vagueenthusiast:

siriusly-not-over-remus:

Can we talk about the fact that Sirius Black probably know how to play an instrument?

His family would have most likely required it in order for him to be considered ‘well bred’

I was actually just thinking about this today, and here’s what I came up with:

• Sirius plays violin.
• When the other Marauders catch wind, they transfigure a violin for him as a joke
• They figure that it’ll be funny, that it’ll knock him down a peg– just a peg, mind (it needs doing, on occasion)
• “Haha, punk-rock Sirius black plays classical violin”
• But when they give the violin to him, he gets all quiet
• Remus, who was dubious about the plan from the start, watches with growing concern as Sirius stares at the polished wooden instrument in his lap
• Realizing that memories of cruel words and the crack of wood on skin must be rushing through his boyfriend’s head
• The Marauders wonder for a moment if Sirius will cry or shout or break the instrument over his knee
• But instead a little smile quirks the corner of his mouth
• He lifts the violin to his shoulder
• And he launches into a fiery, wailing reel
• Something wild and entirely muggle
• Something that his parents would vehemently abhor
• And everyone in the common room stops to watch as his bow frays on the strings, just barely keeping up with his left hand, which is nothing but a blur

And that, children, is how leather-jacket-wearing, motorbike-riding, chain-smoking Sirius Black used fiddle music to rebel against his pure-blood family.