"I hope so too." He may be less sure that it will come to pass than she is, but if he's made friends entered into an arrangement of enlightened self interest with Lucius Malfoy then anything can happen. "I am sorry if I've come off a bit brusque, but I feel that being upfront early on is the wisest course of action."

For some strange reason, Sebastian has an almost pathological hatred of the paternalistic view that information needs to be kept hidden and only shared when it's advantageous.