Rosier: Many, many people are curious about you, Mr. Black. They want to know on which side of the wand you will fall.
Rigel: If I do land on one side or the other, rest assured that it will be because I jumped.
- The Pureblood Pretense, chapter 12
Rigel: If I do land on one side or the other, rest assured that it will be because I jumped.
- The Pureblood Pretense, chapter 12
Leo: I don't think you're lying. Something about you seems trustworthy today.
Harry: Just today?
Leo: No one is trustworthy all the time.
Harry: Isn't that what trustworthy means? If someone isn't trustworthy all the time, then they aren't trustworthy.
Leo: But then no one would be trustworthy.
Harry: Maybe no one is.
- The Serpentine Subterfuge, chapter 2
Harry: Just today?
Leo: No one is trustworthy all the time.
Harry: Isn't that what trustworthy means? If someone isn't trustworthy all the time, then they aren't trustworthy.
Leo: But then no one would be trustworthy.
Harry: Maybe no one is.
- The Serpentine Subterfuge, chapter 2
...Draco thought Rigel had a rather strange interpretation of rules in general. Half the time he followed them as though he couldn't imagine why anyone would want to do differently, and the other half he seemed to ignore the rules completely, as though he couldn't fathom why anyone would do something just because someone told them to.
It was a strange sort of person who could go wandering around after curfew without a care in the world and then insist that you had to check your cauldron for cracks before brewing in it even though you just checked it yesterday, because that's what you're supposed to do.
- The Serpentine Subterfuge, chapter 12
It was a strange sort of person who could go wandering around after curfew without a care in the world and then insist that you had to check your cauldron for cracks before brewing in it even though you just checked it yesterday, because that's what you're supposed to do.
- The Serpentine Subterfuge, chapter 12
She could be like that too; if her peers wouldn't give her the time of day, she would wear a watch.
- The Ambiguous Artifice, chapter 1
- The Ambiguous Artifice, chapter 1
Homenum Revelio could only be used inside closed rooms or dwellings, but the Corpse Detecting Spell could be used directly over any ground one suspected to be a burial site. He waited with grave trepidation for the results of the spell to come back. A green mist rose from the ground and Severus sank to his knees.
"No," Draco said, his voice cracking. "No, Rigel can't be…he can't be."
Severus had no comfort to give the child. He felt nothing beyond the heavy maelstrom of grief that assailed him. How could it be so? The boy was reckless, but he had the luck of Felix Felicis. What had happened here? Despair welled in his heart, shot through with regret. It was too soon. He had so much left to teach him. He had so much left to learn from him. His face set harshly and he clawed at the ground angrily. He would not accept this. Rigel would not be left to rot in a nameless clearing. No sooner had his fingers penetrated the dirt than a ward sprang into place in a web across the clearing.
- The Ambiguous Artifice, chapter 15
"No," Draco said, his voice cracking. "No, Rigel can't be…he can't be."
Severus had no comfort to give the child. He felt nothing beyond the heavy maelstrom of grief that assailed him. How could it be so? The boy was reckless, but he had the luck of Felix Felicis. What had happened here? Despair welled in his heart, shot through with regret. It was too soon. He had so much left to teach him. He had so much left to learn from him. His face set harshly and he clawed at the ground angrily. He would not accept this. Rigel would not be left to rot in a nameless clearing. No sooner had his fingers penetrated the dirt than a ward sprang into place in a web across the clearing.
- The Ambiguous Artifice, chapter 15
"Just Harry," she muttered after him half-heartedly. She had never been more aware that she was not 'just Harry.' She was Heiress Potter. She was Harry the Lower Alley Potions Brewer. She was Rigel Black. She was highborn, lowborn, pureblood, halfblood, powerful, average, mysterious, and unassuming. She was thirteen. She was fifteen. She was fractured and whole. She was a child and a criminal, a lady and a liar. She was afraid that by the time everything was over she wouldn't be anything anymore. Just a collection of faces that hid a hollow void where there should be something real and solid and her.
- The Futile Facade, chapter 1
- The Futile Facade, chapter 1
"And James still thinks you're the responsible one." Remus sighed.
"He's easily bored by me," Harry corrected the man. "And he equates boredom with rule-following and risk-aversion and maturity. That's why it was so easy to blame Archie for everything when we were young. Sirius and James both expect troublemakers to be boisterous and emotional, because that's how they are. They understand the kind of mischief that makes your eyes laugh and your toes tap with impatience. They don't understand the kind of trouble you can get into quietly and methodically and carefully."
- The Futile Facade, chapter 3
"He's easily bored by me," Harry corrected the man. "And he equates boredom with rule-following and risk-aversion and maturity. That's why it was so easy to blame Archie for everything when we were young. Sirius and James both expect troublemakers to be boisterous and emotional, because that's how they are. They understand the kind of mischief that makes your eyes laugh and your toes tap with impatience. They don't understand the kind of trouble you can get into quietly and methodically and carefully."
- The Futile Facade, chapter 3
Rigel: I'm just going to sit a while longer before going to bed. Thank you for comforting me. You didn't have to.
Aldon: The things we do because we want to will always outweigh those we do because we have to.
- The Futile Facade, chapter 7
Aldon: The things we do because we want to will always outweigh those we do because we have to.
- The Futile Facade, chapter 7
"I'll celebrate properly when it's over," she promised.
"That's the difference between our Houses," George said with a grin. "We celebrate first, because a Gryffindor does not assume he's going to see the end of the fight."
- The Futile Facade, chapter 13
"That's the difference between our Houses," George said with a grin. "We celebrate first, because a Gryffindor does not assume he's going to see the end of the fight."
- The Futile Facade, chapter 13
Rispah nudged her. "You can show the world what you can really do now, too."
She hitched her mouth. "I haven't exactly been holding back."
- The Malignant Masquerade, chapter 1
She hitched her mouth. "I haven't exactly been holding back."
- The Malignant Masquerade, chapter 1
She gave him a crooked smile, and pulled his head into hers in silent camaraderie. After they'd caught their breaths, she said wryly, "Look at it this way: if even we don't know what's happening, no one else stands a chance of figuring it out."
- The Malignant Masquerade, chapter 2
- The Malignant Masquerade, chapter 2
