"I thought I could only speak when you said you wanted to hear my advice." Susanna spoke in accented English. "Are you ready to listen now?"
"Are you going to say it?" Severus asked.
"What were you talking about just now?" Susanna asked.
"Some old history," Severus said. "Have you heard of Salem?"
"Of course," Susanna said.
"And you still chose to remain in the Muggle world?"
"Do you know I have a job?" Susanna asked.
"You? A job?" Severus laughed mockingly.
"I'm a psychologist," Susanna said. "I'm not one of those seventeenth-century women standing in the dock being questioned. Now I'm the one asking the questions."
"You want to ask me questions?" Severus asked.
"Yes." Susanna asked confidently, "Do you know how he did it?"
Severus and Lucius both frowned.
"Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Hubbard." Susanna sneered. "And George Burroughs, who had never returned to Salem at the time of the incidents and was dozens of miles away—how did his bite marks appear on those girls?"
"Why do you want to talk about this?" Lucius asked in a drawn-out tone.
"You were the ones who started discussing it." Susanna looked at Severus. "Tell me what you think."
"You look like you already have an answer," Severus said. "An exchange of information?"
"Why not?" Susanna smiled. "Hypnosis and dental casts."
"What is she talking about?" Lucius asked Severus.
"How could Burroughs's dental cast have ended up in someone else's hands?" Severus asked.
"Don't forget that Deodat Lawson used to be a doctor. He had medical training," Susanna said. "There were plenty of people with dental problems in those days."
"Lawson was a dentist, and Burroughs just happened to have dental problems?" Severus asked.
Susanna raised her hand. "When fingerprints disappear as bodies decay into skeletons, teeth and bones become our