i've told lies that never came true ;

if she is being entirely truthful,  ophelia had not been listening while the other woman had prattled on about  –   well,  a duck with cornflake skin,  apparently.   those are the words that catch the brunette’s attention once more and she glances up with renewed interest,  brow furrowing.    “   who did you say did that?   it is… rather original.   impressive,  even.   ”

“That one, over there,” Lo said, discreetly indicating her head towards the young man who had entered the room a few minutes ago. “It was certainly creative, I’ll give him that, but not exactly how I’d expected my morning to begin when I first got a Floo call from a distressed... society member, and I headed over to find that their child had turned into, well, that.” Taking a sip of her Felinfoel, she added, “as far as magical ingenuity goes, he combined those two spells pretty well —- wouldn’t go amiss in spell creation offices, really.”

“Yeah, I have to say, as far as break-up related revenge goes—or even just any sort of revenge, really—turning your ex into a duck with cornflake skin is both extremely unexpected and wildly effective. Definitely the weirdest Valentines incident I’ve ever seen.”

“You’d think it might take a little longer for them to start on the Grindelwald debate again,” Lo murmured, settling in on the antique settee alongside her younger cousin as she watched the adults (well, the older generation —- meaning older than Wes, so their entire cohort of cousins). Taking a sip from her glass of wine, she added, “It’s not even 8pm and I think someone’s on the verge of making a list ranking the Dark wizards of the last three centuries—what’s the bet they’ll Floo in Octavian to chime in again?”