Well, she suppose he saw right through her — one could she really claim to have been accomplishing with her letter earlier this week except trying to one-up Mr. Picardy and embarrass him in public view? She could pretend at least a little bit of a noble purpose; if he was embarrassed and his research was discredited, she did think that would be a benefit to the werewolf community and to the wizarding world at large, but, still. The actual impetus to send it in had mostly been her pride.

Luckily he hadn't entirely seen through her — as his next question evidenced, he still didn't know why she'd struck up this conversation in the first place. She typically pretended not to know much about the subject at all, but she felt that with what she'd said so far that would be a flimsy excuse at best. Perhaps something a little closer to the truth, then.

"No, not only the drama," she admitted with a small smile. "I've done some fairly extensive reading on the subject." (And perhaps they could leave it at that). "And you? Are you much familiar with either of their work, or only in passing?"