Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays And Poetry

Me????? Obsessed????? With Regulus 'Fuck the Dark Lord' Black????? Yes.

Danger and the Black Family

"It's ideal for Headquarters, of course. My father put every security measure known to wizardkind on it when he lived here. It's unplottable, so Muggles could never come and call — as if they'd ever have wanted to — and now Dumbledore's added his protection, you'd be hard put to find a safer house anywhere."— Sirius Black regarding 12 Grimmauld Place

It's common in fanfic to see Grimmauld Place as a magical fortress, the ancestral fortress of the Black family, with wards (I know that it's a fanon term, but it's a useful one so don't @ me) as ancient as Hogwarts itself. And that make sense, after all, doesn't Sirius tell us so in the books? Well yes and no. Sirius does say that the house is warded, and heavily so ("every security measure known to wizard kind"). Sirius is exaggerating here, since the house doesn't feature protections like the Fidelius (until Dumbledore added it), but it's meant to show that the House is heavily protected.

The bit I'm interested in is the part I highlighted in the quote above. My father. The protective spells were not modus operandi for the Blacks, they're something new. It isn't him renewing spells his father cast either, since Arcturus dies after Orion. It makes sense that they're not standard procedure, after all they're wealthy and influential in the government. As pure of blood as one can be. They consider themselves wizarding royalty. Why would they take measures to protect themselves from those they consider their inferiors? Now, the question that naturally follows is: What changed? What prompted Orion to feel threatened enough that he felt the Black family residence needed reinforcement? I have my own elaborate headcanon about this, but I'd feel interested in hearing other theories first.

WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH A SOUL ANYWAY?

just saw that video of timothee chalamet trying to flirt with keke palmer like yeah that has regulus energy all over it

back to black

Sirius, in a high voice, holding barbie: hey ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!

Regulus, in a deep voice, holding ken: nonsense, barbie. you’re staying home and having my kids

Andromeda: what the fuck are you guys doing?

Regulus: playing systemic oppression

what do i have to do to get some peter pettigrew content over here

*at dinner with the malfoys*

snape, on the phone: where are you, regulus? this place is fancy and i don’t know which fork to kill myself with.

I honestly hate when people make Peter some annoying git or a tag along in marauders fics. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE some of them, and they’re literally my favourite book series. But it still ticks me off when Peter is written as some forgettable idiot. For gods sake, the marauders LOVED HIM. he was their brother, there was a reason why James and Lily trusted him. And he made his decision off of fear, not hatred for the others. Keep in mind I am in no way justifying what he did, it was selfish and horrible. I still hate the little rat for what he did, I’m just trying to say that he wasn’t just someone that the others didn’t love or care about.

so obsessed

Sanctimonia Vincet Semper

Purity will always conquer