After that I met them at Number 4 Privet Drive. I don’t think I’ve ever had much to say to them. They are the sort of people that you find yourself having to be nice to. I’ve wanted to ask Petunia things for a long time but never really managed it. I’m not sure if being part of her past helps or not. Probably not. She probably wants to forget that life ever existed. I’m just a bit older than Dudley but feel that I have been brought up in a very different world to him. They say girls “mature” quicker well maybe we do. Those of us in Death Eater houses perhaps more so.

I couldn’t see how these people were related to my friend. How she grew up with my mother. I think the reason I found them was because I needed to talk to them. Not, just to pass the time of day, not to find out who had died. I don’t know how she did it, maybe she was making up for the times she hurt Harry but to me Mrs Dursley was nice. She told me things about her childhood, about “our kind”. Dudley wasn’t bad either. He kept asking me if I knew what Dementors were. I think he had been traumatised at some point. My father would have laughed I’m sure.