Considering how wide spread news of her brother's expulsion was covered in the Daily Prophet, she wondered if Professor Kitiara had heard about it wherever she had been before coming to Hogwarts. "We're not exactly sure," she admitted with a small frown. "Jacob, my brother, is said to have found the Cursed Vaults during his time here and was eventually expelled. One night, we had all gone to bed and he was gone the next morning with no note, nothing. Mum and I figured he had just taken some time to himself, figure out things and come home. But when he hadn't returned for a week, then two weeks... she called the Ministry."

Eldrine went silent, gathering her thoughts. "Then rumors came in that he had joined You-Know-Who -- Voldemort," she felt her heartbeat increase just saying his name. He was gone. She didn't have to be afraid anymore. "But he didn't. I refuse to think he joined him." She hadn't talked about it much to anyone else but... why did she feel so comfortable talking about it to her?