"When we were kids, I quickly realized that no one in our family shared my obsession with magic. I had to keep my thoughts to myself, or I would have caused a scandal because I am different. I admit that there was a time when I thought, I hoped that you were like me, but then I understood. You have no excessive passion for the magical arts. You only have a very active brain and excellent memory. You don't really understand magic, you're not interested in it, and you're content to endlessly repeat the nonsense you learned at school. You're nothing more than a big information tank. It was only when I met Scorpius that I realized that I wasn't alone, that there were others like me, who were capable of genuinely loving magic and understanding it in all its nuances. And there really were, many of them, and much closer than I thought." He gestured to Dylan and Calypso. "That's how the Sons of Salazar were born. I never changed, Rose. I just found myself again."