For the 10 themes, 10 drabbles challenge (Character Exploration - Dean Thomas), the Globetrotter Drabble Competition (Manila, Philippines), the If You Dare Challenge (831. Understanding), the Father's Day Challenge, the Popular Song Competition (Mirrors) and the Legendary Gods and Goddeses Competition (Izanagi no Mikoto)
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His roommates don't understand why Dean doesn't want to find out the truth about his biological father. After all, there's a good chance that he was a wizard, which would mean that Dean's not the muggleborn he seems to be. Even if he wasn't, magic means that it would be so much easier to find out the truth about his past.
Dean knows they mean well, but they just don't understand. His step-father had absolutely no reason to treat the constant reminder of his wife's first love with the same love and affection he did his biological children. He could very well have been distant and cold instead of warm and loving. He could very well have written Dean off as a loss once he started displaying his magical abilities the way so many other parents of muggleborns did.
No one had forced Graeme Hall to treat a boy who had neither his blood nor his name in the exact same way he did his own children, and yet he had never backed down from the challenge that Dean knows parenting him had been.
Maybe his biological father had good, understandable reasons for walking away from Dean and his mother, Dean doesn't know. For all he knows, the man could have been dead and no one had bothered to remember to inform his mother. Maybe he should care about the fact that he doesn't know, and there's a tiny part of him that does.
But the rest of him doesn't. Dean Thomas may not know the man whose blood and last name he possesses, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't know his father.
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