Regulus Arcturus Black was dead. At least everyone thought he was. Truth is he never died in that cave, he managed to get out. He knew the Dark Lord would kill him if he knew he was alive so he just disappears. Off the face of the earth, never told Sirius or James or Pandora. The only problem was that now there was a battle only he could help to win so he decides to help win it.
The whole of Hogwarts went silent. Staring at Hagrid carrying Harry Potter’s limp body in his arms, tears streaming down his face.
“No!” Ginny screams. She tries to run towards him but someone stops her. She had no idea who this man was he was just standing in front of her back turned towards the death eaters and smiling at Professor Slughorn before winking at him and beginning to speak.
“Really though you got over the teenager killing for a minute there Tom” The man’s face morphed into a smirk
“And just who might you be” Voldemort spat
“Really Tom. 19 years is that all it takes for you to forget me?” The man’s smirk turned into a full of smile now.
“Identity yourself before I do it for you.”
“Oh come on Tom is that how you talk to an old friend.” The entirety of Hogwarts gasped at this news and Ginny ran back behind her brother. Slughorn began whispering to himself but it was impossible to make out what he was saying.
“Listen whoever you are, get out off my way.”
“Tried that, got bored.” The man smiled at the students before turning around to face the army.
“Miss me?”
“Regulus Arcturus Black, back from the dead are we. What a twist” Tom laughed. Hermione looked at Ron and they ran forward next to Regulus
“Never did die in the first place so not back from the dead just back from France, you know visiting the family.”
“Always one was wit you were Regulus, still, a little bit sad that I have to kill you.” Regulus laughed at that statement which seemed to perplex the entire school.
“Tom have you perhaps heard who the new Minister for Magic in France is?”His smile rising further. “Leo Ares White if I’m not wrong. Funny name right his name is literally a Star another star and a Color how weird-oh wait.” He smiled one more time before quickly grabbing his wand
“Expelliarmus” Voldemorts wand quickly flew over too Harry as he jumped out of Hagrids arm.
“Now you got two undead boys Tom what you gonna do.” Harry jabs. The two boys smile at eachother for a second before chasing off all of the death eaters other than Voldemort and a few others.
After a little bit of a fight, in which Neville killed Negini which Regulus thought was really cool. It was only Harry, Tom and Reg. Harry stood there wand pointed at Tom shaking.
“Never where one for the kill were you Harry shame” Tom snarked.
“No but I am”. Regulus jumped forward. “Avada Kedavra”. And that was it he was dead and they were free to live their lives and so Regulus disappeared once again.
Now his appearance was a tale, a story of how the ‘ghost’ of a young boy came back to protect Hogwarts. Harry knew that it wasn’t a tape that Regulus Black had lived and would for years to come.