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At the beginning of the Hogwarts 1977-1978 school year, James Potter finds a cat and Regulus Black finds a Horcrux.
These events are not unrelated.
What follows is a deal to their mutual benefit: James helps Regulus hone the finer details of advanced transfiguration, and in return, Regulus teaches James what he knows of occlumency and legilimency. James is pleasantly surprised by how much he enjoys their lessons, certainly more than he thought he would considering what (admittedly little) he knows of Sirius’s younger brother. Regulus, for his part, thought he was smart enough to know that anyone with as many secrets as him has no business teaching fucking mind reading to another person. Especially when that person is James Potter.
There is affection—the kind that only comes from meeting someone you never expected to understand you. And there is war—a looming thunderhead that neither of them wants to see consume the other.
The rest is a matter of secrets, family, and letting go.
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Remus has always loved music more than anything and he and Sirius stay out late, really late, going to rough punk shows and stumbling home smelling like smoke with bruised faces, bloodied lips, and just enough adrenaline to go around. Lily gets her tongue pierced because she likes to torture her boyfriend, scratch that, fiancée. There’s a lot of love. Things are the way that they should be.
It’s fun until it’s not.
Sirius’s schedule starts to revolve around when he has to be sober, and no one has to know if he shows up on missions hungover, right? Or a little tipsy? Lily gets pregnant at twenty years old and regrets it more than she’s regretted anything- especially when her husband’s parents died last year, and her own dad, and the Death Eaters are targeting Order members’ families these days.
They deserved a few more years of fun but the world just had other plans for them. At some point, they keep waking up but it never feels any better. All they can do is hold out hope.
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The First Wizarding War, in detail. - [1978-1981]
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- Part 3 of No Closer To Heaven
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23 Mar 2025
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A fic about the Marauders' life at Hogwarts with lots of parties, pranks, dating, classes, full moon nights, and everything else you would expect from those four boys in school.
First and second year only have a chapter each. It starts properly with summer before third year and ends at the end of seventh.
It is (mostly) canon compliant, but nobody dies in this fic.
All ships are slow burn. Wolfstar is definitely the main one.- Language:
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23 Mar 2025
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"Baby Black, do you maybe not hate me?" James joked in a way that made Regulus feel uncomfortable.
"You are the most annoying person I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. And that says a lot considering the absolute gems I've met in Slytherin."
"A joke. Regulus Black made a joke. A mean one, at my expense, but a joke nonetheless... You know baby Black, we could be friends."
"I would rather fling myself off the Astronomy Tower..."***
Or: Regulus is concerned about Sirius after their mother orchestrates a horrible attack. And with Sirius out of reach he relies on James Potter to know his brother is okay. Except their meetings keep happening, and their conversations keep falling away from Sirius. Falling for James Potter might just be the most reckless thing he's ever contemplated.- Language:
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23 Mar 2025
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In the cave, Regulus doesn’t beg for it to stop. He begs not be left behind, alone.
Perhaps this is why, when Kreacher gives one last look over his shoulder and sees terrible, pale hands reaching for his master, he appears in a flash at Regulus’ side, clutches him by the elbow, and Apparates them both out of the cave, directly disobeying his master’s last order.
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- Part 1 of fruitbowls
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23 Mar 2025