“ are both of your parents muggles? ” , @ledspew
he knows why she asks . the bond he’s made with hermione granger is unique & wonderful , a little sister he never knew he wanted until she’d walked into his classroom eager to learn , to grow ! hermione had lived like quirinus had , in the muggle world , knowing nothing of magic — ❛ i used to think so — ❜ there is a gentle lilt to his voice , traces still of the young man from dublin who wanted to see the world ( not this melancholy thing he had become out of loneliness & foolishness ) . ❛ i think ... i think ... i might’ve been happier if they had been . ❜
caelus quirrell had been a well known curse breaker before he vanished from the wizarding world , marrying the muggle artist , elaine burnham , & having a sole heir , quirinus . while war ravaged the realm of magic , caelus had ensured that his son would grow up in the safety of a world without the terror wrought by a monster - man hellbent on gaining nothing but power . caelus would not have wanted this for his son . no , quirinus knew well that his father would ...
call it acute & terminal illness , he’d whispered to albus on a night when his thoughts were still his own . tell my father ... tell him ... this isn’t what he’d want for me . tell him i’m sorry — & the wise wizard , with a twinkle in his eyes , had placed a gentle hand upon the young scholar’s shoulder ( chased away the shadows with something akin to a grandfather’s love ) & spoke : you will have the chance to tell him the truth yourself . a sigh , thoughts racing , he knows the next words will be disjointed , stumbled over , but they will be true & wise & lasting .
❛ my father is a curse breaker , but my mother is a muggle . an artist — they ... when i was born , it was ... he ... it was war . no child should grow up in a place of war . so i didn’t . ❜
❛ i know what it’s like , what you’re going through . this was new — new to me , too . learning about something that seems impossible , right ? it defies the logic we were taught in a world without magic . it makes it ... hard . hard to navigate , but ... i believe that a life without magic only makes us stronger . so ... if ever — if ever , whenever you need support , if ever you have doubts , know that i’m here to help . never doubt the power that comes from living in the muggle world — it means your life will always be full & true . ❜













