I hate it when you're not around and the fact that you didn't call.
He didn't owl her any more after the day she told him she was marrying Rolf.
He hated her, he really did, for throwing away what they had.
He read the articles about her in the press and the books she wrote so he could remind himself how much he hated her.
He never looked more than a cursory glance at the pictures of her children until the day he realized they were his children.
He looked at them a little more closely after that, usually with liquor in his other hand, to remind himself that their mother was a heartless bitch who kept him from knowing his sons.
Especially after the day he realized he didn't know which one was his middle son and which was his youngest son.
He never owled her again, never made any attempt to speak to her on the two occasions he saw her in public after their confrontation.
One day, three years after his discovery, a picture of her family was on the front page of the Daily Prophet.
Scamander Killed by Manticore
Magizoologist Rolf Scamander, grandson of author Newt Scamander, and a member of his team were killed by a manticore last week near Istanbul while researching a new book on the creatures. Scamander and his team were scouting locations of the beasts when they accidentally stumbled across the den of a manticore with newborn cubs. The mother animal attacked the men, mortally wounding Scamander, their leader, and his second in command, Phillip Grubblyplank. According to surviving members of the expedition, Scamander and Grubblyplank were bravely trying to protect their comrades from the rampaging beast. The other team members grabbed the fallen men and apparated to the nearest wizarding hospital, but the injuries the two magizoologists suffered were too extensive, and both men succumbed within the day.
Scamander's wife, Luna Lovegood Scamander, herself a noted magizoologist and author, normally would have been with the team, but had stayed behind in Athens with their children, as one of the youngsters had fallen ill.
The Scamander family issued a statement ...
Draco's blood ran cold, as he remembered the day she told him she was marrying Rolf.
"Yeah, well don't call me crying when he gets eaten by a manticore!"
She hadn't.
