She nodded her assent and fell into step beside him, her ladies maid scuttling along in his wake. 'Oh my' she trilled, 'still so new!' She wouldn't scare him with the fact that there was almost certainly more to come for him - the first time a house-elf appeared to deliver a message, or when one of the children asked for the house to be connected to the fluu - and he hadn't even mentioned his daughter! Perhaps if the son was a wizard there was a solid chance his daughter was too. Gwen did secretly wonder if the late Baroness might have been a witch - not all magical types told their muggle other halves -at least not until there was proof that the child had magic.


'I shouldn't worry' she said instead, 'Hogwarts is a fine enough school for a young gentleman to attend' she instead explained, deciding that there was no point in traumatizing him yet. 'I would not fret, although we always had a schoolmaster in the home for the summers to make sure we did all of the usual mug...non-magical educational subjects as well.' Hogwarts was indeed fine, as long as your intention was to make your life exclusively within the confines of magical society, where one needed to look further afield - such as holding a peerage, knowledge of goblin rebellions was rather less useful than knowing when the Jacobite rebellions took place - or the current state of non-magical politics.


'I presume your son is incredibly excited?' she enthused.

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MJ is queen
Gwen is referred to as Countess of Adinbury by others, but as Lady Adinbury when you are speaking to her