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How would the family react to SWM? Do you they would be surprised to see that side of Sirius? And do you think Regulus knew Sirius was a bully?
Personally I doubt Regulus either knew or cared. I know Regulus probably ran in a different social group to the Marauders/Snape, (it has to be a slightly different one, doesn't it? Since he's younger), and I despise the "Regulus and Snape Friendship" headcanon (Bro bullied a child he is not pulling punches for Padfoot's brother). I would be so curious to know when JKR decided to add him.
Anyway, congrats on finishing TBSD <3
I've been sitting on this ask for a few weeks because it speaks to a lot of what I write about Sirius (and things I think a lot of his fanbase gets wrong, honestly.)
I don't think Sirius's family would have been terribly surprised by his bullying of Snape, no. They probably would have thought him doing it out of boredom showed a lack of control and that Snape wasn't a worthy target of Sirius's time or attention, but the fundamental entitlement underpinning it was something cultivated in him by his parents, who by his own admission thought they were "practically royal."
I think it's very telling that of the flashbacks we see of Sirius when he was still living under his parents' roof, his behavior and attitude is not particularly likeable. I don't think that means that Sirius was always a jerk as a teen, but the fact that Rowling chooses to show this less palatable side to him (particularly in SWM) is telling. He's an asshole to everyone, including James, in that scene, and she wanted to draw attention to the fact. When he meets James, Lily and Snape on the train, Sirius goes for Snape in such a studied manner that it's obvious he has practice with being a bully (I would assume Regulus was his first victim.)
I think Sirius saw bullying modeled in his home (in my universe I choose to have his grandfather and mother as his chief models.) His haughtiness, entitlement and disregard for authority are as much a product of his upbringing as they are reactions to it. This duality and "tug-of-war" within him is what makes him such a rich and complex character, in my mind.
Regulus undoubtedly knew this about his brother, I doubt he cared much beyond how it directly affected him.
I can see Regulus and Snape in the same social circle as they both ended up as Death Eaters and were only a year apart in school, but I can't see them as close for a variety of reasons.
Nothing about Sirius on the train screams âdefender of mugglebornsâ either. He wasnât an 11yr old activist, so I donât understand why I was attacked then blocked for pointing this out on here recently by so-called âfansâ, (whilst bashing one of my favourite characters in the process). Genuinely confused about that, and I feel like it was a bit unwarranted to be honest.
250 years of Jane Austen:
Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775, in Stevenson, Hampshire, England. She was an intelligent daughter of George Austen, a known cleric at one of the Anglican parishes. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh, was a wealthy lady. Janeâs grandfather was an Oxford-educated cleric. The children grew up in an environment that provided them with room for creative thinking and learning. Young Jane, being close to her father, learned many things from him. Moreover, Georgeâs extensive library helped her polish her reading and analytical skills. Unfortunately, her father died in 1805, and her mother passed away in 1827.
Jane, a great literary figure, belonged to a well-educated and influential family. She began to read and write at a very young age. Sharing a close relationship with her father, she learned the basic skills at home. To get a formal education, Jane, along with her sister, was sent to Oxford in 1783 to be educated by Miss Ann Cowley, where they stayed for a short time. Facing an acute illness, both siblings returned home and stayed with the family. Later, in 1875, Jane and her sister were sent to Reading Abbey Girls School, where they were exposed to needlework, dancing, French, music, and drama. Unfortunately, due to the financial strains, the sisters returned home in 1876. After her return, her father and brothers guided her in the educational field. The private theatre had always been an essential part for Austen as her friends and family staged a series of plays, including The Rivals by Richard Sheridan. Inspired with the literary efforts of her family and friends, she started writing herself at the age of eleven.
Jane led a successful life, and at the age of forty-one, her health began to decline. Despite facing illness, she made efforts to continue to write and edited older works as well as started a new piece called The Brothers, which published after her death under the title of Senditon. The world lost this precious gem on the 18th of July in 1817 in Winchester, England.
Some Important Facts of Her Life:
Her transformation from little-known to internationally acclaimed writers started in the 1920s when critics reevaluated her literary pieces.
She enjoyed unprecedented fame in her life, but she never got married.
