Another one of his talents, besides turning into a large drooling dog, was speaking in cryptic phrases that didn't always make sense. She could remember many instances of having a conversation with him that she only half-understood. Getting a solid answer from him about anything was likely to be difficult, if not downright impossible. Rodolphus kept a lot close to his chest. If he wanted someone to know something, they knew it. If he didn't, they didn't. Knowing that that was as far as he was going to go towards answering that particular question, she persisted with a few more.