Oh, so she was an auror—an auror working a case. That sounded infinitely more exciting than spending the entirety of his ride holed up in a lonely compartment. He might have left it at that, but the newfound knowledge that there was apparently a dark wizard roaming the train made him inclined to stick around to see how it panned out.

"If I did, don't you think I would have said as much already?" he rebutted, his gaze moving down to her wand and the folder that seemed to have been carelessly thrown about on the seat in front of her. "What is he doing? Smuggling amortentia? On a... what? A muggle passenger train?" It all seemed rather absurd.

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