And I don’t even know your name. But I want to see if it’s like my brother’s. Please? I promise I won’t ever, ever tell anyone.”“That’s ...our honest promise, right?”“Yes.”“Swear?”“Yes.”“Okay, then.”I didn’t do anything.“Well?”“Well, you gotta go get it if you want to see it.”Nervous, now. Not so sure she wants to do this. But looking at her face I see that she’s thinking she might be missing an opportunity that might not come back for awhile…“What do I do?”“Unbuckle my belt.”She hesitantly. And I’ll see you in three weeks or so.”Kara stepped close to my dad, gave him a light hug and kissed him on the cheek, “Thanks ... Dad,” she said softly.“You’re welcome, Dear,” he said with a big smile that matched mine.We went inside to talk to Stephanie, but I stopped Kara as we walked by the pool.“Dad?” I asked with a raised eyebrow.“It just felt like the right thing to say, Steve. I know it sounds strange because of what happened, but he will be my dad, won’t he?”“That’s the plan!” I said,. But the potion he was making was very tricky, by far the most difficult he had ever attempted. He was unsure that he would be able to make felix felicis. The potion called for constant supervision, and it was for that reason that the Room of Requirement was most unsuitable for his purpose. He could not get up several times a night and make his way through the dark corridors, not for almost six months, not without being interrupted or delayed at least once. And the slightest interruption in the. They run the gamut, these stories: Funny, painful, cryptic, cliched, nostalgic, angry, hilarious. We are trying to make up for decades of not knowing each other, slowly filling in the missing pieces we each have in the picture puzzle of each other’s life. ‘A rat? No, not that I recall – and it sounds like something I’d recall’ I say, a half smile on my lips. But her eyes weren’t focused on the here and the now and me and my half-smile, but instead on the there, the then, and – apparently – a.