[HP] The Order of the Phoenix Family

Molly chased all the yawning children upstairs, and the others left the headquarters one after another.Sirius and Arthur helped Molly clean up the kitchen and dining room, and then they went upstairs to rest, leaving Sirius in the living room.Before leaving, Molly hesitated for a moment, whether it was due to a mother's or a woman's intuition, in short, Sirius didn't think she really understood the meaning of returning to the old house for him; she probably just noticed that there was something in the house. A trapped beast howling in someone's chest.

"Good night." Sirius waved to her.

The movement upstairs stopped one after another, and he stood alone in the living room, feeling as if only he and Kreacher were left cursing in the old house.Sirius came to the tapestry again. It is fair to say that this thing is very delicately made, and it was once beautiful when there were still people looking at it.

Involuntarily, his fingers touched the hole where his name had been written.Ironically, his parents saw it as an important ceremony, yet legally it had no effect.They must have left their ancestral property to Regulus, but Regulus didn't live up to that time, and these things ended up in the hands of the traitor who didn't want them at all.

Sirius slid his hand to one side, reaching where Regulus Arcturus Black was.There has been no definitive evidence of Regulus' death, neither a body nor eyewitnesses.It was only at a certain time that news spread from the Death Eaters that the youngest son of the Black family was not strong in his convictions and was executed by Voldemort during his escape.After the war, no one has confirmed the authenticity and source of this statement. It is just a young Death Eater. If his life can not be used to aggravate the crimes of others, it is nothing to worry about.Up to now, things have changed, and the truth can no longer be found out.

If Regulus was still alive, he would have stayed in Azkaban after the war about half as long as Sirius. If his parents had found good help, it might have been even faster.In that case, this house belonged to Regulus, not the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, nor Sirius' cage.

If Regulus was still alive, he would be in his 30s by now.There is only a gold thread around his name to connect to his parents, but if he is still around, he must have obeyed the arrangement of his family to marry some pure-blood girl, and there will be a little Blake or two between their names .Not much more, there is almost no precedent for the Black family to have more than three children - Andromeda is three sisters, look what they have become.

With Regulus as the master of the old house, the Order of the Phoenix can only find another place for Sirius, or let him continue wandering; no matter where he goes, it is better than here.

But in that case, maybe this place would be Death Eater headquarters—could it?Voldemort didn't seem to need to fabricate Regulus' treachery. As far as Sirius knew, Regulus had always been Voldemort's loyal admirer, and if he had always been, people there should try to make him a hero.Since the statement they gave was that he was executed for betrayal or wavering, it was probably true.

But why?Sirius thought about this question when he first heard the news that Regulus was presumed dead, and finally he concluded that Regulus probably didn't know what he was doing when he joined the Death Eaters; so When he discovered Voldemort's true nature, he was terrified.This inference is based on what he knows about the other party: Regulus is an emotional and easily influenced person in his bones, and his admiration for Voldemort is essentially derived from his trust in his parents-Sirius often felt that he acted sternly Style is a kind of compensation for one's own character.

But the Regulus he remembered was, after all, only 15 years old, and everyone was emotional and impressionable at that time.And no matter how accurate or logical the inference is, it's not the answer.

The answer was that Sirius didn't know.

He didn't really believe that Regulus was dead before, it was the war years, people escaped or were declared dead every day, even Dumbledore himself was "killed" two or three times.He skipped the period of rebuilding his sanity and found that 14 years later, the old house was his.There was no doubt that Regulus Black was dead.

His brother died.

The question came too late, and the answers Sirius didn't know and wanted to know flooded in, but there were only him and countless silent names.The tapestry before him was starry, dusty, moth-eaten, and the luster of the gold and silver threads dimmed.

Just a weak Death Eater, Sirius thought, just a coward.

He loved the equally rebellious Andromeda, and even had a secret respect for Bellatrix's insane loyalty, and Regulus, just happened to be the kind of person he despised most.Sirius has always hated traitors, and it is better to devote oneself to the wrong reasons than to be volatile and vacillating; but Regulus may not even be considered a traitor. Here comes the death curse.Most of those people turned his body into something small like Barty Jr. treated his father, and buried him casually.

"I doubt that Regulus is not that important yet, and Voldemort needs to kill him himself."

That's what he'd told Harry earlier, and he thought now that Regulus wasn't so insignificant that Voldemort felt it was okay to let him die.

Even for Lily, Voldemort almost spared her life.Harry said that Lily was killed because she refused to walk away from her son and Voldemort, and she didn't have to die.Lily was Muggle-born, and she had escaped from Voldemort's hands three times, all of which had a chance of avoiding death. Why did Regulus have to die?Was it because Voldemort was angry because he refused to admit that he valued the wrong person?

Or, Regulus did more than they imagined.After discovering his mistake, perhaps Regulus tried to redeem it in some clumsy way - just like Sirius went after Peter in the first place.So Regulus lost his life meaninglessly, and Sirius lost his freedom equally meaninglessly.

They were different from the start, but they could have been just as stupid, just as crazy.People in the Black family are always more suitable for the fate of dying young. Once they live a long time, they will involuntarily turn into decay and become vassals of the chaotic night.Taking the name of the stars is quite appropriate. On ordinary days, no one will look at the stars unless they fall from the sky.

"Brother." Sirius paused for a while, then tried again, "Reggie."

I despise you, he thought, but I'd rather you be here.