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In his seventh year, Severus' six year old brother, Icarus goes missing the night Eileen and Tobias murder each other. When Icarus turns up twelve years later, the mind of a boy in the body that grew without it, Severus initially welcomes the responsibility of providing for the brother he failed to protect and find as penance. When he begins to learn that his brother's belief in a dream world and a monster he claims murdered their parents are not merely the products of a traumatized child's mind, but the truth, the two begin to grow apart soon after they're reunited. Though Severus seeks to protect him from a world he is not ready to face, Icarus inevitably lashes out in pursuit of independence his brother thinks him yet too much a child to bear.
Good with animals, Charlie finds Icarus is one which is frightened and confused, but more capable than he first appears. Alienated from his peers for 'giving up' on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and the ever mounting evidence that he cannot be the captain, brother and son everyone expects him to be, Charlie welcomes Icarus' insistent company & his tales of dreams and monsters. As time passes, that connection grows in Romania and beyond, into something greater.