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like none of them really drink or smoke or mess around with stuff like that because they know it would wreck their stamina, focus and reaction time. they’re not boring about it, but they are serious. if someone offers them something before a match or training, it is an immediate no.

james acts like he’s casual about quidditch because he’s james, but he is not casual at all. he cares so much it’s embarrassing. he does loads of cardio, especially running, and definitely stays up way too late doing laps around the grounds because he got restless and decided midnight was the perfect time to improve his endurance. then he sleeps in too late the next morning and acts personally betrayed when anyone wakes him up.

marlene trains like she’s preparing to fistfight god. she does martial arts, strength work, and probably spars with anyone stupid enough to agree. she also carb-loads like an absolute machine because she knows she needs the energy, especially as a beater. everyone else is having a normal dinner and marlene is on her third plate of pasta like “what? i have training.”

regulus is the most disciplined about it in a terrifyingly quiet way. he does cardio, gym work, core training, stretches constantly, and has insane flexibility because seeker work is all sharp turns, sudden drops, balance, speed and control. he’s the type to be sitting in the common room reading while casually folded in half like that’s a normal human position.

and they all try hard with grades because they know if their marks drop too badly, they could lose their place on the team. james complains about homework but does it. marlene acts like she doesn’t care but absolutely cares. regulus is already a high achiever and treats schoolwork like another thing he refuses to lose at.

so the three of them are very different kinds of athletes.

james is restless golden retriever cardio boy who runs at midnight and forgets sleep is necessary.

marlene is martial arts menace who eats like she’s fuelling a war horse.

regulus is silent gym-and-flexibility demon who looks delicate until he does something physically impossible on a broom.

And before people come out of the woodworks with claims that I am classist or whatever other ist they want to put onto me.

Growing up poor doesn't excuse the fact that Snape bullied children. [I grew up poor and was bullied, never once have I thought, 'let me go bully people']

He singled out Harry because of a decade old grudge against James. Rivalry or bullying, either way you look at it, Harry isn't James and should not be the one paying the actions of his father just for the sin of simply looking like him.

He outright tried to poison Neville's toad because the kid wasn't perfect at a subject [the kid was 13, he's not going to be an expert potion maker] and took house points away from Hermione for helping Neville not poison his pet.

He mocked Hermione's appearance to where she permanently altered her face, she permanently altered her face following that scene.

So yeah, I don't care that he was on Dumbledore's side and a spy. He was a grown ass man bullying children. In my opinion, the fact that he was bullied as a kid makes it worse, because how are you going to put someone else through the shit you went through.

Now with Regulus:

We don't know enough about him, what we are given is a fragmented story from two very differing perspectives, yet they don't outright contradict one another.

It's more than likely that two things can be true at once. Sirius doesn't hold Regulus from the same malice as his parents, he simply calls him too soft, emphasizing how he was following their lead and never thinking for himself. [Unlike Sirius who was always a rebel]

Yet the first time he thinks for himself, the first act he does that directly goes against his family's ideals? Is undermining Voldemort in a way that nobody will know. He left the note for Voldemort to find, not for glory, not for redemption, he faced death for the chance that Voldemort could be killed for good.