The bidding process wasn’t entirely fair. Draco probably could’ve taken me from the first if he’d wanted, and I thought he might have done, just to spite me, but then, the Dark Lord decided to give an advantage to one of the other bidders. At first, I was glad, since I didn’t think anyone could be worse than Draco Malfoy, but then I found out I was being bought by Cormac McLaggen.