[Harry Potter Fanfiction] Sleeping at the Bottom of the Lake

Youth flourishes in its season, but at its peak, it must turn toward decline.

All the splendor and brilliance will fade from memory.

The oars rocked gently, starlight rippled across the water, and the black-haired boy softly closed his eyes, sinking into a warm dream.

Sleep, Rell. In your dreams, no one can hurt you. There, you can fulfill every wish, childish or mature, ordinary or grand, insignificant or beyond your reach.

A note beforehand:

The protagonist is Regulus Black. The story is written in the second person.

Regulus's death is set in 1980 (his family tree says 1979).

Complete at 8,000 words.

Related short stories:

"If I Could Take Your Place" (Regulus gender-swapped, an old, cringey work)

"White Rose" (Regulus gender-swapped)

"Surrender" (from Sirius's perspective, after Regulus's death)

"Red and White Roses" (from Regulus's perspective, Sirius gender-swapped)

"if I die young" (Regulus gender-swapped x Rabastan Lestrange)

Theme: Dedicated to Regulus, who will forever be nineteen