"But you didn't recognize him," Ford countered. This wasn't a question, because they'd already been over all of this a dozen times already with first the aurors and then with Mama and Grace. If Noble had recognized the man who took Verity he would hardly have held on to that critical piece of information. If Noble didn't recognize him, though, it stood to reason that Verity couldn't possibly know him. She wasn't going out on her own and meeting strange men, she was a debutante. Everywhere she went, she was accompanied by Ford, Noble, or Mama. Theoretically she might have run into this person at some event that Noble hadn't been at, but even if that was the case, it didn't make much sense that she could form an attachment so strongly with someone that they would be inclined to kidnap her without anyone in the family catching on. They would have at least had a suspect or two in mind if it was that sort of situation. As it was, they had nothing to go on at all — some stranger at a party with no ties to Verity whatsoever, at least that they knew of.

"Verity couldn't have known him. Unless it was from Hogwarts," he said, shaking his head. "But if that's the case it's a long time to hold a weird grudge." He couldn't believe that was the case, either. Verity wasn't always the easiest to get along with, so he could assume she had some people from her school days who were less than fond of her, but he didn't think she was capable of irritating someone so badly they would be willing to commit a crime to get her back for it, especially years after the fact.

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