The girl joined the group in the shade of the beech trees. Albus and the other boys greeted her with respect, apparently very afflicted: they too had hidden themselves in order to be able to say goodbye to Scorpius from afar, since his father had forbidden anyone to attend the funeral. Now that she'd gotten closer to the gap in the bushes, Rose could see inside the cemetery too: in the distance, the Malfoys and the Greengrasses had gathered in front of a black wooden coffin.