"I suppose you could ask her but it seems like a personal question."

"James did over the summer and Michael said he was being very rude and should drop it and Timothy backed him."

"I wonder if Timothy knows."

"Can't have known at the time, I think he'd have intervened. But maybe now, yeah."

"I'm imagining him bursting in on them and it just seems really awkward."

"I mean, if Timothy were aware Michael was going around having flings with Muggles without protection he would make him stop, and then he'd track down the girls, and Michael'd have found out about Catherine before she was already two months old. He probably wouldn't literally intervene."

"Less awkward."

"A bit."

"What's the girl's family think of all this?"

"They didn't want them getting married because Michael isn't Catholic. Some of her younger siblings snuck out to come to the wedding, though."

"Suppose that's all they know, 'isn't Catholic'..."

"The sister was talking about how she was marrying one of the Fair Folk, they knew something was up."

"If the Statute gets repealed we can tell them more."

"I really hope Timothy gets somewhere with that."

"Me too." 

"Would've been less of a shock."

"I can imagine, yeah."

"I can't really imagine at all."

"Anyway, Timothy's working on it full-time and he usually gets what he wants."

"I hope so, but 'usually' so far has been in a school setting - has he got much concrete done since graduating -"

"Not that I know of but I wouldn't necessarily, it's mostly all politicking -"

"I should owl him more often but probably a lot of it is secret."

"Secret enough he wouldn't write you about it if not so secret he wouldn't tell you in person. Well, you can ask him tomorrow."

"I probably will!"

And he has questions for Mr. Swan about the chickens and about how Muggles do cooking and laundry and so on.