Chapter 262: A Warm Dinner
The purpose of her letter had been straightforward. A warning. A reminder. Letting him know she was watching.
She'd raised this during the holiday. Sheltering those two half-bloods was unacceptable.
Regulus hadn't responded then. No promise, no refusal. She'd wanted to force a clear answer, and Orion had intervened.
But in her mind, the matter was settled.
And it was a small thing, really. Using it to remind Regulus that she was watching, that the master was watching, carried more significance than the half-bloods themselves.
But Regulus hadn't listened.
Starting last week, the two half-bloods had appeared in the core section of the Slytherin table, seated beside Regulus. The protection had gone from private to public, from possible to fact.
When Bellatrix learned of it, her first reaction was confusion.
She didn't understand why he'd done it.