Part One of Black Beginnings
Young Regulus is turning seven years old, and to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black that means a great deal! He is excited about learning all about the things he has never been allowed to learn about before, about death and where his ancestors lie, and how to read and write. But all good things come to an end, and whispers of danger grow louder with every passing day. The Big Bad Dragon is almost here …
This is where everything starts: part one of part one of my extremely elaborate longfic, which has taken me … very many weeks of researching and planning and writing. I actually have no idea how long I have been working on this project exactly but I do know that I have had the idea for a very, very long time, ever since I first got into fanfiction in the mid-2010s. But I never dared do much with it. Needless to say, I am over that fear now, and look where it has brought us!
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Now we have that out of the way, I should say that you can also read this fic elsewhere (but why would you?). So yeah, if you dislike the look of this page, or the story at any time, you can actually read this on Archive of Our Own (disable workskin!), fanfiction.net, or Quotev. If you dislike it because you cannot read something/something broke, please let me know in the comments so I can try and fix it! If you do like how it looks, well, thank you! I tried my best.
At the bottom of every chapter you will find extra material that you can read to better understand some characters, see how they experienced a certain scene, or read the Daily Porphet for some information on what is happening in the Wizarding World at that time. I hope you like this ever-growing experience, but you can always ignore it and just click onto the next chapter, of course.
Below a nice list of all seven chapters, so you can jump to the one you want straight away:
Chapter I: Regulus Arcturus Black
Chapter II: The Biggest Party
Chapter III: The Secret Chamber
Chapter IV: The Major Lesson
Chapter V: The Christmas Letter
Chapter VI: The Great War
Chapter VII: The Hungry Dragon