Christmas 1979—danger, secrets, lies and their shared history loom large over the Blacks' first Yuletide season as a reunited family. While life as a fugitive proves bleaker—and more boring—than Regulus could have imagined, a botched espionage mission at Malfoy Manor draws Sirius deeper into the Black family web. [Sequel to 'In the Black']

December, 1966. After a long time abroad, Alphard Black returns to Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place for the dreaded annual Black Family Christmas party, and finds an unlikely kindred spirit in his seven-year-old nephew—in whom he already sees a spark needed to keep the family fire burning.

In the back of his mind, The Dark One can't shake off the feeling that Henry sees more than he should, but with the boy taking such a keen interest in his past and forging a bond with his grandfather in particular...well, it's hard for him to say 'no', isn't it? Rumple and Pan!Henry, in between 309 and 310, parental love in its most loving and most toxic dysfunctional explored.

Regulus survives the cave and goes to his older brother for help. He strikes a deal with Dumbledore: the Horcrux in exchange for his family's protection. Sirius, meanwhile, is faced with his toughest mission yet: managing his estranged parents, who find they like having both their sons back and are prepared to use all their cunning to make this temporary family reunion permanent.

A dying Orion Black stumbles upon his rebellious older son in St. Mungo's, nursing injuries sustained in his work for the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius is the last person he thought would have to tell his father his two sons are fighting on opposite sides of a war.

He might've been the single greatest disappointment of her teaching career—but she could never sit idly by in the face of wasted potential. Six conversations between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black, 1976-1996.