1. Clause Eleven The Ministry will not take the school until a witch of the house is proven whole, and clause eleven defines...
2. One Hour The room is cleared except for a chair, a rug, two candles and a very old clock that has been in the hall s...
3. The Chair Mione sits on the chair with her hands flat on her knees and her feet together and lets them take the dress...
4. Eleven Minutes In Malfoid goes first because she lost the coin and because she has been practising a thing she read in a book.
5. The Clock Again Eleven minutes. Back to the start. Everybody out of your clothes and sit down.
6. Twenty-Seven Minutes The second attempt is Corvina's, and Corvina does not use a book and does not hurry.
7. What She Is Not Allowed To Say You have to let me. Two hours of this and I will do anything anybody asks, I will sign anything, I will — p...
8. Thirty-Four Minutes The third attempt Malfoid does from above because she says she cannot be trusted near it and wants a differ...
9. The Failure She comes at thirty-four minutes with Malfoid still on her face, and it is not the small tidy thing in the ...
10. Corvina's Turn The fourth attempt is Corvina's and she is the only one who has been watching the clock instead of Mione.
11. Fifty-One Minutes At fifty-one minutes Corvina is sitting on her face to keep her still, and Malfoid is holding both of Mione...
12. The Second Failure She comes again at fifty-one and this time it goes across Malfoid, who is kneeling exactly where she should...
13. The Clause Names A Man At eleven at night Corvina reads the clause again and finds the sentence nobody had got to.
14. Poor Porter He is terrible at it. He says sorry four times before anything happens and twice during.
15. The Watch At twenty minutes to the hour, Malfoid takes the watch off the table and puts it in her pocket, which nobod...
16. No Clock Without the clock the room goes very quiet and everybody has to guess, and Mione guesses that she is allowe...
17. Both Of Them Malfoid and Corvina take over without being asked and they do not take turns any more, which is not somethi...
18. The Last Of It At the end there is a period of about ten minutes where nobody speaks at all and the only sound is the fire...
19. All Three They carry her to the rug between them and they are not careful and she does not ask them to be.
20. Mione Last She comes last, at the end, on the rug with the fire behind her and no clock in the room and nobody countin...
21. The Morning In the morning Corvina fills in the certificate at the table in the hall and Malfoid puts the watch back wh...
22. The Terms The signature goes on the third line and the clause is satisfied and nobody says anything for a while.
23. Ending — Same Hour Nothing is decided in the morning and nothing is dropped either. They leave the rug where it is and they do...
24. Ending — The Rule Mione writes it out herself on the back of the certificate, in the same ink, in her own small hand.
25. Ending — The Truth Porter says it in the morning, because nobody else will: the hour was never the point, the clause was never...