Of course, how could I forget! The broommaking is just a hobby; my true calling is Divination, and I manage about ten new prophecies a day. You shall be pleased to hear I have already foreseen your yellow pumpkin-carriage in my Inner Eye, made and standing ready for you.

No, I never took Divination, I took Earth Magic and Muggle Studies instead – many moons ago, obviously. And my father’s a muggle, and he trained in carpentry. So it really didn’t take much to become interested in brooms, and then to apprentice in it myself: it sounds incredibly foolish but the most amazing thing about magic to me is still flying, even now. I am pleased you would call it an art, though – to most it’s a trade like any other.

Speaking of art, I would ask you how precisely you came to be in the business of flowers, but I think even a diviner as unskilled as I am can make a guess at that. So – what do you like best about it, floristry?

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