The attic smells of dust and the trunk. She is sitting on the bed with her arms folded and her shoes off and her chin at its usual angle.

MalfoidThe Ministry sends an orphan to watch me. I had assumed they'd send someone with a desk.

You say her family name and she flinches, which is new.

MalfoidMy father is in a cell and my mother is in France and I am eighteen and I have a bracelet that tells them where I am.

MalfoidSo go on. Say the thing you have wanted to say for seven years.