omg...my eyes have opened (so have my legs)

barty grows obsessed with her btw. he watches her do news conferences and shit and decides to approach her in private too. he seduces her all while pretending to be this normal, well-adjusted guy (he is none of these things)

she totally falls for his act (and him) and when she sees that lowkey some of the early victim's are connected to him she worries about him because she can't imagine that the guy she just got engaged to is this terrifying serial killer she's been looking for months. there's just no way

he's having the time of his life watching her search for him all day only to come home to him. he's the center of her life and it makes him feel sooooo good

lowkey james knows there's something up with him but he has no prove and no one belives him because he's been famously in love with her for years. whenever he accuses him with any prove barty puts on his puppy dog eyes and clings onto lily and acts all "i don't why he keeps doing that. why does he hate me so much?"

absolutely! I feel like in the beginning it's barty trying to get back at regulus by sleeping with lily who always had a bit of an inferiority complex for but then one day he looks over at lily and her mess of red hair and half lidded eyes with that beautiful look in them and he's like oh fuck