They keep it, and in January they put a blanket on the pan and pay a debt that does not exist, because a scale with nothing to weigh starts looking for something.
CorvinaFour times a year. That is the arrangement. It is not a curse, it is a standing order.
MalfoidThen it is the only standing order in this house that anybody has ever been glad to pay.
The parish stops coming to watch by the second year, and the tally marks on the floor stop being scored and start being drawn in chalk, and the number goes on climbing.