"And the entire city would have known your wrath," he tells her, unable to resist teasing his mum just a little bit. He would have felt awful, had she not been able to attend. His mother always did excel at functions like weddings; it's one of the many ways that make her such a great mother.

"Oh, yes, we've met!" He says when she points out the witch he'd run into at the festival. "She seems like a lovely young girl. She was very keen on dragons when we spoke." This might be something of an exaggeration purely to wind his mum up a bit.

"Nothing in Romania compares to your cooking, ma," he tells her.