That's my reading of the Ginger Whinger as well. He's basically a situational Alpha whose actual socio-sexual ranking is far above his projected one, due to the fact that he never ever got over his mother's tragic and devastating death.

And in all fairness, it's unreasonable to expect that he ever COULD get over her death, given what happened and the way it was all carried out under intense public and media scrutiny.

But it's clear that his mother's death severely unbalanced his own sense of self-worth. The reason given for his attraction to the Half-Blood Princess is that she reminds him very much of his late mother with her sassy attitude and strong opinions and firmly independent approach to doing things.

The price to pay for those reminders is that he has burned – indeed, napalm-bombed – his bridges to his family and his heritage.

I've read that he is a Momma's boy and that's why he shacked up with her. That is the only reason that makes sense.

She must be doing some hella strong Kegel workouts, is all I'm gonna say.

To be as fair as possible to the Half-Blood Princess, she didn't actually write the book – two of her media-whorenalist fanbois did, and she denies ever sitting down for any interviews with them.

I will be the first to admit that this is splitting hairs at the atomic level. Megs is easily the biggest disaster to befall the Royals since Diana, if not Wallis Simpson.