"People can be useful. Think about it that way." That was Barty's approach, by and large. Is how he got people to do stuff for him at work. Or in his studies, for that matter, it just helped to know the right people to team up with for group work. He frowned. "Your brother is still friends with James Potter, right? The one who married the working class girl."

Quite the scandal, in a way, although the Potter family themselves never seemed to have an issue with it.