nikolas vaisey doesn't need a broom to fly (besserwisser) wrote in wished,
"Ohh, all right. That's funny, my mum didn't go to Hogwarts, either. Her family's all up in Sweden, actually...they all either went to the wizarding school in Kiruna, or else to Durmstrang, which is where she went."
All this talk of his mother, Nikolas paused and realized he'd forgotten that Lucy's mum wasn't in the picture. He was fairly certain it had come up once before in one of the occasional conversations they'd had during casual meetings in the halls between classes, or on walks back to the castle from Care of Magical Creatures. He'd never asked how she'd died, as he didn't think it was particularly polite, and now didn't seem like the time either. Not that it even really ought to matter.
Instead of dwelling on this and letting the silence become awkward for no reason at all, he continued. "Buy my dad's family, yeah, there were a fair few Slytherins. Always a few odd ones out, of course, but I guess there is something to be said for these things running in the family."