He then brought forward the memories of the beatings his father would give him when he found out that Theo was second best to a  Mudblood in school. Daphne Greengrass, kissing him next to the Black Lake during his second year. His mother, bleeding out and dying at the dinner table while his father continued eating his steak, as if he hadn't just slit his wife's throat. Anything for this mad man to see that won’t put anyone he loved at risk.