 * Arithmancy - O
 * Study of Ancient Runes - O

Sixth Year
Before this school year commenced, England was the host for the 422nd Quidditch World Cup. Phoenix did not went to see the final as Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasly and Harry Potter did. But he did watch 2 matches with some other friends: when England was beaten 390 to 10 by Transylvania and when Wales lost to Uganda.

Besides Herbology and Divination, Phoenix could not took neither Potions nor Astronomy as N.E.W.T.-level classes because of his "A's" scores. During this school year the Triwizard Tournament took place. When Albus Dumbledore placed the Goblet of Fire in the Great Hall, in order for students to try to compete, he put his name in, but Cedric Diggory was chosen as Hogwarts champion.

He, as many others, did not liked Harry Potter because of his cheating on the Goblet of Fire and on two ocassions he used "Support Cedric and not Potter" badges. Because of this tournament, there was nor Quidditch Cup neither quidditch matches during this school year.

He decided to take it easy this year not only because he had done great efforts in the past years but also because he wanted to enjoy the tournament and hang out a little with Isobel MacDougal. During this year he took: Transfiguration, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Apparition. The only extra-curricular subjects he took this year was Ancient Studies.

Seventh Year
On his last year at Hogwarts, Phoenix decided todo well in all of his classes. Nonetheless, he officially began to date Isobel during this school year. Many rare things happened in Hogwarts this year. Dolores Umbridge was appointed DADA's teacher, later Hogwarts High Inquisitor and then, Hogwarts Headmistress.

The subjects he took this year were: History of Magic, Ancient Runes, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Advanced Arithmancy Studies, Care of Magical Creatures and Transfiguration. He applied for Alchemy but at the end, the subject was not taught because of the lack of demand.

For extra-credit, he joined the Inquisitorial Squad. Being a member of the Inquisitorial Squad, he had the power to take house points from all students, even from prefects. He, along with fellows squad members, like Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini and Vincent Crabbe discovered Dumbledore's Army in the Room of Requirement after Marietta Edgecombe's betrayal. He captured Ginny Weasly and Neville Longbottom.

At the end of this year, seventh-year students including Phoenix, took the N.E.W.T.s, in which he obtained very good grades, Lord Voldemort's return was accepted by the magical community, Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore were reinvindicated and Cornelius Fudge resigned from his position as Minister of Magic

N.E.W.T.s Scores

 * Charms - O
 * Defence Against the Dark Arts - E
 * History of Magic - O
 * Transfiguration - O
 * Arithmancy - O
 * Ancient Runes - O
 * Muggle Studies - E
 * Care of Magical Creatures - A

1996-1998
After graduating from Hogwarts, he spent the following 6 months having vacations, like a half-gap year. Eventually he took the Grade One W.O.M.B.A.T. and obtained and Exceeds Expectations score. He took this test for just having additional qualification for finding a good job. He also went to the Apparition Test Centre, where he succesfully was granted with the Apparition license.

On this summer vacations he spent time with his girlfriend, Isobel MacDougal and after the holidays were over he went on to King's Cross Station to say goodbye to her. There he saw many of his fellow students. They kept writing to each other during the rest of the school year and on the Christmas holidays, he went to visit her.

On November 1996, he applied for a job in the Hit Wizard Office within the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic. The minimum qualification for this office is 5 O.W.L.s, nontheless, Phoenix had 10 O.W.L.s, 8 N.E.W.T.s and 1 W.O.M.B.A.T. and because of these excellent qualifications, a higher job position within this office, a flexible schedule and a good salary was offered on the following 2 weeks. He quickly accepted the job and started working on January of the following year.

During his first year working in the Hit Wizard Office, Pheonix had a lot of work due to the Second Wizarding War. He was not a Death Eater, neither he was affiliated to Voldemort's forces in the Ministry, but also, he was not on the side of Harry Potter or the Order of the Phoenix, in other words, he was neutral.

On August 1, 1997, the Ministry of Magic was taken over by Voldemort and his followers on a deathly coup. Fortunately for him, he was not at the Ministry that day, but on the next day he went there as he expected personnel changes and reestructuring. His office was left as it was before the coup, with only two Hit Wizard was missing.

Later on, the new Minister, Pius Thicknesse installed the Muggle-Born Registration Commission with Dolores Umbridge as its head. This commision was in charge of prosecuting and improsining muggle-borns with the charge of "stoling magic from real witches and wizards". Also the Snatchers organisation was formed to capture muggle borns and blood traitors. Also, during this regime, people that sympathized with the Order of the Phoenix or Muggles were placed under surveillance.

Since Black's documentation stated that he did was a pure blood wizard and thanks to Dolores Umbridge's influence(as she remembered Warrington as part of the Inquisitorial Squad), Phoenix Arcturus Black(C. Warrington known by then) did not had any issue during Thicknesse's regime. In fact, he was being considered to head the Hit Wizard Office.

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 * Black family tree tapestry