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“Historically, Hogwarts has been known for its balls-”
Peter let out a high chirp of laughter, which he tried to muffle with one hand in his fist, “McGonagall said balls.” He wheezed through his hand, his cheeks bright red and his eyes streaming with tears.
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Remus has his first girlfriend, and Hogwarts is having a ball. Sirius is handling the whole thing really well.
If very well meant - getting absolute pissed, acquiring a (fake) girlfriend, and somehow convincing Remus to cheat on his girlfriend with him? Then yeah, he's doing fine. -
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The full moon lands on Christmas Eve, and Remus insists he’ll spend the holiday alone, and Sirius responds in the only reasonable way: he traps the entire school in a blizzard.
But now he's ruined Christmas for everyone else, and it's up to him (and James) to fix it - by granting everyone's Christmas Wishes.
Sirius has a wish, too. Remus, under the tree and then, possibly under him later.
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Sirius craned towards the box and peeled open the lid. He took a large bite, and Remus saw the faint spark of purple confetti and opened his mouth to say something when Sirius turned to him, “Remus, do you want half-?”
His face went slightly dopey for a moment, his pupils dilating slightly. A rush of pink smoke steamed out of his ears.
“Merlin, Moons,” Sirius breathed, his voice low,” You are beautiful, y’know.”
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Sirius is under a love spell, and Remus Lupin is a very, very weak man.
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Graffiti On The Walls (says we're magic, we're magic) by Yankingthechain
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Aug 2025
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Tom Riddle was elected Minister of Magic on the 1st February 1967, and three months of wonderful peace had ensued. After that came the regulations, the restrictions. Who could practise magic and who couldn’t. The resistance was beaten into submission, and with no one left to attack, the Death Eaters began to spiral. They had lost any sense of organisation, and began to attack random Muggleborns, and that’s when all the children began to die
Sirius Black never planned on joining the Order, but he’s stepped up to lead what’s left of it. The war has stagnated, and so has Sirius, right up until Regulus shows up on his doorstep, half-dead and spilling Voldemort’s secrets. The key to stopping him lies in destroying the Horcruxes, if they can find them first.
Remus Lupin’s entire existence is a rebellion. As an uneducated werewolf vigilante, he roams London, brimming with a deeper power than most could ever know, ready for a fight. He is everything Riddle is afraid of, and he knows it. The Horcruxes? Yeah, he knows a guy. Why?
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At Long Last, Love Has Arrived by Yankingthechain
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marauders - Fandom
30 Jul 2025
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“I think,” James said, lying with his head tipped off the edge of the bed. He was tossing a snitch up and down, and still managing to stare at Sirius over the rim of his glasses, “You should tell him.”
Sirius scowled, “I think,” He said, pausing to mock him, “You should kill yourself.”
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Or it's Valentine's Day, and James decides to play schoolwide matchmaker.
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Harry has had quite enough of sharing his mind with someone else, thankyouverymuch. A miscast Legilimecy spell says otherwise.
(Fic from 2010 FF archive being uploaded here.)
AND FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, STOP REPOSTING THIS ON WATTPAD. I DO NOT WANT IT ON WATTPAD. YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO POST THIS ON WATTPAD.
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29 Dec 2025
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The change was in the soft breeze, the smell of fresh, clean cotton, it was in the shift of weight from one hip to the other, in the glint of the hazy late-summer sunlight turning a light-brown half-curl auburn. It was in the involuntary curling of his own toes in his shoes.
Oh, he thought. Turns out I've missed you.
Five years ago, four boys stepped into their dorm at Gryffindor tower, all nervous, some hiding it better than others.
Five years later, there's nothing that makes Sirius Black nervous anymore.
Except. When he steps onto Platform 9 3⁄4, he realises that after summer, something about Remus Lupin is... different. And suddenly, Sirius has no clue what to do with his hands, how to sit right, or how he usually acts.
A coming of age, friends-to-lovers story set during the Marauders' sixth year at Hogwarts. Banter, friendship, crushes, pining and first loves. Canon timeline, hopeful ending.
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11 Sep 2025
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When he's seven years old, Sirius Black has a brief encounter with a strange boy in the woods, who, in their short exchange, teaches him an important lesson about the nature of the Universe, only to then disappear without a trace.
Nine years later, Sirius, along with his two best friends, is a student away at boarding school, with a brand new transfer student as his roommmate--a foul-mouthed, astronomy nerd named Remus Lupin.
Between school, hormones, relationships, and the fact that he is keeping a (magical) secret away from everyone--Sirius' year starts to go a little off the rails.
Not to mention, there's something familiar about that Remus Lupin kid that he just can't seem to shake...
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27 Aug 2025
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Sirius has made a point to never learn the names of anyone in other Houses. There was no need to, in his astute opinion. Everyone who was not in Gryffindor must lack some intrinsic qualities which would therefore make them utterly intolerable as companions. And the Marauders - all three of them - did not need any intolerable fourths, thank you very much.
i.e, Remus is a Ravenclaw Prefect and Sirius is finding it harder and harder to admit he isn't obsessed with him
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03 Aug 2025
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Remus is in 5th year. Sirius is in 6th.
Last year, Remus was in 4th year and Sirius was in 5th. The year before that, Remus was... irrelevant. He's not sure Sirius knows he exists.
This year, with a shiny new badge on his chest, Remus Lupin is officially on Sirius' radar. Remus Lupin is officially a pain in Sirius' arse.
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03 Aug 2025