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...and a more full schedule than ever. Revue rehearsal tonight, Prefects meeting and Revue rehearsal on Wednesday, YPL Thursday, Quidditch Friday, more YPL and rehearsal on Saturday, and so on.

Fortunately, my journal has additional charms to mind my schedule well. And, as a YPL counsellor, I am well aware of how it behooves oneself to keep busy in the service of the school and the Protectorate. Those of you who find it to be overwhelming at times ought to try on this trick for size: sing or hum the YPL anthem to yourself as you go about your day. All those tow row row row's really pick up the pace and make the various tasks go along speedily, and the lyrics bolster the spirit, reminding us of precisely who it is we serve, and why.

See you all around the castle.

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~~affairs~~

I prefer the answer that's honest.

Then I believe I have answered you on previous occasions. There is nothing to concern you here.

I didn't ask if I should be concerned. I asked if you were.

Speaking of things that shouldn't concern me: Rowen Robins had a word with me the night of the Ball. She fairly slithered over and told me I was "growing up," and that before long I'd have all the witches on my knees, just like my Father.

If I ever wanted to know how to please a real woman, she could teach me, she knew what someone like me would want. And then she tried to coax me outside.

Naturally, I declined.

~~And while were at it, were you behind~~ ~~The other night at the club, did you~~

In that case: No. I am not the slightest bit concerned.

On the other hand, one wonders just how much Miss Robins had imbibed when she accosted you. Cannot imagine she was in possession of her wits to have behaved so inappropriately. (Then again, cannot imagine Fudge has been any better behaved a superior than Dolores - possibly worse. She is ambitious and attractive. Sadly common, it would seem.)

But perhaps we should grow accustomed to your looks and position offering an irresistible draw to that sort of thing. You were right to decline; rather wish you had said something to someone at the time to make sure she refrained from further sampling of the champagne.

Do you wish me to take up the matter on your behalf?

At last. So noted. You're not concerned.

So let's say that you know more about Mother's "affairs" than I do. No doubt. So. You don't care in the least? You don't plan to do anything about them?

Don't you love her?

As for Rowena Robins - If it were my looks and position that drew her to me, then I find myself wondering why it is that she kept speaking of you.

Thank you, but I don't need you to take up this matter, or any other related to women.

Draco. I did not say I do not care. I said I am not concerned. It is nothing to worry me because I know that it is no threat either to your mother's love or her devotion to our family. Your mother loves to be worshipped and Barty is her willing thrall; their dalliance satisfies her vanity; neither of them are foolish enough to ever forget themselves or jeopardise their fundamental loyalties. Until now, have had no reason to scorn their discretion.

But since you ask so baldly, no, I do not plan to do anything unless I am forced to call attention to it. In the meantime, it is to my advantage to conceal what I suspect from your mother and particularly from Barty. Why should I upset a working collaborative relationship with him, when our goals align so well and he is available and willing to put his considerable energy to tasks which achieve my aims and keep my hands clean?

Far better to hold it in reserve against the need for his co-operation over some other venture, in which he is not so complicit nor eager.

You ask if I love your mother. More than life. Now I have a question for you: Were I to interfere, do you imagine she would thank me for it? Can I (or should I) deny her the affirmation that she is still attractive, adored, in order to satisfy my 'manly pride'? Which is more important: Her exclusivity or her happiness?

Let us walk down the path you seem to advocate. Should I challenge Auror Crouch to a duel? Inform your mother we are quits? Arrange him to meet with an 'accident'? Arrange for the Prophet to observe them in a compromising situation?

What good would that possibly serve? Any of us?

Or should I go on turning a blind eye, confident that your mother and I shall continue, as we have always done, to provide each other companionship, support, a public display of our contentment with each other and yes, genuine affection and love, whenever either asks it of the other?

What you have just described... makes no sense to me whatsoever.

If you love her above all else, how could you stand to share her? Let some other man touch her?

How do you know that she doesn't do it because of your infidelities, or that she doesn't do it because, deep down, she wants you to stop her and remind her that you belong only to each other?

It sounds to me as if you're both just pretending.

It does not need to make sense to you, Son, not right now. Someday it will. When you have had more experience of life and the complexity of relationships. They change, develop, bend over time. The ones that do not bend, break.

I do not wish either of us to break our marriage. Neither does your mother - of that, I am quite sure. Just as I am sure of her loyalty - loyalty where it counts, which neither begins nor ends in the bedroom.

It's ... complicated, I grant. But it is, nonetheless, very true, and not pretense at all.

I really can't imagine understanding. Not ever.

But, thank you for explaining. ~~Finally~~

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