Theme # 67: Quell


“Alice, please!”

But she would not let go. Her father tried to quell her with words, but she clung to his back and, at long last, he gave into her wish – took her to the ice-cream parlour, and let her enjoy a bowl of chocolate to her heart ‘s desire, even though it was mid-winter, and he was pretty scared his five-year-old would get sick.

“You,” he told her, as they trotted back home. “Will make a brave woman, some day, little one.”


When she officially became an auror, Alice Longbottom, he could only hug her.