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Ward of Irreconcilable Maladies by PensieveParadox
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Oct 2025
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Summary
Tainted Souls Writing Event - What's your favourite scary movie?
Prompts: Asylum Patient Escapes, Incest, Breath play and The Boogey Man (AKA Voldemort, in this fic)Regulus does not remember the men who carried him from the cave, only the taste of the water, the screams in his throat, and the way the world split apart.
Years later, he wakes in the Ward of Irreconcilable Maladies, where they call the curses “delusions” and the hauntings “residual magics.” But the shadow at his window knows better. The shadow remembers.
When Regulus escapes into the rain-soaked city, hunted by ghosts and the remnants of his own mind, he finds a figure waiting, one he thought long dead. Sirius Black has been searching for his brother. What he finds is something half-alive, half-remembered, and wholly haunted.
A story of madness, survival, and the ghosts we make for ourselves.