"I couldn't have," Heath said, glaring down at the table and his pasty because he really wasn't sure what to say to Gideon that would help, here. He hadn't even thought about what would happen to the others if he had disappeared - just about what could have happened if he stayed.
"The moment I walked in I was signing autographs. Sodding autographs, while I was on my way to the sodding courtroom... So I don't think they'd have done anything to me. And if they had, someone would know. There was a queue of watchwitches in the doorway watching me the whole time..."