In another life, Charlotte recognized she could have been happy. She could have had three beautiful children, a loving husband, a life she had dreamed of as a little girl - not this plague of infertility, a widow at 19 and remarried to a cold, brutal man; not this mark that scarred her forearm like a disease.

Each year as students unpack in their common rooms and exchange tales of their summers, a second Sorting is held in the Great Hall. It is one for the bravest of students, who have returned to Hogwarts with new faces and new names eager for a new beginning.