Rhys smiled, and there was something wolfish in it. "You should remember for the future, lad, that 'maybe' is always a damning answer."

But though the look on Kurloz's face was bland, it was impossible to miss all the other blindingly clear body language - the shoulders, the knuckles in the mouth. If he was trying to hide, he wasn't trying very hard, and the Potion's professor thought this was something he was more ambivalent about. Perhaps he wanted to explain, but was sensibly cautious.

"But it was hardly a question I needed to ask, was it? Tell me, Mr. Makara, what did it do to you?"