REPORTER: Please pass on our thanks to the Minister for allowing this. While we do not wish to delay his, already far overdue, imprisonment, we believe that Mr. Pettigrew has cause to answer the Wizarding World just why he did what he did.

Then, the wizard started talking about dragons. 'This,' Charlie knew deep in his bones as surely as he had known he was a wizard, 'this is what I want to do when I grow up.'

(10) When Arthur met Molly Prewett. (11) When Charlie first figured it out, he didn't have a word for it. (12) Being asexual wasn't an issue, at least not for Charlie.

Walburga was not the kindest of people, nor was Orion the warmest, but both understood duty and loyalty to the family. Understood the necessity of nurturing the future of the House so Alphard wasn't worried for his nephews. (He still couldn't quite keep from comparing his nephews' treatment with that of other families' and found it lacking.)

"Maybe I'm not the brave Gryffindor you expected me to be, but that doesn't somehow make me 'less'. It's not my fault you created an image of someone who doesn't exist." Harry said, thinking, 'Not that I should exist.'