Re: Belvina/Lex
"You're horrible, Miss Black," he said, smiling. "You're laughing, because you aren't at the Ministry on a daily basis. The humour isn't so obvious when you are near her on a daily basis."
"Why use others when you can use the Cruciatus to control people?" he said with a straight face. "She doesn't need her own children when she has other means to obtain what she wants? Admittingly, spending a decade or more in Akzaban with the Dementors around hasn't done much for her mental health, but I doubt she was very sane to begin with."
Lex raised one shoulder in a lazy shrug. "I'm not getting married because someone demands it. That I can tell you. However, I've never thought about it. I suppose if I found the right woman, someone I love, someone who got along with my children. It's something that I would consider now that they are grown up. I would have never done it before, because I didn't like the idea that they thought I was replacing their mother. No one could do that. Of course, to find that woman I'd have to do something more than work," he said, laughing. "Parties usually mean the same people, and most women my age are married."