They say when you have a near death experience that your life flashes before your eyes. That didn’t happen to me… or maybe my brush with death wasn’t close enough to call for such a dramatic retelling. Instead I had the single moment burnt into my mind: the look of shock and betrayal on Sirius’s face the moment of the bullet’s impact.

Clover: Oh, berry, Altair. I’m going to be right here with you. So your stupid face better make it through this, you hear me?