ABOUT THIS SERIES

• i will be making several lists of "50 random facts" for lily and sirius (possibly others as well), each following an important event in their lives.
• i may create lists for other characters later.
• i may also go back and add more for lily or sirius.
• all lists in this series will be blue, so you can tell them apart from personal lists.

ABOUT THIS BOY

• his full name is sirius pollux black, but all those names already belonged to loads and loads of dead people that he's probably related to--if the wizard at borgin and burkes isn't his real father, like bella says he is, which is possible. sirius is always catching him making eyes at his mother.
• not that he understands why anyone would want to make eyes, or anything else, at his mother. she's fat.
• sirius hates fate people--his mother, daddy, baby regulus, auntie and uncle black. that's why he loves andie. she's skinny and beautiful and perfect.
• of course, bella is skinny and beautiful, and he doesn't love her any more than he has to--because she's family, you know, but she's also a raving bitch.
• bitch, bitch, bitch. he thinks it's a lovely word, all harsh consonants, and so he says it all the time, whenever his mother isn't around to hear him. anyhow, it's what bella is, so he doesn't see the problem. really.
• well, okay, so maybe he does, a little, but that doesn't change facts, and facts are that bellatrix is the reason he hates tea. she did some spell to change his into a cup full of ants and then sat there and watched him drink it, not saying anything to anybody. she didn't even get in trouble, either, because nobody in the ministry cares what the blacks do, and because he wasn't about to go and tell his mother that he'd been tricked by a girl. she'd only have scolded him for finking, anyway.
• andie told him, once, that the only reason he and bella can't get along is because they're so much alike.
• he didn't speak to her for three days after that, which is a long time, considering she's the only one that he likes.
• well, andie and narcissa, but everyone loves narcissa. she is little and plump and pretty and basically perfect. andie says her good temper won't last, but she and regulus are the same age, and so far she hasn't destroyed a single one of sirius's toys.
• regulus, for the record, has broken seven this year alone, but it's the toy broom that he broke last year that sirius will never forgive him for.
• sirius is going to be a professional beater when he grows up. if he grows up. he's still debating that one, but most days it seems like facial hair is a fair trade for not living with regulus anymore.
• he doesn't like coffee any more than he likes tea, so mostly he just drinks milk.
• sirius and regulus never got along. not even the day that regulus was born. regulus has always gotten everything sirius wanted, and broken everything that sirius had, and regulus still has the nerve to follow sirius around and copy everything he does.
• the time that sirius shut regulus's head in the door when regulus was learning to crawl? not an accident.
• he likes orange juice better than apple juice better than pumpkin juice. he doesn't like grape juice at all.
• of the family in black manor, daddy is his favorite. he brings home gifts in his pockets, sometime, and doesn't yell.
• his favorite fairytale is "the wizard's hairy heart."
• his mother yells about everything, and she likes regulus better. sirius hates yelling, and he hates her.
• she's locked him in his room and he doesn't know when he's going to be allowed to come out, if he's ever allowed out.
• he thinks maybe he would have been, if he hadn't been so nasty to regulus.
• he can admit that regulus was probably only trying to help when he made kreature open the door and brought him a heap of sweets.
• at the time, though, it just seemed like regulus was showing off how he was allowed to go in and out wherever he liked when sirius couldn't cross the magical line his mother had drawn on the floor, and how even the stupid, ugly house elf liked him better.
• that's why sirius started yelling, yelling just like his mother does.
• it is not, however, why he picked up the lamp beside his bead and hit kreature over the head with it until the lampshade was bent so much that now he can't bend it back into place.
• he did that because he was so angry and he just wanted to see someone cry, and when regulus started crying and yelling for him to stop, he did feel a bit better.
• it sucks that he got in more trouble for that, though. sucks, sucks, sucks. mostly because the only reason he got in trouble is that regulus is a crybaby. his mother doesn't care what he does to kreature, as long as regulus is happy.
• sirius is not-at-all-secretly glad that regulus is unhappy, too, though. this whole mess is his fault.
• regulus caught him kissing narcissa.
• regulus is usually the one to catch him. he's the one that got sirius in trouble for playing quidditch with the house elf heads.
• one of the heads cracked open that day when he hit it with his broomstick-bat. it leaked a stinking, orange fluid all over the carpet. the stain is still there.
• he didn't mind kissing narcissa. she tasted like milk and honey, all softness and sweetness. it wasn't particularly good or anything, and it's not like he used his tongue, but it was kind of nice anyway.
• the problem is, his parents thought it was nice, too. really nice. they think that means that he and cissa should get married, and then the next generation of blacks will be super-pure, and maybe they are being rewarded by god for putting up with him for seven years.
• well, that was one problem. the other problem was he still couldn't figure out why andie and bella make such a big deal out of kissing.
• there are three things in his world that he considers worthy of being a big deal: quidditch, presents, and days when andie visits.
• once, when daddy brought home a really small present, he let regulus chew on it so that daddy would have to go back to the store and get him something better.
• sirius can't think of anything worse than cheap-present-buyers ... except maybe ants.
• after they caught him kissing cissa, mother and daddy bought him a whole bunch of presents, but they were all clothes.
• he had a good, loud fit and went out into the garden to sit and wouldn't come in until dinner.
• that's where he met her, the girl from across the way who had pretty blue lips and an orange jumper. he'd never seen her before, but she could see him sitting in the garden, and she had a pile of candy to share, so he supposed she must be alright.
• they played for hours and hours and hours.
• at first, she made him be the bobby and he was the robber and she tied him to the tree, but then he started to cry--just a little--and she let him loose and said that she would be joan of arc and he could be the burgundians and burn her at the stake.
• he didn't know what she was talking about, but she let him tie her up then, and screamed and wailed and thrashed and died splendidly, so that was his favorite game nonetheless.
• he had never met anyone who hadn't heard of hogwarts.
• when he asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said she wanted to be a priest.
• he laughed at her, but she didn't mind.
• for a minute, he thought she might have been prettier even than narcissa, and maybe she would have been good to kiss.
• maybe she would have, too, if his mother hadn't walked out to fetch him for dinner right when he leaned in to try it.
• he never even asked the girl's name.
• he doesn't understand why the girl's parents have such a big deal to do with whether or not he can kiss her, and andie can't explain it, so maybe his mother is just stupid.
• yes, in fact, he believe she is just stupid, and fat, and ugly, and he hates her.