The classroom at five with the lamps out and snow on the windows is not where either of you meant this to happen.

She does not make a speech. She puts the pen down, shuts the door with her foot, and takes the serpent pin off.

MalfoidI have been in this building since September with four children and a ghost. Nobody has touched me since the summer.

The board skirt goes up and she goes over the desk and neither of you is quiet about it.

MalfoidDo not be gentle. Gentle is all I have had and it has been a very long autumn.