I don't kill

Rating: think of it as something that would never make it to PG-13 in a world where a movie in which a student kills his teacher, legitimate defence or not, is rated as perfectly viewable by children.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

Warning: despite the title, this is not obvious Blackcest. If you want to see it, squint and it'll be there; if you don't, then don't go further than the actually written-text-even-when-you-count-what-is-implied, and you won't be bothered. Please don't take it on me if you simply can't stand reading about a nice bit of an Oedipus complex, and remember that JKR's first depiction of Harry and his mother consists of him before the Mirror of Erised, noticing first her and how beautiful she looks, then his father and how much they look alike. Thank you.

Archive: the Black Ficathon archive, my lj, will probably end up in FA. Everyone else please ask. (though why you'd like this story is beyond me)

Reviews: are the oxygen of the good writer and the saving grace of the bad one.

A/N: with many thanks to my wonderful beta, G G, also known as emerald123.

Written for the May 04 Black Ficathon on lj; challenge "Regulus tries to sneak away to find Sirius after he runs to the Potter's." (rejected by Losselen, from lily403)

( Of Good Books and Brotherly Love )