The popularity of her works speaks in many TV adaptations and films of Mansfield Park, Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Pride, and Prejudice
Writing Career:
Jane, a towering figure of the seventeenth century, started writing literary pieces at a very young. With the compositions of plays and short stories, she laid the foundation of her long literary career. At first, she wrote pieces for her own and her familyâs amusements with the subjects of anarchic fantasies of female power or feminism and illicit behavior. Later, in 1970, she started writing novels and came up with Love and Friendship followed by The History of England, presenting the historical and romantic fiction. Using the framework of letter writing in these fictions, she unveiled her wit and disliked for romantic hysteria and sensibility, which remained evident in her other writings, too. Later, she produced an epistolary story , Lady Susan, presenting the life of a female who manipulates others using her sexuality and intelligence. Marked with the techniques of letter writing, her other major work, Elinor and Marianne, which was later drafted as Sense and Sensibility, appeared in 1811. She produced many masterpieces throughout her life including, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma and Pride and Prejudice.
Portrait of Jane, painted by her sister Cassandra in 1810.
Her Style:
Jane stands among the most influential figures of world literature. With the help of her unique style, she beautifully portrayed her ideas in her literary pieces. Her distinctive literary style relies mainly on a blend of parody, free indirect speech, irony, and presentation of literary realism. Jane used burlesque  and parody in her writings to critique the portrayal of women in the 18th century. Her pieces are far from the world of imagination as she focused on presenting the ordinary people realistically. Moreover, her ironic style presents a keen insight into the English culture. Concerningcharacterization, she focused on the conversation allow the characters to develop themselves. The recurring themes in most of her literary pieces are cultural, identity, love, marriage, and pride.
Jane Austenâs Influence on Future Literature:
Jane, with her unique abilities, left a profound impact on global literature, and even after 250 hundred years of her demise, she continues to win love for her biting approach on diverse tangles of this passion. Â Her witty ideas, along with distinct literary qualities, won applause from the audience, critics, and other fellow writers. Her impact resonates strongly inside as well as outside England. Her masterpieces provided the principles for the writers of succeeding generations. She successfully documented her ideas about marriage, power, and love in her writings that even today, writers try to imitate her unique style, considering her a beacon for writing prose.
Some Important Works of Jane Austen:
First edition title page from Sense and Sensibility, Austen's first published novel.
ALL of her work is doubtlessly important and great as she was an outstanding writer.
Her novels:
Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811.
Pride and Pejudice, published in 1813 .
Mansfield Park, published in 1814.
Emma, pubkished in 1815. Â
Northanger Abbey, published in 1818. (posthumous)
Persuasion, published in 1818. (posthumous)
Lady Susan, published in 1871. (posthumous)
Other Works:Â
Besides novels, she also tried her hands on shorter and non-fiction too. Some of them include Plan of novel  Juvenilia- Volume the First, Juvenilia- V0lume the Second, Juvenilia- Volume the Third, Letters, and Poems. While living in Bath, she also begun to write The Watsons. The Watsons, an unfinished novel, focusing on the life of Emma Watson and her family's struggles. After the demise of her own father and her reduced circumstances as a result, Jane neglected the novel.
Sanditon is a second unfinished novel. In January 1817, Jane began work on a new novel she called The Brothers, later titled Sanditon, and completed twelve chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because of illness. The novel was televised into Sandition in the 21th century.
Last page of a letter from Austen to her sister, Cassandra, dated 11 June 1799.
Famous Quotes:
âHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.â (Pride and Prejudice.)
âThere could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.â (Persuasion.)
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.â (Northanger Abbey.)
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.â (Mansfield Park)
Watercolour of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra, 1804.
Jane's family tree:
He was less isolated when he was sorted into Gryffindor? So that means Sirius was exposed to counter opinions based on the fact that his housemates would have been from different backgrounds, for a start. And unlike Andromeda et al, Regulus was the youngest and last to enter Hogwarts. Do Slytherins really talk to pupils from other houses in canon? Snape and Lily were the exception because they already knew each other before Hogwarts anyway, and look how well that turned outâŚlol.
âEven furtherââŚuntil he actually defected on his own without anyone elseâs influence or help, and lost his life in the process. The reason why he got involved with the DEs in the first place is because he thought it would make his family proud. So why would he emulate his brother who went out of his way to do the opposite? And donât you think Regulus brought âhimself out of isolationâ here too? While it was actually the sorting hat that brought Sirius out of isolation. At 18, Sirius had already ran away from home and was surrounded by his best friends. When Regulus was the same age, he had no one he could turn to. So how could you even compare their situations to attempt to downplay what the latter was going through?
