“Black, Sirius – aha, there you are! Quite surprised at the sorting, my boy, quite surprised! I’ve had every one of the Blacks in my house since I started teaching! Shan’t take it personally, young Sirius, but I shall be expecting great things!”

“I just wish I knew who’d done it! Perhaps the truth will out. I suppose it does seem more likely that it was one of the Slytherin girls than…”

“From where I was standing, it was Mr Lupin who started it. Still, you are quite right – Mulciber, five points for punching Remus. Violence does not solve violence, you know, as I’ve told your eldest brother on a number of occasions. Miss Evans, please take Mr Snape to the hospital wing. Lupin, you can clean up the mess you’ve made.”