She was beating around the bush quite a bit, which Ford supposed he ought to have expected from a society woman. They were specifically trained never to talk about anything that society didn't like to talk about, weren't they? Still, he found it mildly exasperating; it would have saved him some time in triaging the incident if she would have just come straight out and said what it was that had happened.

"Unfortunately, yes," Ford said, sliding his chair back from his desk slightly so that he could reach the bottom drawer. "But forward conversation is not technically an actionable complaint category, so if you could be a bit more specific —" By now Ford had found the piece of parchment he was looking for in the bottom drawer and fished it out, and laid it down on the desk in front of him. It was a standard issue form, replicated by magic, and contained a dense section of line items with empty check boxes besides them. He ran his finger down the list as he read them off one by one, with a quick glance up to Mrs. Lestrange periodically thrown in to see if she would interrupt him. "— did he: threaten physical, mental, or emotional violence? attempt to incite physical, mental, or emotional violence on his behalf? threaten doom of either a specific or generic nature? slander or defame a living person? slander or defame a nonliving person, family genealogy, mythical person, or historical person? tell falsehoods for the purposes of defrauding a living person of funds or otherwise disenfranchising them from their rightful possessions? tell falsehoods for the purpose of causing serious embarrassment to a living person? direct obscene or licentious comments towards a living person? engage in obscene or licentious comments not directed towards a living person but generally considered offensive? attempt to persuade someone to die in order to engage in obscene behavior? attempt to —"

This could go on for some time. It was a rather dense form.

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