"The Ministry is stupid," Dora agreed. "And I tried to do as little as I could to everyone." She'd had her reasons, something some people realized and some people didn't. "The Ministry has done a lot to a lot of people." And still did. It made her mourn, sometimes. Especially since her childhood ambitions had been to work her way up in the ministry.
Her eyebrows raised and she shook her head. "No, I don't. I've never much cared about blood values, despite appearances otherwise." Her finger tapped her forearm. "I like a lot of our traditions, but new is also all right. I was forced to join up to protect my family." Her accent was a bit more clipped, but she figured she owed him that much information, for as nice as he'd been being to her. "Muggles scare me sometimes, but I was never allowed among them when I was a child." She shrugged. If she ever was lucky enough to marry and have a child, she'd hopefully change that a bit. Her parents had been very protective in that regard, at least of the girl children.
"Sword play is fun," Dora told him. "I'll see if Rich would be all right with you coming to watch sometime. He's very good." Though she was learning very quickly. She did grin. "New can be fun. Liek this -- this is fun." She gestured at the car, and the drive. "I've never gotten out much like this."