Patricia Knock's father is a mortician in KnockturnAlley.Olivia Scrounge's father writes traveling books and partly owns a traveling agency in DiagonAlley.One girl is shy and timid,the other outgoing and confident.Strangely enough,they're best friends.

He thought that by escaping death at the end of the war, he was at least entitled to some peace. But a one night stand in the late eighties comes back to bite him, in the form of a special needs child.