Then I heard a kindly woman's voice say, "Are you all right?" I looked up. Little more than silhouette, a figure was standing over me. A warm hand tou...hed my head, stroking my hair. "It's okay. Surely it can't be that bad." I got to my feet and threw my arms round her legs, filled with such relief that she was there to look after me. She put her hands under my shoulders and lifted me off the ground then she rocked me back and forth saying, "There there, don't cry. It's all right now. There. .. and so were the baby clothes ... and all the accessories like the crib and stuff ... It was lucky that Sonny took his meals at the source otherwise he would have been yelling at her for that, as well. Butch started staying out late, hanging with his pals. For a while already, he was coming home totally sloshed. Butch was a mean drunk. The night before, not only had he yelled at her like he had never done before, he had hit her.That morning, early, while Butch was still stewing in his booze,. She looked so vulnerable strung up like that. Poor baby. ?Now Toy. You were a very bad girl biting Mistress like that. You drew blood. That is inexcusable darling. Normally I would whip you severely for what you’d done, and frankly I’m inclined to.? Toys pleading eyes was getting to me. I went on. ?But I realize, I would have probably done the same thing were I in your position so I will not whip you this time. We are in very real sense sisters, so I know how you feel.? ?As a matter of. But soon the years of struggling would be over.Mundungus congratulated himself on being sharp, always looking for an angle. And so after he'd observed the inaugural meeting of the Defence Against the Dark Arts Club at the Hog's Head, he'd lingered in Hogsmeade a few days, paying his way by carefully stealing the odd tip left for waiters. His patience was rewarded when a few days later, he overhead a table of Hogwarts professors complaining about Decree Number 24. He filed that little tidbit.