Gossip
(I've seen this headcanon posted by a lot of different people and I high-key agree with it, so here's my interpretation. wc. 203)
"Psst!"
Regulus turned toward the sound, looking up from the book he was reading to see his brother loping across the ground, a grin on his face. "What?" he asked as Sirius plopped down next to him.
"Not even a 'Hello' for you favorite brother?" Sirius teased, immediately ripping out blades of grass by his feet and tearing them in his hands as he grinned.
"You're my only brother," Regulus rolled his eyes.
"Ergo, your favorite," Sirius smirked, leaning back on his elbows. "Especially after you hear what I have to say."
Interest piqued, Regulus tilted his head, placing a bookmark in the pages of his book and closing it. "What?"
"McKinnon and Meadowes. They're dating." Sirius said it with relish, like he was giving Regulus the best gift on the planet.
Because he was.
"No fucking way," Regulus gasped, his bored façade broken as he cast his book into the grass so he could completely move to face Sirius. "How do you know?"
His brother beamed. "Well, darling Reggie, my boyfriend is a Prefect. And he found them on rounds. It all started..."
It paid to have a brother in a different house who had a penchant for knowing the school gossip.
