“i have built a house, where i wait for your return,”

They’d only spent a few weeks in August working on the Diadem before Lupin had declared that Regulus was ‘too frustrated’ to do any effective research, to which Regulus had snapped at him and tried to slam his face in a book, rather embarrassingly proving his point. The unlikely pair had switched to tracking down the Cup at Lupin’s suggestion - ‘switching topics is like a palate cleanser for your mind Regulus, I know you’re posh enough to be familiar with that concept’ - and yet here they were, the second weekend of October, focusing back once again on the Diadem.