The first sign is not dramatic. Mione notices it on the eleventh, in the kitchen, when Malfoid is asked what she is going to do in the spring.

She does not answer. Not evasively. She starts the sentence and then there is nothing on the end of it, and she looks as surprised as anybody.

MalfoidI had a sentence. I know I had a sentence. It was about the spring and it is not there and I cannot get it back.

CorvinaThat is what term is. You have not lost a memory. You have lost the bit of your life the memory was going to be in.