"Don't get me wrong, I love brooms a lot. But I got stuck in the muggle world during the war and I've made do mostly there ever since. Besides, the boys like their toys." She smirked, knowing it extended to all sorts of toys. "And the car is because there's enough of us and the kids besides."
She flashed an apologetic smile at Melinda. "I'm sorry. I get carried away. I have a large, shall we say, makeshift family. We sort of fell in together and after the war." She shrugged slightly and grinned. "The group of us live in two side by side places. It works." It wasn't a complete explanation, as pack went deeper than so many things, but it worked in general.