Re: Padma and Lilu
"Lilu it is, then." Taking a seat on the bench next to the redhead, Padma laid the non-magical journal she used for research in her lap, palms laid protectively over it by instinct.
"What I need is context," she explained. "As long as we were operating under the belief this was just the castle's magic and we all died off because of a fertility experiment gone wrong, the research into how the castle does what it does was relatively straightforward. We were just dealing with figuring out how the castle's magic works. But, in light of what Harry and Jamie have found, we're looking at a range of possible layers that need to be sorted and we're in the dark on what some of those layers were, as you heard. We've asked Remus and Regulus to start going through the newspaper issues that were collected when they first arrived to see if they can find any hints as to the socio-political situation, anything that could give us leads as to the who might have been involved in what. But, you, as well as your brothers, Roxanne, Savannah, and Scorpius were all living through it. You would know things that aren't in the papers or see nuances we don't because we weren't there."
She smiled. "I'd like to have you either come in and talk to my team or write down whatever you can think of that's happened in the last two years. Anything that stands out as odd, anything you know about the events Harry described, the experiments, Hermione's actions as minister, things you might have overheard said at family gatherings, rumours about 'the opposition' as Jamie named them. Anything you can think of."