Unfortunately, his summer income was only enough to buy two robes and one pair of good quality boots – hardly enough for his needs. He’d ended up having to cash in on some of the secrets he’d collected over the years, extorting Jane Simpson – a pureblood heiress dating a mudblood – and Maximilian Allen – a rich halfblood with a debilitating addiction to dragon’s blood. Extortion was a risk he’d have preferred not to take, but he needed the money, and Simpson and Allen were the easiest targets of all the options at his disposal.