Another "dragonfly" flew over Pomona's head, but she did not chase after it. She had chased two "dragonflies," and that was enough. The rest belonged to the children.
Since no one had announced how many dragonflies there were, the children ran after them whenever they spotted one. Some caught two or three, while others did not catch a single one. Though they were nothing important, it still seemed rather unfair.
She had not chosen The Lord of the Rings with its Lumos function, but San Bakar's necklace instead. Inside it was a memory that could only be described as painful.
Isidora had removed other people's painful memories, along with their happy ones, so they would no longer feel pain.
Pain meant a warning. A prick from a needle, or a brush with a tongue of flame—those brief flashes of pain reminded people not to touch such things. Once they remembered the lesson, they would not hurt themselves the same way again. But once one lost the ability to feel pain, being surrounded by blazing fire was no longer as simple as getting a blister.
The Cruciatus Curse was classified as one of the Unforgivable Curses because it inflicted not only torment, but irreversible damage.
Back when Hogwarts was controlled by Slytherin, Émilie and her friends had fought against Slytherin's "little Death Eaters." But cases of boys attacking girls, like Mulciber and the others had done to Mary, were rare. It was not only because the house handbook required them to respect women. After that incident, the Gryffindor girls had begun to stick together and never went off alone. The Gryffindor girl fighting a Hufflepuff girl over a boyfriend was not part of the Gryffindor girls' clique. Or rather, she had not joined because she had been too busy falling in