Re: Theo | Roxanne
"My family?" He said with laugh. It was a funny joke he thought until he glanced at Roxanne and realized she had been serious. His family was something generally he avoided talking about in any great detail. Although it felt like he should and only fair since he had seen so many of Roxanne's memories from before. Not that fairness made it any more desirable or easy.
"MY mother died when I was four. I was raised by my father who was when I was born already much older than Mr Malfoy is now," he said glancing over at where Lucius lay resting. "He wasn't exactly known for his compassion, sympathy and empathy. He was known for being one of the first Death Eaters and school chum with Tom Riddle. That and a talent for murder and being rather proud of that. He was very zealous about his commitment to Voldemort. He was a raving lunatic most of the time and didn't have a great deal of patience and was very fond of discipline. So no I don't think he'd come to my bedside with words of encouragement. He'd be very displeased by what I did. If he'd have anything to say it would be," he said with a small pause as he searched his memory for his father's words. "Pain and suffering is the forge that smelts iron into steel," he said with a shrug. "He was full of fun adages," he said, "but not affection for his son."
Feeling grateful for the change in topic he smiled at the limerick, his mind too muddled to add to it as he would have liked. With his gaze still lingering over to where Lucius was sleeping, he knew it was true to say that while Lucius almost died saving Draco, his own father would have walked away. It was a harsh reality to be sure, but he had steeled himself from feelings like that long ago. Not that the reality of it didn't still bring him some sense of shame. His eyes brightened at the soft touch of his hair being brushed away from his eyes.
"It is how it's worked so far. They could be here possibly from before written records. With any luck we will find the answers. The ghosts and portraits haven't proved to be very forthcoming in the past."