#walburga and sirius

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

walburga will yell and scream and hit sirius, but if orion ever raises his voice at her son she'll float to his room like an angel and stay with him till he's alright

[dorasoracle]

narcoleptic Orion who is this sick that his wife must manage family affairs and the house ( she is poisoning him since she gave birth to their second son )

[chacharealsmoothwithme]

it's tragic really

Walburga black knew her son. She always had,she knew early on that he was precisely like her. As he was growing up she saw more and more of herself in him,she saw the decisiveness,the innate leadership,the composure,she saw how calculated his non-chalance was and with how much attention to detail he studied others.

She also saw the negative sides he inherited of course,for example: when she was younger her family used to tell her that her stubbornness was insufferable,of course,because it was she never understood what they meant. that was until 7 years old Sirius kicked up a fuss and a screaming match demanding to see his brother even if he was being punished, at that moment the only thing she could think of was 'insufferable'.

When Sirius got into his head this crazy idea of "leaving" the family,she decided that for once she would let it slide. She knew that no matter how far away he ran,how much he tried to pretend he was opposite to her,she knew that he'd always be hers. her blood was running in his veins after all.

That's why she never officially disowned him. She wanted him to know,because she...cared,that he would always be hers just like she would always be his.

The Black legacy stops at nothing.

[intrusiveprism]

Nirvana’s classic “Heart-Shaped Box” is perfect for Sirius & Walburga’s twisted, necrotic mother-son relationship

and I’m gonna rant about it with various links to historical, astrological, mythical & symbolic references.

First, the release year of the song: 1994 —

Sirius Black’s breakout from Azkaban: 1993.

So it makes complete sense to imagine him, during his fugitive period, occasionally hearing this Muggle rock song and feeling a sharp, gutting resonance.

Secondly, the song’s theme:

Kurt Cobain’s suffocating, toxic, and yet inescapable feelings of love toward (and from) his wife Courtney Love.

The feeling of being trapped as a plaything, a servant under her skirts.

This fits hauntingly well with Sirius’ dynamic with his mother:

• His depressive period spent locked inside his mother’s bedroom at 12 Grimmauld Place (Order of the Phoenix canon);

• Walburga’s furious, hateful screaming portrait still haunting the house — and yet, she never formally removed Sirius from the legal rights of inheritance even after he ran away, nor had she ever changed his childhood bedroom.

A relationship of pure resentment, yet irrevocable emotional and symbolic entrapment.

Now, let’s look line by line at the lyrics —

and how the symbolic imagery of Heart-Shaped Box aligns eerily with the Black family’s tragedy:

“She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak”

• Walburga’s namesake, St. Walburga (a historical saint), died on February 25 — right within the Pisces season.

• Pisces, often symbolizing fluid emotions, sacrifice, and maternal martyrdom — perfect for Walburga’s ghostly, venomous mother figure.

“I’ve been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks”

• Sirius, in canon, “spent more and more time shut away in his mother’s bedroom, with only Buckbeak for company.”

• Sirius says: “My mother didn’t have a heart… she lived off hatred.”

Yet he literally locks himself inside her “heart-shaped box” of hatred —

simultaneously denying her heart’s existence while physically fusing himself to it.

Resentment and inescapable attachment, bleeding together.

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“I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap”

• Same idea: the Black bloodline as an inescapable, magnetic tar pit.

• Even at the end — Sirius is fatally drawn into Bellatrix’s orbit during their final duel, pulled by the same dark gravity that defines the Black family legacy.

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I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

• “Black” — obvious double entendre: the Black family, the color, death.

• “Cancer” = cancerous growth and astrological Cancer.

• Sirius, as the Dog Star (Sirius) in the zodiac, aligns exactly with the 14th degree of Cancer.

Eating the rot before it devours him —

but ultimately being consumed by it himself.

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Hey, wait, I got a new complaint, Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

• A line practically screaming Sirius’ permanent entanglement with his mother’s legacy:

• both rejecting her influence and living eternally shadowed by it.

