She reads it standing up and puts it down folded and does not look at you.

MalfoidSo my defence costs his father ten years. My father cost him a childhood. It is almost arithmetic.

You ask what she wants to do. She says nobody has asked her that question in eighteen years.

Then she takes the serpent pin off her collar and puts it on the windowsill, which is the most decisive thing you have ever seen her do.

MalfoidI want to be a person for one night. Not a name, not a defendant. Get over here.