Amelié Black

**Amelié Socorro Black** (née **Potter**) (1925 – 1985) was a British pure-blood Dark witch, the eldest daughter of Miguel and Socorro Potter, the sister of Honey and Savanna, the wife of Orion Black, and the mother of Sirius Black III and Regulus Black II. She was also a member of the Black family, an old wizarding family and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.

Amelié lived in Grimmauld Place starting at an unknown point in her life, presumably after she married Orion. She died in 1985, but her portrait still remains at 12 Grimmauld Place. Amelié's portrait makes anyone not in the pure-blood elite quite uncomfortable in her home, by constantly shouting insults and epithets at them.

## Biography

### Early life

**Harry Potter**: "*Were — were your parents Death Eaters as well?*"
**Sirius Black**: "*No, no, but believe me, they thought Voldemort had the right idea, they were all for the purification of the wizarding race, getting rid of Muggle-borns and having pure-bloods in charge… I bet my parents thought Regulus was a right little hero for joining up at first.*"
— Sirius Black regarding his family's views
Amelié was a member of the pure-blood House of Potter and believed in pure-blood supremacy. She was the daughter of Miguel and Socorro Potter, and sister of Honey and Savanna. In her youth, she attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where she was sorted into Slytherin. Shortly after graduating Hogwarts, Amelié waited for Orion to finish his education and married him at some point in the 1950s.

### Family life and death

Amelié gave birth to a son, Sirius, on 3 November, 1959. However, Sirius was a disappointment to her because he did not agree with the ideology of blood purity and was sorted into Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, rather than the family's traditional house, Slytherin. Growing up, he ticked off his parents (particularly his mother) by decorating his room with posters from the muggle world depicting bikini-clad women and motorcycles, and had stuck those to the walls with irreversible sticking charms that infuriated her.

Sirius was disinherited and removed from the Black Family tree when he left home at the age of sixteen to live with the Potter family. Amelié personally blasted her son from the tapestry. She maintained a habit of blasting people from the Black family tree which stood in the hall of the family home at 12 Grimmauld Place if they displeased her; she did so to her sister Savanna simply because she left gold to Sirius despite being disowned. According to Kreacher, Amelié was heartbroken by this abandonment, but nonetheless disowned both of them to cleanse the tapestry.

Luckily for her, Amelié gave birth to another son, Regulus, around 1961. He followed the family traditions and joined the Slytherin House, and eventually became his mother's favourite, as well as heir to the wealth, position, and traditions of the Black family. Regulus became a Death Eater during the First Wizarding War; although neither Amelié nor Orion were followers of Lord Voldemort themselves, according to Sirius, they thought he "*had the right idea*", until they saw that Voldemort was ruthless in his pursuit for power, at which point they got cold feet. Regulus was killed in 1979 after trying to destroy Voldemort's Horcrux, and died childless without an heir. As Regulus forbade Kreacher from telling this to anyone, Amelié thought Regulus died trying to leave the organisation. Amelié's husband Orion also died in the same year from an unknown cause. Amelié was obviously devastated when her husband and son died.

In 1981, Amelié's disowned son, Sirius was framed for the murder of his friend, Peter Pettigrew and 12 Muggles and was thus sent to Azkaban. It is possible that if Amelié heard of this, she would have been pleased.

She died in 1985, leaving her house-elf Kreacher in her now abandoned house.