"Irrelevant?" Theo asked. "You find preferring men over women to be irrelevant?" he asked, and no he didn't care about the floggers or any of the rest (thought Muggles?) but about the fact that it would risk the family line.
"You may be married, but we both know how honest that marriage is, you have already mentioned a possible annulment, in fact it was the first thing you brought up when I told you Bellatrix' intentions. We both know that means that children is not something you're striving for because you would not leave children behind." He ran a hand through his hair, because this was a nightmare situation. He sighed.
"First things first, you need an heir, if not with Andromeda then someone else. When this war is over, I expect you to either father children with her, or have that annulment and marry someone else in order to start a family. We cannot afford the Nott family name not to continue." It never occurred to him not to ask this of Stephen, or for Stephen not to comply with him. It was the duty of being the heir, and Stephen was raised too well to behave like Scorpius Malfoy.
He paused. "Second," and he paused a bit at this. "Azriel Pucey, he seemed-" he stopped himself because this was too strange, but then decided that this was too important not to address. "Is he important to you?" And he would never understand it in his life, but he did not completely disregard his son's emotions, even if they were inconvenient, and somewhat unnatural.