This will be satisfactory for a while.

Maybe by the time that becomes unsatisfactory Joanna will be sleeping through the night. Or at least only waking up once. Or at least only waking up twice. ...three times?

"Marriage is great," he tells Timothy. "Mixed feelings about the babies part."

"Could've married someone who'd take the potions."

"I think it's specifically marriage to Rebecca that is great. You go ahead and marry someone who'll take her potions."

"Ssssh, now, I get enough of that from my grandfather. I was hoping now that Fredrick's graduated some of the lectures on the merits of marriage would be diverted but instead he just gets us both working on something and then gets to scold us both at once."

"I honestly think marriage was very much under-sold to me."

"I am planning on it."

Minor mentions to Karen that pregnancy is apparently vaguely horrifying and Progress hasn't solved this yet.

"That's why I was an only child for so long. Dad tried to come up with something but his test subject never came back."

"Well that's really annoying, did she not get how important data is - even if something bad happened if she'd told him that'd be better -"

"Um. He uses Muggles and they only know what they do for a living while they're at his lab."

"Oh."

"It's pretty icky but he pays them a lot of money by Muggle standards."

"I guess it's just another one of those problems that would be solved if the Statute got fixed."

"Yeah."

"If Dad figures out the philosopher's stone or is close enough to confidently say he'll get it in our lives then kids can wait on that but - if he can't - don't know what to do -"

"...Miranda can self-heal at least?"

He makes a little bit of a face.

"I'm not sure I want to tell my dad that he should find more pregnant Muggles and try more things."

"- yeah, I can see why maybe he shouldn't do that."

"But how else would we know what works, right -"

"It'd - save lives in the long run, probably even by a lot, but it still kind of seems like the sort of thing you shouldn't do, I'm not sure I'm not being internally inconsistent here -"

"Maybe if he found pregnant starving Muggles or something."

"Yeah." Sigh. "Do you think you want kids someday -"

"I dunno. Maybe. I guess. It's what you do, right - I like my little brother, I'd probably like having kids -"