Since I really respect your opinions and find them quite similar to mine I want to ask about your opinions on Regulus Black. His personality, how he sees Sirius, why he regretted being a Death Eater etc.
Hi anon!! So nice to hear you like my opinions :)
Regulus Black is a character we don't really see much, but I respect him like I respect Snape for realising how Voldy and the DEs can ruin the life of so many people. Both Snape and Regulus defected because they couldn't bear the idea of their loved ones being harmed and probably realised others had it just as bad as them with the DEs in charge.
I think he was a good person deep down, if not good then certainly very capable of love. He was probably what the fandom claims Draco is, just a child pressured into following in his parents' footsteps. He certainly gets influenced really easily and is selfish like the earlier Snape we see, but he was also very brave and could've had excellent development if he'd lived.
From what we do see of Reg in canon, though:
Regulus probably bought into that whole pure bloods are better crap and he certainly seemed to have believed in the cause of the DE, was a fan, which is pretty obvious from the collage of cuttings in his room. Maybe he thought Voldy just wanted to harm muggleborns, and didn't really have much against house-elfs, or other creatures. Maybe that was something he couldn't align himself to, and drew the line at. Personally, I headcanon Reg to be an animal lover.
His relationship with Sirius:
Definitely very complicated, you can see that Sirius is soft for his brother, but doesn't think he was sensible enough to see that Voldemort was crazy. As an older sibling, I sometimes feel the same. You feel responsible for your younger siblings and think they don't know better than to do the wrong thing unwittingly.
I'm sure Regulus would've been close to Sirius pre-hogwarts, which explains why Sirius cared about him. They probably drifted apart since associating with Sirius, the rebel, would only make it worse for Reg. I'm sure Regulus had a lot of moments where he thought "only if Sirius would come to his senses, everything would be perfect" and probably was under great pressure from his family to amount to something within the death eaters since the Blacks' firstborn was such a disgrace to the household.
It seems pretty stupid to die the way that Reg did, but he was really young; and that, combined with his fear and sudden change of heart could be a possible explanation.
dailybridgerton
titsay
gummygunk
yousharknotpass
prguitarman
areudirty
snowghoul
romaincrisis
