Since Halloween, she’s been in relentless pursuit of a counterspell to Severance. She took over the manor library and somehow convinced him to spend his days and nights doing research with her. As she predicted, they found the origins of the spell in his great-great-uncle Hyperion Malfoy’s journals. But eventually they hit a dead end and had to bring in Percy Weasley, who reluctantly helped them create and test different versions of a Severance spell and counterspell until they found something that worked. 