And so it had always been drilled into Draco by his mother – and father – that the duty of any pureblood was to have children. Children were life, children were the future, and children were the continuance of your house, name and traditions. Purebloods valued their offspring immensely, for the most part, and Draco had always thought it unusual that, unlike his fellow purebloods, he'd had little interest in marrying and producing children. Most purebloods married straight out of Hogwarts, and had their first child – if they could – before the age of twenty. Draco had never liked that idea.