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At the beginning of the Hogwarts 1977-1978 school year, James Potter finds a cat and Regulus Black finds a Horcrux.
These events are not unrelated.
What follows is a deal to their mutual benefit: James helps Regulus hone the finer details of advanced transfiguration, and in return, Regulus teaches James what he knows of occlumency and legilimency. James is pleasantly surprised by how much he enjoys their lessons, certainly more than he thought he would considering what (admittedly little) he knows of Sirius’s younger brother. Regulus, for his part, thought he was smart enough to know that anyone with as many secrets as him has no business teaching fucking mind reading to another person. Especially when that person is James Potter.
There is affection—the kind that only comes from meeting someone you never expected to understand you. And there is war—a looming thunderhead that neither of them wants to see consume the other.
The rest is a matter of secrets, family, and letting go.
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07 Jun 2026
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Regulus has always known he's destined to drown. He feels it deep in his chest, past his rib cage, nestled somewhere behind his organs. He feels it in his arm when his mother squeezes it a little harder than a mother should. He felt it, the water rising in his throat, when his brother slipped out the window and into the night. He often wonders if it'd be easier to just let himself sink.
He often wonders if he has a choice.
Regulus gets sent back to school with a mission from the Dark Lord himself— find the “beast in the chamber” and claim its fangs without killing it. But when a certain curly-haired bespectacled boy asks for a rather large favor, everything suddenly gets a lot more complicated.
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07 Jun 2026
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Golden boy,
Lion boy;
Tell me what it’s like to conquer.Fearless child,
Broken boy;
Tell me what it’s like to burn.(...)
In which a very nosy James Potter notices that every weekend, when everyone falls asleep, Regulus Black sneaks into an abandoned fifth-floor classroom, and he can't help but try to find out what the little Black is up to.
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07 Jun 2026
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Whatever James had been expecting, it was certainly not the words that came out of Regulus’s mouth next: “Will you take my virginity?”
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Regulus Black has one goal for the summer before university: to lose his virginity. Preferably to James Potter, his older brother’s best friend who lives in the house across the street.
A modern!AU in which both Regulus and James get their way, although neither of them knows it just yet.
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07 Jun 2026
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He hears James say “he's still prettier than ever” except his lips never move.
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Regulus is hit with a rogue legilimency spell and can read minds upon contact with other people. James has some loud thoughts.
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07 Jun 2026