Re: Theo and Stephen
Theo raised a single eyebrow at the information, filing it away for future use. "I wasn't aware of that being a part of their relationships. Is there a particular reason you do?" he asked rather casually though his son knew him well enough to know that he was curious.
He nodded as Stephen spoke, because he'd already suspected that would be Stephen's answer. He would not run unless he had to, he had not expected his son to either. He snorted when he said it could be Bellatrix or the Potter-now-Lestrange-girl. "That would be case where I would have urged you to run," he said with a small smirk.
"Now don't you wish you would have courted and married Belvina?" he said. "You couldn't have been made to marry a girl who ran off with a mudblood if you were already married," he said with a small smile. "But you're right, if need be it can be undone."
He looked at his son. "You say she's easy to manipulate," he said. "I'd start manipulating her if I were you. We do not want someone loyal only to Bellatrix living in this house if we can do anything at all to avoid it." Not that they could ever trust her, but there was no reason not to try to avoid her spying all the same.