As for Andromeda, she just happened to fall in love with a muggleborn but we donât know anything else beyond that during her time at Hogwarts. Itâs highly likely that if she hadnât met Ted, she would have married a pureblood anyway.
Alphard was on the sidelines, he had no part in the war whatsoever and no expectations either, lol. He was disowned posthumously for âleaving some gold to Siriusâ, thatâs all we know of him, he could have held the same prejudices but it was his love for his nephew that was the driving point. We donât know what his beliefs were.
The only influences Regulus had were from Slytherins and his family, that sounds pretty isolated to me. He wanted to make his family proud when his brother ran away, itâs obvious. Unlike Alphard, he was brought up during the war where he was highly likely manipulated by his older cousin to âfight for the causeâ from a young age. Also, everything is heightened when youâre a teenager.
And like I said, Sirius did nothing of the sort in canon at 11 years old. His world wasnât falling apart when he was the eldest son and heir of a wealthy family, and he had his best friends in Gryffindor to lean on. Who did Regulus have?
Where is the evidence behind his supposed âhatred for dark magicâ and âpure blood supremacyâ at age 11? All he said on the train was that his âentire family are Slytherinsâ, thatâs it.
So in this case, canon Regulus does hold a candle to canon Sirius, the problem is that even so-called âfansâ on here evidently get both characters wrong sometimes. Sirius and Regulus were more similar than either of them would have cared to admit.
I honestly donât think youâve understood my initial reblog at all.
@ceies
i want to applaud Sirius for never having to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort is wrong
There wasnât any proof in canon that Sirius was particularly pro-muggleborn before he was sorted into Gryffindor, to be fair.
Regulus was the most socially isolated of that generation of Blacks, but he still sacrificed his life to steal a part of his bossâs soul when he was no older than 18, without any outside influence or exposure to a different point of view, and he would have been very much alone at the time. Letâs not downplay that, speaking as someone who finds both brothers fascinating characters and who is not even a fan of Jegulus. No disrespect to fans of Chalamet, but Harry Gilby has always been my fan cast anyway.
It takes a strong person to admit they were wrong at their lowest point in life, let alone actively do something about it. Especially when the odds were stacked against him.
Also, feeling the need to âstep upâ when Sirius ran away would have definitely been a contributing factor to the Death Eater transition in the first place. Living in despair is an actual thingâŚ
Thereâs also no canon proof to suggest that Regulus didnât start having doubts after he joined, and Kreacher was the catalyst to his defection. So we donât know if he was still a âracistâ by then, just a thought. Mind blowing, I know! /sarc
âYes, but the world isnât split into good people and Death Eaters,â said Sirius with a wry smile.
-OotP Pg 302 Ch 14 âPercy and Padfootâ
... Anyway, Sirius never had to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort sucks and I applaud him for that
You can read whatever you likeâŚbut thereâs still no proof that he rejected his familyâs views before his sorting.
i want to applaud Sirius for never having to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort is wrong
There wasnât any proof in canon that Sirius was particularly pro-muggleborn before he was sorted into Gryffindor, to be fair.
Regulus was the most socially isolated of that generation of Blacks, but he still sacrificed his life to steal a part of his bossâs soul when he was no older than 18, without any outside influence or exposure to a different point of view, and he would have been very much alone at the time. Letâs not downplay that, speaking as someone who finds both brothers fascinating characters and who is not even a fan of Jegulus. No disrespect to fans of Chalamet, but Harry Gilby has always been my fan cast anyway.
It takes a strong person to admit they were wrong at their lowest point in life, let alone actively do something about it. Especially when the odds were stacked against him.
Also, feeling the need to âstep upâ when Sirius ran away would have definitely been a contributing factor to the Death Eater transition in the first place. Living in despair is an actual thingâŚ
Thereâs also no canon proof to suggest that Regulus didnât start having doubts after he joined, and Kreacher was the catalyst to his defection. So we donât know if he was still a âracistâ by then, just a thought. Mind blowing, I know! /sarc
âYes, but the world isnât split into good people and Death Eaters,â said Sirius with a wry smile.
-OotP Pg 302 Ch 14 âPercy and Padfootâ
... Anyway, Sirius never had to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort sucks and I applaud him for that
What's interesting about Sirius is that, even if it wasn't a fully formed thought/feeling yet, he was already questioning his family's pride as Slytherins before he got to Hogwarts. He was 11.
