Staring into the girl’s face – in a manner that, in hindsight, may have been slightly unnerving – it took Marlena a moment to place the scribe in her memory but eventually her impressive storage of information, both useful and not, triggered a name in her mind.

“It’s Beth isn’t it?” She asked, a small frown and a growing smile on her face. She recalled the face from Hogwarts and the name from the things people used to say about the young woman who was never steady on her feet. She looked healthy enough now though so Lena wasn’t too sure what they must have meant.

“We were at school together, I think, though I don’t think you can have been a Gryffindor.”

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MJ: still raising the graphics bar as of 2022