#religious indoctrination

Unfortunately, Sirius would be religiously indoctrinated to an INSANE amount, even years after running away to the Potters.

In my head, the Blacks had been heavily religious for centuries. Like, Christian Catholic type of thing. And Walburga would for sure drill all the usual things into Sirius’ and Regulus’ heads — all about sex being only for making kids and nothing else, masturbation being wrong and shameful, premarital intercourse and even worse, children out of wedlock being worst things ever — you get the gist.

And Sirius would probably be able to unlearn most things that he’d been taught at home, but I feel like things that fall into THAT category would always kind of stick with him? Like, there’d definitely be rumors going around all the time about him sleeping with half the school or something when he hasn’t even had his first kiss — both because he’s gotten sort of sentimental about it by then and also because he is horrifyingly ashamed about the thought of it being sinful and wrong unless it’s, like, someone he intends to marry or something.

So, when he and Remus get together, he keeps freaking out about little things that would be usual for a couple to do, y’know? Even hand-holding and cuddling is weird now, because maybe they used to be a little physically affectionate before when they were ‘just friends’, but now that they’re romantically involved, it’s like an alarm goes off in Sirius’ head anytime they touch like: ‘Whore, whore, whore, you’ll go to hell, you guys aren’t married, God will strike you down —‘, blah blah blah.