❝ It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…
— Aldous Huxley, Island
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“not all men” you’re right, Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy would never do this
When you name your son ‘Scorpius’ hoping he will be edgy but he’s in fact a cinnamon roll.
- what she says: I'm fine.
- what she means: Astoria Malfoy made up a song about how candy helps you make friends and then loaded her son with sweets before she put him on the train because she knew he was shy and awkward and there were so many rumors. She must have been so worried that the other kids were going to be so mean to him, and oh god, do you think she cried when she found out about Albus, do you think she was so relieved that someone else could finally see that her little boy was kind and sweet and funny, and oh my god I'm not crying, YOU'RE CRYING!!!
Things Draco Malfoy said in the Cursed Child:
• “Never really fancied being a Ministry man. Even as a child. My dad, it’s all he ever wanted — me, no. (…) Mainly I wanted to be happy”
• “Astoria was frail. (…) I didn’t want to risk her health, I said it didn’t matter whether the Malfoy line died with me — whatever my father said”
• “I think you have to make a choice — at a certain point — of the man you want to be. And I tell you that at that time you need a parent or a friend. And if you’ve learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no friends … then you’re all alone. And being alone — that’s so hard. I was alone. And it sent me to a truly dark place. For a long time”
• “My son is in tears and I am his father and so I am here to ask why you would keep apart two good friends”
• “We have to find them — if it takes centuries, we must find our sons”
• “Maybe the black cloud Bane saw was Albus’s loneliness. His pain. His hatred. Don’t lose the boy. You’ll regret it. And so will he. Because he needs you, and Scorpius, whether or not he now knows it”
• “Our child, Scorpius, was born … it was the best day of both our lives”
• “I would sell my soul for another minute with Astoria”
• “I need my son back with me and safe”
• “It is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past”
• “We can hug too if you like”
Things he did not say:
• “There are times I wish you weren’t my son”
