your favourite bartylus headcanons!!👀
oh my god I love this question.
- regulus is lowkey kind of a stalker when it comes to barty, he reads the daily prophet everyday without fail just in case barty got mentioned or photographed, he memorised barty's insane class schedule and all my mutuals know about the barty shrine regulus has
- barty is a very big qudditch fan (this is actually confirmed in gof!!) so he always drops by to watch regulus' qudditch practices; he says it's because he likes studying the game plays but for some reason his eyes never seem to leave a certain seeker. he also never misses regulus' games
- regulus subtly asks his mother if the crouch's are on the guest list for whatever function his family is attending/hosting. walburga thinks her son is just very interested in politics, she doesn't the very obvious heart eyes her son is sending the crouch boy
- regulus sneaks into the ravenclaw dorms most nights to see barty, it doesn't matter how stupid or ridiculous the riddle is, he'll always answer it if it means he can see his boyfriend
- the one time barty snuck into the slytherin dorms, he used his invisibility cloak (another canon thing from gof) and scared the shit of regulus that night by pretending to be nearly headless nick (regulus was not amused)
- barty runs warm, regulus runs cold; the two of them perfectly neutralise the other's body temperature
- barty is very good at potions, even better at smuggling ingredients so sometimes him and regulus try and make random potions. it usually ends up with the potion blowing up in their face
- barty is regulus' only friend, it sounds pathetic but it's true. regulus does have other people he considers friends but they're all his family members (bellatrix, narcissa, lucius) so it doesn't really count. regulus deeply values this friendship with barty, he's the only ever person that understands him inside and out