The fact that Scorpius had little to go on after a full week was discouraging. If anyone could put things right again, it was Scorpius. He was far more book smart than Albus could ever hope to be.

He winced at the mention of that particular Time Turner. "Maybe we don't need it," he suggests. "There are proper ones in this time. Besides, if that one did exist here we'd be stuck in an elastic loop every five minutes. I'd rather not have 1980 become our new point of origin."