Regulus Black is dead. Correction: Regulus Black was dead. Further correction: Regulus Black should still be dead. Instead, he's standing on the steps of Grimmauld Place, a very picture of the rejection of all the laws, rules, and regulations ever put upon his person. Miraculously, heretically, Regulus Black is alive.

"I don't think you're a waste of space," he tries out, eventually, maybe, and even though the words crawl up his throat like a very fuzzy caterpillar they are surprisingly easy to say. [Dudley-centric]