Chapter One: Playing Merpeople in the Bath

Young Regulus Black is about to join his brother at Hogwarts for the very first time. He's reluctant and worried and scared, convinced that he'll be rubbish at everything, that no one will want to be his friend, that a mudblood will suffocate him in his sleep and, worst of all, that he'll disappoint his parents.

Outside the safety of Hogwarts and Grimmauld Place, a war is brewing.