I never cease to be amazed by how I can NEVER catch up on the wonderful Potterverse fiction that abounds. The Blacks are a source of endless fascination to me but even so, you've provided new insights.
remembers the half dozen times Sirius threatened to run away, packing his stuff up in a righteous fury and then unpacking it just as quickly when he lost his nerve. Regulus had never believed he'd actually go through with it, never understood why he wanted to. Even now, as he's planning to turn his back on everything his family has represented for the past eight hundred years, he's still trying to come up with a way to reconcile his beliefs about Muggle inferiority with his disgust at Voldemort's methods.
But wizards have never been good at negotiating a middle way, and Blacks are even worse at it--if the family motto is Toujours Pur, perhaps unofficially it should be all or nothing at all.....Like most members of his family, Regulus has always had delusions of grandeur. It's just that he's more aware of how ridiculous they are than the others.
But of course, I started crying almost at the sight of the dragon. I'm starting to wonder if my fascination with the Blacks has to do with the fact that I'm an only child....
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Date: 2009-06-07 03:10 pm (UTC)The Blacks are a source of endless fascination to me but even so, you've provided new insights.
remembers the half dozen times Sirius threatened to run away, packing his stuff up in a righteous fury and then unpacking it just as quickly when he lost his nerve. Regulus had never believed he'd actually go through with it, never understood why he wanted to. Even now, as he's planning to turn his back on everything his family has represented for the past eight hundred years, he's still trying to come up with a way to reconcile his beliefs about Muggle inferiority with his disgust at Voldemort's methods.
But wizards have never been good at negotiating a middle way, and Blacks are even worse at it--if the family motto is Toujours Pur, perhaps unofficially it should be all or nothing at all.....Like most members of his family, Regulus has always had delusions of grandeur. It's just that he's more aware of how ridiculous they are than the others.
But of course, I started crying almost at the sight of the dragon. I'm starting to wonder if my fascination with the Blacks has to do with the fact that I'm an only child....