Lupin rose calmly, a sad smile on his face. "Whatever you may think of yourself and whatever you may try to make us feel, you're not a quarter the terror that Voldemort was."

He placed his own hand on Shoutarou's shoulder in turn. Twin diamonds coalesced out of the energy surrounding them, whirring around and around the group in complicated geometries that cut curious patterns in the light as they shaped it.