After they fell in the water, with a splash, Regulus resurfaced with Rupertin hanging on. They both stuck their torsos in the floatie holes. Rupertin leaned on Regulus' floating, while she was in her floating. They kicked their feet up on rocks in the Great Lake's shore
Rupertin studied Regulus, as they waited for the end of term feast to begin. Regulus had aristocratic features and nice grey eyes. He was the exception for looks, like his brother and cousins, in his inbred family. His very old granda Irma Crabbe was closely related to but his other grandfather and great uncles and aunts, including Cedrella, were distantly related enough so his genes weren't from a very small pool. Most people from even the limited gene pool of Regulus' family wouldn't have much pros over the cons. There was nothing unique or good about a small gene pool. Cleopatra, Mary Tudor, Katherine of Aragorn, a few Hapsburgs, Regulus, Cissa, Meda, Sirius, and Bella were the exception.
Rupertin herself wasn't Weasley or Black because of the curse, she was only 5% related to them now. And she could change that through blood adoption so she wouldn't shrink the gene pool when she married Regulus
Was she insecure about her appearance? Her orange eyes were her best features and now so we're her lips. She hated how the pureblood dating looks just had guys simping for traditional looking pureblood girls. It made her feel like no one liked her hair or actually her not very purebood style or muggle born witch style, she wasn't allowed dress as risqué s purebloods. And the same guys also said they preferred the sacred 28 purebood race to all the other witches, and outright saying they didn't prefer their ßtatus or find it attractive to their face. These wizards had the same blood status. They could've gone about it another way. Rupertin didn't have high hopes for any of them liking her or care about their narrow minded preferences, they thought the inter marrying sacred 28 were the best. Maybe some of them were like Mary Tudor and Cleopatra, but beauty was subjective. Rup alao was against people talking avour natural selection carlessly, if they weren't muggle trolls that were out to trigger people. Natural selection was a slippery slope into eugenics that were seen during WW2.
Surprisingly some of the wizards from that event Rup's su praised Rupertin a lot too.
Rupertin had body dysmorphia about her face because of a condition for a long time, she could only recently accept she wasn't gross looking recently. She never thought her pictures would look good and was surprised she had decent pictures of herself. Her mum and her clan had the best hair because they ate a lot of fruits and nuts. Rupertin was trying to gain healthy weight to look better and eat the same nutritions as her mum. After she got better from Doxie Pox she still had a bit of a cough but lung potion won't work as well as it would during the height of her illness. But she still needed some.
Still she didn't have a lot of stock in some of wizards' preferences nor felt it made their preferences superior. Witches saið some of those wizards were acting were a disturbing. She thought there were some very gentlemanly wizards too, but now wanted to commit for one reason or another. All the witches complained about it.
Regulus wasn't like that, he was a gentleman in a lot of ways. "What is the law of the wizaridong world? Pureblood houses? The Order can't keep up the law. I can't use a memory with muggle cops if I want to report someone. I cant imperous them to get them to apprehend muggles breaking the law? Do I imperious muggles to turn them in? Do i leave them to officer Bellatrix''s mercy? Are death eaters going to have a ln actually fair program to gets to do our part in getting muggles arrested worh wizard evidence?"
"I don't think the death eatees are big on communty. The the Order is busy, we are the law. Maybe every wizard family even mugfleborns have lords too, I haven't checked. Maybe muggle born families will havw lords in time that will help us police the wizardibg world. But for you, it's the Black Lord. The House Lord's of wizards of witches who are friend with muggle borns or half breeds help them. Your leprechaun and genie clans also have their own law. Same with Firenze."
"That's all interesting, how the law of the land works. Are the lords gonna like have their own dungeon Azkaban if they find incriminating magical evidence of muggles that muggle cops won't accept? Or arr Lord's gonna work with the muggle ministry?" Rupertin was a bit too curious. She floating on the lake shore, conjuring fake gold on the shore.
"Not sure, maybe Bellatrix can start a fundraiser for it" Regulus smirked.
"I think we will," Rupertin shot back and Regulus laughed. "I think I wanna be an Event Coordinator. It took me long to decide and I'll still undecided. There are some parts of it I f up. But I think it's what I wanna do," Rupertin said, feeling unsure.
Regulus gave her his full attention and said kindly, "if it's something you like and can see yourself doing, it's a great choice for you. You Excell there and regardless if you make mistakes, you can definitely do it. If you told me you think you want to be a chef, I'd say the same. Maybe I should be a chef, I like cooking with Kreacher, so we can have our own business with Cissa, after we marry."