It was nearly midnight when Tom finally called it a day. He ordered Severus and Barty, who was dead on his feet, to return Ron and Hermione to Hogwarts, promising that Harry would join them tomorrow, Sunday at the latest. Afterwards, he pulled the teenager into his room and wrapped around him. The young man went willingly. Barty's mind had been a mess of anxiety, the half-remembered terror of his father and Voldemort's mercurial mood swings.