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CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR:
The One Where Sirius Is Disappointed
October 1977…
Sirius was sitting in the clocktower courtyard with James, Remus, and Peter when Evan Rosier marched over, sneering. He insulted Mary McDonald, who Remus was currently dating, and called her a Mudblood. Sirius stood up, threatened him, and Rosier responded by blurting out the news about his brother.
"Piss off Black, just because your little brother went and signed up for the right side doesn't mean that I'm going to stop being disgusted by the filth that I see walking around this school!"
Sirius paled. "What did you just say?"
Rosier sneered. "Ask your little brother where his loyalties lie."
It had taken Sirius ten minutes to find his brother.
"What do you want me to say, Sirius?" Regulus demanded.
"I want you to tell me that it's a lie," Sirius insisted. "Tell me that Rosier is wrong. Tell me that you're not signing up to become a fucking Death Eater! You're only fifteen, Reg!"
Regulus shrugged. "And what did you do at fifteen, Siri? Were you the good little boy who always did what he was told?"
Sirius' lip curled. "There's a big difference between doing what someone tells them and joining a fucking group of psychos who want to destroy the world! Reg… do you really believe in all that?"
Regulus stared. "I believe that you walked out on me and I have a new family now."
Sirius watched him walk away, his mouth open in shock.
He punched a hole through their dormitory wall when he made it back to Gryffindor tower. James and Remus had held him down as he cried and screamed at his brother's betrayal; at how it was all his fault that he had chosen to follow Voldemort, how he never should have left home, but had stayed and let his mother keep torturing him to keep Regulus safe — and when Peter had come in after detention and heard about what had happened, he had joined them in the group hug.
"Regulus made his own choice, Padfoot," Peter whispered. "It's not your fault."
But his words rang on deaf ears because Sirius knew that wasn't true. He wasn't disappointed in his brother, no… he was disappointed in himself for letting it happen.