"No, you didn't," she said, laughing. "You just said that you never had a long term relationship. You didn't get along with your family. So what was your intimacy? Your friends? And I mean that's great. I love my girlfriends, but that's not the same. You, Sirius Black, are afraid of relationships."
She shook her head. "Sweet Helga, no. I didn't live with my father. Or my mother. They didn't live together either. In fact they never got married. I love my father and that place is fantastic, but I needed my place so I could be alone or with my significant other, but when I didn't want to be alone, I'd go to the palace and there were always people. The Palace was like one big party. It started after dinner and went through the morning, every day, unless they were on tour."