Ana hardly minded letting him ramble on, and while she listened to some extent, she found herself actually scoffing in reply. She didn't even feel bad about it, either, once she realized she'd done it. He was getting it all backwards and yet he wouldn't stop to let her explain. Rolling her eyes, Ana leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms, feeling rather bad for Maddie getting stuck with this man.
Once he'd finally finished, Ana lifted her eyebrows as if in challenge before sitting up and leveling him with an icy stare.
"What you fail to notice is the fact that the pureblood families are continuing to intermarry. This, far more than marrying those with a smaller amount of magic in their family history, will dilute the abilities of those with magic. Marrying between the same families does nothing but cause genetic problems, just as it would for Muggles. So no, I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about. The research has been done and proven. This is to help the entirety of the Wizarding World, whether or not you choose to believe it. Now you can either go on with it, or you can be sent off to Azkaban, and Maddie here can be re-matched. It's up to you."
Ana couldn't remember the last time she had snapped at anyone like that. Elijah might have been that unlucky recipient of her anger. This man was challenging both her intelligence as well as her work on researching for the law. She wasn't some fool who would pretend she crafted an entire research project with the hopes of creating a law for the Ministry to pass. No one would get away with that unless they were insanely crafty, and Ana wasn't bold enough to presume that she could manage it.
"Now," she continued, the word itself seeming sharp, "Are we going to have trouble here, or can I proceed with the tests?"
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