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In December 1977, Regulus Black did something brave. He ran.
With nothing but a wand he couldn’t use, a bag of money, and a desperate hope for survival, Regulus escaped into the muggle world mere days before his Death Eater initiation.
Against all odds, he’s taken in by three muggle artists who live loudly and love fiercely. Through them, Regulus discovers acting. And he’s good at it. Too good.
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Six years later, Sirius and James walk into a London cinema and see Regulus’s face, six feet tall, staring back at them from the screen.
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- Part 1 of The Regulus Star + extras
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15 Apr 2026
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Harry doesn't Apparate to the roof of his school when running away from Dudley and his gang, but to an empty Grimmauld Place. The house raises him, with some help from Black portraits, and then Harry happens to everyone else.
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Bookmarked by HesterV
14 Nov 2025
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AU. Harry accidentally Apparates to an empty Grimmauld Place when he’s nine instead of to the top of the school roof when he escapes Dudley’s gang. The house is empty except for portraits and sometimes a speaking wooden face, and Harry has to kill his own food, and there’s something nasty in the cellars, and some of the portraits are mad. But this is still a vast improvement over the Dursleys.
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- Part 1 of Songs of Summer 2025
- Part 1 of Harry of Grimmauld Place
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- English
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- 5/5
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01 Oct 2025
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Regulus Black is a world-famous model, drowning under perfection, while James Potter is a champion surfer who never cared for fashion. When James visits Paris for Sirius’s big show, he expects chaos but not Regulus, sharp-edged and hiding something beneath the spotlight.
With their usual photographer out sick, Remus Lupin steps in, capturing moments no one else sees. But James sees them too the exhaustion, the untouched meals, the way Regulus is fading in plain sight.
James has always been good at spotting danger, but saving someone from drowning on land? That’s a whole different mess.
And falling for him? That was never supposed to happen.
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Bookmarked by HesterV
11 Sep 2025
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Two, perhaps nearly three, years after the fall of Lord Voldemort, the wizarding world begins to heal. But deep in the shadows, Bellatrix Lestrange still burns with the need to prove her loyalty to her vanished master. When fate places young Harry Potter in her path on a cold, storm-lashed night, she prepares to strike the ultimate blow of revenge.
And yet… she doesn’t.In a single moment of clarity, Bellatrix sees not the Boy Who Lived, not the symbol of her master’s downfall, but a child, bruised and neglected, cast away by the very world that claims to worship him. Driven by a twisted blend of vengeance, obsession, and something achingly close to maternal yearning, she steals him from the Muggles’ grasp, determined to shape him into something greater. Her own dark legacy.
As Harry grows under Bellatrix’s fierce and fractured care, molded by the shadows instead of the light, questions begin to stir within him. Who is he really? Savior or weapon? Pawn or player? As the years pass and Hogwarts looms on the horizon, the world teeters unknowingly on the edge of a future rewritten.
One boy. One woman. One night that changed everything.
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Bookmarked by HesterV
20 Aug 2025