( in which Regulus has a conversation with a portrait )

It's on the small side, as flats go, but that's got more to do with the structure of the building than the quality of the flat; otherwise, it wouldn't even have made it past the first cut. Besides, wizarding flats tend to go one person to a floor, the better to give every tenant his own Floo access point ( Read more... )

Two owls show up for Regulus, in the flock of deliveries during breakfast. He recognises Narcissa's immediately, and frowns for a moment before realizing Echo is only carrying a letter at the moment. He takes the letter, feeds her a piece of bacon, and sends her on her way before the second, much plainer owl lands and deposits a magazine ( Read more... )

( in which Voldemort was Very Very Stupid, long ago )

( IC portion: the list. Will be updated as Regulus finds out more about what's on it. )

( in which a question is... at least set on the right trail )

It took some doing, but in the end, Valentine's advice (and the inn's insistence that Regulus use the strangest parchment he's ever seen, until he had something workable for the final run) paid off. What he's sending off to Sirius basically says that they need to talk, this is not a joke of any sort, and Peter's willing to mediate if necessary. ( Read more... )

Regulus knows what's coming better than anyone in the world (except for Peter), but pretending he doesn't is going to be of critical importance. After all, at least half the other people in his House were planning to join the Death Eaters sooner or later; aside from the risk that one of them would pass word along to his mother, he'd rather not ( Read more... )

Regulus isn't terribly familiar with the concept of bathroom graffiti. A few people try at Hogwarts, but mostly get into trouble for their efforts, and his parents avoid the class of places where people would write on the bathroom walls ( Read more... )

Regulus has two weeks out of the house. Two weeks that will not be spent at school.

Two weeks somewhere Kreacher can't follow him, if Peter's work on that holds up. Nearly anyone would be cheerful at that prospect.

And so, at the appointed time, he shows up at Peter's flat.