Late in January Jilly told Hermione about an elderly house-elf whom she’d heard might need a mistress, and in February she arrived at Hogwarts to be adopted, borne in her middle-aged adult daughter’s arms. She was a sickly-looking wrinkled creature looking very odd clad in a tiny pale pink frilly dress very unlike the more typical toga Hermione had expected. She was wizened and small with her large ears looking limp and pale, and her skin looked dry and flaky.