Since the age of eleven, Regulus had been groomed and shaped into the perfect heir to the Black family legacy that Sirius could never be. Now he's eighteen, a loner with a marked soul and terrible knowledge. When he is saved from his self-sacrifice by his estranged brother, Regulus embarks on a journey of shadowed glory and quiet rebellion, Sirius at his side the whole way.
As the first dead Weasley sibling, Fred's job is to greet the rest as they come and join him in the afterlife.
Scorpius tries to outrun centuries of his family's past. Albus feels like he's letting everyone down. Rose is a serial perfectionist. James fights inner demons. Old prejudices simmer deep in the dungeons of Hogwarts, while the shadow of a previous generation of heroes and villians looms high overhead. All this generation wants is to not be compared to the last one.
The war is over, and the Weasley siblings have lost a brother. Now, it's time to get one back. Part of TDPOTL universe, but you don't have to have read it first.
A warmth that lights up a dark day, the boy who brought a bit of brightness into a war and the girl who symbolizes what they worked for. Teddy Lupin feels the pressure of parents he never knew, heralded as heroes and not as people, impossible to live up to. Victoire Weasley feels the burden of being a beacon of hope for the lost, when all she really did was be born on a day.