Illustration for Clause Eleven, from the adult visual novel The Proving

The Ministry will not take the school until a witch of the house is proven whole, and clause eleven defines whole as an unbroken hour.

CorvinaIt is a fertility inspection with a stopwatch. My grandmother wrote it. She thought she was being thorough.

MalfoidAnd the witch of the house.

CorvinaIs whichever one of you the clause accepts. It has already refused me. It will refuse you.

It refuses Malfoid in four minutes. It does not refuse Mione at all.

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