Victor raised his eyebrows at that and took a second to sip his wine. He needed a moment to figure out how to respond. On the one hand, this was the most interesting thing (to him) that she had said so far. On the other hand, it was a bit strange that she regularly attended a Muggle society of any sort, wasn't it? An interest in Muggle politics was cute and harmless, he supposed, or at least it sounded so when she framed it as something dramatic and novel to spectate on, not a serious interest. If she was spending half her week attending various Muggle events, however, that seemed to cross the line from quirky to downright strange. Maybe this was why he hadn't been introduced to her before; when did she even have time to attend magical society events?

Oh dear, was she a squib or something? No — she'd made a remark about her practical magic not being that good, which meant she had to be able to cast, right? This was just a strange hobby, not an indication of something else. Maybe she wasn't one of those Dempseys and she was in fact a Muggleborn witch — that might have explained some of it, if she'd grown up surrounded by one culture and then been asked to entirely leave it for her new magical one.

"Oh? And what do they believe the key elements to be?" he asked, deciding it was safe to encourage her... for now. In the back of his mind he was spinning up a few graceful ways to exit the conversation quickly if this turned into a diatribe and he needed to escape.

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