At the expense of the world
"He had a lover, you know," Jenkins says to Remus once Harry's behind a wall and out of sight again. "A boy, and a gorgeous one at that. Nobody really knew where he came from, and Tom didn't seem to favour him either, at first, but by the end, he was besotted." Jenkins pauses. "Might have been a girl," he says. "We don't have any drawings, and all the texts are warnings that the God-Emperor is a jealous man - do not seek his puer, or you will be slain where you stand."
"That doesn't sound like a lover," Remus says, and Harry's inclined to agree. "More like a valued son, or something. Perhaps he had an heir he didn't want anyone to know about."
"Either way," Jenkins cuts in, tone sharpening a little with annoyance, "the boy - whatever he was - somehow managed to end him."