Hogsmeade. Elliot could not have been further from Wales if he had tried. No wonder it felt like the floo network had taken ages to spit him out; it really had been flinging him further than a few miles. Elliot accepted her invitation to a seat — he lowered his hands, and sat down in one of her arm chairs.

"Thank you," Elliot said, feeling a little stilted in his speech. He could not hold that against himself, given their circumstances. "May I ask whose hospitality I'm intruding on?"