bits + pieces

Title: Fifteen Facts about Regulus Black
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre/Characters: Gen with subtext (Regulus Black and assorted friends and relations)
Warnings: Regulus's horrible life dark themes
Word Count: 1,657
Notes: I have been doing these for various characters intermittently as a way to get the muses going and decompress. The Blacks, however, seem to be in a contest to see whose Fifteen Facts can be the most bloody depressing.

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( 1. He was only about eleven months younger than Sirius. )

Title: Futurism
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen nonetheless written under the assumption that he's hitting that
Word Count: 398
Summary: A letter from G. Grindelwald to A. Dumbledore, circa August 1899. (In terms of one's philosophy and priorities, the phrase Dark wizard means very little.)

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( (He and Voldemort wouldn't have got on well at all, really.) )

Title: Historical Fiction
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Characters: Regulus Black and assorted contemporaries
Warnings: dark themes
Length: 1,960 words
Summary: Regulus knew history and mythology and ancient magic because they were in his blood; his mother had made sure of that. [originally posted 2008.01.06]

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( His mother changed a little when she was telling stories. )

Title: Well-Organized Minds
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Characters: Regulus Black and assorted contemporaries
Warnings: dark themes; not Book 7 compliant
Length: 533 words
Summary: He tries his best to make the world make sense. [originally posted 2005.08.10]

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( He found that he coped with problems better if he pretended they were questions. )

Title: Foregone Conclusions
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Characters: the Black brothers
Length: 664 words
Summary: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. [originally posted 2006.02.23]

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“Can I ask you something?”

Sirius had seated himself on a tree-stump, which was covered with so much snow that it was barely recognizable as one. He stopped kicking at the ground and looked up warily, fidgeting with the tassels on his scarf. “You can ask,” he said, ( “but I probably don’t want to answer.” )

Title: Façades
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen (unless your eyesight is hoyay/20)
Characters: Regulus Black, Remus Lupin
Length: 384 words
Summary: Nobody is that nice for no reason. [originally posted 2005.11.21]

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( Remus Lupin is the living manifestation of a good-boy stereotype. )

Title: Pragmatism (Triptych)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Characters: MWPP, focus on Peter; James/Sirius subtext if you squint
Warnings: dark themes
Length: 1,146 words
Summary: It helps to have a keen sense of what is and isn't useful. [originally posted early 2006]

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( Peter had never shared his fellow Gryffindors’ flair for the dramatic. )

FOCUS: LUNA LOVEGOOD

198 words. Storybook logic. ( originally posted 2005.08.02 )

176 words. Writing analysis. ( originally posted 2005.11.29 )

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FOCUS: TOM RIDDLE

88 words. Nurturing instincts. ( originally posted 2005.11.03 )

100 words. Sorting one's thoughts. ( originally posted 2005.09.14 )

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FOCUS: LILY (EVANS) POTTER

200 words. First Response. ( originally posted 2005.11.10 )

183 words. Physiology of a curse. ( originally posted 2005.10.28 )

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POV: SEVERUS SNAPE

182 words. Narcissa; pragmatism. ( originally posted 2005.11.16 )

307 words. MWPP; patterns of behaviour. ( originally posted 2006.11.04 )

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FOCUS: MWPP

203 words. Of abysses gazing back. ( originally posted 2005.11.24 )

111 words. Sirius used to just get it for the crosswords. ( originally posted 2005.09.13 )

294 words. Sowing seeds of doubt. ( originally posted 2006.11.09 )

For muteinglorious: something with Dr. Mrs. The Monarch. ( 304 words, set before The Lepidopterists )

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For feverbeats: Sirius/Snape. ( 833 words, roughly PG13 )

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for muteinglorious: something with Regulus. ( 684 words, very gen. )

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