"No, don’t apologise. There’s no shame in curiosity. My lycanthropy and vampirism work are something very dear to me. On my lycanthrope articles, I got in close with a small pack for... Personal reasons. And after the war, when the Ministry didn’t have muggle-borns to pick on, a lot of legislatures switched toward prosecuting werewolves and vampires. There was— you’ll get to this in your history lessons, of course, but there was a total removal effort of vampires. I’d already taken the wrong side once; I wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice. So, I published all my findings with my pack. Harry and I patented our synthetic blood and sent it off to the world. They came after Teddy with no proof beyond his paternity that he was lycanthropic." Draco scoffed. Ricky hung off his every word.