The answer was - unexpected. Dueling was a popular magical sport, but in this context Dionisia was most familiar with muggle dueling with pistols, and that had been outlawed for many years. She had a vague understanding that they still happen on occasions, but she'd never considered that wizards also participated in them, and so her mind was filled with images of Ben Crouch in the middle of a field dueling with his wand to the death.

Or something like that. Her brows furrowed at a particularly bloody image in her head and her expression collapsed into a mixture of worry and confusion.

"Surely not with the intention of... you know...?" Killing a man?—or worse, being killed himself? Her heart skipped a beat at the thought.

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