"I don't know if you'd have said 'let'. I'll say that I left you no choice." Barty smiled as he remembered the Regulus he had first gotten to know. Who was he? "You were beautiful. In every way. More beautiful than you ever realised. I would never tire of staring at you. You were proud, but your pride was vulnerable. You wanted to be proud and you clung to it, maybe that's a better way to put it."

He wished he could look into Regulus' eyes, but in lieu of that, he just recalled them. "You were emotional. So full of emotion. Quite the temper too. You always said that's a family trait, so I shouldn't complain about it. I never did. I liked anger on you too."