But in the end, Harry has been right. Sometimes it happens quickly, far too quickly to get used to the idea, and then suddenly the curtains are drawn and the baby is there; rosy and seemingly mewling at the top of its lungs - the hospital's Silencing Charm doesn't look like such a bad idea now. Scorpius only sees his sibling for a moment, the little swollen face, before the midwife places the baby at its mother's breast. No, their mother's - who ends up not only cradling her newborn child, as Salazar collapses on her shoulder, all in tears.