Bother! Violet had missed three out of five, not her usual performance. She wished the teacher had made it clearer that being related by marriage didn't count (Violet also wished she'd thought of asking before doing the assignment).

And now they had all this homework--and her head was hurting again, making it hard to think. A pox on all this bread, anyway! Usually Violet would have chosen an obscure event, just to test her mettle, but today she opted to pick the event she knew the most about, first-hand--the Hogwarts battle against the Neo-Alliance.