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After college, Regulus starts working as a book editor in London, going back to his home country after spending seven years living in France with his uncle.
He misses London, he wants to see more of his brother and reconnect with him. He wants to leave his past in France and start a new life. But when he arrives, he quickly remembers about James Potter,— six years older than him, the father of a seven-year-old and his brother's best friend. Also, Regulus' childhood crush.
Now that Regulus is all grown up, he decides he wants a taste of James.
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20 Jun 2026
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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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20 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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21 Apr 2026
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ritardando (rit.) • /ri.tarˈdan.do/
becoming gradually slower → used as a direction in musicJames Potter never anticipated getting panic attacks. Or finding himself relying on Regulus Black for comfort. Or for all of that to somehow lead to a pretend relationship.
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- Part 1 of ritardando (op. 29)
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21 Apr 2026
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Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule by courfee
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Sep 2023
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“Excuse me, you what?”
“I want you to take Regulus out on a date,” Sirius repeats casually as if he hasn’t just said the most absurd thing ever, watching the Snitch that had escaped James’ hand the second Sirius had made the ridiculous request the first time.
James stares at his best friend in disbelief, because what?
“Look, if you go on a date with Regulus, I can go out on my Moony date. My parents will realise that their stupid idea of cursing me with only getting to date once Regulus does didn’t work out because look at that, Regulus also dates! They reverse the magic, Regulus can happily go back to refusing to date anyone, I can go back happily dating Remus, and you can happily go back doing whatever you had planned to do this summer. Quidditch, I assume.”
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or: A 10 Things I Hate About You AU where James fake dates Regulus so Sirius can date Remus again
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21 Apr 2026