The cat blinked slowly, then knocked over her coffee.

"Seven books," she whispered to the cat. "There are seven. How did I miss this for twenty-two years?"

Lena laughed — a real, honest laugh — and opened Half-Blood Prince . Outside, the rain stopped. Inside, she had found her Hogwarts at last.

"Just one chapter," she told herself.

Three hours later, she had finished the book and was halfway through Chamber of Secrets , her coffee cold, her cat giving her judgmental looks from the armchair. By dawn, she had devoured four books and was crying over Order of the Phoenix .