The train does not stop so much as fail to leave, and the guard says Gravenhollow like it is a joke he has told before.

The station is one platform, one bench and a poster peeling off the wall. Nobody is waiting to collect her.

Mila has a bag, a Ministry letter and two years of being furious about things that were not her fault.

It is a twenty-minute walk and she takes it in the rain, because it is that or stand still.