"Nevermind that, Chantel. Lucas is hurt, in case you've forgotten, and that boy is here taunting us - low life beggar he is." Mr Fawley began and then ended on a mumble, his face turning a rather unattractive shade of red the more worked up he became. More to himself than to the room at large, he continued. "Father's lost his bloody mind. It was enough that he was forcefully deposed as Minister. What my father is thinking keeping that disgraceful queer in the family after I threw her out and an orphaned half-blood as a ward I'll never know. "