Richard leaned back on the sofa and cautiously stretched again. "This isn't like anything that makes any sense. Lestrange pardoned. I wonder what the Cornfoot family thinks of that? Use of torture authorized by the Ministry again. An attempt to restrict travel that's mostly going to affect the purebloods who don't know how to do things the muggle way. None of it makes any sense. This isn't like anything that makes any sense. Now we have bad Death Eaters and good ones?"
"I expected to have heard something from Potter, or the old Order of the Phoenix people before this. Looks like everything has fallen apart from that end, too. Are we on our own again?"
Richard reached out to caress the back of Lavender's head. "If you need to get your sister away from this, why don't you see if she wants to stay with my family in Marseilles for a while? Mother said she'd love to have a girl about to spoil after two boys, Robert isn't that much older, so she'd have some company."