"So you are going to marry that mudblood," he murmured. "I hope you are going to be happy living in filth and poverty with him. I hope he is worth turning your back on your family and your duties to them." It was childish and petty, but, well, it was so entirely unfair.

He had had it all mapped out in his mind, how he would bring Andromeda home and solve their greatest problem all in one fell swoop and well, he had even pictured them being happy in this future. Then there had been the Daily Prophet...

"I'm no fool," he added. "You aren't married yet but you will be soon enough. Ted Tonks would be a fool not to marry you." Yes, Regulus actually knew the man's name, even if he commonly pretended that people like him were beneath his notice.