I think being afraid of Regulus at all is unnecessary.
[It's bravado talking, because Regulus could ruin everything, and probably will. That's just how he is. He won't even do it with malice, not necessarily, it will just happen, and he'll apologise, but say you're better off--
Sirius scowls a little, and tugs at her hand impatiently, stepping up his pace. They're in a disused corridor now, empty classrooms--it dead-ends just ahead, in a large statute of a warty wizard. Sirius strides up to him and kicks along the bottom of his wide plinth--there's a grating sound, and a panel in the stone wall slides open, just behind the statute. A secret room.]
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[It's bravado talking, because Regulus could ruin everything, and probably will. That's just how he is. He won't even do it with malice, not necessarily, it will just happen, and he'll apologise, but say you're better off--
Sirius scowls a little, and tugs at her hand impatiently, stepping up his pace. They're in a disused corridor now, empty classrooms--it dead-ends just ahead, in a large statute of a warty wizard. Sirius strides up to him and kicks along the bottom of his wide plinth--there's a grating sound, and a panel in the stone wall slides open, just behind the statute. A secret room.]
Ladies first.