The Ministry letter comes on a Tuesday, with a date circled in pencil and a list of what the heiress has to prove.

She has to show the Wizengamot she was a child under orders and not a volunteer. She has to show it with witnesses.

MalfoidI need someone to swear it was fear and not politics. Nobody in that room will believe me.

The two witnesses available are in this cottage and both of them have reason to lie.