Regulus Black

## Regulus Arcturus Black

**Regulus Arcturus Black** is the youngest son to Walburga and Orion Black, and younger brother to Sirius Black. Under the name **Lazarus “Rusty” White** he was the husband of the late Matilda Macmillan and the father of the late Leo Brian White. He formerly served as a Prince of Slytherin, Death Eater, Australian Auror and Hogwarts Defence Professor. Regulus is additionally the Founder of the Azkabal.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Regulus is descended from the Ancient and Noble House of Black, one of the 17 Roman magical families that relocated to Wizarding Britain after the fall of Rome, and one that has been a part of the Wizengamot since its inception. The Black Family has been noted to produce lots of witches and wizards capable in Shape Shifting Magic.

### Early Life

Regulus was born as the third son to Orion and Walburga Black. Living with such increasingly insane and unstable parents, Regulus had a very difficult childhood compounded by the behavior of his older brother Sirius, and it was by observing his rebellious behaviour and subsequent violent punishment that Regulus early on knew not to go against his parent's ideology. Not to mention Sirius's constant, sometimes violent, pranks on him.

It was in the aftermath of one such prank in which Regulus discovered his Metamorphic abilities, something greeted by much happiness by his mother. After this, Regulus started his Metamorphagus training under his Great-Aunt, Cassiopeia Black.

Regulus was sorted into Slytherin upon his arrival into Hogwarts, where he then made his power base and eventually became the Prince of Slytherin.

It was also during this time that his grandfather, Arcturus Black, explained to him what being a Black truly was, as he showed him the Anathema Codex and the various identification spells in it, as well as explaining the role of the Ancient and Noble Families in the Wizengamot.

Joining the Death Eaters as **Mr. Blanco** after graduating Hogwarts, Regulus grew disillusioned with the group on his very first raid, after seeing how utterly insane the people leading him were and how the things that actually made him join the group weren't represented.

The last straw however, was discovering that Voldemort had created a Horcrux (the location revealed by Kreacher who the Dark Lord used to test his defences), that truly turned Regulus against Voldemort. Being one of the very few people in the world who truly knew what Horcruxes were, he ordered Kreacher to take him to the Horcrux (Slytherin’s Locket). After drinking the potion himself, he ordered Kreacher to destroy it for him who took it to Grimmauld Place. Regulus, still under the effects of the potion, was forced to crawl down to the water's edge, where he was then dragged under by the Inferi hidden there. However, he still wanted to live, so using his Metamorphic abilities he turned into a copy of Lord Voldemort, who the Inferi wouldn't attack. He then escaped the cave and, after a failed attempt to reveal his discovery to the current Lord Black, went back to Grimmauld Place. After realising he couldn't destory the Horcrux though, he ordered Kreacher to destroy it then Obliviated him in order to prevent the knowledge of his survival known. He then decided to run away to Australia to start a new life, where he rechristened himself **Lazarus White.**

In Australia, he meets and marries Matilda Macmillan and becomes a surrogate son to her father, Brian "Buck" Macmillan, who encourages him to become an Auror, a requirement for marrying his daughter. Together with Matilda, he has a son, Leo Brian White. Regulus ends up killing a werewolf while on the job. In retaliation, the werewolf’s sibling and its pack comes and slaughters Regulus’s wife and baby son. In response, Regulus uses Fiendfyre and the Killing Curse to butcher the remaining werewolves. A few days after his actions, Regulus is interviewed by Gilderoy Lockhart, where it is assumed that Gilderoy attempts to wipe Regulus's memories. Due to this and the impending threat of his trial (for using an Unforgivable), Regulus assumes Lockhart’s identity and puts Lockhart into a vegetative state, leaving him in a Muggle hospital. As Lockhart, Regulus journeys the world adventuring and writing books. He also develops a plan to free his brother Sirius from Azkaban and learn how to destroy Horcruxes. To this end he applies for a job as The Hogwarts Defence Professor in order to gain access to the Hogwarts restricted section, and every brilliant student currently enrolled there to use as unwitting labour.

