Now he has a new puzzle to turn over - who 'Flora' is in the grander scheme of things. For better or worse, he has most of the pureblood family trees memorised, and while families don't tend to advertise their squibs, some of them have reliable enough naming conventions that he can probably guess.

Not that it matters, but Regulus isn't going to shut down his curiosity, to the extent that he can figure it out on his own. Prying would be rude.

"Kind and gracious I can do. I come from social circles where it's a survival tactic." And expected behavior, but it's also kept him from being hexed within an inch of his life more than once.

"I haven't. Mother didn't even want to walk through our own neighborhood if she could help it - I'd do that much, but entering a shop wasn't a line I thought I could cross."