"This is what it’s been like since the day Teddy was born," he whispered, his eyes not leaving his son’s face. He spoke as though the words were hard to say. "Anytime I ask her to do anything remotely out of her comfort zone, it ends up a disaster. She fucking flits in and out whenever she feels like it. She stays around just long enough to do the fun stuff and disappears the second it gets hard. And I’m so tired of it, Sirius. I am so fucking tired of it."