“There’s an echo of what Lily did ─ a quite conscious echo of what Lily did right at the start of the story at the very end of the story. At the start of the story Lily dies to keep her son alive. At the end of the story, Harry lies, pretending to be dead on the ground and it’s a mother who saves him again because she’s trying to get to her own son. So that was my, you know, that was closing a circle. He was saved there by Lily and he’s saved there by Narcissa.”

Your father, he talked about uh, when you were four and your, your brother was nine and he hid behind this door and he jumped out at you…  Boo! He hollers, Boo! And you, you had this doll, had this string in the back for talking… Chatty Cathy.  Wham! You took that doll and you wound up and you hit your brother so hard you knocked him flat as a pancake. I said to your mother, “No one, no one will ever jump out at that girl again.” And your mother said, “just like you Max. She’s just like you”.