XVI. Amethyst

Theodore seemed to become progressively more vampire-like every time Daphne bothered to look at him. His skin had gone from being rather pale to making him look downright ill. Of course the jet-black circles under his eyes weren't helping at all; they made him look like a member of the walking dead. Maybe he did have some vampire ancestry at some point in his family's past?

"You look tired, Theo. Are you having trouble sleeping?"

"How wonderfully observant you are, Greengrass," Theodore drawled without even bothering to look up from his book.

"Have you tried putting a piece of amethyst under your pillow?" Daphne suggested, remembering something she'd read in one of her Divination textbooks. "It helps to cure insomnia."

"You don't really believe in all that rubbish, do you?" he scoffed.

Daphne made up her mind that this was the last time she was going to do Theodore Nott a favour.