Oct 30, 2021
boring take to assume orion hated his children or hated being a father. no, he loved his children so much that it ultimately destroyed his relationship with them, he loved them so much that he wanted to mould them in his image of what and who they should be, just as his parents moulded him...
no doubt in my mind neither walburga or orion are hands-on parents, and i do believe sirius did most of the heavy lifting in raising regulus, but it doesn’t mean they were never there.....
#its so hard to explain but#to me 12gp is MASSIVE. the movie made it look so small but its a MANOR inside#huge huge huge and the garden is illegally charmed and it goes on for miles#but the family just exist in different spaces in the house#orion keeps mostly to his study because i think he documented all of his findings and went on trips around the world to find artefacts to#his collection.... so that he had things to pass on to his children too#and they took trips and holidays to the south of france and to stay with friends in other areas of the uk like#its so boring to be like 'they never spoke to their children' 'they hated them'#THEY LOVED THEM#orion would have given his children the world on a silver platter because he believed they were OWED IT BY THE UNIVERSE#and he died being proud of regulus#SURE FOR THE WRONG REASONS BUT IN HIS MIND THEY WERE RIGHT.#but he died being so proud of his son and was happy to have him next to him in those last moments#END OF RANT.
