Well, he certainly could have mustered a bit more magical effort there - having opened the wine bottle with the damned thing - but rather than pester him further about it, she scooped it up and skillfully uncorked the bottle.

"Do you want to see her?" She pressed before taking several unladylike gulps straight from the bottle. She offered it to him, "She's up to something, I just know it. Why come back after all these years? You don't think she's going to out you do you? Out us? Lysander would be ruined just as much as the rest of us. Leo would be a laughing stock - he can't go to Hogwarts with a known half-vampire cousin. Lysander wouldn't even be allowed in! They'd have to have private tutors..." The thought that her son would be ostracized from Hogwarts exactly like she had been was horrific.