Re: Peter & Addison
"Yes, Muggle," he agreed easily. Despite the tradition that the Notts did espouse in many ways, the Notts did have a side to them that many did not see. It had started with Theo's love of Muggle theatre, and all the children had been around that since practically birth. That a bookstore owner would have some interest in the Muggle books followed quite neatly after that, even if he didn't exactly advertise it loudly.
There was a moment when Peter nearly choked on his swallow of bubbly from the glasses he'd snagged a moment before for them. He didn't know for certain, but he had a niggling suspicion that Emerson Pennington might be his own mother, Pansy. He'd never quite pinned down the proof of it, but he was Slytherin enough to have some evidence. He had never asked her outright, though, as he didn't have enough evidence on his side to make a proper argument, and one never went unprepared to anything like that.
"I'm familiar with the author," he admitted. "We sell quite a few of their books at the store, and I'm pretty sure we have them on the shelves at home as well. They're pretty popular." Romances weren't exactly his cup of tea, though he didn't hate them either. Sometimes they made him a bit lonely, really, an he couldn't always connect with the feelings in the books. He knew Pansy worried about him sometimes.
"I'm also not huge into romance," he admitted, "though not because I have any poor opinions of it."