"To be fair, that is true. Old and they aren't easy to come by. They injured a living thing but also almost revealed that little secret." He chuckled quietly at that.

But he winked to Draco. "Of course there's ways past it, but I'm not about to reveal all of its secrets. I had to get in there somehow, didn't i?"

It had been so easy with Wormtail, who could sneak in and press the knot to stop the tree for them. Sometimes it was painfully easier to think of Wormtail and Pettigrew as two different people.