### Book 2 - The Secret Enemy

Regulus is hired as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts in time for Harry’s second year.

In this role, Regulus starts up a number of research teams for his students: Team Chameleon (for investigating longer lasting Polyjuice Potion), Team Protector (practising the Patronus charm), Team Backdoor (creating a super, ward splicing port-key), Team Mysterioso (investigating Nargles), Team Counter-strike ( Averto charm, ping-pong), Team Recall ( Memory altering charms) and Physical regime, in order to assemble the tools needed to commit his breakout.

Towards the end of the year, the law comes to arrest him - as Gilderoy Lockhart for killing Lazarus White - and, as a result, he runs and confesses to the crimes that Lockhart and Tom Riddle committed. He then presents the real Lockhart (having performed the Tabula Rasa curse on him) to the authorities and assumes the identity of Lockhart’s manservant, Mr. Cato. After the Chamber of Secrets incident is resolved he sneaks back into Hogwarts to explain himself to his new ally Harry Potter, and an accompanying Lucius Malfoy, and after an informative meeting between the three, they decide to break out four high ranking Death Eaters from Azkaban along with Sirius Black in order to interrogate them on the locations of Voldemort’s other Horcruxes.

### Book 3 - The Death Eater Menace

After his departure from the school, Regulus, with the help of Lucius Malfoy, Augusta Longbottom, and Marcus Flint, puts together most of the elements from his research teams to breakout Sirius Black, Augustus Rookwood, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange in order to interrogate them (via Legillimency) about Horcruxes.

## Physical Appearance

Regulus Black is considered to be a fairly handsome man, with jet black hair, a neatly trimmed black goatee sprouted around his mouth, a noble Aquiline shaped nose, and cold grey eyes. He also has a charming smile, enough to win Witch Weekly’s most charming smile award(though this may be due to the fact he was in Gilderoy Lockhart’s body when he won this award). In addition to this, he also has the ability to change his appearance, due to being a Metamorphagus.

## Magical Abilities & Skills

An extremely strong Wizard, being on par with the Chief Auror James Potter in duelling skills, as well as being able to hold back several Aurors with relative ease, Regulus has also shown great cunning and out of the box thinking whenever stuck in sticky scenarios.

In addition to his dueling prowess, he also has the bloodline ability of being a Metamorphmagus, an extremely strong ability allowing him to take the shape of any person at will. He has been known to take on the forms of several different people, such as Gilderoy Lockhart, Mr. Cato, and Maria Gambrelli, a witch who seduced Auror Michael Proudfoot to get his hair for the polyjuice potion needed to break into Azkaban. He can also change his appearance and make a new identity for himself, shown when he changed into Lazarus White in Australia.

He has also shown great knowledge of arcane magic, such as Fiendfyre which he has been able to control to some extent.

He has great magical knowledge and power, being able to cast extremely complicated spells like Fiendfyre, the Tabula Rasa Curse, and even the killing curse, Avada Kedavra. He was also skilled enough in dueling and other forms of martial magic, seeing as he graduated the Australian Auror Academy with top marks.

## Behind the Scenes

* According to The Sinister Man, the role of Regulus black is portrayed by Joseph Fiennes, as pictured above.
* As Lazarus White and Archie Goodwin he is portrayed by Ryan Gosling
* As Mr. Cato he is portrayed by Burt Kwouk
* As Maria Gambrelli he is portrayed by Elke Sommer

## References

Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 79 - Meet Regulus Black,

Cast List for Regulus and his relatives.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 139 - In Which Plans are Laid,

"is current appearance was loosely based on the Lazarus White identity he'd worn for so many years, as it was one that he felt comfortable maintaining indefinitely.".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 93 - Reactions & Overreactions (Pt 4),

"And only a Pureblood would be so fatuous as to disguise himself as Cato from the Pink Panther film series...".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 96 - Back to School (Finale),

"The woman is a Muggle actress I think by the name of Elke Sommer...".