Josephine could not play the piano, so who had been playing "Moonlight" at the Tuileries Palace that night?
As she soaked in the bathtub, Pomona closed her eyes, as though she had suddenly returned to the Louvre Museum. After passing through a wardrobe, they had arrived at the Tuileries Palace.
It had been daytime then. Like the pyramid reflected in the pool outside the Louvre Museum, it had been bathed in scorching sunlight. She had not thought of hallucinations or mirages; she had assumed it was some sort of magical phenomenon.
Wizards could use magic to alter their appearance, but ghosts seemingly could not. Yet what sort of existence was Georgiana now?
She raised her hand, and hot water streamed down from her palm. Everything followed the "rules"; it did not form into a sphere and float in midair as it would in outer space.
Was her current form similar to Peeves's?
But he could throw water balloons. Ordinary people had to put water into a container such as a balloon before they could throw it; otherwise, they could only splash it.
If that black Shadow was also a spirit that could hold things, then perhaps its target was not Matilda, but Georgiana's seal, stored in the case she carried.
Just as Jeanne had exploited her status in the Diamond Necklace Affair, pretending that Marie Antoinette wanted that expensive yet tasteless necklace, someone might also want to forge Georgiana's signature and seal in exchange for money.
It might have been money from the Sèvres Porcelain Factory. Her signature and seal would have been enough to withdraw it, but did Moldu have a way to make a ghost steal things?
If it was a wizard, then she needed to be more vigilant. Wizards needed money too, and not every noble could