They stand in the hall for eleven minutes in silence before Malfoid puts her candle down on the step and does the thing she never does.

MalfoidMy father is in a cell and my mother is in France. I have been told not to say it in the same sentence because it sounds like an excuse.

Mila looks at her for a long moment. Then she says hers out loud too, and it takes four minutes and comes out badly and neither of them apologises.

MalfoidYou are not going to cry about it.

MilaNo. I am going to go to bed and be extremely rude to you tomorrow, but you will know why now.