If for no other reason, I want to know just how the Aurors work because I do not want to end up like Sirius Black. I thought I was pretty hard-boiled, but finding out that he'd been thrown in Azkaban without so much as the pretence of a trial shocked me. I guess all those years among Muggles have marked me. I want to avoid their attention or else subvert them so that, when the crunch comes, they're on my side. If I can get the Veelas on my side, that will be a big help since most Aurors do seem to be male.