He laughed, the sound strained, in response to his dead lovers joke. Would that have worked? He had no idea how it was to be a ghost. He had never had much cause to need to learn about them and he had not taken Ghoul Studies in Hogwarts.

"I would be happy to either read to you or turn pages of a book for you," he offered. Not that they had done much reading together when the other had been alive.