She stopped speaking, seemingly stopped breathing. She hadn't known. Harry had noticed before Theo's party that she hadn't been reacting as negatively to casual touch. Theo had started using less of the secretion, and less of the opium latex, in all of her potions, and she had continued to show no increased signs of pain - nerve or otherwise. Theo, under Susan's watchful supervision, had steadily decreased the amounts of the stronger ingredients incrementally until, by mid-November they had downgraded her to just a basic pain potion for both her headaches and her nerve pain. They had added the atrophy and modified replenishment potions to counteract her decreasing energy levels, which no amount of rest seemed to help. But her general... flatness (if that was even the way to describe it) hadn't improved. In fact, it seemed to worsen as time went on.