1. The Eighth Year The eighth year is optional, which means everybody in it has nowhere else to be.
2. One Student Per Table Mione has the library to herself and a list of rules she is pretending not to have memorised.
3. Eleven At Night Malfoid is not on the pitch. She is in the shed with the door open to the frost and a broom across her knees.
4. The Only Class The timetable has one class on it and the class has one project, brewed across the whole term.
5. The Reading Room The reading room locks itself at nine whether anybody wants it to or not. She does not get up to unlock it.
6. November The draught sits under the bench for nine weeks and then somebody knocks it over.
7. The Store Cupboard The store cupboard is the size of a wardrobe and she takes you into it after the fourth lesson without a word.
8. The Prefect's Study Two weeks later she leaves her study door open on purpose, which for Mione is practically a written invitat...
9. The Laundry She finds you in the corridor with her hands shaking and a rule she is still trying to write about it.
10. The Dormitory Malfoid is already in the dormitory with the window open and the cold coming in, and she has been waiting.
11. The Cellar Corvina is in the cellar with the wine and the lantern and a glass she has not touched.
12. Between The Sheets You tell her, and she does it badly, and then well, and then she is not crying exactly but something near it.
13. Common Room By three in the morning the east wing has run out of corridors and everybody is in the common room.
14. The Rug It starts with Malfoid and ends with nobody keeping any sort of count, and at some point the fire is only e...
15. The Last Night The draught is finished on the last night of term and there is enough of it for three.
16. Ending — The Prefect's Office You drink it with Mione in the prefect's office and she makes you lock the door first.
17. Ending — The Roof You take it up to the roof over the east wing because Malfoid wants the cold.
18. Ending — The Notes Corvina takes it with you in the cellar with the lantern turned down, and lists the effects out loud, clini...
19. Ending — Three Ways All three of you take it in the common room with the fire built up and the windows shut.
20. Ending — The Sink You pour it down the sink and the three of you sit on the floor and drink the cheap stuff instead.