Even The Smallest Kindness Can Change A Life 💙

barty is so "a pearl" by mitski coded.

he's sorry that he doesn't can't join the non-dark side (i'm not willing to call it the good side let's bfr it was sometimes darker than the "dark" side).

it's not that he hates the people that he's supposedly hates. it's just that he can't unlearn the things that he's been told is his future as a slytherin. he hates the fact that he's a part of the people who's "stuck in the past" and "can't undo past mistakes" but at the same time, he hates those who changed.

he hates that pandora decided to join the non-dark side and although she doesn't say it out loud, he knows that that side thinks that people like him are cowards. leave it to the gryffindors to point out when people are picking the safe option.

he hated regulus for sacrificing himself. how could he be so selfish as to leave him and evan alone? he just had to be brave at the last moment. out of all the things he could've given away, it was his life.

in azkaban, he thinks and thinks and thinks about those two sides and how they weren't all that different. how both he and sirius ended up at the same place for the same reason. they dared to hope.

the moment his father had said that evan was dead, all the hope and that small glimmer of light in him vanished. just. gone. and to think that he's got the better situation compared to sirius. atleast his friends don't hate his guts.

every night that's where he goes. back to the times where his arm doesn't feel like a 10 ton weight.

James: you're my... you're my regulus.

Regulus, thinking: oh I like the sound of that

Regulus, speaking: I don't belong to anyone

Oh my GODS REGULUS. WHY WONT YOU MAKE IT SIMPLLEEEEE. JAMES IS STUPID. HE WONT GET IT

evan’s nickname being rosie gives the same energy as a pit bull named cupcake

Walburga: this Potter boy not only seduced Sirius, but also kidnapped him! Regulus: mother, what disgusting things are you saying Regulus: Sirius is not in a romantic relationship with Potter Regulus: I am

ravenclaws won’t continue studying even when their head feels like it’s about to split open. ravenclaws will take a break, close their eyes, drink tea, and start again after a while. they know the information they study won’t be retained long, so what’s the use of it? they’ll just be wasting time for nothing.

slytherins on the other hand…

"he is half my soul, as the poets say"

the song of achilles, madeline miller

a deer is a herbivore.

a lion is a carnivore.

and a werewolf is a chocolativore

– A Brief for the Defense, Jack Gilbert

james worshipping regulus will always be my favourite jegulus dynamic. James buying everything regulus wants, driving him everywhere, but especially fucking him whenever regulus wants it. All that regulus needs to say is a whiny "Jamie please," and james is absolute putty in the palm of his hand.

Sirius Black in pearls