This week I had the privilege of meeting frequently with Selina Marsh, the American Undersecretary of Magical Law and Justice. The title is a mouthful and the witch is a handful. She is approximately forty-five, though she does not look but thirty. In fact, she looks like a Malfoy, except that her hair is more golden than white-blonde (and it is short, cut in the Muggle style), and her eyes are large. Almost too large, really, but bright blue and very expressive. I have had decent rapport with her, because her story is rather similar to mine: an orphan who raised herself to a high post by ambition and merit. Also like me, her wizarding relatives lived in squalor, apparently. There is a town called Innsmouth that is mostly magical and – like Arkham – also unknown to most of the local Muggles, and respectable people in Arkham consider the residents the worst sort of degenerate riffraff. Undersecretary Marsh is from there. She began her career as an Auror.