The grandmother of the two old Dumbledore bachelors had actually come from the Greengrass family and died of a blood curse. That came as something of a surprise to Tris.
Still, it did explain a few things he had been wondering about.
Aberforth had met his grandmother when he was very young. By then, the blood curse had tormented her for years, leaving her frail and near death. Considering that wizards married at eighteen and had children at twenty on average, Aberforth's grandmother had only been in her forties or fifties when she died.
In the Wizarding World, that was still decidedly young.
As for the connection between their grandmother and the present-day Greengrasses, there was practically none. Not only had a century passed, but she had belonged to a different branch even back then. It was simply that her suffering had left such a deep impression on Aberforth as a child that it still haunted him a hundred years later, ultimately bringing this about.
That cleared things up, but Tris was not particularly pleased with the attitude of Coeus Greengrass, the current head of the Greengrass family.
He clearly did not believe Aberforth's claim that Tris might be able to break the blood curse.
Tris could understand his distrust. After all, from what he knew, the Greengrass family's blood curse had existed for many hundreds of years, if not a thousand. Over that time, they had tried who knew how many methods and approached the most powerful wizards of every era, including Dumbledore himself, but none of them had been able to help.
Now they were being told that a second-year student still at school could break it. Getting them to believe that was admittedly a tall order.
If anyone other than Aberforth had said it, Mr. Greengrass would