

But she has never known a child as sensitive as Heir Cadmus Gaunt. She had thought, when she started the job at Gaunt Manor six weeks ago, that, having cared for as many infants as she has, she would have seen it all.

What is a surprise, at least to Adele herself, is how difficult she finds the Gaunt Heir. After all, he wants nothing but the best for his precious son. It is hardly a surprise, therefore, that Lord Marvolo engages her to be Heir Gaunt’s nurse. The number of children she has nursed numbers almost thirty…and not a single family has reason to complain of her conduct. She’d served the Blacks faithfully from the time Lady Bellatrix was four, right the way through until Lady Narcissa turned eleven in the June of 1966.īy then, however, she was in her mid-thirties and had realised that she got along better with younger children, so, when she moved on to work with the Fawleys, she did so as a nurse, caring for children almost from birth.īy the time Heir Cadmus Gaunt is born to Lord Marvolo and Lady Henrietta in the year 2000, there is scarcely a Sacred Twenty-Eight family she hasn’t worked with.

Her career had started in the mid-1950s, when, at all of twenty-five years old, she’d found herself in the prestigious position of secretary to Lord Cygnus Black and governess to his three daughters, Lady Bellatrix, Lady Andromeda and Lady Narcissa. Miss Adele Skye proudly, and rightfully, considered herself one of the best nurses in all of Wizarding Britain.
