Emilia Black

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## Biographical Information

### Loyalty

* Black Family
* Malfoy Family
* Lightwood Family
* Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
	+ Slytherin
* Death Eaters  (Indirectly, Formerly)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Rosier Family (Relatives)
* Crabbe Family (Relatives)
* Phineas Nigellus Black † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Ursula Black † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Cygnus Black III †  (Father)
* Druella Black † (Mother)
* Rodolphus Lestrange (Brother-In-Law)
* Bellatrix Lestrange † (Older Sister)
* Lucius Malfoy (Brother-In-Law)
* Ethan Lightwood (Husband)
* Robert Lightwood (Brother-In-Law)
* Edward Tonks † (Brother-In-Law)
* Andromeda Tonks (Older Sister)
* Narcissa Malfoy (Older Sister)
* Nymphadora Lupin † (Niece)
* Jace Wayland (Son-In-Law)
* Alec Lightwood (Nephew)
* Isabelle Lightwood (Niece)
* Draco Malfoy (Nephew)
* Maggie Black (Daughter)
* Natalia Lightwood (Niece)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece-In-Law)
* Josie Mikaelson (Niece-In-Law)
* Aurora Riddle (Niece)
* Nemesis Black (Granddaughter)
* Noah Wayland (Grandson)
* Precious Wayland (Granddaughter)
* Scarlet Wayland (Granddaughter)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'5" (Feet)
* 1.65 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Lily Collins

**Emilia Anne Lightwood Black** is a British pure-blood witch, the youngest daughter of Cygnus and Druella Black, younger sister of Bellatrix Lestrange, Andromeda Tonks, and Narcissa Malfoy, wife of Ethan Lightwood, mother to Maggie Black, and the grandmother to Nemesis Black as well as Noah, Precious, and Scarlet Wayland.

Although never officially a Death Eater herself, Emilia was raised on the importance of blood purity but didn't believe in it herself. To protect her family she followed Lord Voldemort during the First and Second Wizarding Wars. This changed, however, when her daughter and nephew's life was put in jeopardy by Voldemort.

Emilia took necessary measures to protect her family, including lying to Voldemort about Hope Mikaelson being dead during the Battle of Hogwarts, an act which saved the Malfoys from serving time in Azkaban following the Dark Lord's defeat.

## Biography

### Early Life

Emilia Black is the youngest daughter of Cygnus and Druella Black (née Rosier), born in 1960 in the aristocratic House of Black. She had three older sisters, Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa. Emilia was taught the philosophy of blood purity from a young age but never judged half-bloods or muggle-born like her sisters Bellatrix and Narcissa she pretended she judged them. When her sisters cut off contact with Andromeda she kept in contact with her in secret.

Emilia was educated at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from c. 1971-1979. Sorted into Slytherin House, she met her future husband, Ethan Lightwood, whilst at Hogwarts. It is possible that Emilia met Severus Snape and other future Death Eaters at Hogwarts, thanks in no small part to Ethan, who has been friends with them ever since.

She was aware of the wanderings of the Marauders, the same group to which her first cousin, Sirius Black, belonged, thought her family considered him a "blood traitor" in her family, she was proud that he'll never be like her. She had interactions with him but without prying eyes.

### First Wizarding War

*Main Article: First Wizarding War*
Emilia married Ethan Lightwood, who was just as wealthy and pure-blood inclined as the Black family Emilia descended from, between 1972 and September 1979. Together, they lived a life of privilege and luxury at Lightwood Manor, located in the southern English county of Wiltshire. Her husband introduced Emilia to the lifestyle of the Death Eaters, though she never became a Death Eater herself. The couple had one daughter, named Margarita Emilia.

Emilia's cousin Regulus Black was killed in the First Wizarding War, while her other cousin Sirius and sister Bellatrix were both sentenced to Azkaban after Voldemort's fall in 1981. Ethan was able to avoid a similar fate by falsely claiming that he had been under the effects of the Imperius Curse, and the Lightwood's remained members of the social elite, enjoying close relationships with Ministry of Magic officials such as Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge and Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic Dolores Umbridge.

