I'm so glad that Mum rose to the occasion and didn't add to your worries by reacting badly.

Bloody hell, Charlie. You must have been going out of your mind with worry, with the MLE raid. We all were, of course, but your stake in the outcome was certainly more personal. But I see how that added impetus to telling us. If your mind has been spinning out all sorts of awful scenarios based on that, you know we'd always look after our own, even if some of us should fall. Whether related to us by blood or not.

And then false labour on top of that, because of the Octoboros stuff? Well, at least that adds credence to Albus' theory.

Wouldn't it be a lovely thing when she gives birth for real, if the wards would come crashing down?

So it's a boy, then? Not a surprise, in our family! Is Tonks happy about that? How much has she told Bea about the new member of the family?

It's a good thing wizards can apparate, because otherwise fathering long distance would be much more complicated.

I'm glad you've told me.

What are you looking forward to the most? And what scares you the most about it?