"Oh, yes, your mother was going to take you out. She changed her mind?" Herbert inquired politely, feeling a small twinge of pleasure at the thought. It wasn't as though he an Kurloz were friends, but as one of the only people who seemed to take the small boy seriously, the Ravenclaw would miss him if he was gone.

"As for the reanimation process, not precisely, but I have been developing something that will bring me one step closer, and I made good progress on that over the hols. Moriarty assisted me a bit."