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So this guy Charles remembered very vaguely from Camilla's wedding came to pull him out of a Sorting. John Ryder. Asked to talk to him privately. Asked politely. And oh shit, Charles thought, oh shit, the whole damn load of it has hit the fan. Something has happened to Milly. Because what other possible reason could this stranger have to talk to Charles? To say something that couldn't be said in front of everyone in the Sorting Room?

He walked calmly with Ryder to the nearest vacant classroom -- weren't almost all the classrooms vacant? If what the man had to say was something that couldn't be said in the Sorting Room, it was a safe bet the conversation couldn't be had in a common room either. And if it was anything like what Charles thought it was, he didn't want to be anywhere near the Ravenclaw common room at the end of it, because the last thing he needed right now was a drink. He needed to be steady for her, if she needed him. For his sister.

Why, who else would Ryder need to talk to him about?