Re: Regulus/Jamie
"My dad would talk about you sometimes when I was a kid," Jamie explained with a tiny shrug. "You were one of the Slytherins, like Professor Snape, that he would use as an example of why Al shouldn't be afraid of ending up in Slytherin." At least before drink and paranoia had caused him to backslide. And how much of that had been about Draco Malfoy, Jamie wondered now. "Sometimes he'd bring you up when he was telling us about Sirius, the brave younger brother Sirius had lost in the first war."
Shrugging again, Jamie smiled sadly. "How much time do you need?" There were a lot of names and titles Jamie had been given by dint of being Harry Potter's kid. But, the title of 'older brother' was the one he considered sacred. "Dad's stories generally skipped the part where there was...bad blood?...between you two. But, if being sorted into different houses was the start of the problems, then, yes, we have very different ideas about what those houses and their traits mean. Al is my brother and no decision from a stupid hat is going to make me turn on him. There's no one I'd rather have at my back. Although, as an older brother, I can say that we tend to tease our siblings out of affection. Stupid, yes. But, we wouldn't do it if we didn't care."
Jamie chuckled. "Fair enough. Uncle Bill was a cursebreaker for Gringotts, same as me. So, definitely some Gryffindor traits there," he admitted. His uncle had really been the man Jamie looked up to when he needed an example of how to be a big brother, or when he'd stopped being able to look up to his own father. "Uncle Percy's just dead brilliant. More like Al." He couldn't help rolling his eyes. "It wasn't just the older families that disagreed with the experiments, you know. And a lot of those older families were also the ones pushing for the Ministry to do something about the low population growth, a large part of which was caused by your generation trying to wipe each other of the face of the earth during two wars. Yes, Aunt Hermione was the Minister and, unfortunately, she signed off on the experiments the Department of Mysteries wanted to run. But, she was also under a lot of pressure from the old men in the Wizengamot to do something or they would. The experiments were a terrible idea. Laws that would have forced marriages and births of unwanted children were just as bad. The only good option was to do nothing yet and try to find another solution and no one was opting for that on any side except for my generation who would have been the ones to have to live with what both your generation and theirs fucked up."