Endymion seemed to be getting riled over this, which amused Ozymandias. Why his brother had such strong opinions about who he married was anyone's guess — Oz certainly didn't think he would care a whit who Endymion married when the time came [author's note: this is a superb bit of self-deception as Ozymandias will have opinions falling out his ears if Endymion so much as buys chocolates for a lady].
"There's only one way to know, isn't there?" he replied, intentionally provoking. If Dymion wanted to level the accusation (implied or explicit) that Ozymandias wasn't taking this commitment seriously, the most entertaining response seemed to be playing in to his fears. He wondered if someone was similarly trying to talk Miss Pomfrey out of this at this exact moment, and if so what strategies she was employing to ward them off. Although, come to think of it, maybe no one was taking the trouble. He was an heir to a wealthy family, after all, and he was young and attractive and intelligent; she ought to have been thrilled with the arrangement, regardless of her feelings on him as a person. And anyway, she would be ruined forever if she called things off now, so maybe her family had already given up trying to save her from herself.
"Interests is good enough," he insisted. "Not all of us have the leisure to laze about in gardens waiting for veela to happen by." Meaning: finding someone interesting was more than his brother had done, whose most notable past relationship had not even been human.
"There's only one way to know, isn't there?" he replied, intentionally provoking. If Dymion wanted to level the accusation (implied or explicit) that Ozymandias wasn't taking this commitment seriously, the most entertaining response seemed to be playing in to his fears. He wondered if someone was similarly trying to talk Miss Pomfrey out of this at this exact moment, and if so what strategies she was employing to ward them off. Although, come to think of it, maybe no one was taking the trouble. He was an heir to a wealthy family, after all, and he was young and attractive and intelligent; she ought to have been thrilled with the arrangement, regardless of her feelings on him as a person. And anyway, she would be ruined forever if she called things off now, so maybe her family had already given up trying to save her from herself.
"Interests is good enough," he insisted. "Not all of us have the leisure to laze about in gardens waiting for veela to happen by." Meaning: finding someone interesting was more than his brother had done, whose most notable past relationship had not even been human.
MJ is the light of my life <3