There were three of them there, then, and Amabella was introducing Bod and he was shaking hands and saying, "Charmed, I'm sure," because he could greet people politely over nine hundred years of changing manners.

“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my pa…”

“It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. Bu…”

“He was the boy with the book. Always and forever.”

“I cross two fingers, a binary precaution against hex, effective as superconduct…”