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Regulus Arcturus Black (te_regulus) wrote in hogwarts_dawn,
@ 2021-04-09 13:47:00

Entry tags:

character: albus s. potter, character: regulus black

RP: Regulus/Al
Who: Regulus/Al
When: after breakfast April 9
Where: the hallways
What: who knows

Regulus decided that the best way to deal with the events of the past two weeks was to work. Everyone else seemed busy chatting, but Regulus had no one to talk to. There was half an idea to talk to Sirius, but that idea was dismissed just as easily, because he knew it would end up in some sort of argument. It was just easier to ignore him.

He finished breakfast and walked to the Wizengamot room. The only problem with that plan was that the Wizengamot was on the seventh floor on the other side of the castle, which mean he had to walked through the entire bloody castle. At least there weren't that many people around. He wondered how long people would try to avoid each other.

However on his way to his office, he saw Potter, the youngest. Normally he would have ignored him, but he'd actually dealt with this one while thinking that he was their grandfather. There had been hugs. It was truly terrible. "Albus, how are you?" he said, politely. "I promise that you can answer safely without repercussions of random hugs. I do apologise about that. Your grandparents are very touchy people, like most Gryffindors."

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the_other_albus
2021-04-09 07:04 pm UTC (link)

Albus felt his jaw clench, and took a moment to calm himself down. This wasn't anything new. He'd heard all his life that the stutter was just for attention, that he was faking it, that he did it to piss people off, piss his father off, be special in some way. As if he liked this. As if he wanted to be this way. As if it didn't make his life worse, or make him sound like an idiot, and add fuel to the many many reasons his parents and grandparents were dissapointed in him.

"Well. I'm, I'm glad you're, you're, you're doing well." Fuck. "Did, did you want something?"

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te_regulus
2021-04-09 07:18 pm UTC (link)

Regulus shook his head. "No, nothing in particular. I thought it was polite to greet you since we've had lunch together for days. It is what people do."

Really if he didn't know better, he'd think that Albus was slow, but he had seen what he could do. "So why exactly do you stutter? From your reaction, you don't think you're doing it on purpose and by the way, what kind of slytherin makes his emotions this obvious? But it's not physiological either, because if it was, someone else's memories wouldn't have changed anything. Remus might think he was your grandfather, but that didn't mean that he stopped being a werewolf just like Severus didn't turn into one. So you can clearly speak just fine, so why don't you?" he said, very calmly and very curious.

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the_other_albus
2021-04-09 07:35 pm UTC (link)

Regulus seemed to be actually curious, so Al quashed his natural inclination to flip him off and walk away.

"It's, it's psychological. Which is why, why Kirley did it, when, when he was me." He spoke just slowly enough that his thoughts didn't run away with him. "I, I don't know why, why I do it. If I did, if I did I'd stop. It's, it's tied to, to emotions though. The more I, feel, the worse, the worse I sound." Which was a fantastic way to get people to take him seriously. "Anxiety, mostly." He shrugged. He didn't exactly like his stutter, but he'd taken ownership of it a long time ago. Just another way Albus Severus Potter was fucked up. "Or, or my brain goes faster than my, than my mouth sometimes. It stops, when I'm comfortable."

He didn't really know anything about Regulus, but he couldn't really find any malice in him.

"You, uh, you put a lot of stock, into, into how the houses are, are supposed to be, huh? Not that, not that you're alone in that."

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te_regulus
2021-04-09 07:46 pm UTC (link)

"Well I'm not sure I agree. Kirley probably did it, because he remembered that he did it. It was ...natural. Maybe it's just become your natural, you expect it to happen, people around you expect it to happen," Regulus said. "I mean I wouldn't recommend some of the techniques that would have been used in my time to make it stop, but if it's in your mind, then there's a way to end it. You just need to figure out what to do. Magic is marvelous like that."

Why in heaven's sake was he anxious? "You do know that life is just fine where you are from, yes? But if you are anxious there are potions. Take them, retrain your brain to speak normally like you did when you thought you were your brother, and you'll be fine. Unless you actually want to stutter," Regulus said.

He nodded. "The Hat finds traits that are strong in us, although I've decided that it stopped working in your generation. It's the only explanation that makes sense, because you wouldn't have lasted a day in Slytherin. Forget about the stutter, I can't even see your ambition, or being sly, or cunning. You seem as straightforward as every Gryffindor."

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the_other_albus
2021-04-09 07:51 pm UTC (link)

"Wow, there's, there's potions? And, and techniques? That's, that's brilliant. I never, I never tried any of that. Thanks for, for enlightening me." Albus rolled his eyes, not even bothering to hide his annoyance. Why did people always assume they knew everything about his life? Usually it was because they'd read about him in the papers since he was born, but Regulus hadn't ever done that. Apparently there was 'assume whatever the fuck you want' written on Al's forehead.

"And hey, you, you, got me. I'm a, I'm a terrible Slytherin. Terrible Gryffin, Gryffindor too. Yay you, you're so, so perceptive. Are we, are we done?"

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te_regulus
2021-04-09 08:25 pm UTC (link)

"Oh look, reacting emotionally like a Gryffindor," he said, merely raising an eyebrow at the outburst, because unlike Albus, he did not get emotional. "If the castle could make you stop stuttering in an instance, you obviously haven't done enough to make it stop on your own, and if you have tried it, then you've tried the wrong one. Unless we're back to the fact that you enjoy being different from the other Potters, and then it is your doing."

He shrugged. "If it makes you feel better, the hat seems to have miscast an entire generation, with the possible exception of Savannah. She truly is a Hufflepuff." He smiled a little. "I am very perceptive, but please, do carry on. I'm sure you are life is full and fulfilling at the moment and you simply can't have a simple conversation that could help with your stuttering. Have a good day."

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the_other_albus
2021-04-09 08:33 pm UTC (link)

"Forgive me for, for not giving you the, the, the full rundown of my, my life. Feel free to, to think whatever you, you, you want."

He have Regulus a sarcastic little bow, then kept walking. He should have known better than to talk to him about this in the first place. Jamie was probably the only person who actually knew how many treatments and techniques Al had tried over the years, many thanks to Grandma Molly. He certainly didn't need a literal stranger telling him how he'd obviously done it all wrong or he'd be fixed by now. Fixed. Right. Screw him.

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