He likely hadn't had any interaction with Muggles or Muggleborns - and perhaps not even Half-Bloods and 'Blood-Traitors'. Kept in a Pureblood bubble, where everything is about pride and appearances. He would be rewarded with affection for certain behaviours and scolded for others. Yet even at 11 he was questioning his entire life.
I don't fault Regulus, or Draco, or any Pureblood little kid for buying into their parents' training. To expect otherwise is a big ask! To look at their own family - their entire world up until the small scraps of independence Hogwarts offers - and say 'you're wrong and I'm willing to risk you hating me for realizing that'.
But Sirius does just that. He does the big ask. He never had to join a blood supremacist cult to realize that Voldemort is wrong. He didn't even need to leave his home to start questioning what had been presented to him as facts, seeking out his own conclusions.
While I don't think Regulus having faith in his parents' way of life was his fault as a kid, he was absolutely not socially isolated. He had as much exposure to other ways of life as Sirius had: Hogwarts.
Being in Slytherin meant he had more pressure on him, socially, to be sucked down an extremist pipeline. But unlike, say, Severus who had no safety net, direct bad Muggle experiences and was desperate to find any way to find stability in an unfair society... Regulus had a wealthy family that wasn't even 'supportive' of the Death Eaters - just wasn't against them. He could have lived a quiet life with his beloved family, researching or working if he wished.
But he chose to be a little revolutionary, pushing back against the slow progressive changes the Wizarding World had been making in order to drag it back to a full aristocratic oligarchy, this time with a dictatorship flavour. He had a shrine in his bedroom to his favourite 50yr old man.
There is no canon proof to suggest Regulus didn't start to have doubts after he joined. There's also no canon proof he ever doubted the anti-Muggleborn rhetoric at all, even at his death. There is no proof that he had any change-of-heart whatsoever, other than that his beloved old man had betrayed his personal trust.
Kreacher was important to Regulus. Regulus thought he, the Blacks, were important to Voldemort - that he cared about the worries Purebloods had and wanted a better world for them specifically. None of that has anything to do with Muggleborn rights. That has everything to do with stepping on Regulus' heart.
It takes a strong person to admit they were wrong at their lowest point in life... but it doesn't take much to lash out against someone who hurt you deeply. It doesn't take as much to try and die as a martyr when it feels like the odds are stacked against you. It takes a LOT to keep living and keep choosing love and compassion as a motivator even when everything has crumbled around you.
Sirius Black learned that. He stayed alive no matter what so he could keep loving, keep acting, keep trying to find something to live for.
He was 11, so he wasnât into politics much, was he? He was questioning and standing up for nothing, thereâs no proof to suggest that he was. In Snapeâs memory on the train (DH), there was no mention of pureblood supremacy or even evidence of Sirius rejecting his family on a personal level either. All he said in the flashback was, âmy family are all Slytherinsâ, that was literally it. What part of an 11 year old Sirius just screamed defender of muggleborns?
âBut Sirius does just that.â Iâm not disagreeing here, but not before he started HogwartsâŚ
Regulus absolutely was socially isolated, who could he debate with in Slytherin? I beg to question, lol.
The Blacks did indeed support the ideology, Sirius himself said they only got âcold feetâ when Voldy went too far (he literally says this in OOTP). Thereâs also no evidence to suggest that Regulus didnât have any doubts leading up to the cave or that he wouldnât have had any if he survived either.
Unlike Snape, he never encountered muggles, and yet Snape chose to join the death eaters anyway. He defected far later on in the war too, so what is your point exactly? Iâd hardly call his family a âsafety netâ when his brother left him to face the music on his own. No wonder he felt like he had to step up, and stepping up to a teenager obviously meant fighting on the side his family emphatically supported politically, to make them proud. Not to the mention the family members who were already death eaters or married to one. Iâm sorry but, have you read the books at all?
He had a shrineâŚor he just wanted to keep track of the war. He also had too much on his plate at the time to take it down, so that doesnât mean he still believed absolutely everything at the time. Just saying. Iâm not saying he never had those beliefs, only that none of us can say what was going through his mind when he defected. Itâs possible that after seeing so much in the war, he may have been disenchanted too. I donât agree with the fanon interpretation either, I pretty much said this in my first reblogâŚ
Please donât compare Draco to RegulusâŚthatâs insulting.
There was no way out for death eaters though, so you canât say that Sirius would have done any differently in the same situation. Regulus obviously didnât want to fight for the cause anymore, otherwise he would opted for the easy way out and rely on his familyâs wealth and influence, or he could have said he was coerced at the time (under the imperious). But he chose to steal a part of his bossâs soul instead, it takes an incredibly brave person to do so, especially when he would have been well aware of the risks. This is a bit extreme for someone who still idolised his former boss, as you claim.
