"Married?" She hadn't spoken to Severus the last two years of school, but she certainly hadn't spent any of those years marrying anybody. "What on earth? What? To who?" Aghast, Lily held up her ringless left hand, squinting at Regulus as though he'd sprouted seven heads.

"I'd only just gotten off the train at Kings Cross, hadn't I? Barely made it off the train," she took a step back, still thunderstruck. "Married? I was going to my mum and dad's."

Lily went still as a thought struck her, and she leveled a skeptical glare at Regulus. "What year is it?"