"Why should I be the one to move when he's the arsehole?" Freddie argues, though he can't say he hasn't thought about it. Trouble is, he isn't certain where he'd move to. He likes his flat well enough; it's nicer than he's lived in on his own, and there's no telling that he wouldn't end up living next to a vampire or something.

So far, all of Magnus's tricks have been relatively harmless. And Freddie does have ways of getting his own.

"To be honest, I don't understand why he's even there," he says, mild irritation still clear in his tone. "You know he knows that manor where all the parties are held. Why doesn't he live there?"