"Was it?" Oz asked, then shrugged. It wasn't as though he had much personal experience with the Wildsmiths; he knew the name because he knew they owned the floo powder manufacturing company, and they were established in society. He certainly didn't know their family history. It seemed rather immaterial at this juncture whether the invention was the product of a man or a woman; the men in the family ran the business now, and it didn't diminish his point about that single invention having been enough to set the Wildsmiths up for generations.

Still, he didn't like to be wrong about anything, so he found a way to change the subject. "You're coming to the next campaign event, aren't you?"

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