### Between the Wars

When the time came for Maggie Black to begin school in 1991, Ethan Lightwood suggested for her to attend Durmstrang Institute, which only admitted pure-blood and half-blood students and taught the Dark Arts, which closely mirrored the Black family beliefs. Though she knew her husband never judged muggle-borns they wanted to protect her but Emilia wanted her daughter close to them, as Durmstrang was located in northern Europe and Hogwarts was in Britain, where they lived. She loved Maggie with her whole heart and would die for her daughter, she sent presents every year to her daughter at Hogwarts.

Emilia attended the 1994 Quidditch World Cup in August 1994 with her husband, her brother-in-laws, her sister-in-law, daughter, her nieces, and nephews watching the game from Fudge's luxury box.

### Second Wizarding War

*Main Article: Second Wizarding War*
In 1996, her sister and brother-in-law escaped Azkaban. That same year, Ethan participated in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in an attempt to acquire a prophecy for Lord Voldemort, who had returned to power the previous year. Emilia and Narcissa provided Voldemort with the information he needed to get Harry there after she gained it from Kreacher the House Elf, who gave it to her both because she was a Black by birth and because she treated the attention starved house elf more kindly than her cousin Sirius Black, the elf's current master, did.

Though her sister Bellatrix managed to escape imprisonment, Emilia was distraught over Voldemort's subsequent treatment of her family. That summer, she ventured to Severus Snape's home at Spinner's End, accompanied by Bellatrix and Narcissa, to discuss Voldemort's orders for Draco to murder Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

Emilia agreed with her sister that Draco was being sent on a suicide mission to punish Lucius for his numerous failures. She begs Severus to make an Unbreakable Vow, which ensured that he would watch over Draco and Maggie during their missions. She also made him vow to execute the plan himself, should Draco or Maggie fail to do so.

Later that month, Emilia went shopping for school supplies with Maggie at Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. Throughout the school year, Draco enacted a series of unsuccessful attempts to kill Dumbledore, which eventually resulted in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and Snape's fulfilment of his vow to Emilia and Narcissa.

#### Malfoy Home as Headquarters

By 1997, Malfoy Manor was being used as a headquarters for Voldemort. A meeting of Lord Voldemort's inner circle was held there, and the murder of Charity Burbage took place in the drawing room. The Lightwoods were extremely uncomfortable with the arrangements, despite their claims that nothing would please them more than to host the Dark Lord. Voldemort was still displeased with the Malfoys for Lucius's earlier failures and delighted in humiliating them by taunting their relation to werewolf Remus Lupin through Emilia's niece, Nymphadora Tonks.

#### Battle of Hogwarts

During the final phase of the Battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort killed Hope Mikaelson in the Forbidden Forest using the Killing Curse but did not know that she would return stronger than before. Voldemort demanded that someone check to see if Hope was, in fact, dead, a deed no one wanted to perform. Emilia and her good friend Maryse walks over and notices a faint purple glow surrounding Hope and knew her daughter was right if Hope were to die she'd come back stronger. Emilia never wanting to be in this life betrayed the Dark Lord and asserted that Hope was dead. She knew the only way her family would be reunited was as part of Voldemort's conquering army, thus proving she loved her family more than she supported Voldemort, who by that point, witnessing the horrors he had brought upon her and her family, most likely wished death.

When the battle recommenced, Emilia and Ethan abandoned the Death Eaters and searched frantically for Maggie. The family was present for Bellatrix's death at the hands of Natalia Lightwood and for Harry Potter and Hope Mikaelson's final defeat of Lord Voldemort, thus ending the Second Wizarding War.

### Later Life

However, as Emilia betrayed Voldemort and left him, the entire Malfoy and Lightwood family was granted a reprieve and avoided incarceration in Azkaban.