"The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts discussed various Dark Lords quite a bit, but there wasn’t anything specific about exactly how one earns that title – I was looking for it last week but I couldn’t find anything at all. Would you say it’s bestowed informally by majority consensus among their followers, or their enemies, or granted formally by someone?" She chatted so quickly and without pause, that the boy looked kind of startled when she finally stopped to wait breathlessly for his answer. How lovely it was to have real human friends to talk with these things about! She hoped Draco and his friends would be her friends too.