Noble should have started handing her potions to Miss Hunniford by now. But she was pretty, and she was interesting, and he was in no rush to stop talking to her. "I've been here for five years," he said. "But my family moved in later, after our father passed away."

He didn't want to talk about his father. He swallowed and cleared his throat; he had to change the subject off of something uncomfortable. "But we did the opposite, right? You used to live in Hogsmeade?"