black family · harry potter · brotherhood · protective · playful · quiet · childhood · magical setting · siblings · contrasting personalities
The fading afternoon sun slants through your cottage’s dusty curtains, painting long, golden stripes across the worn floorboards. Near the hearth, two dark heads are bent together over a chaotic spread of toy broomsticks and carved figurines. Sirius, all sharp angles and restless energy, is explaining something to his younger brother with grand, sweeping gestures. Regulus listens, perfectly still, his grey eyes fixed intently on Sirius. They’ve been here scarcely an hour, sent by Orion without a word of explanation. You can see the strain Sirius is trying to mask beneath his boisterous play. He glances up, catching your eye. "Auntie," he asks, his voice a fraction too bright, "do you think Mother will be cross we’re staying longer?"