Regulus obviously wanted his boss to fall, and died doing it while protecting his family and the people he loved (while Sirius didnât give a damn about his family at all). Sirius lived to adulthood while Regulus didnât, so he never had the opportunity to fully redeem himself. The fact that he sacrificed his life in the cave doesnât make him a âweakerâ person than Sirius, he was no less of a hero than Sirius. Their situations were completely different at the time, so why compare like you just did? Regulus died to protect the people he loved, not for âmartyrdomâ.
Also, Sirius did âlash outâ at people on more than one occasion in the books, however justified it was, it definitely happened nonetheless. So I donât understand your reasoning here at all.
i want to applaud Sirius for never having to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort is wrong
There wasnât any proof in canon that Sirius was particularly pro-muggleborn before he was sorted into Gryffindor, to be fair.
Regulus was the most socially isolated of that generation of Blacks, but he still sacrificed his life to steal a part of his bossâs soul when he was no older than 18, without any outside influence or exposure to a different point of view, and he would have been very much alone at the time. Letâs not downplay that, speaking as someone who finds both brothers fascinating characters and who is not even a fan of Jegulus. No disrespect to fans of Chalamet, but Harry Gilby has always been my fan cast anyway.
It takes a strong person to admit they were wrong at their lowest point in life, let alone actively do something about it. Especially when the odds were stacked against him.
Also, feeling the need to âstep upâ when Sirius ran away would have definitely been a contributing factor to the Death Eater transition in the first place. Living in despair is an actual thingâŚ
Thereâs also no canon proof to suggest that Regulus didnât start having doubts after he joined, and Kreacher was the catalyst to his defection. So we donât know if he was still a âracistâ by then, just a thought. Mind blowing, I know! /sarc
âYes, but the world isnât split into good people and Death Eaters,â said Sirius with a wry smile.
-OotP Pg 302 Ch 14 âPercy and Padfootâ
... Anyway, Sirius never had to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort sucks and I applaud him for that
i want to applaud Sirius for never having to join a blood supremacist cult to realise that Voldemort is wrong
There wasnât any proof in canon that Sirius was particularly pro-muggleborn before he was sorted into Gryffindor, to be fair.
Regulus was the most socially isolated of that generation of Blacks, but he still sacrificed his life to steal a part of his bossâs soul when he was no older than 18, without any outside influence or exposure to a different point of view, and he would have been very much alone at the time. Letâs not downplay that, speaking as someone who finds both brothers fascinating characters and who is not even a fan of Jegulus. No disrespect to fans of Chalamet, but Harry Gilby has always been my fan cast anyway.
It takes a strong person to admit they were wrong at their lowest point in life, let alone actively do something about it. Especially when the odds were stacked against him.
Also, feeling the need to âstep upâ when Sirius ran away would have definitely been a contributing factor to the Death Eater transition in the first place. Living in despair is an actual thingâŚ
Thereâs also no canon proof to suggest that Regulus didnât start having doubts after he joined, and Kreacher was the catalyst to his defection. So we donât know if he was still a âracistâ by then, just a thought. Mind blowing, I know! /sarc
âYes, but the world isnât split into good people and Death Eaters,â said Sirius with a wry smile.
-OotP Pg 302 Ch 14 âPercy and Padfootâ
Ăomer stepped back and a look of awe was in his face. He cast down his proud eyes. 'These are indeed strange days,' he muttered. 'Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass.'
At length they came to the Prince Imrahil, and Legolas looked at him and bowed low; for he saw that here indeed was one who had elven-blood in his veins. âł RETURN OF THE KING: THE LAST DEBATE
DOL AMROTH, a princedom on the western coast of BELFALAS in the south of GONDOR
Certainty of death, small chance of success. What are we waiting for?
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âOver the field rang his clear voice calling: 'Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!'â Ăomer the Return if the King
Ăomer is the Zendaya of drawing for me. I could not for the life of me get him to look right.
I legit thought this was an actual screenshot! Awesome fanart. đĽ
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look, LothĂriel may be the youngest of Imrahil's kids, but the actual babygirl of the family is either Amrothos or Erchirion.
Definitely Amrothos! đâ¤ď¸
(Absolutely adore your characterisation of him by the way)