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet

• Orchid = symbolic vagina reference (motherhood, sexuality);

• A meat-eating orchid = maternal devouring, aggressive, predatory nurturing —

perfect metaphor for Walburga’s ghost viciously howling at every Phoenix member entering Grimmauld Place.

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Cut myself on angel hair and baby’s breath

• Angel hair: paranormal phenomenon — fine crystalline threads associated with the supernatural, often reported during Marian apparitions or UFO sightings.

Notably, it appeared in Évora, Portugal on November 2, 1959 — one day before Sirius’ canonical birthday.

• Baby’s breath = “Gypsophila” in English — “baby” imagery reinforcing the “mother-son” motif.

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Broken hymen of Your Highness, I’m left black

• “Black” — once again a double hit: color and family name.

• Hymen rupture = symbolic of corrupted birth, betrayal of maternal sanctity.

• Sirius, left Black after being spiritually and emotionally torn by his heritage.

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Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

• The final blow:

Returning to the mother.

Begging to climb back into the toxic womb.

Rebirth not as freedom — but as death.

A grotesque, heartbreaking yearning for annihilation through reconnection.

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Heart-Shaped Box is perfect for—

Sirius Black and Walburga Black’s necrotic, cannibalistic mother-son death dance put to grunge music.

Sirius never truly escaped his mother’s “heart-shaped box.”

He simply carried it into death with him.

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[deswhomst]

[b4rty-r0s13r-w1ll-fck-y0ur-m0m]

At age two, Regulus sneezed and Walburga wiped his face until it was red and he was crying, furious that he had "embarrassed her".

At age nine, Regulus fell over at a function and Sirius pulled him up, hissing to hurry before their parents saw.

At age seventeen, Regulus had a cold and James stayed with him all day, giving him medicine and cuddling with him to keep him warm.

[losver07]

walburga: no daughter of mine will date a potter!

regulus: yeah? well, i am not your daughter. mother, i am a boy.

sirius: *spits tea and laughs*

regulus: so, if i'm not your daughter does that mean i can go out with james?

walburga: *stares in shock*

sirius: can i come too? we're gonna have so much fun telling him this story

regulus: sure, you can do the voices

sirius: ohhh! i love doing the voices!

walburga: *eye twitches*

[righteousenjoymentofthunder]

just. dropping this here

[dazzlemebaby]

Sirius: I think Mum mixed up our lunches.

Sirius: *holds up note saying “I love you so much”*

Regulus: Oh. That explains this, then.

Regulus: *holds up note saying “Be good. Please, for the love of God, be good”*

[managone16]

James: What's you lots favourite childhood memory? Sirius: The day Walburga almost used the Avada on me but missed. Sirius: She hit Orion instead. Regulus: Oh I remember that. Mine's the day mother hurt herself after breaking that vase. Regulus, smiling: And then punished us for it. Sirius, grinning: Oh yeah that was good— Remus: My favourite childhood memory is my back not hurting for more than ten minutes. James: James: I shouldn't have asked... Peter:...Should I say mine now?

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

walburga thinks sirius is better than everyone else because he's a black, james thinks sirius is better than everyone else because he's sirius

[dorasoracle]

in alternative universe

Walburga calls Sirius ' ma fierté ' , my pride, and Regulus ' ma joie ' , my joy.

[skyrigel]

People have the audacity to say they weren't fucking.

[marauders-bs]

sirius who looked up “abusive households” once remus wouldn't tell him where his scars came from, sirius who realized that the descriptions weren't of remus, they were of him and regulus

[staliamazing]

Sirius Black carries an airhorn around the house for whenever Walburga inevitably misgenders Regulus.

"TRY AGAIN"

"WRONG ANSWER"

“You always wanted me to be more like Regulus well FUCK YOU now’s he’s more like ME!!!”

@moons-and-runes our little musings

[moonyswarmsweaters]

Regulus: Sirius… I’m gay

Sirius *excited*: can I tell Walburga? Cause this WILL kill her