Wizet walked up to Mrs. Appaloosa. He had barely opened his mouth when she spoke first. "I'm ready."
"Ready?" Wizet realized that Mrs. Appaloosa might have misunderstood him. "Mrs. Appaloosa, have you... misunderstood?"
Hearing Wizet say that, Mrs. Appaloosa realized something as well and asked tentatively, "You don't intend to cast Obliviate on me?"
Wizet explained, "I only intended to tell you that our next stop is your family estate."
Surprise colored Mrs. Appaloosa's voice. "There's no need to erase my memory?"
Wizet calmly shook his head and asked in return, "Why would I need to do that?"
After some thought, Mrs. Appaloosa spoke with some difficulty. "Because I've seen many secrets..."
"Like that Profa. You must have cast Obliviate on him... and that Bonanno as well, probably... so I thought..."
"I see." Wizet nodded. "Casting Obliviate on them was only to avoid possible accidents."
"Just as I told Mr. Profa earlier... the situation he faces now was, to a large extent, shaped by his own choices."
"So keeping the Chocolate Frog card..." Mrs. Appaloosa's voice was still somewhat hoarse. "That meant I made the right choice?"
"Right?" Wizet shook his head. "Mrs. Appaloosa, I have no right to decide whether your choice was right or wrong."
"In fact, I merely made a choice too. I chose to tell you that our next stop was the family estate. That was all."
Those calm words made Mrs. Appaloosa's eyes redden at once.
Her family had suffered upheaval. Her husband had been taken away by MACUSA, their estate invaded by dark No-Majs and dark wizards, and she and her son had been placed under Joseph Bonanno's disguised house arrest...
Over the past two years, she had endured far too many hardships. She had long grown accustomed to being treated as "a criminal's