Ares Black

Bellatrix Black (Mother)

Narcissa Malfoy (Aunt)

Draco Malfoy (Cousin)

Harry Potter (Distant Cousin)

Slytherin House

The daughter of Bellatrix Black and Barty Crouch Jr. She was born in the summer of 1981 and was the assumed result of an affair between Bellatrix and Barty whilst she was still married to Rodolphus Lestrange but, nothing proven. This affair has never been confirmed nor reported on by The Daily Prophet due to the sheer number of more significant events to cover at the time.

She is sorted into Slytherin at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy on September 1992.

## 1992:

> *“My future self knew this all. In a time of war, she wanted to have a contingency plan, I imagine. Which is how Bellatrix Black ended up with the book.” She looked back down at Ares before returning her attention to Harry. “Ares was born not long before I fell to your brother, years after my consciousness was locked away in this diary. I don’t know this, but I suspect Ares was only born as a contingency plan. So that if I were ever to fall, Bellatrix Black had a way of getting the diary to Hogwarts.”*
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— Emily Nigma, on the reasoning behind Ares' existence, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 33: The Sacrificial Slytherin, June 4th, 1993.

Somewhere before the beginning of the school year, she is instructed by her mother to write into a diary. The more she poured into the diary, the stronger the entry residing there became. Thus, eventually, she ended up being posses by the diary.

On the Hogwarts Express, on September 1st, she meets up with Draco Malfoy and together they go and search for Benedict Cuffe so that Draco can befriend him as instructed by his father. Later on in the evening, at Hogwarts, she is sorted in Slytherin.

After the feast she is guided by the fifth-year prefects to the Slytherin Common Room, there her and her fellow first-years are welcome to their new house by Severus Snape. Following his speech she retreats to the Dorm Rooms where she is forced to intervene to diffuse the escalating tensions between Ginny Weasley and Evelyn Travers.

She is studying in the Library on September 21st with some fellow Slytherin Students when Draco joins them. After he starts helping Benedict Cuffe with his Potions assignment, a conversation ensues between her and Pansy where the latter probes for information about Draco's current state — as he has been acting strangely since the dragon incident a couple of months back. Ares suspects that Pansy's loyalty has been lost. She ends up scribbling a note and sliding it into Draco's bag when she is certain that nobody is watching. On the evening of September 22nd, Ares and Draco meet up in an abandoned classroom, and Ares starts questioning him about what has him so down lately. Eventually Draco relents and confesses that he is fed up with Slytherin Potter. He ends up telling about his quarrels with him from last year claiming that he has no idea why he has done to begin with to become Potter's target. She advises him to not be bothered by Potter and to observe him better as that might elucidate the origins of his behaviour. Among other things she hypothesizes that calling Granger a mudblood might not have been the true reason for Potter's hostility during the first Quidditch practice.

On the evening of November 18th, she drags her cousin Draco into an abandon classroom. There, she basically orders him to end his confrontations with Harry Potter pointing out that he is clearly outmatched. Eventually her cousin agrees.

## 1993:

The morning of January 25th finds her having a private conversation with Harry Potter. There she expresses her interest in joining his group, claiming loneliness, especially after Draco was pulled out of Hogwarts shortly after the Auror's arrival. To entice him to accept, she offers her aid in his search for determining the identity of the Heir of Slytherin. She delivers on her promise a couple of days later, on February 14th, when she leaves Harry a message over breakfast informing him that she got hold of a memory about the Heir of Slytherin from some fifty-years back, with the only problem being that of getting him out of the castle and into the House of Black in order to view it.

After breakfast, on the morning of March 12th, Ares follows Harry Potter out of the Great Hall. Shortly afterwards the two have a conversation where she emotionally manipulates Harry into allowing her entry into that night's meeting pertaining to the end goal of unmasking the Heir of Slytherin.

In the Speaker's Den, on the evening of April 23rd, Harry and his friends discuss the latest letter directed to Charlus that they managed to intercept with the help of the Switching Spell. In it, Albus Dumbledore reveals that he is not aware of a monster that scares the spiders away but that he has a lead that he is going to investigate. After further talk, they decide to start investigating in groups of two — as Ares suggests — the area where the caretaker's cat was first petrified.

The evening of June 4th finds her and Harry on the second floor corridor looking for clues. At some point, Ares makes her move, revealing herself to be the vessel for the Heir of Slytherin, defeats Harry in a short lived duel and uses Legilimency to simply take control of his bodily functions and render him unconscious.

On the early hours of June 5th, while under the care of the Unspeakables, she asks Harry to relinquish the potion that he took from Mulciber and Jugson that obscures a specific person from the memories of an event to the Unspeakables to duplicate it, mix it with Emily's blood and administer it to Charlus. Harry ends up agreeing to her plea.