Talking about her family was a great deal easier for Roslyn than idle comments upon the weather or the floral arrangements in the room.

"I think that any elder sibling grows progressively more tired with each younger added to the family," she confessed with a smile. "I am the fifth of ten, and so have quite a large brood of younger siblings to contend with. I would wager that ours is one of the few families in which children are not shocked to arrive at Hogwarts and spend all day with so many people!"