"I think Snape brought it on himself." One day at Order of the Phoenix headquarters, Wormtail said to Lily, "Who told him to keep following us?"
"That's because he suspects... forget it. We all know Remus is a Werewolf now," Lily said wearily.
"I think James did the right thing. He deserved a little lesson," Wormtail said coldly.
"What about you, Peter? Why don't you teach him a lesson yourself?" Pomona sneered.
Wormtail jumped in fright, then turned and left.
"You knew all this?" Lily asked accusingly.
"Knew what?" Pomona asked with a smile.
"Everything." Lily turned to face Pomona. Her belly was no longer swollen, but she was still wearing loose maternity clothes.
"Not everything. What did Wormtail come here for?" Pomona asked.
A child's crying came from the next room.
"Don't you know everything? Why are you asking me?" Lily said sarcastically as she headed toward the crying.
"Next time, I hope you don't bring your child to work," Pomona muttered at Lily's retreating back, so quietly that only she could hear it.
After a while, she found it all rather pointless and left the sitting room as well.
Lamb's Conduit Fields had once been London's famous northernmost dueling ground. It had belonged to the Earl of Salisbury before being purchased in 1739 by the sailor and philanthropist Thomas Coram, who established Britain's first Foundling Hospital for orphans and abandoned infants on the land. When Coram bought the land from the earl, the earl required the Foundling Hospital to purchase all fifty-six acres as a single plot. Only with funding from Parliament was Coram able to buy it. It was said that the area still retained its pastoral scenery at the time.
When Pomona arrived at Lamb's Conduit Fields in the twentieth century, it had already become