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    There’s this moment just before. When your chair tips, or you miss the last step of the stairs. Your stomach twisting, pupils dilating, hands coming out to catch yourself. A moment in which time seems to slow down, when you look down at the ground and you realize you’re helpless to stop it. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you’ll fight it, gravity will win. And you want to fight it, oh, yes, you do, but even the most stubborn people in the world have to admit at some point that they’ve lost this time. There’s nothing to do but accept it. To stop the fight and brace yourself instead.

    Slowly, and then all at once, time rushes back.

    And you fall.

     

    Alternatively titled: Regulus Black and the mortifying ordeal of falling in love.

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    She doesn’t quite know what to do with the way that Alice is looking at her. Like she’s something sacred, something inescapable, one of the old gods that slumber in the centre of the earth—Alice’s eyes are their own kind of hunger, the ache of an empty belly, the dark comfort of dreaming and the soft light of coming awake.

    “Your life is your own, Narcissa,” she says.

    And oh, how badly Narcissa wishes that were true.

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    James slid to the floor across from him. It came with the easiness of familiarity that rooted itself deep into the body. Memories locked in muscle. They’d sat like this countless of times; a stance reserved for drunken nonsense after a long night out, for confessions, for musings and fears, for pockets of comfortable silence, for nothing but the radio.

    This was the James from back then—perpetually sun-soaked, worry-less James—who handed out his little mercies and bathed you in light.

     

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    Regulus leaves his parents at 17, finding shelter with Sirius at the Potters' home somewhere along the rocky shores of Devon. What follows are the good years, then the unspeakable ones, and then, inexplicably—like a roach, a true Black—Regulus comes out the other end alive.

    He just doesn't expect to stumble into the easy solace of James Potter and his five-year-old son.

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    07 Jul 2025

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    Absolutely stunning writing

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    Harry and Draco are tasked with creating a YouTube channel for Muggle Studies; shennanagins ensue when the internet falls in love with their hilarious rivalry.

    Draco: Potter, what is a 'Drarry'?
    Harry: I have no idea, where did you hear that?
    Draco: Our minions-
    Harry: Followers
    Draco: -keep commenting it

    In a world where Voldemort was never resurrected, Harry Potter still goes through life facing trolls and horrible relatives because in no universe can the Boy-Who-Lived avoid trouble. Despite attempts at revenge by the leaderless Death Eaters, Harry is in his seventh and final year at Hogwarts with high hopes for a calm and relaxing send-off. Unfortunately for our beloved hero, however, fate just loves fucking with him.

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