Matilda had lost her magic after she'd been moved to the highest course available at the Academy, but at Hogwarts -- where she was stuck in the first year reading seventh year textbooks, just like she'd done at the Academy before Ms. Honey had taken over -- she'd found it coming back. It was different now, of course, but what mattered was that it was back, with the one thing that hadn't changed: a bully of a teacher.

She climbed the steps to the Ravenclaw tower and said, to no one in particular, though everyone snapped their attention to the whisper of a girl standing in the middle of their common room when she asked, "Does Dolores Umbridge have a father?"