"Now you have a soft side for decorations?" she joked. Probably the only person she could joke with around here.

"Just trying to make this place a bit more liven. I can see why. We don't do much until we hear back from all the other places. That alone can take days. Something interesting? Let's see, strange flooding has been happening at Hogwarts. My niece was in the dungeons when the flooding began to rise above her waist."