She stands on the pan with her hands flat on the brass and her feet apart and the pan sinks two inches and stops.

CorvinaEleven stone two. That is the reading. It will come down and it will not go back up.

MalfoidThen it comes down. Get on the other pan, Mione, and let us find out what a hundred pounds of anything feels like.

The chains take the weight and the beam moves and somewhere behind the screen a woman says oh, quite quietly, and is hushed.