A.N. — Here is a broken man, who I suspect was more than a little fractured before his wife's tragic death. His brand of fanciful journalism doesn't just crop up out of nowhere, after all. This one didn't come as naturally as yesterday's, going through many scrapped drafts, and I am still a bit displeased with the outcome.
50. Xenophilius Lovegood
Xeno had always believed in belief. Just because the creatures he sought hadn't been seen, didn't mean they weren't out there. The Deathly Hallows existed, because he held their story as factual. And he believed, unequivocally, in disseminating the truth of belief and listening to others whose beliefs and truths differed from his.
Entering his wife's workroom to find Luna protectively draped over an unnaturally still Pandora — a sight he fervently did not want to believe — shook Xeno's foundations.
After the tragedy, Xeno's grip on belief became a tenuous thing. Observers rather thought his grip on reality had slackened altogether.