A/N: The rating is implemented for sex, drugs and rock 'n roll.
Roulette
Chapter One: His Legacy
"You
put the broke in broken-hearted / You put the art in retarded'"
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The Bravery, Public Service Announcement
In our first year at Hogwarts, Sirius Black had been almost normal. True, he could sometimes come off as a bit arrogant and his penchant for coffee was unusually strong for an 11-year old, but other than that, Sirius was just your average boy with all the foolish, romantic notions of a First Year Gryffindor.
Second year, he and James accidentally established themselves as princes of Hogwarts – literally. It started out as a stupid joke – they'd fashioned crowns and addressed each other as 'your highness' for about a week – but even after the phase wore out, students and teachers alike continued to treat them like royalty.
Third year, ah yes, third was the year of the testosterone. Increased height, muscle development, voice changes, facial hair, a sudden interest in the female anatomy.
Fourth, he set a Hogwarts record – seventeen detentions in one week. Sixteen were from hexing Severus Snape – the seventeenth, because he trashed the Gryffindor Common looking for his last bottle of hair gel. A few months later, Sirius Black set another kind of record – thirty-two girls enamored girls had asked him to go with them to the Yule Ball in the time span of a single day, and he had refused each and every one of them. The sobbing went on for weeks.
In our fifth year, Sirius Black developed an addiction to liquor, often showing up to class in a drunken – yet impassible – stupor. He started wearing leather and black eyeliner and used his savings to buy and bewitch a Harley-Davidson. Sirius eventually stopped drinking because girls kept breaking into his stash and filling the bottles with love potions, but the leather, the eyeliner and the Harley stayed to become his trademarks.
And our sixth year at Hogwarts well, year six was when those foolish, romantic notions came back, for Sirius Black fell in love with a boy named Remus Lupin.
