Syd chuckled at her answer. "And there goes that topic of conversation." He knew enough to acknowledge that was all she could probably say on the matter and he wasn't so curious as to pry about it. Syd had very limited interactions with most of the ministry, even while working at the hospital. Now all he really dealt with was the Regulation and Control for Magical Creatures and sometimes, in a pinch, the Reversal Squad. Mostly for policy work and taking in confiscated creatures, but sometimes the magizoologists advised on certain matters.

"I don't suppose you can recommend someone from the ministry to contact about the weather charms then?" Syd was pretty good at going with the flow of a conversation and pivoted back to their previous ideas. "I could use someone to check through everything and to bounce ideas off of if I want to keep the butterflies." It wasn't a bad idea, not by any stretch of the imagination, so he might as well pick her brain about it.