Regulus’s Wackspurts
Regulus Black starred at the array of different books sitting on his shelf. He loved books there were very few things he loved in this world but littérature was one of them. Endless stories of love and life , but also pain and loss somthing he could relate to. He had never lost anyone really unless you count his grandfather when he was very young. His grandfather was a cruel man and he was never very fond of him so it didn’t affect him much. But he still grieved , grieved for his child hood and his child like sense of wonder that was crushed before he could walk. He longed for a love he had never known growing up ,he longed for a family. He had a family i guess you could say he had a mother and a father . But they were not his family they were calus and cold and above all cruel. And the scary thing was they hoped regulus would turn out just like them. They wanted him to be just like the rest of these people that’s they called his family. But they were not his real family his real family was his brother Sirius. They were very close only being a year apart in age but they were centuries away in terms of suffering. Regulus had it bad sure, but Sirus had much worse. His parents liked to focus the worst of their rage onto sirius it had been like this for a while. Because Sirius as amazing as he was just didn’t know when to quit. He would disagree with their parents and tell them how wrong they were. And he knew Sirius was right in doing this because his parents were wrong and disgusting and awful, but he would never tell them this Regulus learned that after the first few times being cursed that it was better to just keep his mouth shut and his head down. He tried to tell Sirius this but he was much too brave to listen. Sirius had always been the brave one so much so that he had been sorted into griffindoor even though every one else it there family was in Slytherin. Regulus hoped this would be the case for himself as well but he knew deep down that it wouldn’t .
“Regulus , Make Haste you wouldn’t want to be late for your first train to Hogwarts” his mother yelled from the bottom of the stairs.
“Yes mother” Regulus shouted back
then turned his attention to the freshly scabbed over cuts on the backs of his calves.
lacero
That’s the prize he had earned for trying to do the right thing and stand up for his brother last night. He knew his mother only did it because she loved him and wanted the best for him. And deep down he loved her too no matter how much pain she caused, she was still his mother right?
Regulus rolled his socks higher up his legs and the pulled his black slacks over thats.
He thought that should do for now .
He grabbed his trunk it was rather heavy because of all the books he had packed, he still wished he could have packed more.
and then he rushed downstairs despite everything that was going on in his life he was excited to go to Hogwarts.
He made it to the grand foyer and set his bag down by the door,his mother walked in quickly after him.
“Regulus what have i told you, you do not touch suitcases ” his mother said in her thick french accent most of his family on his mothers side is french so he was well used to the accent and the language. He however despite being fluent in french did not have much of an accent.
“yes mother” regulus replied by default he hated agreeing with her but he couldn’t stop himself from doing it.
“good good now where is your brother he’s going to make us late”she complained
“I think he’s finishing up packing” regulus lied. He was probably fixing his hair or something.
“he should be downstairs in a second… regulus’s next words were interrupted by a rather loud sirius black crashing down the stairs quite dramatically. He looked rather disheveled.
“ What on earth has kept you this long” his mother scoffed
“i’ve got this weird text book it tried to eat me it was mental and - sirius was cut of
“ i could not care less let’s just go we are going to be late”
“yes mother” sirius said sounding almost exactly like regulus
Both boys moved towards their mother with their bags and then took the floo network to the platform. Regulus despised taking the floo network it made him feel all, wobbly. This wobbly feeling was not helped by sirus nearly poping his shoulder out of socket the second they got to the platform.Regulus had no idea where sirus was taking him he just wished he would do it more slowly.
He stoped in front of a rather tall boy ,with shaggy sort of sandy colored hair, who was wearing what he could only describe as a grandpa sweater and he was covered in all sorts of scars. Regulus didn’t mind though he too had scars.
Regulus hadn’t noticed that he was standing behind sirus until Sirius had pulled him toward
“ Reggie this is My friend Remus , Remus this is my brother Regulus “Sirius said proudly.
“umm hello” remus said with an interesting accent he sounded like he was welsh for sure and something else.
“hi” regulus said, he had a rather posh british accent but remus didn’t seem to mind . in fact after the brief hellos remus didn’t seem to pay any mind to regulus at all
nor sirus for that matter they mindlessly chatted about not wanting to chat about summer and where james went off to, he had no idea who that was and he didn’t stick around to find out. He went to get a compartment on the train. Most of them
had way to many people in them for his liking. He was about to give up hope till he found the perfect compartment almost completely empty except for Pandora Rosier his childhood best friend and the girl his parents wanted him to marry someday. He could never marry her it would totally betray their friendship and besides it just felt wrong like marrying a sister or cousin. And While his family wasn’t morally against cousin marrying, he most definitely was . He knocked on the compartment door, pandora opened it, then lowered her funny looking glasses.
“ Regulus! Merlin it’s been ages since i’ve seen you, come in please sit”she practically shouted
“ how’ve you been, more importantly where’ve you been our families haven’t arranged a pre marriage hangout in much to long, are you well, are you drinking enough water, man your head is full of wackspurts hold on i’ve got something for that Evan has it i’ll be right back”
And with that Pandora had left she’d be back in 30 minutes that’s about how long it’ll take her to find Evan and what she thought regulus needed.
“She does that a lot doesn’t she”A new voice spoke regulus nearly jumped out of his skin. He hadn’t even realized that anyone else was there until then. And Yet there she was a rather beautiful girl with dark brown braided hair and velvety skin. She was in slytherin unlike pandora who was a raven claw.
“Dorcas Medowes By the way” the Voice spoke
“Regulus black and yeah she does do that a lot “ regulus laughed
After that they laughed and talked like they had know eachother for years. And the Pandora got back Wackspurt cure in hand begging regulus to drink it to which he kindly declined. And then they all went back to laughing and talking just mind numbing chit chat but he didn’t mind now . He was happy.
And looking back on that moment he wished he could have stayed there forever.