Every six months, we put together a crew of bloggers, gather them up in New York City, and send them off to the runways and parties and backstage shenanigans of Fashion Week. From now until the 19th,…
What if: Regulus
survived his horcrux hunt, turned himself in, served out his sentence, left for
America, and then doesn’t hear from his home country again until years later
when a snowy owl finds him at Ilvermorny?
Regulus likes Ilvermorny.
It’s a castle too of course but constructed of beach-white stone and elegant
palatial towers instead of the bulkier grey masonry of Hogwarts, and even at
the height of winter, the weather never gets quite as dreary as the Scottish
highlands are capable of. Hogwarts had
its own charm, he knows, bright lights and enchantments to breathe warmth and
life into the place, but if Regulus ever felt any kind of wonder or fondness
for his alma mater, it’s long since been overshadowed by the powerplays and
prejudice that ran rampant through all his years there.
Here in Ilvermorny, nobody gives a damn what his bloodline
is, whether he’s a pureblood or a Black or even a former Death Eater. Well, they care a little bit, but not in the
way Gryffindors or Order members or Slytherins or fellow purebloods back in
Britain would.