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"Lavender definitely wasn't the first Schnapps to be stuck with a curse."

"There was my six times great aunt Moonstone who was cursed such that no one could see, hear, or even feel her. She communicated with her family by writing for a long time, but the notes just stopped one day. No one knows what happened to her."
"Then there was an uncle Dusky of so many times removed who was cursed to be driven out of every home he would ever live in; he died of hypothermia in his early thirties; Hortensia Schnapps was cursed with eternal hunger- hanged by the church when she was found eating the corpse of her own sister. Aubergine Schnapps cursed to be struck by lightning once each year but never die, she eventually killed herself when the scars became too painful to bear. There were death curses, birth curses, curses of sickness and insanity and betrayal; more often than not affecting the women in the family."

"But there never was, or has been a curse quite like Lavender's."

"She called it the 'True Heir' curse. She had to bear a child deemed by some... unknown entity to be a 'perfect' heir to the Schnapps family name and fortune. At first she didn't believe it, but her diary says a horrible creature visited her in a nightmare. What exactly it said or did she didn't record, but she found her first victim the next day through an online matchmaking website."