A/N: Ok, this is just a pet project I'm working on. I'm not giving up either of my regular chapter fics, but I couldn't help but start this and figured I might as well put it up. It's another of those "10 things you never knew..." fics, I know, really original, but I love coming up with bits and pieces like this! Some will be humorous, some more angsty. I'm going to try, for once, to stick religiously to canon, although staying away from my darling D/G will be HARD beyond belief! If you have requests for characters, please feel free to submit them! I'd rather start with the relatively minor characters, because, let's face it, we know pretty much all we need to know about Harry and co anyway! I hope you like it! Riddle Xx

1) When he got his ear pierced, he fainted from the sight of the blood.

It was then that he changed his aim of being a Healer to that of the rather less gory Curse Breaker.

The only person who ever knew the true extent of his squeamishness was Madam Pomfrey, who treated him for shock after a particularly traumatic Care of Magical Creatures lesson involving several Doxies and a very aggressive Salamander.

2) Tell the truth, he didn't really like Arithmancy. But he did like Yvonne Abbott, who sat in front of him.

It was probably just as well she gave it up halfway through Sixth Year, because without her shining blonde hair taking his mind off Professor Vector, he aced the exam with an "O"

3) If he ever had a daughter, he hoped she'd be like his baby sister Ginny, who he missed more than the rest of his family put together when he was away at Hogwarts.

Her admiration made him want to show off like no girlfriend ever had, and he had to suppress a grin every time she beat the twins in an argument.

In fact, it was he who had taught her the infamous Bat-Bogey hex (although he never told any of his brothers, as they had all been victims at some point or another), and didn't it serve her well?

4) He was as scared of the dark as Ron was of spiders; however he was rather better at hiding his fear than his littlest brother.

Extremely good for him, since the Goblins believed that nyctophobia was unlucky and were known to shut sufferers in dungeons until they were believed to be cured.

More often than not they were just forgotten about.

He managed to hide it well, although his friend Gareth, who worked in Egypt with him, would always give him a suspicious look when he pretended to have dropped his earring just as they were about to enter a new tomb.

5) The first words he said to Fleur were "Holy crap, Ron wasn't exaggerating after all!"

He immediately turned the same colour as his hair.

6) When he woke up in the hospital wing he hated the scars Fenrir Greyback gave him... but Fred managed to cheer him up by suggesting he go to the Gringott's Halloween party as Mad-Eye Moody.

Fleur cheered him up even more by smothering every single scar with kisses when he woke up, a habit which seemed to have stuck.

In fact, within days, he could think back on the whole incident without much regret at all.

7) His and Fleur's honeymoon in France lasted just two days, but seeing her standing ankle-deep in the sparkling surf, her hair being whipped around her, was enough to set him looking for a house by the sea the minute they returned to England.

8) Since she had caught him swearing at the twins, age thirteen, his Boggart had been his Auntie Muriel in curlers and a nightgown.

9) Although he knew that she was jealous and found her extremely irritating, it was actually Ginny who persuaded him to propose to Fleur.

He was so grateful to her that he immediately bought her a season ticket for the Holyhead Harpies.

As it turned out, he would be buying a lot of them in the years to come, when all the Weasleys bar Ron became die-hard supporters.

10) It took a year's worth of sexual favours for Fleur to persuade him to allow her to name their daughter Victoire, and twenty years later he still found it difficult to call her by her given name without a smirk... instead, she allowed him to call him Torie.