regulusblack-apologist

[regulusblack-apologist]

“I’m so tired of being left behind. Even if it’s my fault.”

- Choices by messermoon on ao3

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“He’d thought they were some freak accident. That a mistake had been made. James Potter and Regulus Black were never meant to speak. Never meant to grow close. Never meant to fall in love. That is not how the story goes. It was inevitable that fate would course correct. That they would be forced back onto the paths they were always supposed to travel, completely separate from one another.

And yet.

And yet they match.

In the most intimate way two wizards possibly can.

And how can that be? How can that be if they were doomed from the start?”

- Choices by MesserMoon on ao3

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I actually have one all planned out but honestly wasn’t really planning to actually write it 😅

a regulus and sirius supernatural au fic would eat so hard

[regulusblack-apologist]

“All the pain I’ve been through? It never made me strong or brave, it just made me so goddamn sure that I didn’t want to feel it again. So yeah, I shoved everyone I could in front of me, used them to protect myself. And I would do it again. Maybe that makes me a coward. Maybe that makes me a villain. I honestly don’t care at this point. I just don’t want to fucking hurt anymore.”

- Choices by MesserMoon on ao3

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“I know the worst of you. Who else can say the same?”

- From Love, Obviously by bizarrestars on ao3

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Hilarious to me that a major plot point in both HP and The Cursed Child is boys being in the girls bathroom 🏳️‍⚧️

[regulusblack-apologist]

“After Patroclus fails to convince Achilles to fight for the Greeks.

After Achilles lets Patroclus face the Trojans without him.

The great warrior tilts his head back and asks the gods to “grant that he may return unharmed.”

Bring him back to me, he begs them.

Bring him back to me.

Bring him back.”

- Choices by MesserMoon on ao3

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The Black Brothers from 12 Grimmauld Place? So you mean to say the Brothers Grimm 👀

[regulusblack-apologist]

“The tragedy is that Achilles could have stopped it. Instead he lets Patroclus die because he isn’t brave enough to face his own fate. The fate he chose when he sailed for Troy. The fate he tries to use Agamemnon to chicken out of at the last minute. Achilles is the death of Patroclus, not Hector. That’s the tragedy ”

- Choices by MesserMoon on ao3

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Sirius: And you, Reg? You really hate me as much as you seem to?

Regulus, on Veritaserum: No. I love you. Even when you hurt.

Hshxndkxbvshejxs I’m fine

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Everyone gangsta until the amortentia lesson that character A is late to and walks in and asks “why does this smell like character B?”

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I will never stop thinking about Scorpius Malfoy wanting to prove to the world that he isn't a bad person like everyone thinks his parents were, and I can't stop thinking about Albus Severus Potter wanting to prove to the world that he doesn't have to be a hero like his dad was.

And I can't stop thinking about them both finding one another and connecting over the shared experience of trying to prove to the world that they are their own people, trying to prove to the world that they're more than who their parents are.

Albus and Scorpius needed to meet because they needed each other.

[regulusblack-apologist]

“Sometimes, the people we’re closest to are the hardest people to be honest with. Because it feels like pulling the rug out from under them if we turn out to be something other than what they thought.”

- Choices by messermoon on ao3

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I might be genuinely the only person who thinks this, but in my opinion, Jegulus makes PERFECT sense with canon.

Honesty, I think past Jegulus is what makes Jily an actually good ship (please hear me out guys)

There’s genuinely SO much evidence on how Jegulus could’ve happened

1. This is pretty obvious, but they went to school at the same time

2. They both had Sirius in common, which already gives them a reason to interact

3. In the books, when Harry finds out his dad (James) was shitty to Snape, he has his whole existencial crisis about his dad being a bully, and why his mom (Lily) would marry James if he was an asshole. So he asks Sirius and Remus why she married him, and they said at some point James just. Changed.

And what makes WAY MORE SENSE and teaches a MUCH better lesson than “James got over his bad morals purely for the girl he was an asshole to and after years of begging her to go out, she finally cracked and the popular bully ended up with the girl ☺️” is that James changed because he met Regulus.

It’s pretty easy to infer that James didn’t like Snape because of his blood supremacist beliefs. Did this excuse his bullying? No, absolutely not. But it’s what actually makes sense for a well written teenage boy. That righteous indignation and black and white thinking makes WAY more sense than “I don’t like this guy because my crush likes him”

So rather than some invisible force making him tolerable enough that Lily would just. Forgive him for years of torment. He could have met Regulus. Falling in love with a death eater would give him SO much more perspective on how complicated things actually were. And losing Regulus would definitely make him both more empathic and mature. As well as less likely to bully Snape. I think THAT is what Lily would be attracted to. Someone who actually understands the nuance of the world they live in.

And loving, then losing, Regulus is the perfect (and most plausible) way for someone as privileged as James to learn. He learned from experience.

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Adding onto this…

“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.”

“I need you to stop treating us like we’re doomed,” he whispers, feeling the need to be soft now that they’re so close. “Because I don’t believe that we are. I can’t.”

- Choices by MesserMoon

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“I love you so much.”

“I wish you didn’t.”

James lets out a noise somewhere between a laugh and a sob. “I know,” he says, squeezing Regulus tighter. “But I do, I always will.”

And God, Regulus hopes that isn’t true. Hopes that one day James Potter forgets all about him. That he goes on and lives his beautiful perfect life. That he isn’t weighed down by everything dark and heavy that sits inside Regulus’s skin. James deserves more. Deserves better than that.

- Choices by messermoon on ao3

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Hating on Regulus Black is an exercise in futility. Not only does he not give a shit, but he’s just petty enough to sacrifice himself to prove you wrong. Then, he’ll leave a cunty lil’ note that haunts the narrative until the very end. 🫶

✨Charming, isn’t he?✨