[ By the time he had finished speaking Lily's eyes were round. ]

It's not like any curse I've heard of either.

[ Unconsciously Lily lifted her hands to her chin, covering her mouth while frowning thoughtfully. ]

Curses can be awful, they can do a good deal of harm, but a curse escaping to a new host when its original object was broken?

[ She shook her head. ]

At the very worst it would drive the person who broke the object to madness or death, but escaping? The implications are rather bleak, if dark magic like that exists in this place.