"Oh don't," Belvina winced. "I had just about become accustomed to the current fashions. I would like to go to Paris and see if it has changed overly so from what I remember. I suppose, like Diagon Alley, there would be glimpses of the past hidden underneath the new."
"Katherine managed to get to the school relatively easily although she was wearing this horrendous collar which I had to charm off for her. Imagine! A girl her age not knowing how to get that monstrosity from around her neck. It makes me wonder what they do teach in school," she said, sighing. "I don't doubt that she isn't stable and I insinuated as much to Regulus but like it or not, forced or not, she has committed crimes. Even if she were to be rehabilitated, people would talk. Jamie is one of the Triad, the spokesperson for all of us. For his sister to get off without punishment... Well, it wouldn't be acceptable."