Originally Posted by CreativeAllie18

Adam sat there silently, his eyes not focusing on anything particular. His breathing had slowed down to such an extent that if you weren't looking close enough it wouldn't look like he was breathing at all. Adam felt like death...at least he assumed that completely numbness came with death. Louisa's silence as well made the whole corridor seem too quiet...too quiet to feel comfortable or at ease.

Once Louisa finally spoke Adam looked up at her, his jaw clenched from trying to keep back the tears. "I...I don't know," Adam said, his hands clenching into fists. "The kit I needed for my wand was out of stock, so the guy said he would mail it to me. Two weeks later it still wasn't there so I went back, and the guy told me that there was a problem and they wouldn't be getting the kit for another two months." Adam took a moment to pause so he could inhale, before letting out a shaky breath. "I told him to send it to Hogwarts then, and left him the address for the school, but I guess someone messed up or he got his information confused or something, because somehow the kit got sent to...their house," Adam concluded, because the letter had made it very clear that that house was not his home anymore.

Adam fell silent again, reaching out and taking the letter from Louisa's hand. He crumbled it, the sound of the paper crumbling filling the entire corridor, before he reached into his pocket and pulled out his wand. He gave the paper a toss, sending it a couple of feet away from the two of them before pointing his wand at it.

"Incendio," Adam mumbled, the paper instantly bursting into flames.