They make small talk. Harry listens but acts like he doesn’t. He’s only five, after all. He plays with his building blocks and babbles at the snakes around him and pets them and so on. A pretty little ringneck plays all over his hands, much to his genuine delight, slithering around his wrists and between his fingers. So pretty. And tiny! Hardly thirty centimetres long, and barely a gram and a half in weight. Absolutely adorable babies.