I'm having a moment. It will pass.

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Sometimes, if you are really lucky, you meet someone who understands you for who you are and how you are, not perfect, not pleasant, just you. It's a fact of life that people will come and go. Nothing is permanent, and forever is just a spatial construct, but sometimes, sometimes you make connections along the way. Sometimes you meet people who change your life with how human they are. Not all good, not all bad, just human. ethrosdemon is one of those people, and I am so honoured to know her and have her in my life.

She's George to my Brad, and Draco and Blaise to my Theodore and Neville. For as long as we are friends, I will feel blessed. And for my birthday, she wrote me a story The Summer of His Malcontent.

This is story that I couldn't even have dreamed of wanting until it existed. It's got Blaise/Neville and Blaise/Draco and Theodore/Neville. It also has the twins, and Ginny, and Ron, and the other person who we shall not mention for fear of my breaking out in hives, but please, read it.

This is all just annoying and difficult. Blaise has… issues. And he doesn’t like to discuss that. Which should be completely apparent to Neville by now. If Neville’s expecting hand-holding and confessions and childhood anecdotes, Blaise just would rather be the bastard in this story and have done.

Blaise has already had a wife, and they didn’t end well.