Ezra laughed, slightly surprised by her frankness. She had done nothing so far to imply that she was overly concerned with being polite, but it still caught him off guard as a remarkable departure from the norms of most society conversations. "Oh, yes, I have numerous flaws. I daresay your brother is familiar with at least half a dozen," he replied, tone light. This may have been slightly hyperbolic, since he and Magnus Broadmoor had never been especially close, but it also wasn't entirely fabricated. Anyone who had been in the auror department when Ezra had left the training programme had to have heard at least a few offhand remarks about things that might have been wrong with him. He had tried to exit as gracefully as he could, but even under the best of circumstances certainly some people wouldn't have been inclined to be kind... and he had failed one of his practical examinations just before leaving.

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