"No! We didn't!"

Molly quickly denied it, her eyes reddening. "We were just worried, worried that you might get hurt."

Molly remembered a time when a neighbor held a party, and the whole Weasley family attended.

From a distance, she saw other kids playing with magical toys, chatting about what it would be like to go to Hogwarts, while Hoare sat all alone, as if isolated from the world.